Acting
Community Rating
6.0
TMDB estimate
Born
November 27, 1939
Died
January 12, 2010 (age 70)
Born in
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Ann Prentiss (November 27, 1939 – January 12, 2010) was an American actress. She was born Ann Elizabeth Ragusa in San Antonio, Texas, to Paulene (née Gardner) and Thomas J. Ragusa. Her father was of Sicilian descent. Her elder sister, Paula Prentiss, is also an actress. Prentiss had many supporting roles in films and television series in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including Get Smart's "The Little Black Book", Hogan's Heroes' "The Missing Klink" (1969), and Baretta's "Half a Million Dollar Baby". She provided the voice of an alien species in the comedy film My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), co-starring alongside Kim Basinger and Dan Aykroyd. Her other film roles included appearances in Any Wednesday (1966), If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968), The Out-of-Towners (1970), and California Split (1974), opposite George Segal and Elliott Gould. Ann Prentiss was convicted in a California court of a 1996 assault against her father and a subsequent threat against members of her family. The district attorney claimed that Prentiss, while incarcerated on the assault charge, had attempted to hire another inmate to kill three people, including her father and actor/director Richard Benjamin, the husband of her sister. On July 23, 1997, the court sentenced her to 19 years in prison. Prentiss died on January 12, 2010, while serving her prison sentence.

My Stepmother Is an Alien
as The Voice of the Bag (voice)
1988

Masquerade
as Mavis Kelly
1983

Quark
as Gene / Jean (voice) (uncredited)
1977

Starsky & Hutch
as Mrs. Carston
1975

Switch
as Cora
1975

Baretta
as Annie
1975

California Split
as Barbara Miller
1974

The Lie
as Elaine Fredericks
1973

Search
as Ann Mulligan
1972

Emergency!
as Fran Lillington
1972

The Out-of-Towners
as Airline Stewardess
1970

McCloud
as Officer Murdock
1970

In Name Only
as Jill Willis
1969

Love, American Style
as Yvonne
1969

The Courtship of Eddie's Father
as Kerry Allen
1969

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Elaine Stone
1969

If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
as Thelma Wilson
1968

Hawaii Five-O
as Lannie Devereaux
1968

The Name of the Game
as Leona
1968

Assignment to Kill
as Hotel Party Girl in Red Dress (uncredited)
1968