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Frances Lee McCain
Frances Lee McCain
	McCain in 1977
Born	York, Pennsylvania U.S.
Other names	Lee McCain
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1969–present
Spouse	Mark Wheeler

Frances Lee McCain is an American actress.

Early life and education

McCain was born in York, Pennsylvania and grew up in New York, Illinois and Colorado in addition to California.^[1] She graduated from Ripon College with a BA in Philosophy and then studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.^[2] She completed a master's degree in psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2000.

Acting career

She returned to New York City where she appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's Play it Again Sam, and off-Broadway in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky, creating the role of Carol.^[3] She joined the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco under William Ball and played a variety of roles in repertory.

Apple's Way TV show (1974–1975) and other 1970s work

She began her career in film and television after appearing opposite Jon Voight and Faye Dunaway in A Streetcar Named Desire, eventually co-starring with Ronny Cox as the female lead in the television series, CBS-TV's Apple's Way in 1974. She appeared in a variety of television series and miniseries throughout the 1970s, including Washington: Behind Closed Doors and the Quincy ME episode Eye Of The Needle playing a Holistic practitioner, and in "The Rockford Files" 1978 episode "The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall." In 1979, she appeared in Real Life. In 1979, she appeared on ABC in the television series 13 Queens Boulevard.

1980s acting work

In the 1980s, she was cast in several major films, usually playing the mother of a main character. In 1984, she co-starred in the film Gremlins as Lynn Peltzer, the mother of main character, Billy Peltzer. Also that year, she played Ethel McCormack, mother to Kevin Bacon's character, in Footloose. In 1985 she appeared in the film Back to the Future as Stella Baines, the mother of Lorraine Baines (Lea Thompson). In 1986, she played Mrs. Lachance, the mother of Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton), in the drama film Stand by Me.

Later work

McCain continued to work in television after relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s and also appeared in Scream (1996), as the mother of Rose McGowan and David Arquette's characters, and Patch Adams (1998).

She earned a master's degree in psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2000, and continued to work in Theater extensively in the San Francisco Area until her relocation to Albuquerque, NM, in 2010. ^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, McCain initiated a theater project based on oral histories of the blue-collar workers responsible for the building and maintaining of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico which received workshop readings at the Lensic Center for Performing Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

She is an Associate Artist of the ZSpace Studio in San Francisco, and is an ensemble member of the AlterTheater Ensemble in San Rafael, California.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973	The Laughing Policeman	Prostitute
1973	The Mod Squad	Alice	Episode: "And Once for My Baby"
1973	Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law	Gina	Episode: "The Second Victim"
1974	The New Perry Mason	Laurie Haden	Episode: "The Case of the Violent Valley"
1974 to 1975	Apple's Way	Barbara Apple	Series regular; 28 episodes
1975	Doctors' Hospital	Annie Robaire	Episode: "But Who Will Bless Thy Daughter Norah?"
1975	The Bob Newhart Show	Janet	Episode: "A Matter of Vice-Principal"
1976	Visions	Jenny	Episode: "The War Widow"
1978	The Rockford Files	Leslie Callahan	Episode: "The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall"
1979	Real Life	Jeanette Yeager
1981	Honky Tonk Freeway	Claire Calo
1982	Tex	Mrs. Johnson
1984	Footloose	Ethel McCormack
1984	Gremlins	Lynn Peltzer	^[4]
1985	The Rape of Richard Beck	Caroline Beck	TV movie
1985	Back to the Future	Stella Baines
1986	Murder in Three Acts	Miss Milray
1986	Stand by Me	Mrs. Lachance
1988	It Takes Two	Joyce Rogers
1990	The Lookalike	Dr. Stamos	TV movie^[4]
1996	Scream	Mrs. Riley	^[4]
1998	Patch Adams	Judy
1999	True Crime	Mrs. Lowenstein
2018	Ideal Home	Doris
2019	Dreamland	Teller
2020	The Comeback Trail	Marge (Old Actress)
2022	End of the Road	Val

References

^ "Frances Lee McCain Pics". Frances Lee McCain Photo Gallery – 2019 – Magazine Pictorials. Movie Stills. Event Photos. Red Carpet Pictures. AllStarPics.Net. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
^ "Frances Lee McCain '66 dishes about theatrical success". Ripon College. January 1, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
^ Berson, Misha (September 16, 1990). "LMTC Brings Back '70s Flop Play No "Lemon' After All: Frances Lee McCain returns to lead revived Wilson work". San Francisco Chronicle. p. 22.
^ ^a ^b ^c Young, R. G. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies. Hal Leonard. ISBN 978-1-55783-269-6.