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Valerie Curtin Biography (1945?-)

Born March 31, c. 1945, in New York, NY; daughter of Joseph Curtin (a radio actor); cousin of Jane Curtin (an actress and comedienne); married Barry Levinson (a director and writer), December, 1977 (some sources cite 1975; divorced, 1982); remarried.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress, producer, writer, series creator

Birth Details

March 31, 1945?

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Appearances
• Vera, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Warner Bros., 1975
• Intensive care nurse, Silent Movie, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976
• Miss Milland, All the President's Men, Warner Bros., 1976
• Naomi "Peaches" Fishbine, Mother, Jugs & Speed, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976
• Plain Jane, Silver Streak, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976
• Mary Agnes, The Great Smokey Roadblock (also known as The Lastof the Cowboys), Dimension Films, 1978
• Phyllis, A Different Story, Avco-Embassy, 1978
• Mrs. Bok, Why Would I Lie?, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1980
• Miss Sheffer, Maxie (also known as Free Spirit), Orion, 1985
• Arlene Hoffman, Big Trouble, Columbia, 1986
• Pearl Waxman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Buena Vista, 1986
• Also appeared in Elegant John and the Ladies.
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Regular performer, The Jim Stafford Show, ABC, 1975
• Judy Bernly, 9 to 5 (also known as Nine to Five), ABC, 1982-1983 then syndicated, 1986-1988
• Movies
• Miss Goldfarb, The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened, CBS, 1977
• Kitty, A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story, NBC, 1978
• Chief warden Stelina Shell, Brave New World, NBC, 1980
• Muriel, A Christmas without Snow, CBS, 1980
• Episodic
• Poet, "Great Expectations," Happy Days (also known as Happy Days Again), ABC, 1974
• "Dennis' New Love," The New Dick Van Dyke Show, CBS, 1974
• Gloria Clooney, "Fear of Flying," Barney Miller, ABC, 1976
• "Fear of Flying," The Bob Newhart Show, CBS, 1976
• "Sweathogs vs. Phi Beta Kappa," Welcome Back Kotter, ABC, 1976
• Gopi, Hestor, Jane Patten, and Sky Aquarian, "Quickie Nirvana," The Rockford Files, NBC, 1977
• Michelle Joyce, "Somebody Has to Say They're Sorry," Rhoda, CBS, 1977
• Ms. Wright, "Hello, Ms. Chips," Welcome Back Kotter, ABC, 1977
• "Off to Jail," Rhoda, CBS, 1977
• Mrs. Warren, "Give Him the Chair!" Frasier, NBC, 1994
• Helen Underhill, "Coffin to Go," Stark Raving Mad, NBC, 1999
• Mrs. Russell, "Saving Harvey Cohen," Becker, CBS, 1999
• "Whatever Works," Party of Five, Fox, 1999
• Judge Audrey Lasher, "How They Lived," The District, CBS, 2000
• Judge Audrey Lasher, "The Real Terrorist," The District, CBS, 2000
• Judge Audrey Lasher, "Surveillance," The District, CBS, 2000
• Ms. Picklesbee, "Finch in the Dogg House," Just Shoot Me, NBC, 2001
• Pilots
• Sandy Lambert, The Primary English Class, ABC, 1977
• Nurse Bob (unaired), NBC, 1988
• Television Work
• Series; Creator; with Others
• Square Pegs, CBS, 1982-1983
• Series; Producer
• Good & Evil, ABC, 1991
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• with Barry Levinson
• ... And Justice for All, Columbia, 1979
• Inside Moves (adapted from the novel by Todd Walton), Associated,1980
• Best Friends, Warner Bros., 1982
• (And with Robert Klane) Unfaithfully Yours (adapted from the 1948Preston Sturges film of the same title), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1984
• Toys, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992
• Teleplays
• Movies
• "Dusk before Fireworks," Women & Men: Stories of Seduction, HBO, 1990
• Episodic
• "Mary's Delinquent," The Mary Tyler Moore Show, CBS, 1975
• Phyllis, CBS, episodes from 1975 to 1977
• Stage Appearances
• Edna Klein, Children of a Lesser God, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1979
• Appeared in productions with the New Theatre for Now, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1983.