Birthday:
04-01-1960
(64 years)
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
She is known for guest appearances or secondary characters in various sitcoms and dramas, as well as a couple of made-for-TV movies. Among her roles are Sally Frame on Another World (1981–1983), Gwendolyn Pierce on Charles in Charge (1984–1985), and replacing Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady in A Very Brady Christmas (1988). Runyon also had a small part inGhostbusters (1984) alongside Bill Murray and she starred in Up the Creek that same year. She was a guest on Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1991. In 1988, Jennifer played the lead in The In Crowd and was in the pilot of the TV series Quantum Leap. She also starred in the comedy 18 Again!. In 1990 she played a supporting role in the World War II parody A Man Called Sarge, produced by the brother of Roger Corman, Gene Corman, father of her husband Todd Corman. Her last role was in the 1993 movie Carnosaur. Runyon was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of DJ Jim Runyon. She is retired from acting and lives in San Clemente, California. Her husband Todd Corman was the head coach of the Concordia University (Irvine, California) women's basketball team from 2004 to March 2008 when he tendered his resignation.
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Ghostbusters
Act like Female Student
event1984 star_border 7.5
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After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
Up the Creek
Act like Heather Merriweather
event1984 star_border 5.7
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Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.
18 Again!
Act like Robin Morrison
event1988 star_border 5.7
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18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.
Carnosaur
Act like Ann 'Thrush'
event1993 star_border 4.2
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After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
A Very Brady Christmas
Act like Cindy Brady
event1988 star_border 6.3
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Almost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a structural problem in one of the buildings he designed. As he is inspecting the problem, the building collapses, trapping him inside. As the whole family waits by the pile of rubble, they fear the worst. Will Dad be all right?
To All a Goodnight
Act like Nancy
event1980 star_border 4.6
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A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.
The In Crowd
Act like Vicky
event1988 star_border 6
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A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television show he becomes a star. The plot follows him as he lives his new life in his new world. What he finds are adoring fans, jealous rivals, bitter friends left behind, and the girl of his dreams...his dance partner.
Bloodsucka Jones vs. The Creeping Death
Act like Nurse Zarkov
event2017 star_border 10
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In this sequel, Bloodsucka Jones and his friends must battle zombies, weight gain, and tumbleweeds as they attempt to save the world from certain doom.
Tagteam
Act like Rita Valentine
event1991 star_border 7
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Tricky Rick MacDonald and Billy The Body Youngblood are two of the best wrestlers in the country. They are told to take a dive by the wife of a promoter. If they don't, she will make sure they are blackballed from wrestling. When they don't do what she says, they are fired immediately. They try many jobs without any success. When they stop a grocery store robbery, they get the idea to be cops. So begins a new chapter in the life of this tag team. Bad guys, watch out!!!
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Act like Self
event2020 star_border 6.8
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The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
Blue De Ville
Act like J.C. Swift
event1986
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Two girls cruise the country in a 1959 blue Cadillac DeVille. They originally had set out to find the missing father of one of the girls (he is a career soldier who abandoned his family after service in Vietnam), but experience numerous misadventures along the way. -- WorldCat
Master Ninja II
Act like Alicia Clayton
event1984 star_border 7
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Lee Van Cleef and Timoty Van Patten are back in this "sequel" to their last "movie" about a ninja and his apprentice battling evil wherever they go. In reality, it's two episodes of failed TV show 'The Master' repackaged as a movie. Also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
The Falcon and the Snowman
Act like Carole
event1985 star_border 6.5
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The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
A Man Called Sarge
Act like Fifi LaRue
event1990 star_border 2.3
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In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers lead by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.
Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival
Act like Carol Brickmann
event2015 star_border 2.4
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After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' vengeful brother. But when they find the lost journal of Jeffrey Butler, they discover the town has its own sordid history - one more rooted in reality.
Flight of the Spruce Goose
Act like Terry
event1986
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Drama starring Karen Black, Betsy Blair and Dennis Christopher
Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
Act like Angel Fisher
event1986 star_border 6.7
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The true story of treasure hunter Mel Fisher, who spent much of his life--and his fortune--hunting for sunken Spanish treasure galleons off the coast of Florida.
Till Death Us Do Part
Act like Judy Davis
event1992 star_border 6.7
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This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
Killing Streets
Act like Sandra Ross
event1991 star_border 5.1
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A young Marine is kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon. His twin brother, frustrated at his inability to get any kind of information from the government about his brother's plight, travels to Lebanon with a plan for his own rescue operation.
Terror Tales
Act like Melanie (segment "Epidemic")
event2016 star_border 2.2
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After being abducted by a psychopath, a husband is subjected to three horrific tales of terror while his family is held captive in an attached cargo trailer.
Magnum, P.I.
(1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 7.3
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A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
Murder, She Wrote
Act like Kelly Barrett (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.5
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An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Who's the Boss?
(1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.4
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A former professional baseball player, along with his preteen daughter, moves into New York advertising executive Angela Bower's house to be both a housekeeper and a father figure to her young son. Tony 's laid-back personality contrasts with Angela's type-A behavior.
Beverly Hills, 90210
(1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 7.4
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Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
Quantum Leap
Act like Peggy Stratton (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8
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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
The Fall Guy
(1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 7.5
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Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.
Booker
(1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 5.1
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Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series is a spin-off of 21 Jump Street and the second installment of the 21 Jump Street series. The character of Dennis Booker was originally a recurring character on that police drama during its third season. The theme song for the series, "Hot in the City", was performed by Billy Idol.
Dear John
Act like Karen (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 5.7
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Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy ends up with everything in the divorce settlement, including custody of the couple's son, forcing John to move into an apartment in Ozone Park, Queens. John soon joins the One-2-One Club, a self help group for divorced, widowed or lonely people. The group is led by Louise (Jane Carr), a sex-obsessed British woman. Other members of the group include Kate McCarron (Isabella Hofmann), a sweet divorcée; Kirk Morris (Jere Burns), a cocky ladies' man; Ralph Drang (Harry Groener), a shy and neurotic tollbooth collector; Bonnie Philbert (Billie Bird), a feisty senior citizen; and Tom, Mrs. Philbert's quiet boyfriend (Tom Willett).
The Master
(1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 4.9
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An aging ninja master and his young pupil travel in a custom van helping people in need along the way.
Charles in Charge
Act like Gwendolyn Pierce (24 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6.1
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Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, works as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board.
Reunited Apart
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5.5
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Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.
The Highwayman
Act like Amanda Merrick (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 7.4
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The Highwaymen fight crime in the near future.
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