‘Priscilla Pointer, ‘Dallas' Actress And Mother Of Amy Irving Dies At 100

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30-04-2025

NEW YORK - MARCH 30: Actress Amy Irving and mother Priscilla Pointer attend the after party for the ... More opening night of "A Safe Harbor For Elizabeth Bishop" at Sarabeth's on March 30, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by)
Priscilla Pointer, who is remembered for her role of Rebecca Wentworth on Dallas, has died. The actress, who was 100, passed away in her sleep on April 29.
Pointer joined the cast of Dallas in season four as the estranged mother of Pamela Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal) and her brother Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval) in season four in 1981. Eventually the family, including daughter Katherine Wentworth (Morgan Brittany), reunited until her character was killed in a mid-air collision while flying in the company jet in 1986.
Married American actors Robert Symonds (1926 - 2007) and Priscilla Pointer attend a wrap party for ... More 'Dallas' at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, February 6, 1982. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Born May 18, 1924, in New York City, Priscilla Pointer began her career as a stage actress on Broadway, as well as tours in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Country Wife and The Condemned of Altona.
She debuted on television in 1954 in two episodes of syndicated drama The New Adventures of China Smith. Later guest roles included the series N.Y.P.D., Matt Lincoln, The Name of the Game, McCloud, Adam-12, The Rockford Files, Kojak, Cannon, Police Woman and Harry O.
Pointer's film resume included Carrie (1976), where she played the onscreen mother of her daughter Amy Irving; The Onion Field (1979), Mommie Dearest (1981), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986); and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: and Coyote Moon (1999). She also played the onscreen mother to Amy Irving in Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Los Angeles, CA - 1985: (L-R) Keenan Wynn, Priscilla Pointer appearing in the ABC tv series 'Call to ... More Glory', episode 'JFK'. (Photo by Chic Donchin /American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images)
In addition to Carrie, she played the onscreen mother to Amy Irving in Honeysuckle Rose (1980) and Carried Away (1996). They were both in the films The Competition in 1980 and Micki & Maude in 1984.