Priscilla Pointer, 1924 – 2025

Actress Priscilla Pointer (no relation to the singing sisters, but the mother of actress Amy Irving) died on April 28. She was 100. The native New Yorker was the daughter of two artists, and ran the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop from the early ‘50s with her first husband, producer Jules Irving. She made her Broadway debut in 1965, and appeared in a dozen Broadway shows (among them The Country Wife, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Time of Your Life, and A Streetcar Named Desire). Pointer enjoyed a long career as a character actress; though she never became a star, she worked steadily in TV and films (McCloud, Adam-12, Dallas, Police Woman, Phyllis, Carrie, Nickelodeon, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Onion Field, Blue Velvet, Newhart).