Born in New York Metropolis on Could 18, 1924, Priscilla Pointer made her display performing debut in 1954 and, over the course of a profession that lasted 60 years, went on to rack up greater than 90 different credit. Sadly, trades like The Hollywood Reporter have damaged the information in the present day that Pointer handed away in an assisted dwelling facility in Ridgefield, Connecticut on April 28, 2025 on the age of 100, simply twenty days shy of her one hundred and first birthday.
Pointer’s first performing credit score got here on the 1954 TV present The New Adventures of China Smith. For years, she turned her focus to the stage, working together with her first husband, Jules Irving, on the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop and the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Heart. Then, she returned to the display with an episode of N.Y.P.D. in 1969. From there, she would seem in such movies and TV exhibits as The Excessive Chaparral, Loss of life Takes a Vacation, McCloud, Adam 12, The Rockford Information, Kojak, Cannon, Police Girl, The Nice Texas Dynamite Chase, Phyllis, Barnaby Jones, On the lookout for Mr. Goodbar, Mrs. Columbo, Household, Knots Touchdown, Lou Grant, Mommie Dearest; Quincy, M.E.; The A-Crew, Twilight Zone: The Film, St. Elsewhere, The Falcon and the Snowman, Name to Glory, Superb Tales, Newhart, CHUD II: Bud the Chud, The Flash, ER, Picket Fences, Touched by an Angel, Judging Amy, and Chilly Case.
Pointer could also be finest remembered for her function as Mrs. Snell in Carrie, for taking part in Rebecca Barnes Wentworth on 44 episodes of Dallas, bringing the infuriating Dr. Elizabeth Simms to life in A Nightmare on Elm Avenue 3: Dream Warriors, and/or showing as Mrs. Beaumont in Blue Velvet.
She had three kids with Jules Irving; singer Katie Irving, author/director David Irving, and actress Amy Irving. She shared the display with Amy in Carrie, and they might go on to work collectively once more on The Competitors, Honeysuckle Rose, Micki + Maude, Rumpelstiltskin, A Present of Drive, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Misplaced Classics, and Carried Away.
Preceded in demise by Jules Irving, who handed away in 1979, and her second husband, Robert Symonds, who handed in 2007, Priscilla Pointer is survived by her three kids; Amy Irving’s husband, documentarian Kenneth Bowser; and eight grandchildren. Our honest condolences exit to her household, associates, and followers.
