Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 30, 1949
Died
Dec 04, 2016
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
28 titles
Margaret Whitton
Biography
Margaret Whitton (November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016) was an American actress. Her most known roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989) and its sequel Major League II, and as Michael J. Fox's vibrant and underappreciated aunt-by-marriage in The Secret of My Success (1987). She also appeared in the films The Best of Times (1986) and The Man Without a Face (1993). She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. In the early 1980s, she began to be billed as Margaret Whitton and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming. After her seven year experiment with film, she returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple Doesn't Fall... (1995) and in the original, award-winning musical Marlene (1999), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Whitton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Casting By
Co-Executive Producer
A Bird of the Air
Director
Trial by Jury
Jane Lyle, Juror
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
Leslie Abramson
Major League II
Rachel Phelps
The Man Without a Face
Catherine Palin
Cutters
Adrienne St. John
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
Melinda
Good & Evil
Genevieve
The Summer My Father Grew Up
Naomi
Kojak: None So Blind
Michele Hogarth
Little Monsters
Holly Stevenson
Major League
Rachel Phelps
A Fine Romance
Louisa Phillips
Ironweed
Katrina
Baby Boom
Executive In Conference Room (uncredited)
The Secret of My Success
Vera Prescott
Cat & Mousse
Miriam
Nine 1/2 Weeks
Molly
The Best of Times
Darla Robinson
Spenser: For Hire
Hometown
Tales from the Darkside
Mary Jones
Miami Vice
Cassie Bramlette
Love Child
Jacki Steinberg
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
First Lady Lousille Fogerty ("Success Wanters")
Teenage Hitchhikers
Sola Alcoa (as Peggy Whitton)
Parades
Jane