R.I.P. Wendie Jo Sperber

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Laugh On, Brave Lady. You Will Always Be Our Bosom Buddy.

# My Dinner with Jimi (2003) .... Louella
# Sorority Boys (2002) .... Professor Bendler
# Pissed (2000) .... Wendy

# Desperate But Not Serious (1999) .... Landlady
... aka Reckless + Wild (USA: DVD title)
# Big Packages (1996)
# The Return of Hunter (1995) (TV) .... Lucille
... aka The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
# Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie (1995) .... Woman With Kitten
# Love Affair (1994) .... Helen
# Mr. Write (1994) .... Roz
# "Hearts Afire" (1992) TV Series .... Mavis Davis (1992-1993)
# "Babes" (1990) TV Series .... Charlene Gilbert (1990-1991)
# Back to the Future Part III (1990) .... Linda McFly
# The Image (1990) (TV) .... Anita Cox

# "Women in Prison" (1987) TV Series .... Pam (1987-1988)
# Delta Fever (1987) .... Claire
... aka Summer Fever (UK: video title)
# Stewardess School (1986) .... Jolean Winters
# Back to the Future (1985) .... Linda McFly
# Moving Violations (1985) .... Joan Pudillo
# Bachelor Party (1984) .... Dr. Tina Gassko
# The First Time (1983) .... Eileen
... aka Doin' It (USA: video title)
# "Private Benjamin" (1981) TV Series .... Pvt. Stacy Kouchalakas (1982-1983)
# "Bosom Buddies" (1980) TV Series .... Amy Cassidy (1980-1982)
# Used Cars (1980) (as Miss Wendie Jo Sperber) .... Nervous Nona

# 1941 (1979) .... Maxine Dexheimer
# Dinky Hocker (1979) (TV) .... Susan 'Dinky' Hocker
# Corvette Summer (1978) .... Kuchinsky
... aka The Hot One
# I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) .... Rosie Petrofsky

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I loved " I Wanna Hold Your Hand"

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

She was great in Moving Violations.

― svend (svend), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I heard about this. :-( She battled cancer for about eight years, no?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Awww... that's sad to hear. One of those people* I don't think of often, but sad that she's gone.

*see also, Danitra Vance, Debralee Scott.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

OMG 'Dinky Honker Shoots Smack' was the real title, wasn't it?

― andy --, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

She's so tied into my early concepts of comedic acting. I even remember that Babes show. I'm going to re-rent 1941 today, just for that ballroom fight sequence.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fiona.co.jp/images/JUVENILE_BOOK/DINKY_HOCKER.jpg

― andy --, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I just remember her as the tirading proctologist wife in Bachelor Party...

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

An appreciation:

http://davekehr.com/?p=36

I only vaguely recall her as a peppy manhunter in 1941, yes? I need to rent Wanna.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

We watched I Wanna Hold Your Hand a few weeks ago. She was terrific as over-wrought Rosie.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

sad

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

i remember her in stewardess school (um, does anyone else?). she was maybe the most memorable thing about it, though, if you don't count the embarrassing gay flight attendant caricature. RIP.

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

yeah I wanna hold your hand is great, and she's really something in it. how depressing.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

I only vaguely recall her as a peppy manhunter in 1941, yes?

pretty much, and most of the film is negligible, but there's this breathtaking dance/fight sequence that includes Sperber kicking the shit out of a series of people.

― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 3 December 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

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