Also Credited As:
Melinda Ruth Dillon
Biography
She made her Broadway debut with an emotionally charged performance as Honey in the original Broadway production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1962.
The petite blonde Dillon made her feature debut as an eccentric neighbor of Catherine Deneuve in "The April Fools" (1969). After a seven year absence, she returned to films in the dual roles of Woody Guthrie's abandoned wife and as his singing partner in Hal Ashby's "Bound for Glory" …
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A Christmas Story | Mother |
Fallen Angel | Sherry Phillips |
The Effects of Magic | Mom |
Harry and the Hendersons | Nancy Henderson |
Shattered Innocence | Sharon |
Spontaneous Combustion | Nina |
Shattered Spirits | Joyce Mollencamp |
The Critical List | Dr Kris Lassiter |
State of Emergency | Mrs Anderson |
Marriage Is Alive and Well | Jeannie |
Sioux City | Leah Goldman |
Songwriter | Honey Carder |
Right of Way | Ruda Dwyer |
Bound For Glory | Mary Guthrie |
Staying Together | Eileen McDermott |
Absence of Malice | Teresa |
Judgment Day: The John List Story | Eleanor List |
The Juggler of Notre Dame | Dulcy Wintergreen |
John Grisham's A Painted House | Gran Chandler |
Nightbreaker | Paula Brown |
F.I.S.T. | Anna Zerinkas |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Jillian Guiler |
Magnolia | Rose Gator |
Adam & Steve | Dottie |
Freeman | Madam Arkadina |
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