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Tara Buckman (born October 1, 1956) is an American television and film actress. Her active career was mainly confined to the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. Though never reaching feature status, Buckman was nonetheless a regular guest star on many television series. She also appeared in minor roles in feature films.
Television
Buckman is remembered mostly for her guest appearances in episodes of such 1970s and 1980s television fare as The Rockford Files, Kojak, CHiPs, The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Quincy, M.E., The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (in which she held a recurring if minor role as Sgt. Brandy Cummings), The Master and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. She also portrayed Norma Kirkland on the daytime drama Days of our Lives in 1984/1985.
In film
Often cast in minor roles in larger budget films, Tara appeared in the Burt Reynolds vehicles Hooper and The Cannonball Run in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Buckman was generally offered the portrayal of largely dimensionless and ‘decorative’ parts, such as “Jill – Lamborghini Girl #2” (alongside Adrienne Barbeau) in The Cannonball Run.
Buckman also appeared in several ‘B’ movies from the late 1970s through to the mid-1990s. Tara appeared in a rape/murder scene, in which her top was torn open and her throat was slit by a man dressed as Santa Claus in the 1984 controversial horror film Silent Night, Deadly Night. Tara appeared in the 1986 film Never Too Young to Die, her most recent major role was as Dr. Julie Casserly in Xtro 2 (1991). Other more recent fare include the films Blue Angel Cafe, High Finance Woman, The Marilyn Diaries alongside porn star Marilyn Chambers, and Snowballing.
Tara Buckman Biography / Wiki
Name | Tara Buckman |
Also Know | |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Pensacola, Florida, USA |
Date of Birth | 1956-10-01 |
Age(as in 2022) | 65 |
Deathday |
Tara Buckman Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Night Killer | Melanie Beck | 1990-08-03 | Melanie Beck is the only surviving victim of a killer-rapist who wears a Freddy Krueger-esque mask and claw. Despite having seen the killer’s face, Be… |
High Finance Woman | Brenda | 1990-01-01 | A woman on her way to the top…. |
Blue Angel Cafe | Angie | 1989-11-11 | Raymond Derek is a up and coming hotshot young politician who seems to have it all. A great career, a wife, friends and a expensive home. But that all… |
The Marilyn Diaries | Jane | 1990-01-01 | A magazine reporter tries to find the mysterious author of an erotic diary…. |
Xtro 2: The Second Encounter | Dr. Julie Casserly | 1990-05-04 | Scientists at a secret underground complex have found a way to travel to another dimension. Three dimension-travellers are the first to go through the… |
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit | Polly Primer | 1979-12-23 | The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a home… |
The Two-Five | Angel | 1978-04-14 | A police show pilot movie dealing with two eager-beaver cops who try to set up a major narcotics bust anonymously because their eccentric commander wa… |
Terminal Exposure | Stacey Karrothers | 1987-09-21 | Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, wi… |
Never Too Young to Die | Sacrificed Punkette | 1986-06-13 | Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless hermaphrodite gang leader Velvet Von Ragnar. The murdered secret agent’s son, Lance S… |
Death Car on the Freeway | Jane Guston | 1979-09-24 | An unknown, psychotic driver uses his van to kill unsuspecting female drivers on the freeway…. |
Snowballing | Colleen | 1984-01-01 | Bus loads of teenagers arrive to the ski resort. Each one is eager to get out on the slopes to ski and score. One problem; the owner has all the price… |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | Ellie Chapman | 1984-11-09 | Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his child… |
Round Trip to Heaven | Phyllis | 1992-09-02 | Since Larry works at a garage, he gets to use one of the Rolls Royces. There is only one problem, there is a briefcase full of money in the trunk. So … |
Blindfold: Acts of Obsession | Barmaid (uncredited) | 1994-05-20 | A therapist turns an unhappy wife on to a deadly fantasy game with her husband…. |
Stone [Pilot] | Olivia de Carl | 1979-08-26 | Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the fo… |
Hooper | Debbie | 1978-07-28 | Legendary stunt man, Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop pain… |
The Cannonball Run | Jill | 1981-06-19 | A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to prote… |
Rollercoaster | Coaster Attendant | 1977-06-10 | A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. Aft… |
Loose Change | 1978-02-26 | Three girlfriends — an author, an artist, and a political activist — mature and change during the turbulent 1960s…. | |
Brave New World | Alpha Teacher | 1980-03-07 | An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel…. |
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 | Mother (archive footage) | 1987-04-10 | After being traumatized by his brother Billy’s murderous rampage years earlier, Ricky Caldwell has become a serial killer himself and is now living in… |
Credit: TMDB
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