Margaret Whitton

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Margaret Whitton (born November 30, 1949 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † December 4, 2016 in Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American actress .

Career

Whitton began her career on the Broadway stage before gaining worldwide fame in the 1980s through supporting roles in hit movies. These films include Rocket Man , 9½ Weeks , The Secret of My Success (in which she played Michael J. Fox's seductive aunt ), Spurge, and The Faceless Man . In the baseball film The Indians of Cleveland and the sequel The Indians of Cleveland II , she played the imaginary ex-showgirl Rachel Phelps , who inherits a baseball club from her husband.

On television, she starred in the 1991 sitcom Good & Evil , of which eleven episodes were produced but only six aired before being canceled by the American Broadcasting Company . From the mid-1990s she turned back to the theater as an actor and has not played any film or television roles since.

Behind the camera, Whitton was the director and producer of A Bird of the Air in 2011 , which starred Rachel Nichols , Anjanette Comer and Linda Emond . She also managed the production company Tashtego Films .

Private life

Margaret Whitton was married to Warren Spector, the former co-president of the now-defunct US investment bank Bear Stearns , for the second time since 1993 . She was a fan of the New York Yankees baseball team . Margaret Whitton died of cancer in December 2016 at the age of 67.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1973: The Line - A Thousand Miles to Hell (Parades)
  • 1975: Teenage Hitchhikers
  • 1975–1976: The Doctors (soap opera)
  • 1982: Love Behind Bars (Love Child)
  • 1984: Miami Vice (TV series, episode Glades )
  • 1986: Rocket Man - The Best of Times
  • 1986: 9½ weeks (Nine 1/2 weeks)
  • 1986/1988: Spenser ( Spenser: For Hire ; TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1987: The Secret of My Success (The Secret of My Success)
  • 1987: Spurge (Ironweed)
  • 1989: Little Monsters
  • 1989: A Fine Romance (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 1989: The Cleveland Indians (Major League)
  • 1991: Family Stress (Big Girls Don't Cry ... They Get Even)
  • 1991: Good & Evil (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1993: The Man Without a Face (The Man Without a Face)
  • 1994: The Cleveland Indians II (Major League II)
  • 1994: The Jury - Condemned to Fear (Trial by Jury)
  • 2011: A Bird of the Air (as director)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Michael Corkery: Lehman Two Years Later: Warren Spector Goes to the Movies. In: The Wall Street Journal . Dow Jones & Company , September 13, 2010, accessed January 17, 2014 : “Spector's wife, the actress Margaret Whitton, who starred in the 1980's film“ The Secret of My Success ”and had a role in“ 9½ Weeks , "Is president of the film company."
  2. ↑ Jerry Buck: Margaret Whitton Changes Partners in Fine Romance. In: Los Angeles Times . September 26, 1988, accessed January 17, 2014 : "In addition to the TV series, Whitton, a rabid New York Yankees fan, went to Milwaukee for" Major League, "a theatrical film about baseball with Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Corbin Bernsen of "LA Law." "
  3. ^ Richard Sandomir: Margaret Whitton, 'Major League' Actress, Dies at 67 . In: The New York Times . December 5, 2016, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 20, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Whitton, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2016
Place of death Palm Beach , Florida