Margaret Whitton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 30, 1949
- Died
- December 4, 2016 (aged 67)
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Margaret Whitton (November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016) was an American actress. Her most known roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989) and its sequel Major League II, and as Michael J. Fox's vibrant and underappreciated aunt-by-marriage in The Secret of My Success (1987). She also appeared in the films The Best of Times (1986) and The Man Without a Face (1993). She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. In the early 1980s, she began to be billed as Margaret Whitton and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming. After her seven year experiment with film, she returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple Doesn't Fall... (1995) and in the original, award-winning musical Marlene (1999), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Whitton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
Movie · as Leslie Abramson
Major League II
Movie · as Rachel Phelps
Trial by Jury
Movie · as Jane Lyle, Juror
The Man Without a Face
Movie · as Catherine Palin
Cutters
TV · as Adrienne St. John · 5 eps
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
Movie · as Melinda
The Summer My Father Grew Up
Movie · as Naomi
Good & Evil
TV · as Genevieve · 11 eps
Kojak: None So Blind
Movie · as Michele Hogarth
Major League
Movie · as Rachel Phelps
Little Monsters
Movie · as Holly Stevenson
A Fine Romance
TV · as Louisa Phillips · 13 eps
The Secret of My Success
Movie · as Vera Prescott
Baby Boom
Movie · as Executive In Conference Room (uncredited)
Ironweed
Movie · as Katrina
Cat & Mousse
Movie · as Miriam
Nine 1/2 Weeks
Movie · as Molly
The Best of Times
Movie · as Darla Robinson
Spenser: For Hire
TV · 1 ep
Hometown
TV · 9 eps
Tales from the Darkside
TV · as Mary Jones · 1 ep
Miami Vice
TV · as Cassie Bramlette · 1 ep
Love Child
Movie · as Jacki Steinberg
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Movie · as First Lady Lousille Fogerty ("Success Wanters")
Teenage Hitchhikers
Movie · as Sola Alcoa (as Peggy Whitton)
Parades
Movie · as Jane