
Anne Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress known for her ground-breaking roles in the
science fiction
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film ''
Forbidden Planet
''Forbidden Planet'' is a 1956 American science fiction action film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack and directed by Fred M. Wilcox (director), Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on a film story by ...
'' (1956) and the television action-drama series ''
Honey West'' (1965–1966). ''Forbidden Planet'' marked a first in in-color, big-budget, science-fiction-themed motion pictures. Nine years later, Francis challenged female stereotypes in ''Honey West'', in which she played a perky blonde private investigator who was as quick with body slams as with witty one-liners. She earned a
Golden Globe Award
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and
Emmy Award
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nomination for her performance.
Francis was known largely for her physical assets, including a trademark
mole near her lower lip. The beauty mark was even written into the script of one of her films.
In 2005, ''
TV Guide
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'' ranked Francis at number 18 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.
Early life
Francis was born in
Ossining, New York, on September 16, 1930.
Contrary to some sources, which erroneously claim she was born Ann Marvak (rather than Francis),
her parents' marriage registration and census records from 1925 and 1930 confirm that their names were Philip Ward Francis and Edith (
née
The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...
Albertson) Francis.
[Wagner, Laura. ''Anne Francis: The Life and Career'', McFarland & Company, 2011; .] She was their only child.
Francis entered show business as a child, working as a model at 5 years old to assist her family during the
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and ...
. She made her
Broadway debut at the age of 11.
[Weaver, Tom. ''Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews'', p. 162 (McFarland & Company, 2003); ]
Career
Movies

Francis made her first film appearances in ''
This Time for Keeps'' (1947) and ''
Summer Holiday'' (1948).
She played supporting roles in the films ''
So Young, So Bad'' (1950), ''
Lydia Bailey'' (1952), ''
The Rocket Man'' (1954), ''
Susan Slept Here'' (1954), and ''
Bad Day at Black Rock'' (1955); her first leading role was in ''
Blackboard Jungle
''Blackboard Jungle'' is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel ''The Blackboard Jungle'' by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brook ...
'' (1955). Her best-known film role is that of Altaira in ''
Forbidden Planet
''Forbidden Planet'' is a 1956 American science fiction action film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack and directed by Fred M. Wilcox (director), Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on a film story by ...
'' (1956), a science-fiction classic that was nominated for a best-effects Oscar.
Her movie roles were then confined to low-budget efforts: a
call girl
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in ''
Girl of the Night'' (1960), a scheming trophy wife in ''
Brainstorm'' (1965), as
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian, with a career spanning seven decades in film, stage, television and radio. Famously nicknamed as "Th ...
's wife in ''
Hook, Line & Sinker'' (1969), and as co-star to a young
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor most famous during the 1970s and 1980s. He became well known in television series such as ''Gunsmoke'' (1962–1965), '' Hawk'' (1966) and '' Dan Augus ...
in the adventure movie ''
Impasse
A bargaining impasse () occurs when the two sides negotiating an agreement are unable to reach an agreement and become deadlocked. An impasse is almost invariably mutually harmful, either as a result of direct action which may be taken such as a ...
'' (1969). An exception was her role as chorine Georgia James in ''
Funny Girl'' (1968).
Television
When motion-picture opportunities became scarcer for Francis near the close of the 1950s, she moved, successfully, to television. Beginning as a guest on ''
The Untouchables'' and as the title character in ''The Doreen Maney Story'', she appeared in two episodes of ''
The Twilight Zone
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology series, anthology television series created by Rod Serling in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described ...
'' ("
The After Hours" and "
Jess-Belle"), two episodes of ''
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 ...
'' ("Hooked" and "Keep Me Company"), and three episodes of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' ("What Really Happened", "Blood Bargain", and "The Trap"). In 1961, she appeared twice in ''
Route 66'', first in "Play it Glissando" and then "A Month of Sundays". Francis appeared in two episodes of the Western series ''
The Virginian'', two episodes of ''Columbo'' ("Short Fuse" and "A Stitch in Crime") and the episode "Incident of the Shambling Man" on the
CBS Western ''
Rawhide''. She was cast in an episode of
Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessibl ...
