15 Greatest Patty Duke Movies (Film & TV)
by BWRocks | created - 11 Jan 2017 | updated - 11 Jan 2017 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Miracle Worker (1962)
Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Votes: 20,488 | Gross: $5.45M
2. My Sweet Charlie (1970 TV Movie)
G | 97 min | Drama
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey, William Hardy
Votes: 275
3. Call Me Anna (1990 TV Movie)
97 min | Biography, Drama
Actress Patty Duke portrays herself in this autobiographical film that details her long-time struggle with mental illness.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Patty Duke, Timothy Carhart, Howard Hesseman, Deborah May
Votes: 187
4. You'll Like My Mother (1972)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Francesca Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was recently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town and gets snowed in ... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Sian Barbara Allen
Votes: 858
5. Me, Natalie (1969)
M/PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
A young woman struggles for independence.
Director: Fred Coe | Stars: Patty Duke, James Farentino, Martin Balsam, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 1,161 | Gross: $1.07M
6. Nightmare (1974 TV Movie)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A murder witness, who can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, realizes he is the sniper's next victim.
Director: William Hale | Stars: Richard Crenna, Patty Duke, Vic Morrow, Arlene Golonka
Votes: 102
7. Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989 TV Movie)
R | 95 min | Horror
The demonic forces in the Amityville house transfer to an ancient lamp, which finds its way to a remote California mansion where the evil manipulates a little girl by manifesting itself in the form of her dead father.
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Fredric Lehne, Lou Hancock
Votes: 3,490
8. The Babysitter (1980 TV Movie)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Spoiled 12-year-old Tara's new best friend from next door gets hired as a live-in babysitter, but things soon go horribly wrong when Tara's mom starts hitting the bottle and fighting with her dad.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Patty Duke, William Shatner, Quinn Cummings, David Wysocki
Votes: 735
9. No Child of Mine (1993 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 93 min | Biography, Drama
A woman accustomed to always having the last word in every situation finds herself trying to "rescue" her grandson Jesse, from being signed away to grow up in an institution for Down Syndrome children.
Director: Michael Katleman | Stars: Patty Duke, Tracy Nelson, G.W. Bailey, Susan Blakely
Votes: 173
10. A Killer Among Friends (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama
A grieving mother sets out to find the murderer of her daughter.
Director: Charles Robert Carner | Stars: Patty Duke, Tiffani Thiessen, Margaret Welsh, Angie Rae McKinney
Votes: 1,145
11. Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Said to be based on fact, the residents of new houses experience disturbing supernatural phenomena. They find out that their houses are built on land formerly used as a cemetery.
Director: John Patterson | Stars: Patty Duke, David Selby, Kiersten Warren, Blake Clark
Votes: 549
12. A Matter of Justice (1993 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 240 min | Drama, Thriller
True story about the mother of a murder victim seeking to bring her son's widow to justice and gain custody of her granddaughter.
Director: Michael Switzer | Stars: Patty Duke, Martin Sheen, Alexandra Powers, Jason London
Votes: 636
13. Cries from the Heart (1994 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at his school.
Director: Michael Switzer | Stars: Patty Duke, Melissa Gilbert, Bradley Pierce, Markus Flanagan
Votes: 320
14. The Miracle Worker (1979 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Biography, Drama
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.
Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Patty Duke, Diana Muldaur, Charles Siebert, Anne Seymour
Votes: 758
15. She Waits (1972 TV Movie)
74 min | Horror
A murdered woman possesses her husband's new wife to seek revenge.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Patty Duke, David McCallum, Dorothy McGuire, Lew Ayres
Votes: 383
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