Filmography
Karen Black
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Vera Morgan
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Dr. Sylvia Dunn
Mannix
1967 · Actor
Miami Vice
1984 · Helen Jackson
Adam-12
1968 · Susan Decker
Party of Five
1994 · Doreen Jablonsky
American Playhouse
1982 · Self
The Carol Burnett Show
1967 · Self - Guest / Various Characters
The Big Valley
1965 · Carla
The F.B.I.
1965 · Lorraine Chapman
Profiler
1996 · Evie Long
Run for Your Life
1965 · Jennifer Palmer
The Name of the Game
1968 · Monica Garrison
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007 · Jennifer
The Hitchhiker
1983 · Kay Mason
The Invaders
1967 · Claudia Stone
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Guest Interviewee, Sea Witch
Police Story
1973 · Office Evelyn Carter
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · Actor
The Hunger
1997 · Miss Gati / Landlady
Rude Awakening
1998 · Crystal Garcia
Ghost Story
1972 · Barbara Sanders
The Second Hundred Years
1967 · Marcia
House of 1000 Corpses
2003 · Mother Firefly
E/R
1984 · Actor
Easy Rider
1969 · Karen
Tales of the City
1993 · Self
The Player
1992 · Karen Black
Russians in the City of Angels
2003 · Patricia Sommers
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Actor
The Great Gatsby
1974 · Myrtle Wilson
Nashville
1975 · Connie White, Original Music Composer
Moon Over Miami
1993 · Actor
Capricorn One
1977 · Judy Drinkwater
Family Plot
1976 · Fran
The Outfit
1973 · Bett Harrow
Airport 1975
1974 · Nancy Pryor
Invaders from Mars
1986 · Linda Magnusson
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
1996 · June Rhodes
Five Easy Pieces
1970 · Rayette Dipesto
Worlds Beyond
1986 · Lee Jeffreys
Out of the Dark
1988 · Ruth Wilson
Burnt Offerings
1976 · Marian Rolf
The Day of the Locust
1975 · Faye Greener
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Linda Magnusson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Power
1980 · Rose Vanda-Buchanan
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Mr. Horn
1979 · Ernestina Crawford
Teknolust
2002 · Dirty Dick
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · Self
Cut and Run
1985 · Karin
You're a Big Boy Now
1966 · Amy Partlett
The Last Horror Film
1982 · Karen Black (uncredited)
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
1987 · Ellen Jarvis
Killer Fish
1979 · Kate
In Praise of Older Women
1978 · Maya
Zapped Again!
1990 · Homeroom Teacher
The Double 0 Kid
1992 · Mrs. Elliot
Night Angel
1990 · Rita
Science Fiction Film Awards
TBA · Self
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
1982 · Joanne
Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
1992 · Auntie Lee
Judgement
1992 · Tiffany Powers
Children of the Night
1991 · Karen Thompson
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997 · Self
Mirror Mirror
1990 · Susan Gordon
The Roller Blade Seven
1991 · Tarot
Trilogy of Terror
1975 · Julie / Millicent Larimore / Therese Larimore / Amelia
Dogtown
1997 · Rose Van Horn
Whitepaddy
2006 · Mrs. Leider
Savage Dawn
1985 · Rachel
Bad Manners
1984 · Gladys Fitzpatrick
Crime and Passion
1976 · Susan Winters
The Underground Comedy Movie
1999 · Mother
She Loves Me Not
2013 · Karla
The Grass Is Singing
1981 · Mary Turner
Red Dirt
2000 · Aunt Summer
A Gunfight
1971 · Jenny Simms
Curse of the Forty-Niner
2002 · Aunt Nelly
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986 · Gloria
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
1983 · Zee
Evil Spirits
1991 · Ella Purdy
Quiet Fire
1991 · Kim Martino
Born to Win
1971 · Parm
Rhinoceros
1974 · Daisy
Crimetime
1996 · Millicent
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998 · Self
Men
1997 · Alex, Writer
Ooga Booga
2013 · Mrs. Allardyce
Light Speed
1998 · High Priestess
Soulkeeper
2001 · Martha la Magnifica
The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
1977 · Miriam Oliver / Sandy
Homer and Eddie
1989 · Belle
The Invisible Kid
1988 · Mom
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005 · Agrippina
Cisco Pike
1972 · Sue
Irene in Time
2009 · Sheila Shivvers
Crazy for Love
2005 · Grace's Mom
Wild in Blue
2014 · Justine
Invisible Dad
1998 · Courtney Whitmer
Martin's Day
1985 · Karen
Drive, He Said
1971 · Olive
Caged Fear
1991 · Blanche
Airports
2025 · Actor
Plan 10 from Outer Space
1995 · Nehor, Songs
Eternal Evil
1985 · Janus
Bound and Gagged: A Love Story
1993 · Carla
Paris
2003 · Chantelle
Hard Contract
1969 · Ellen
Twisted Justice
1990 · Mrs. Granger
Wamego: Ultimatum
2009 · Self
Where the Ladies Go
1980 · Helen
Chanel Solitaire
1981 · Emilienne d'Alençon
The Independent
2000 · Karen Black
Gypsy 83
2001 · Bambi LeBleau
Club Fed
1990 · Sally Rich
Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue!
