Therese Lyon

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography11 Titles

#1The Twilight Zone

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes as Old Woman

8.5 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryDrama

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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#2Monsieur Verdoux

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Jeannette - the Verdoux Maid (uncredited)

7.7 / 10
ComedyCrimeDrama

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

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#3The Killers

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Mrs. Grimes (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
CrimeMysteryThriller

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

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#4All My Sons

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Drama

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

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#5The Green Years

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
Drama

An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.

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#6No Sad Songs for Me

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Elderly Lady (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
Drama

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.

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#7Kilroy Was Here

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Mother Dunlap - Landlady

5.7 / 10
Comedy

"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.

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#8The Playroom

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Messenger

8.8 / 10

Three siblings return home when their mother wins a "Mother of the Year" award from a magazine.

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#9Love, Honor and Goodbye

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Miss Hopkins

5.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

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#10A Letter for Evie

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Mrs. Jackson

6.9 / 10
RomanceComedyDrama

Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.

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#11Strangler of the Swamp

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Bertha

5.8 / 10
FantasyHorrorSci-Fi

A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation and the inhabitants believe that an innocent man they hanged is seeking revenge on all of the male descendants of those responsible for his death. Maria, granddaughter of the innocent ferryman, decides to operate the ferry service. Chris Sanders, a son of one of the men who did the hanging, and Maria fall in love. The "strangler" seizes Chris and Maria offers her life if Chris is spared.

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