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American actress
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Female
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1 October 1936(New York City)
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Ben Carruthers
The details
Biography
Introduction
Lelia Goldoni (born October 1, 1936) is an American actress who appeared in a number of motion pictures and television shows starting in the late-1940s, including uncredited cameo roles in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's House of Strangers (1949), John Huston's We Were Strangers (1949) and The Italian Job (1969).
She costarred on the episode "Fair Exchange" and "Two Birds with One Bullet" of the British television series Danger Man (1964) with Patrick MacGoohan.
She is best known for co-starring in John Cassavetes's groundbreaking film Shadows (1959) and playing the best friend of Ellen Burstyn's character in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).
In 2010, she appeared in the miniseries The Pacific as Dora Basilone.
Selected filmography
- Shadows (1959)
- Hysteria (1965)
- Theatre of Death (1967)
- The Italian Job (1969)
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
- The Day of the Locust (1975)
- Baby Blue Marine (1976)
- Bloodbrothers (1978)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- The Unseen (1980)
- Gangster Wars (1981)
- A Constant Forge (2000)
- The Pacific (2010)