1994 · Actor
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
1980 · Investigator Evelyn Carter
Some Guy Who Kills People
2011 · Ruth Boyd
Cries of Silence
1996 · Rose Walsh
Dark Blood
2012 · Motel Woman
Dinosaur Valley Girls
1995 · Ro-Kell
Final Judgement
1992 · Mrs. Sorrel
The Pyx
1973 · Elizabeth Lucy, Songs
Blood Money
1991 · Barrett
Little Laura and Big John
1973 · Laura
Hostage
1987 · Laura Lawrence
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013 · Self (archive footage)
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988 · Martha Gelhorn
Law and Disorder
1974 · Gloria
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009 · Self
Firecracker
2005 · Sandra / Eleanor, Editorial Consultant
Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1
2002 · ("Los Vampirios Moronious" short)
Return of the Roller Blade Seven
1993 · Tarot
Letters from the Big Man
2011 · Sean's Colleague
The Little Mermaid
1987 · Sea Witch
Double Duty
2009 · Annabelle
Conceiving Ada
1999 · Lady Byron / Mother Coer
Harold Buttleman: Daredevil Stuntman
2003 · Mrs. Buttleman
Repo Chick
2009 · Aunt De La Chasse
Stir
1997 · Dr. Gabrielle Kessler
Dead Girls Don't Tango
1992 · Insp. Wilson
Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place'
2010 · Self
The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley
1995 · Evelyn
One Long Night
2007 · Barbara
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
1999 · Self
WAMEGO: Making Movies Anywhere
2004 · Self
Read You Like a Book
2006 · Kate
Mascara
1999 · Aunt Eloise
Ralph S. Mouse
1991 · Miss Kuchenbacker
The Blue Tooth Virgin
2008 · Zena
Fatal Encounter
1990 · Joan Caldwell
The Children
1990 · Sybil Lullmer
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004 · Self
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
1998 · Whip Lady
Angel Blue
1998 · Social Worker
On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988 · Karen Black
Birth of Industry
2004 · Sara
Legend of The Roller Blade Seven
1993 · Tarot
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black: Teather Penumbra
1994 · Actor
Altman on His Own Terms
2000 · Self
Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts
2018 · (archive footage)
Portnoy's Complaint
1972 · Mary Jane Reid a.k.a. Monkey
Return to the 5 & Dime: An Interview with Ed Graczyk
2014 · Self – Joanne (archive footage)
Miss Right
1982 · Amy
Rubin & Ed
1992 · Rula
Fallen Arches
2000 · Lucy Romano
The Squeeze
1978 · Clarisse Saunders
Plotting 'Family Plot'
2001 · Self
Watercolors
2008 · Mrs. Martin
The Last Word
1979 · Paula Herbert
Tuesday Never Comes
1992 · Michelle
Stuck!
2009 · The Neighbor Lady
Suffering Man's Charity
2007 · Renee
Charades
1998 · Jude, Writer
Haunting Fear
1990 · Dr. Julia Harcourt
Hollywood Dreams
2007 · Luna
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
2010 · Self
The Trust
1993 · Maria Vandermeer
New York Crossing
1996 · Mrs. Tender
Separate Ways
1981 · Valentine Colby
Malaika
1998 · Jessica Martin
Wanderlust
2006 · Herself
Dixie Lanes
1988 · Zelma Putnam
The Donor
2001 · Mrs. Springle
Dr. Rage
2005 · Molly
Nothing Special
2010 · May
Every Minute Is Goodbye
1996 · Actor
Maria My Love
2012 · Maria
First Time Long Time
2009 · Dr. Shneidel
Karen Black: Actress at Work
1999 · Self
Paradise Cove
1999 · Ma
A Light in the Darkness
2002 · Mrs. Melnick
Too Bad About Jack
1994 · Actor
Because He's My Friend
1978 · Anne
A Single Woman
2008 · Storyteller
Hawk Warrior of the Wheelzone
2012 · Tarot
George Sluizer - Filming beyond Bounderies
TBA · Self
Mommy's Little Monster
2012 · Mrs. Melnick
Starstruck
1995 · Bertha
Modern Rhapsody
1997 · Actor
Contamination
2008 · Mavis
America Brown
2005 · Marianne Brown
Bury the Evidence
1998 · The Mother
Bottomless Pit
2015 · Karen Black
The Prime Time
1960 · Betty
Meet the Eye
2009 · Actor
Vacationland
TBA · Louise
OowieWanna
2012 · The Donna
Overexposed
1990 · Mrs. Trowbridge
Oliver Twisted
2000 · Mrs. Mary Happ