Joan Shawlee

Known for Acting

3/5/1926

Forest Hills, New York, USA

Biography

Reliable character actress who is perhaps known for her performance as Sweet Sue in Billy Wilder's comedy classic, "Some Like It Hot" (1959).

Known For (71 credits)

7.0

Movie

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

1994

Jerry Seinfeld celebrates the lives and careers of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Featured are clips from their movies and TV shows, plus home movies, newsreel footage and their trademark "Who's on First?" routine, shown in its entirety.

7.1

Crazy like a Fox

1984

Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.

7.4

Highway to Heaven

1984

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

4.0

Movie

Kiss My Grits

1982

A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.

6.9

Movie

Child Bride of Short Creek

1981

A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.

6.2

Movie

Buddy Buddy

1981

During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.

Joe's World

1979

Joe's World is an American sitcom television series that aired from December 28, 1979, until July 26, 1980.

6.5

Archie Bunker's Place

1979

Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983. In its first season, the show performed so well that it knocked Mork & Mindy out of its new Sunday night time slot.

6.8

Hart to Hart

1979

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

The Last Resort

1979

The Last Resort is a 1979 American television sitcom, centered around a group of college students working in a hotel kitchen; the humor was in the style of Animal House, and it ran for one season with 15 episodes on CBS.

5.3

Delta House

1979

Delta House is an American sitcom that was adapted from the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House. The series aired from January to April 1979 on ABC.

Movie

Never Con a Killer

1977

Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.