Alice Drummond
Date of birth: 1928-05-21
Place of birth: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Alice Elizabeth Drummond (née Ruyter; May 21, 1928 – November 30, 2016) was an American actress. A veteran Off-Broadway performer, she was nominated in 1970 for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mrs. Lee in The Chinese by Murray Schisgal. She may be best known as Alice, the librarian, in the opening scenes of the 1984 horror-comedy Ghostbusters.
Movie Credits
Ghostbusters
1984-06-08
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into
Pieces of April
2003-10-17
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil
In & Out
1997-09-10
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the
Awakenings
1990-12-04
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic
Motherhood
2009-01-21
In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the c
Nobody's Fool
1994-12-23
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for hi
The Love Letter
1999-05-21
In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake th
Just the Ticket
1998-02-01
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't appr
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
2007-12-09
While back in his hometown, a suicidal former baseball player encounters the spirit of his deceased
Funny Farm
1988-06-03
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to writ
Walking and Talking
1996-07-17
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagemen
Chronic Town
2008-04-03
Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of
The Rising Place
2001-02-01
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpos
Money, Power, Murder.
1989-12-10
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has inter
Man on a Swing
1974-02-24
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief
Furry Vengeance
2010-04-30
When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020-01-07
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the
After.Life
2009-11-07
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for buri
You Can't Take it With You
1984-11-21
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccen
Doubt
2008-12-12
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a trou
Synecdoche, New York
2008-10-24
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a li
The Honeymooners
2005-06-10
Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for
Advice From a Caterpillar
1999-02-15
When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career
I'll Take You There
1999-09-03
Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns in
Earthly Possessions
1999-12-29
A bored homemaker planning to run away from her minister husband is taken hostage in a bank robbery.
Office Killer
1997-12-03
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home pos
'Til There Was You
1997-05-30
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty
Commandments
1997-05-02
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world h
Jeffrey
1995-08-18
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes
Money for Nothing
1993-09-10
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides
Daybreak
1993-05-08
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical
Running on Empty
1988-09-09
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixti
Eyewitness
1981-02-13
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued whe
Hide in Plain Sight
1980-03-21
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Progra
King of the Gypsies
1978-12-20
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandso
Joe Gould's Secret
2000-01-21
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who
House of D
2004-05-07
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up
Where’s Poppa?
1970-11-10
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to e
Nikki and Alexander
1989-01-01
Alexander is a run of the mill New Yorker who meets Nikki, a Russian homeless girl. He agrees to let
Secret Service
1977-01-12
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control o
The Suicide Club
1988-05-21
A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994-02-04
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing masco
Particular Men
1972-04-15
A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows severa
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990-05-03
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
Sanctuary of Fear
1979-04-23
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is bec
Animal Behavior
1989-10-27
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machin
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995-09-08
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securi
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982-07-23
When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel, the Chicken Ranch, proprietr
The Dog Lover
1962-01-01
Jack is the fastidious manager of a local supermarket. The harmless but disruptive actions of his cu
Thieves
1977-02-11
Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; mean
I.Q.
1994-12-24
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pret
The House on Carroll Street
1988-03-04
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, tak