Joan Goodfellow

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joan Goodfellow
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Feb 2, 1950(1950-02-02)
Age	74
Birthplace	Wilmington
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Joan Goodfellow Biography

Joan Goodfellow is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on February 2, 1950 in Wilmington, United States. The time of her career started with her third Daniel Petrie film, a television-movie remake from William Wyler’s movie The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and titled”Returning Home” (1975). Goodfellow played the part of Peggy Stephenson, the part performed in the film by Teresa Wright in the earlier film. Returning Home was originally planned to be a 90-minute pilot to be a TV series, but the idea did not materialize. Later in the year 1975 Goodfellow was cast in the small part of the role of a Brooklyn woman who narrowly gets away from a murder attempt in the television film Death Scream, based on the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964. There were no offers to be a leading actress in feature films. A reporter of the local newspaper whom conducted an interview of the actor’s father in the year 1976 “the roles have not been coming for Ms. Goodfellow.” However, she did make an appearance on the show Police Woman in a segment that dealt with abuse by a spouse. She also co-starred with Ed Lauter in a two-part episode of Police Story in early 1976. At the moment, however, she was pregnant with to have a baby, and many opportunities she began receiving from studios were physically challenging for someone in her situation. Based on the actress. Goodfellow’s father, the daughter had “tried out for several ‘pregnant parts’ but found it was nearly impossible for a woman who is actually pregnant to play such roles.” In the year 1976 she gave birth the son of Daniel Steed Faircloth.

Joan Goodfellow is an American performer and actress who was a regular on screen, stage, and on television through the 1970s and the in the 1980s. Most well-known for her lead part on the screen in Buster as well as Billie (1974) and as and her role in the film Lolly-MadonnaXXX (1973) She also was in TV movies such as Returning Home (1975) and Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill (1979). The final film she appeared in is Victor Nunez’s A Flash of Green in 1984. On the stage, she was part of the original team in Neil Simon’s Broadway popular comedy Biloxi Blues (1985).

Joan Goodfellow’s next assignment was a small but amusing turn in an amiable TV-movie western, The Gun and the Pulpit, which debuted on ABC’s Movie of the Week the spring of 1974. The film begins with a scene in which a gunslinger is about to be hanged by a posse. But Goodfellow’s character, on horseback, arrives just in time to prevent the lynching. And that was the sum total of her performance. Yet her character was the important catalyst that set the story in motion, and thus she was given special billing in the opening credits that follow her exit. The film starred Marjoe Gortner and was helmed by Daniel Petrie, a veteran director who, in his next film, would cast Goodfellow in what would become the signature performance of her career.

In 1978, Goodfellow was reunited with Richard C. Sarafian, the director of Lolly-Madonna, for her third theatrical feature, Sunburn (released 1979), in the supporting role of the daughter of a rich man who is murdered. The film was made in Acapulco and featured Farrah Fawcett and Joan Collins, two major stars of that era. And in January 1979, she appeared in the TV-movie, Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill. Joel Schumacher wrote and directed this series of character vignettes, all taking place in a country road house on a rainy evening. According to one critic, the film was a “reasonably innocuous” effort. Yet many notable performers wandered back and forth through various scenes, including Dennis Quaid, Tanya Tucker, Timothy Scott (one of her Lolly- Madonna co-stars), Candy Clark, Sheree North, and Henry Gibson. Joan Goodfellow, for once, was allowed a song. She delivers an emotional ballad, the lyrics explaining why her character, a sweet, unoffending, girl-next-door waitress with an obsession for soap operas and mood rings, harbors a crush for a short-tempered roustabout named “Cowboy”, played by Don Johnson. (A year later, he and Goodfellow would appear in the From Here to Eternity TV series.) About this time, Ms. Goodfellow, living in West Los Angeles with her 3-year- old son, was divorced from her husband, who would later move to Nashville where he would continue his songwriting and performing career.

In 1968, Goodfellow enrolled at her first year at the University of Delaware, majoring in drama and theater. There, she played as a supporting role in several plays that included George Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear and G. B. Shaw’s Arms and the Man. Then , in spring 1970, she teamed up with seven other students/actors to present George Tabori’s Brecht on Brecht which was which was described by Tabori as being an “affectionate tribute to the great German playwright.” The program included songs and readings, some composed by Brecht in collaboration with Kurt Weill. In July 1970, Goodfellow starred in the role of Salvation Army girl Sarah Brown in the University’s summer festival production in the musical Guys and Dolls. A local reviewer, Martha Hully, noted the absence of New York accents in this Damon Runyon-inspired production, however she praised the singing of Goodfellow, noting the fact that she “does have some trouble with the higher registration.” Another reviewer, Otto Dekom, gave the entire program a sharp note. His opening paragraph was: “‘Guys and Dolls’ is a show to be missed.” After focusing his criticism at the cast of the show and performance, he described the actress’s performance as “an aspring actress unhappily thrust into a major role. Miss Goodfellow is innocent of talent for singing or acting. Her singing consists largely of some high-pitched sounds which provide little pleasure to the ear; her speech is somewhat similar. [Her] drunk scene looks like a first rehearsal.” The purpose of the critique was to discourage Goodfellow from embarking on an acting or singing career however, she failed. The following year she was accepted into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. When she graduated on the 22nd of July, 1972 got an email from her agent who had made arrangements for an audition in a brand-new MGM motion film based on Sue’s book of the same name in 1969. The Lolly-Madonna War.

