The film was based on a series of short stories and novels written by Jean Shepherd about young Ralphie Parker (played by Peter Billingsley) and his quest for a Red Ryder BB gun from Santa Claus. Apr 28, 2020 - Explore Rodell's board "MELINDA DILLON" on Pinterest.

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[citation needed], Four years later, Dillon co-starred with John Lithgow in the Bigfoot comedy Harry and the Hendersons.

The following year she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the role of a mother whose child is abducted by aliens in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. [citation needed]. Dillon's first feature film was The April Fools in 1969.

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You can put your arms down when you get to school. Melinda Dillon, Actress: Magnolia. 86%. Then: Melinda Dillon played the ever-doting mother of the Parker family and the first to warn the main character that he could lose an eye with the infamous BB gun. Melinda Dillon Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Melinda Dillon photo gallery, biography, … [3], Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melinda_Dillon&oldid=984610438, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2017, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, Episode: "A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One", This page was last edited on 21 October 2020, at 02:06.

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Four years later, Dillon was again nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as a suicidal teacher in Absence of Malice in 1981, working again with Newman. Randy... how do the little piggy's eat? In 1999 she appeared in Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, as Rose Gator, the estranged wife of terminally ill television game-show host Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall). Though best known for her supporting performances in films, Dillon began as an improvisational comedian and stage actress. Dillon's performance in the film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

She continued to be active in stage and film throughout the 1990s, taking roles in the Barbra Streisand drama The Prince of Tides, the low-budget Lou Diamond Phillips thriller Sioux City, and the drama How to Make an American Quilt. says: She co-starred with David Carradine in the 1976 Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory and was nominated in the Best Female Acting Debut category of the Golden Globe for her role as Memphis Sue.

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[1] Dillon attended Hyde Park High School and the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) in Chicago.

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Melinda Dillon (Mrs. Parker). Discover what to watch this November including a Marvel docu-series, a '90s reboot, and a Star Wars holiday celebration.

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[on the police inquiring about her missing son] They asked me if I'd seen any strangers in the neighborhood. Dillon scored important roles as John Lithgow's wife in "Harry and the Hendersons" (1987) and Nick Nolte's troubled sister in "The Prince of Tides" (1991), but notched smaller supporting turns in the ensemble pieces "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" (1995), "How to Make an American Quilt" (1995) and "Magnolia" (1999). 7% Dillon married character actor Richard Libertini on September 30, 1963,[1] and had one child with him, Richard. Hope, Arkansas, USA. But, the duo could not give their relationship proper direction and ended with divorce in 1978. Randy....how do the little piggy's eat?

says: (1978), A Christmas Story (1983), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), The Prince of Tides (1991) and Magnolia (1999).

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Melinda Dillon - Biography. As a comedian, Dillon is perhaps best known for her role as the mother of Ralphie and Randy in Bob Clark's 1983 movie A Christmas Story. Randy [at Ralphie in the pink bunny suit] Ohhh isn't that CUTE?!! (1978), she earned another Oscar nomination as a woman driven to suicide by the machinations of a reporter (Sally Field) in "Absence of Malice" (1981) and achieved pop cultural immortality as the sweet, slightly goofy mother in the ultimate holiday classic, "A Christmas Story" (1983).