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Actor Born: March 30, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Death: February 17, 1999 in New York City, NY Biography:Hefty Brooklyn-born actress "Shirley Stoler" couldn't have escaped being a Cult Figure if she wanted to. Stoler's most colorful screen roles included the sadistic, sexually supercharged prison-camp commandant in Wertmullers "Seven Beauties" (1976), as Spike the Bartender in "Frankenhooker" (1990), and as pawnshop owner Edie Wulgemuth in "Miami Blues" (1990) (in the latter film, she expresses her displeasure with sleazy con man "Alec Baldwin" by cutting off his fingers with a machete!). It was par for the course for Stoler, who'd first made her mark on the cinematic world with a chilling and compeling performance as homicidal 200-pounder Martha Beck in the 1970 sleeper "The Honeymoon Killers". Prior to that, Stoler was a veteran of the ground-breaking La Mama and Living Theatre performance companies; her resume also included several Broadway productions and a number of TV guest shots. A comparatively... Full Biography
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