Priscilla Alden

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jun 27, 1939 (85 years old)
Death date
Aug 24, 2007

Priscilla Alden

Known For

Quest of the Delta Knights
1h 37m
Movie 1993

Quest of the Delta Knights

A secret society, the Delta Knights, attempts to save a medieval society from the evil over-lady.

Stolen: One Husband
1h 28m
Movie 1990

Stolen: One Husband

An angry wife seeks revenge against her philandering entrepreneur husband who left her for a younger woman.

Death Nurse 2
1h 2m
Movie 1988

Death Nurse 2

That crazy killer nurse is at it again! Edith Mortley continues to slay more and more dumbfounded patients, turning them into rat food.

Criminally Insane 2
1h 10m
Movie 1987

Criminally Insane 2

A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic, delusional and has a hefty appetite. In fact, her killing spree began 13 years before with the murder of her grandmother, who had forced her to go on a diet. Now that she's tasted the home-cooked fare at the halfway house, she'll do absolutely anything to get more.

Biography

Heavyset character actress Priscilla Diane Alden was born on June 27, 1939 in San Francisco, California. Alden moved with her family to Santa Barbara, where she attended high school and graduated from UC Santa Barbara. After receiving a master's degree in English literature from the University of Montana, Priscilla returned to the Bay Area to enroll in the School of Drama at San Francisco State College. Alden acted throughout the 1970's, 80's, and 90's in an eclectic array of stage productions in such venues as the Magic Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, and the One Act Theatre Company. Moreover, in 1982 Priscilla won the Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for her performance as Lady Bracknell in a stage production of "Earnest in Love" at the Lamplighters theatre and appeared at times as a spear carrier in operas. Alden achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her unforgettable portrayal of obese and unhinged compulsive eater serial killer Ethal Janowski in Criminally Insane (1975). She was likewise memorable as the equally deranged and dangerous Edith Mortley in Death Nurse (1987). Priscilla died at age 68 from complications of diabetes on August 24, 2007 in her home in San Francisco, California.

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