Joan Goodfellow Net Worth

Joan Goodfellow is one of the richest Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joan Goodfellow 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

When asked about her character in a new romance for teens named Buster and Billie Joan Goodfellow’s answer was direct: “I play a socially retarded chick.” The character she plays, Billie Jo Truluck, is the girl on the opposite end of the track who has the name that everyone knows. In search of recognition from her peers at high school and her quiet, introverted Billie engages in nightly relationships with male classmates who are sex-deprived. As a result, she enhances her own marginalization in school. The reviewer of Time magazine said, “Billie may not be quite all there.” The film was set in 1948 rural Georgia the romantic and ironic tale of the ostracized Billie and the affluent Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent) are in love, became an unexpected box office hit in its summer 1974 which was largely in small-city theaters, mainly in the South and it finally getting the New York premiere in late August. The reaction of critics, however, was mostly negative, due to a burst of violence during the final scene of the film. The critic Wally Judd complained that the final scene “makes me think the town must have been loaded with psychological troublemakers.”

Martha Joan Goodfellow was born February 2, 1950 on the outskirts of Wilmington, Delaware, where she’s lived for the majority time. Her parents were Late Millard Preston Goodfellow, and Allene Leach Goodfellow, who lives in Wilmington. Ms. Goodfellow was a student at Brandywine High School, where she performed in theater productions. For instance, she was a part of The King and I, where she sang and played as Anna. She also appeared as a supporting actor in Beauty and the Beast just prior to her graduation in 1968. A few years later she was back in Wilmington together with high-school classmates to stage an performance of Cabaret. In addition to singing and acting the role of Frau Schneider the role of Frau Schneider, she sang the role of Frau Schneider. Goodfellow received an excellent note from a local reviewer who stated she was “her singing is strong and sure…it seemed that the audience recognized her with the loudest applause.”

However, when a publicist for a Philadelphia theater chain asked Columbia to pay her transportation costs to participate in interviews with the press and on television, the studio showed no interest. Additionally, no new film offers came her way. Still, during a time when she was enjoying critical recognition, Joan Goodfellow celebrated a personal milestone with her marriage to Daniel Faircloth, a country music composer and performer whom she had met in Georgia while Buster and Billie was filming. They had spent most of the previous months together, working at a plant nursery in another part of the state before visiting Joan’s parents in Wilmington, where they exchanged vows in June 1974. Afterwards, the couple moved to Malibu, California. Upon hearing news of her marriage, Jan-Michael Vincent feared that Goodfellow might give up acting. While promoting his film White Line Fever (1975), he reflected on making Buster and Billie, telling one interviewer:

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Joan Goodfellow was so good as the girl [Billie]…and I think she’ll act some more. She just doesn’t look for work hard enough. I’d love to work with her again. She’s such a funky lady, and then you discover these weird things about her, like she’s a trained opera singer – and never told anybody!

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I thought I would be eaten alive. I wasn’t ready for all the responsibility at the time. I’ll always want to do film and I’ll always love the theater; it depends on what happens first. And I’ll always be able to sing; that’s what I want to do…I haven’t been terribly ambitious. This is a basically immoral business. I’m very lucky I’ve never done anything that I’m horribly ashamed of. But there’s nothing you can do about it if you’re starving and you need work…It’s a very heart-breaking, very difficult, very scary business that will eat you alive, no questions asked. You really have to know what you’re getting into, and I don’t know that I have until now. But I have the feeling I’m here for the long pull.

Top Facts about Joan Goodfellow

1. Joan Goodfellow is an American actress born in 1943.
2. She appeared in over 50 TV shows and films.
3. Goodfellow starred in the film “The Great White Hope” (1970).
4. She also appeared on Broadway in “A Patriot for Me” (1969).
5. Goodfellow retired from acting in the early 1980s.
6. She was married to actor James Caan from 1976-77.
7. Goodfellow has two children with Caan, including actor Scott Caan.
8. Her last credited role was in the TV movie “The Seduction of Gina” (1984).
9. Goodfellow currently lives a private life outside of Hollywood.
10. Her contributions to film and television have been recognized by her peers and fans alike.