's drama series, ''
Going My Way
''Going My Way'' is a 1944 American musical comedy drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Written by Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by McCarey, the film is about a new young priest ...
'', based on the
1944 film of the same name. During 1964, she guest-starred in "Hideout" and "Rachel's Mother" in ''
The Reporter'', as well as two successive appearances in ''
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''.
She appeared in season four, episode 10 of ''
Mission: Impossible'', titled "The Double Circle".
''Honey West''
''Honey West'' was an action drama; the character was formally introduced in the April 21, 1965, episode of ''
Burke's Law'' titled "Who Killed the Jackpot?", after which it was spun off as a series that lasted one season of 30 half-hour episodes. Honey was a shrewd, high-energy private investigator who collaborated with assistant Sam Bolt (
John Ericson) in a company that was inherited from her father. At home, she cared for her pet
ocelot
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named Bruce.
The show was cancelled due to budgetary considerations, and ABC executives imported the similarly-themed hit British show ''
The Avengers''.
Late television career
Francis made a guest appearance in a 1967 episode of ''
The Fugitive'' and in ''
The Invaders'' the same year. She guest-starred in a 1973 episode of ''
Barnaby Jones
''Barnaby Jones'' is an American detective fiction, detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law. They run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, Califor ...
'', "Murder in the Doll's House".
At the start of the final season of ''
My Three Sons
''My Three Sons'' is an American television sitcom that aired from September 29, 1960, to April 13, 1972. The series was filmed in black-and-white and broadcast on ABC during its first five seasons, before moving to CBS for the remaining seve ...
'' in 1971, Francis played bowling-alley waitress Terri Dowling, who married character Laird Fergus McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge, Scotland, and returned to his homeland as a member of the nobility. (
Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series in a career that spanned nearly a half-century. His career as a major film le ...
played the dual-character roles of Steve Douglas and Fergus McBain Douglas in this four-part story arc.) She appeared twice as a guest star on ''
Columbo
''Columbo'' is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo (character), Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originall ...
'', once as the manipulated lover of the murderer (
"Short Fuse", 1972) and once as the murder victim ("
A Stitch in Crime", 1973).
In 1974, Francis appeared as Ida, the madame of a
bawdy house on the series ''
Kung Fu
Chinese martial arts, commonly referred to with umbrella terms Kung fu (term), kung fu (; ), kuoshu () or wushu (sport), wushu (), are Styles of Chinese martial arts, multiple fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in Greater Ch ...
'' in the episode "Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves". In 1975, she appeared as Abby in an episode of ''
Movin' On'' titled "The Price of Loving". In 1976, she appeared as Lola Flynn in an episode of ''
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a superheroine who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in ''All Star Comics'' Introducing Wonder Woman, #8, published October 21, 1941, with her first feature in ''Sensation Comic ...
'', entitled
"Beauty on Parade". In 1977, she appeared as
Lieutenant Commander Gladys Hope, the head nurse in two episodes of the World War II series ''
Baa Baa Black Sheep''. She portrayed Melissa Osborne in the episode "How Do I Kill Thee?" of ''
The Eddie Capra Mysteries'' in 1978.
During the 1980–81 season of ''
Dallas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...
'', Francis had a recurring role as Arliss Cooper, the mother of Mitch and Afton Cooper. In 1982, she played an armored car robber and mother in "In the Best of Families" episode of ''
CHiPs''. The same year she had a cameo in the TV movie ''
Mazes and Monsters'' starring
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Ha ...
. She later played Mama Jo in the first few episodes (four total) of the 1984 TV-detective series ''
Riptide''. In that same year, she guest-starred in the premiere episode of ''
Murder, She Wrote
''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...
'', credited as Anne Lloyd Francis; she went on to guest-star in two more episodes during the show's run. In December 1984, again credited as Anne Lloyd Francis, she guest-starred in the Christmas-themed S8 E13 of ''
The Love Boat
''The Love Boat'' is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Wilford Lloyd Baumes that originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1977, to May 24, 1986. In addition, three TV movies aired before the regular series pre ...
