Highest rated movie: Repo Man (1984)
Lowest rated movie: Deal of the Century (1983)
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Movies starring Helen Martin have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
Repo Man - released in 1984 - is Helen Martin's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 602 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Helen Martin is Deal of the Century - released in 1983 - with a score of 36% based on 16 reviews.
Helen Dorothy Martin (July 23, 1909 – March 25, 2000) was an American actress of stage and television who is perhaps most well known for her role in the sitcom 227 as Marla Gibbs' neighbor Pearl.
Martin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Amanda Frankie (née Fox) and William Martin, a minister.
Martin was a Broadway character actress for many decades, debuting in Orson Welles' production of Native Son in 1941. She appeared in at least a dozen Broadway shows including Jean Genet's The Blacks, Raisin from 1973 to 1975, Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious (and later the musical version, which was called Purlie), The Amen Corner and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment. She was an original member of the American Negro Theater.
She first became famous later in life for her guest role as Wanda on the television series Good Times, and later as the wisecracking neighbor Pearl Shay on the television sitcom 227. She also played on the short-run sitcoms Baby, I'm Back (as mother in-law, Luzelle) and That's My Mama; as Loc Dog's grandma, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), the matronly grandmother Mama Doll in the 1998 film Bulworth, and the no-nonsense grandmother in the film Hollywood Shuffle. Helen Martin died of a heart attack on March 25, 2000.
Helen Martin has acted in films with Tracey Walter, George Hamilton, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Thomas Rosales Jr..
Helen Martin has worked with these film directors: John Landis, Warren Beatty, William Friedkin and Paris Barclay.
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