Film Roles
Her film roles began with Up the Down Staircase (which starred Sandy Dennis) in 1967. In 1973 she was asked by Mike Nichols to play a small role in his film The Day of the Dolphin. She recreated her role in the film version of Prisoner (1975), was again cast by Nichols for The Fortune (1975), which starred Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson. She then went on to appear in the television series Joe and Sons for CBS in 1975; that same year Barney Miller producer Danny Arnold cast Stanley as Bernice Fish, the wife of Detective Fish (played by Abe Vigoda). After Barney Miller, Stanley recreated her role as Bernice Fish on the spinoff, Fish. She was in a 1994 movie called Trapped in Paradise as Edna Ma Firpo.
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