'' playing the mother of
Kim Lankford's character, Carol, in the vignette "Noel's Christmas Carol". She appeared on episodes of ''
Matlock'' and ''
The Golden Girls
''The Golden Girls'' is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning seven seasons. The show's ensemble cast stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty ...
''.
In 1996, Francis appeared in the ''
Wings'' episode "The Lady Vanishes", as Vera, a 1940s gun moll. In 1997, in the ''
Home Improvement
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'' episode "A Funny Valentine", she appeared as Liddy, Tim Allen's high-school classmate's mother. She guest-starred in 1998 on ''
The Drew Carey Show
''The Drew Carey Show'' is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from September 13, 1995, to September 8, 2004. Set in Cleveland, Ohio, the series revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionaliz ...
'' as the mother of Drew's girlfriend Nicki in the episodes "Nicki's Parents" and "Nicki's Wedding". Francis's final television acting role was in "Shadows", a 2004 episode of ''
Without a Trace
''Without a Trace'' is an American police procedural drama television series created by Hank Steinberg that aired on CBS from September 26, 2002, to May 19, 2009 with the total of seven seasons and 160 episodes. The series focuses the cases of ...
''.
Personal life and death
Francis was married to
United States Air Force
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pilot Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr.
from May 1952 through April 1955 and to Robert Abeloff from 1960 through 1964. She never remarried after divorcing Abeloff.
Francis and Abeloff had one daughter, Jane Elizabeth Abeloff (born March 21, 1962).
[Michael, Paul and Parish, James Robert. ''The American Movies Reference Book: the Sound Era'', p. 110. (Celestial Arts), 1969; .] Francis later adopted Margaret "Maggie" West in 1970, one of the first adoptions granted to an unmarried person in California.
Francis studied flying toward the end of the 1960s, eventually earning her pilot's license.
In 1982, Francis published an autobiography, ''Voices from Home: An Inner Journey''. On its cover, she wrote that the book "is my spiritual exposé. It is about our essence of being, the inner workings of mind and spirit which contribute to the growth of the invisible and most important part of us." A subsequent biography titled ''Anne Francis: The Life and Career'' was written by Laura Wagner and published by McFarland & Company in 2011.
A smoker for much of her adult life, Francis said that she quit the habit in the mid-1980s, but was diagnosed with
non-small-cell lung cancer
Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung. Lung cancer is caused by genetic damage to the DNA of cells in the airways, often caused by cigarette smoking or inhaling damaging chemicals. Damaged ...
in 2006.
Francis died from complications due to pancreatic cancer on January 2, 2011, at a retirement home in
Santa Barbara, California
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.
Her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
Partial TV/filmography
* 1947 ''
This Time for Keeps'' as Bobby Soxer (uncredited)
* 1948 ''
Summer Holiday'' as Elsie Rand
* 1948 ''
The Pirate'' as Nina, Showgirl (uncredited)
* 1948 ''
Portrait of Jennie
''Portrait of Jennie'' (also released under the title ''Tidal Wave'') is a 1948 American supernatural film directed by William Dieterle, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, and Lillian ...
'' as Teenager in Art Gallery (uncredited)
* 1950 ''
So Young, So Bad'' as Loretta Wilson
* 1951 ''
The Whistle at Eaton Falls'' as Jean
* 1951 ''
Elopement
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'' as Jacqueline "Jake" Osborne
* 1952 ''
Lydia Bailey'' as Lydia Bailey
* 1952 ''
Dreamboat'' as Carol Sayre
* 1953 ''
A Lion Is in the Streets'' as "Flamingo" McManamee
* 1954 ''
The Rocket Man'' as June Brown
* 1954 ''
Susan Slept Here'' as Isabella Alexander
* 1954 ''
Rogue Cop'' as Nancy Corlane
* 1955 ''
Bad Day at Black Rock'' as Liz Wirth
* 1955 ''
Battle Cry
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Battle cries are not necessarily articulate (e.g. "Eulaliaaaa!", "Alala"..), although they often aim to invoke patriotic or religio ...
'' as Rae
* 1955 ''
Blackboard Jungle
''Blackboard Jungle'' is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel ''The Blackboard Jungle'' by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brook ...
