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Acting

Ruth Roman

Career: Active from 1944 to 1982, busiest in 1956 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 35
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: Strangers on a Train
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 66 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ruth Roman Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.4, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.4, average 2.7
Absurdist Humor
0.7, average 2.0
Satire & Parody
1.1, average 2.3

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Western 6
Moral Ambiguity 6
Historical Drama 4
Psychological Tension 4
Psychological Thriller 4
Social Commentary 3
Historical Setting 3
Greed 3
Moral Decay 3
Moral Dilemma 2
Classic Adventure 2
Survival Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

96

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1980s

2 titles · average score 76

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Loretta Spiegel

Echoes

as Mrs. Durant

1970s

17 titles · average score 61

Knots Landing

77

TV show · as Sylvia Lean

Day of the Animals

42

as Mrs. Shirley Goodwyn

Impulse

52

as Julia Marstow

Punch and Jody

as Lil Charny

A Knife for the Ladies

48

as Elizabeth

The Killing Kind

53

as Rhea Benson

Police Woman

43

TV show

Harry O

64

TV show · as Ethel Martel

The Baby

72

as Mrs. Wadsworth

Go Ask Alice

56

as Psychiatrist

Cannon

67

TV show

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

65

as Lois

1960s

25 titles · average score 62

Marcus Welby, M.D.

68

TV show · as Dr. Margaret

Ironside

45

TV show

Mannix

71

TV show · as Victoria Parish

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show · as Riva Santel

The Long, Hot Summer

TV show

Love Has Many Faces

47

as Margot Eliot

The F.B.I.

65

TV show · as Julie Sinclair

The Outer Limits

78

TV show · as Prof. Diana Brice

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Adelaide Strain

Look in Any Window

57

as Jackie Fowler

Dr. Kildare

63

TV show · as Lily Prentice / Marie Quincy

Route 66

48

TV show

1950s

34 titles · average score 60

Bitter Victory

72

as Jane Brand

Great Day in the Morning

45

as Boston Grant

5 Steps to Danger

57

as Ann Hemple Nicholson

The Far Country

85

as Ronda Castle

Down Three Dark Streets

62

as Kate Martell

Young Man with Ideas

43

as Julie Webster

Strangers on a Train

87

as Anne Morton

Lightning Strikes Twice

40

as Shelley Carnes

Tomorrow Is Another Day

51

as Catherine 'Cay' Higgins

Dallas

60

as Tonia Robles

Colt .45

63

as Beth Donovan

Three Secrets

67

as Ann Lawrence

1940s

18 titles · average score 66

Always Leave Them Laughing

50

as Fay Washburn

Champion

70

as Emma Bryce

The Window

72

as Jean Kellerson

Beyond the Forest

63

as Carol

Good Sam

61

as Ruthie

Belle Starr's Daughter

54

as Cimarron Rose

The Big Clock

88

as Secretary at Meeting (uncredited)

Gilda

84

as Girl (uncredited)

A Night in Casablanca

65

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Without Reservations

61

as Girl in Negligee (uncredited)

Jungle Queen

56

as Lothel, Jungle Queen

Harmony Trail

as Ann Martin