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.

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