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Phyllis Huffman (1944–2006)

Casting Director | Casting Department | Actress

A graduate of Webster University in St. Louis, Phyllis Huffman briefly worked as a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines before landing a job in the casting departments of MGM and Paramount Pictures, where she came under the wing of casting director Marion Dougherty. Phyllis then went on to Warner Brothers where she eventually rose to the positions of Director... See full bio »

Born:

Phyllis M. Grennan
in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Died:

(age 61) in New York City, New York, USA
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2006 Letters from Iwo Jima
 
2006 Flags of Our Fathers
 
2006 Almost a Woman (TV movie)
 
2006 Lonely Hearts
 
2006 In from the Night (TV movie)
 
2005 Silver Bells (TV movie)
 
2001-2005 American Masters (TV series documentary)
– Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea (2005)
– F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams (2001)
 
2005 Brooklyn Lobster
 
2004 Million Dollar Baby
 
2004 'Salem's Lot (TV movie)
 
2004 Helter Skelter (TV movie)
 
2004 The Blackwater Lightship (TV movie)
 
2003 Evil Never Dies (TV movie)
 
2003 Mystic River
 
2002 The Locket (TV movie)
 
2002 The Rats (TV movie)
 
2002 Blood Work
 
2002 Power and Beauty (TV movie)
 
2002 A Death in the Family (TV movie)
 
2001 The Seventh Stream (TV movie)
 
2001 The Song of the Lark (TV movie)
 
2001 A Glimpse of Hell (TV movie)
 
2001 Second Honeymoon (TV movie)
 
2001 Haven (TV movie)
 
2000 The Runaway (TV movie)
 
2000 Papa's Angels (TV movie)
 
2000 The Lost Child (TV movie)
 
2000 Cora Unashamed (TV movie)
 
2000 Space Cowboys
 
2000 Cupid & Cate (TV movie)
 
2000 Mary and Rhoda (TV movie)
 
2000 The Crossing (TV movie)
 
1999 Minotaur
 
1999 Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (TV movie)
 
1999 Superstar
 
1999 The Hunley (TV movie)
 
1999 Dash and Lilly (TV movie)
 
1999 True Crime
 
1999 Night Ride Home (TV movie)
 
1999 Building Pyramids (TV documentary)
 
1998 Free of Eden (TV movie)
 
1998 A Will of Their Own (TV mini-series)
 
1998 Only Love (TV movie)
 
1998 The Echo of Thunder (TV movie)
 
1998 Ruby Bridges (TV movie)
 
1997 Ellen Foster (TV movie)
 
1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
 
1997 The Blood Oranges
 
1997 Private Parts
 
1997 Old Man (TV movie)
 
1997 Absolute Power
 
1997 Turbulence
 
1997 Death Rituals (TV documentary)
 
1995-1996 Flipper (TV series)
– Sharks (1996)
– Muddy Waters (1996)
– Pilot (1995)
 
1996 Harvest of Fire (TV movie)
 
1996 In the Lake of the Woods (TV movie)
 
1996 The Boys Next Door (TV movie)
 
1995 Journey (TV movie)
 
1995 Prince for a Day (TV movie)
 
1995 The Stars Fell on Henrietta
 
1995 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (TV movie)
 
1995 Secrets (TV movie)
 
1995 Redwood Curtain (TV movie)
 
1995 In Pursuit of Honor (TV movie)
 
1995 The Piano Lesson (TV movie)
 
1995 77 Sunset Strip (TV movie)
 
1994 The Gift of Love (TV movie)
 
1994 A Place for Annie (TV movie)
 
1994 Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (TV mini-series)
– Episode #1.3 (1994)
– Episode #1.2 (1994)
– Episode #1.1 (1994)
 
1994 Breathing Lessons (TV movie)
 
1994 Normandy: The Great Crusade (TV movie)
 
1993 A Perfect World
 
1993 Taking the Heat (TV movie)
 
1993 Skylark (TV movie)
 
1993 Cuba's Lost Treasure (TV documentary)
 
1992 Unforgiven
 
1992 Swans Crossing (TV series)
 
1992 Battle in the Erogenous Zone (TV short) (as Phyllis Hoffman)
 
1991 A Woman Named Jackie (TV mini-series)
 
1990 The Rookie
 
1989 Pink Cadillac
 
1989 A Man Called Hawk (TV series)
– Poison (1989)
– Vendetta (1989)
– The Divided Child (1989)
– Passing the Bar (1989)
– Hear No Evil (1989)
See all 7 episodes »
 
