Gail Strickland

Gail Strickland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gail Strickland (born May 18, 1947) is an American character actress. Strickland was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Theodosia and Lynn Strickland, who owned a tire shop. She had featured roles in 1970s films such as Bound for Glory, The Drowning Pool and Norma Rae. In a memorable Drowning Pool scene, Strickland and Paul Newman are trapped in a room filling with water from floor to ceiling, stripped to their underwear, with no apparent escape. Strickland appeared on the U.S. Navy series JAG first season episode "War Crimes". She played Ambassador Bartlett, the U.S. ambassador to Peru. She appeared in the pilot episode of the television series Night Court as the public defender. She guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Paradise" as the character Alixus. In 1994-1995, she appeared as Ms. Landis of Doubleday in the Seinfeld Season 6 episodes "The Chaperone" and "The Switch". Strickland played nurse practitioner Marilyn McGrath in the 1988 TV series HeartBeat. This was one of the earliest portrayals of a lesbian character on American network television. She also had a memorable appearance on the television series M*A*S*H as Captain Helen Whitfield, a nurse in an ongoing battle with alcoholism. She appeared in 11 episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman from 1993-94 as the character Olive Davis. She played Esther MacInerney, the wife of A.J. MacInerney (Martin Sheen), Chief of Staff for President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), in the 1995 blockbuster movie The American President, which also starred Annette Bening, Michael J. Fox, and Richard Dreyfuss. Strickland was a cast member in the brief run of the 2002 CBS television series First Monday, playing a Supreme Court justice. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gail Strickland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 1945-05-18

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects	Gail Stevens	0
2	1975	My Father's House	Paula	0
3	1975	The Drowning Pool	Mavis	63
4	1976	The Dark Side of Innocence	Heather	0
5	1976	Bittersweet Love	Roz	37
6	1976	Bound for Glory	Pauline	69
7	1977	The Baron	Samantha - Wasp Lady	45
8	1977	One on One	B.J. Rudolph	58
9	1977	The Gathering	Peggy	37
10	1978	A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story	Dorothy	90
11	1978	The President's Mistress	Gwen Bowers	67
12	1978	Ski Lift to Death	Vicki Gordon	0
13	1978	Who'll Stop the Rain	Charmian	65
14	1979	Norma Rae	Bonnie Mae	72
15	1979	Letters from Frank	Marlene	0
16	1979	The Gathering, Part II	Peggy	20
17	1980	King Crab	Vicky	0
18	1980	Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case	Jean Christensen	55
19	1981	A Matter of Life and Death	Mary Coggins	0
20	1982	My Body, My Child	Adele	90
21	1982	Eleanor, First Lady of the World	Anna Roosevelt	60
22	1982	Amy and the Angel	Mrs. Watson	55
23	1982	Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice	Abbie	90
24	1983	Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land	Nancy Gilliam	48
25	1983	Lies	Jessica Brenner	50
26	1983	Uncommon Valor	Helen Rhodes	62
27	1984	Oxford Blues	Las Vegas Lady	55
28	1984	Protocol	Mrs. St. John	55
29	1986	Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star		40
30	1991	The Man in the Moon	Marie Foster	74
31	1993	Spies	Mrs. Mills	0
32	1993	Silent Cries	Roberta Hampton	10
33	1993	Three of Hearts	Yvonne	48
34	1993	Remember	Amanda	0
35	1994	Last Time Out	Becky Davis	0
36	1994	When a Man Loves a Woman	Pam	66
37	1995	A Mother's Prayer	Ruth	85
38	1995	How to Make an American Quilt	The Mrs.	64
39	1995	The American President	Esther MacInerney	65
40	1998	Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story	Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney	0
41	2008	My Apocalypse	Victoria Eastman	48

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Elena Lewis	71
2	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Forbes	71
3	1970	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Sister Ann Hutchins	75
4	1972	The Rookies		68
5	1972	The Bob Newhart Show	Courtney Simpson	75
6	1972	MAS*H	Capt. Helen Whitfield	79
7	1973	Barnaby Jones	Susan Taylor	69
8	1973	Police Story		69
9	1973	Kojak	Monica	70
10	1974	Harry O	Laura Mayo	46
11	1976	Alice		71
12	1978	Dallas	Veronica Robinson	69
13	1979	Trapper John, M.D.		65
14	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
15	1981	Hill Street Blues	Gail Kennedy	76
16	1981	Walking Tall		57
17	1981	Darkroom		72
18	1982	Fame		68
19	1982	Cagney & Lacey		69
20	1982	Family Ties	Dorothy Canell	73
21	1983	Hardcastle and McCormick	Agatha 'Aggy' Wainwright	64
22	1984	Night Court	Sheila Gardiner	74
23	1984	Highway to Heaven		74
24	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Kate Hollander	75
25	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Edith Peabody	75
26	1985	Spenser: For Hire		67
27	1985	The Insiders		50
28	1986	What a Country!	Principal Joan Courtney	50
29	1988	HeartBeat	Marilyn McGrath	30
30	1988	Murphy Brown	Support Group Counselor	65
31	1989	Seinfeld	Jocelyn Landis	83
32	1990	Law & Order	Ellen Gorham	74
33	1991	Civil Wars	Lisa Wharton	20
34	1992	The Burden of Proof	Fiona Cawley	38
35	1992	Melrose Place	Katherine Andrews	59
36	1993	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	Olive Davis	76
37	1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Alixus	79
38	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Dr. Janet Monroe	70
39	1994	Chicago Hope		72
40	1994	ER	Renee Spielman	78
41	1995	JAG	Bartlett	73
42	1996	The Pretender	Grace Carter-Welman	74
43	1999	Providence	Evelyn Lombard	65
44	2002	First Monday	Justice Deborah Szwark	60

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