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Broadway is saddened to report the passing of stage and screen veteran Priscilla Pointer, who passed away in her sleep at the age of 100. Her daughter Amy Irving shared the news in a post on Instagram. Pointer worked in show business in various capacities for most of her adult life. In the 1950's she worked with her late husband, Jules Irving (along with Herbert Blau and Beatrice Manley) to co-found the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop. The couple later moved to New York City, where he became the first Producing Director of the Repertory Company of the Vivian Beaumont Theater of Lincoln Center. It was around that time that Pointer made her Broadway debut with Danton's Tod. She spent the rest of the 60's...

Priscilla Pointer, who played the mother of her real-life daughter Amy Irving in “Carrie” and also appeared on “Dallas,” died Monday in Ridgefield, Conn. She was 100.

Pointer’s death was confirmed to Variety by her son, USC professor David K. Irving.

Pointer played Irving’s mom in “Carrie” and appeared with her daughter in six other movies. She also portrayed other famous mothers throughout the ’70s and ’80s, including Diane Keaton’s in “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” Kyle MacLachlan’s in “Blue Velvet” and Sean Penn’s in “The Falcon and the Snowman.” Additionally, she starred in the CBS soap opera “Dallas” as the mother of Victoria Principal’s character.

Over the years, Pointer appeared in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “ER,” “Judging Amy,” “St. Elsewhere,” “McCoy,” “McCloud” and “N.Y.P.D.” Pointer also appeared in three films directed by her son, David Irving, including the 1987 musical adaptation of “Rumpelstiltskin,...

Priscilla Pointer, the character actress who portrayed Amy Irving’s mother in the Brian De Palma horror classic Carrie, then appeared with her daughter in six other movies, has died. She was 100.

Pointer died Monday at an assisted living facility in Ridgefield, Connecticut, her son, writer-director David Irving, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Pointer also portrayed Diane Keaton’s mom in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Sean Penn’s in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) and Kyle MacLachlan’s in Blue Velvet (1986), and on television, she was Rebecca Barnes Wentworth, the mother of Victoria Principal’s character, on CBS’ Dallas in the early 1980s.

Pointer also appeared with Irving in Honeysuckle Rose (1980), The Competition (1980), Blake Edwards’ Micki + Maude (1984), Rumpelstiltskin (1987) — which was directed by her son — A Show of Force (1990) and Carried Away (1996).

In the 1960s and ’70s, Pointer worked on Broadway with the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center company under the direction of her first husband,...

Only in the ‘70s, man, only in the ‘70s. Long before PC culture invaded popular entertainment, movies were the haven of the taboo, a safe house for ideas two steps from the norm. Now, many of these films of perversion were relegated to grindhouse theatres and the third feature of a Dusk Til Dawn showing at your local Drive-In. But occasionally a film will crawl towards the mainstream and plop itself down, bawling for attention. The Baby (1973) is one such film, so twisted in conception that it’s hard to believe it would be released in any decade. Except the ‘70s of course, where you could even get the director of a Dirty Harry and a Planet of the Apes flick to helm it.

Distributed by Scotia International in March, The Baby was given a limited theatrical release; and that’s really for the best – as much as the film...