Movies by Jessica Tandy
As part of the cast:
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Camilla (1994)
Cast: Jessica Tandy, Bridget Fonda, Elias Koteas …
Directed by: Deepa Mehta
Camilla is a heartwarming comedy about two women (Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda) who become fast friends and hit the road for the adventure of a lifetime. While a confused husband, a…
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Nobody's Fool (1994)
Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Paul Newman received an Oscar nod for his turn as Donald, a loner who walked out on his family years ago and now lives in a small town in New York, spending his days working for a contractor…
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To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
Cast: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Christine Baranski …
Directed by: Glenn Jordan
An elderly Hume Cronyn copes with the death of his wife -- played in flashbacks by Jessica Tandy -- and his own fast encroaching infirmities. But he gets a new lease on life when he forms a…
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Used People (1992)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy …
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Love is the last thing newly widowed Pearl Berman is looking for, but that's what she finds when suave Joe Meledandri attends her husband's funeral. As it turns out, Joe has loved…
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Cast: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson …
Directed by: Jon Avnet
In this adaptation of Fanny Flagg's novel, flashbacks reveal the remarkable and mysterious story of soul mates Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), whose antics…
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd …
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
This four-time Academy Award-winning story based on Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play chronicles the unlikely bond between a genteel but strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica…
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Nobody's Fool / Fat Man & Little Boy (1989)
Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis …
Directed by: Roland Joffé, Robert Benton
Paul Newman turns in a pair of memorable performances in this double feature, playing Sully Sullivan, an emotionally immature construction worker, and Leslie Groves, the powerful Army general…
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The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Cast: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin …
Directed by: Peter Yates
Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis), a Life Magazine photography editor, is fired for refusing to name names in a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing. Undaunted by the McCarthy…
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Cocoon: The Return (1988)
Cast: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox …
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
In this sequel to the huge hit Cocoon, the seniors who exited Earth in exchange for eternal youth return to terra firma to visit with the loved ones they left behind. Meanwhile, their alien…
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Batteries Not Included (1987)
Cast: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Elizabeth Peña …
Directed by: Matthew Robbins
After their apartment building is bought by an unscrupulous developer, Frank and Faye Riley (real-life couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy) face eviction. But the poor retirees and their…
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Foxfire (1987)
Cast: Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, John Denver …
Directed by: Jud Taylor
After the death of her husband, aging widow Annie Nations must decide whether to stay in their Appalachian home. Urged by her country singer son to move on, Annie can't help but feel…
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Cocoon (1985)
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Steve Guttenberg, Don Ameche …
Directed by: Ron Howard
A group of shut-ins at a rest home get a new lease on life when they're offered the gift of eternal youth by visiting aliens led by Brian Dennehy. Steve Guttenberg plays a charter boat…
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The Bostonians (1984)
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy …
Directed by: James Ivory
Adapted from Henry James's novel, The Bostonians pits strong personalities against one another in a battle of the sexes, as an ardent feminist and a Southern gentleman vie for a…
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The World According to Garp (1982)
Cast: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close …
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Born the bastard son of an unconventional mother (Glenn Close), oddball writer T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) inhabits a strange universe filled with well-intentioned head cases, a feminist icon,…
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Best Friends (1982)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Richard Babson (Burt Reynolds) and Paula McCullen (Goldie Hawn) have lived and worked together as a seamless screenwriting team for five years. But trouble starts to brew after they finally…
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Still Of The Night (1982)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Meryl Streep stars as Brooke Reynolds, the mistress of a married man who turns up dead, prompting her to pay a visit to her deceased lover's psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider), to…
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Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
Cast: David Rasche, Paul Jabara, Jenn Thompson …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Led by the eccentric Mayor Kirby T. Calo (William Devane), the residents of Ticlaw, Fla., band together to thwart their governor's plan to construct a new freeway that will funnel…
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Butley (1974)
Cast: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan …
Directed by: Harold Pinter
This witty adaptation of Simon Gray's play tracks a day in the life of Ben Butley, an embittered English professor who learns that his homosexual lover is leaving him for another man and…
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The Birds (1963)
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Rod Taylor …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown…
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Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Cast: Paul Newman, Susan Strasberg, Jessica Tandy …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Richard Beymer portrays the titular young man, and Paul Newman turns in a stunning cameo as a punch-drunk pugilist in this atmospheric adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's…
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The Desert Fox (1951)
Cast: James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke …
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (convincingly portrayed by James Mason) was known for his exploits in the Afrika Korps. This classic film, directed by Henry Hathaway, chronicles Rommel's life…
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September Affair (1950)
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Françoise Rosay …
Directed by: William Dieterle
When they are mistakenly listed among the dead on a flight that crashes en route to Rome, married businessman David Lawrence (Joseph Cotten) and classical pianist Marianne Stuart (Joan…