1988 Murphy Brown (TV series)
– Respect (1988)
 
1988 The Dead Pool
 
1988 Bird
 
1988 China Beach (TV series)
– Pilot (1988)
 
1987 Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (TV mini-series)
– Episode #1.3 (1987)
– Episode #1.2 (1987)
– Episode #1.1 (1987)
 
1987 The Betty Ford Story (TV movie)
 
1985 North and South (TV mini-series)
– Episode #1.6 (1985)
– Episode #1.5 (1985)
– Episode #1.4 (1985)
– Episode #1.3 (1985)
– Episode #1.2 (1985)
See all 6 episodes »
 
1984 His Mistress (TV movie)
 
1984 Tightrope
 
1984 V: The Final Battle (TV mini-series)
– Part Three (1984)
– Part Two (1984)
– Part One (1984)
 
1983 Sparkling Cyanide (TV movie)
 
1983 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV series)
– The First Time (1983)
 
1983 Vacation
 
1983 V (TV movie)
 
1983 Independence Day
 
1982 Honkytonk Man
 
1982 Soup for One
 
1982 Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (TV movie)
 
1980 Xanadu (as Phyllis Grennan Huffman)
 
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2007 Sybil (TV movie) (casting)
 
2004 The Brooke Ellison Story (TV movie) (casting: New York)
 
2002 Martin and Lewis (TV movie) (casting)
 
2002 Power and Beauty (TV movie) (casting: New York)
 
2002 Two Against Time (TV movie) (casting)
 
2000 Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (TV movie) (casting: New York)
 
1998 A Will of Their Own (TV mini-series) (casting director: Los Angeles/New York - 2 episodes)
– Episode #1.1 (1998) (casting director: Los Angeles/New York)
– Episode #1.2 (1998) (casting director: Los Angeles/New York)
 
1998 Only Love (TV movie) (casting: USA)
 
1995-1996 Flipper (TV series) (original casting - 17 episodes)
– Flipper Speaks! (1996) (original casting)
– Past Tense (1996) (original casting)
– The Girl Who Came to Dinner (1996) (original casting)
– Menace to Seaciety (1996) (original casting)
– Monkey Island (1996) (original casting)
See all 17 episodes »
 
1996 The Late Shift (TV movie) (casting: New York)
 
1995 Courting Justice (TV movie) (casting: USA)
 
1995 Haunted (casting: USA - as Phyllis Hoffman)
 
1995 Johnny's Girl (TV movie) (additional casting)
 
1994 Is There Life Out There? (TV movie) (casting)
 
1991 A Woman Named Jackie (TV mini-series) (casting: New York - 1 episode)
– The Bouvier Years (1991) (casting: New York)
 
1990 White Hunter Black Heart (casting: USA)
 
1985-1987 Spenser: For Hire (TV series) (casting: Los Angeles - 38 episodes)
– The Song of Orpheus (1987) (casting: Los Angeles)
– If You Knew Sammy (1987) (casting: Los Angeles)
– The Road Back (1987) (casting: Los Angeles)
– My Brother's Keeper (1987) (casting: Los Angeles)
– One for My Daughter (1987) (casting: Los Angeles)
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1986 Heartbreak Ridge (casting executive)
 
1986 Ratboy (casting executive)
 
1986 Dead Man's Folly (TV movie) (casting: American)
 
1985 Pale Rider (casting executive)
 
1984 Tightrope (casting executive)
 
1983-1984 Goodnight, Beantown (TV series) (original casting - 2 episodes)
– An Old Flame Flickers (1984) (original casting)
– A Felon Needs a Girl (1983) (original casting)
 
1983 Sparkling Cyanide (TV movie) (casting)
 
1983 A Caribbean Mystery (TV movie) (casting)
 
Show ShowActress (1 title)
2005 Brooklyn Lobster
Judge Williams
 
Show ShowThanks (3 titles)
2007 Sybil (TV movie) (in memory of)
 
2006 Flags of Our Fathers (dedicatee - as Phyllis)
 
2000 American Masters (TV series documentary) (thanks - 1 episode)
– Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000) (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
2000 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Herself - Casting Director
– Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000) … Herself - Casting Director
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
2006 The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Memorial Tribute
 
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She earned a Casting Society of America award for her work on the Oscar nominated "Mystic River" and for casting the pilot of the hit TV series "Murphy Brown". See more »

Star Sign:

Cancer