'' as Anne Dadier
* 1955 ''
The Scarlet Coat'' as Sally Cameron
* 1956 ''
Forbidden Planet
''Forbidden Planet'' is a 1956 American science fiction action film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack and directed by Fred M. Wilcox (director), Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on a film story by ...
'' as Altaira Morbius
* 1956 ''
The Rack'' as Aggie Hall
* 1956 ''
The Great American Pastime'' as Betty Hallerton
* 1957 ''
The Hired Gun'' as Ellen Beldon
* 1957 ''
Don't Go Near the Water'' as Lieutenant Alice Tomlen
* 1959 ''Rawhide'' as Rose Whitman (TV show)
* 1959 ''The Ten Commandments'' (TV movie)
* 1960 ''
The Untouchables'' (TV series) as Doreen Maney
* 1960 ''
The Crowded Sky'' as Kitty Foster
* 1960 ''
Girl of the Night'' as Robin "Bobbie" Williams
* 1960 ''
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 ...
'' (TV series) (Season 5 Episode 38: "Hooked") as Nyla Foster
* 1961 ''
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 ...
'' (TV series) (Season 7 Episode 5: "Keep Me Company") as Julia Reddy
* 1961 ''
Route 66'' (TV series) as Arline Simms (season two, episode one)
* 1960-1963 ''
The Twilight Zone
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'' (TV series) as Jess-Belle Stone / Marsha White
* 1963 ''
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 a ...
'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 16: "What Really Happened") as Eve Raydon
* 1963 ''
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 a ...
'' (TV series) (Season 2 Episode 5: "Blood Bargain") as Connie Breech
* 1963-1965''
Burke's Law'' as Suzanne Foster (season one, episode five "Who Killed Wade Walker?") / as Honey West (season two, episode 30 "Who Killed the Jackpot?")
* 1964 ''
Death Valley Days
''Death Valley Days'' is an American Western (genre), Western anthology series featuring true accounts of the American Old West, particularly the Death Valley country of southeastern California. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was ...
'' (TV series) as
Pearl Hart (episode from March 17, 1964, titled "The Last Stagecoach Robbery")
* 1964 ''
The Virginian'' (TV series) as Victoria Greenly
* 1964 ''
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'' as Gervaise Ravel (season one, episode three "The Quadripartite Affair" and season one, episode seven "The Giuoco Piano Affair")
* 1965 ''
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 a ...
'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 18: "The Trap") as Peg Beale
* 1965 ''
The Satan Bug'' as Ann Williams
* 1965 ''
Honey West'' (TV series) as Honey West
* 1965 ''
Brainstorm'' as Lorrie Benson
* 1967 ''
The Invaders'' (TV series) as Annie Rhodes (season two, episode two "The Saucer")
* 1968 ''
Funny Girl'' as Georgia James
* 1969 ''
More Dead Than Alive'' as Monica Alton
* 1969 ''
Hook, Line & Sinker'' as Nancy Ingersoll
* 1969 ''
Impasse
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'' as Bobby Jones
* 1969 ''
The Love God?'' as Lisa LaMonica
* 1970 ''
Lost Flight'' (TV movie) as Gina Talbott
* 1970 ''Wild Women'' (TV movie) as Jean Marshek
* 1970 ''
Dan August'' as Gina Talbott (season one, episode one "Murder by Proxy")
* 1970 ''
The Intruders'' (TV movie) as Leora Garrison
* 1971 ''The Forgotten Man'' (TV movie) as Marie Hardy Forrest
* 1971 ''
Steel Wreath'' (TV movie) as Angel
* 1971 ''
Columbo
''Columbo'' is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo (character), Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originall ...
'' (Columbo, season one, episode "Short Fuse")
* 1972 ''
Fireball Forward'' (TV movie) as Helen Sawyer
* 1972 ''
Haunts of the Very Rich'' (TV movie) as Annette Larrier
* 1972 ''
Pancho Villa
Francisco "Pancho" Villa ( , , ; born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and prominent figure in the Mexican Revolution. He was a key figure in the revolutionary movement that forced ...
'' as Flo
* 1972 ''
Gunsmoke
''Gunsmoke'' is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central charact ...
'' (TV Series, season-18 episode "Sarah") as Sarah
* 1973 ''
Columbo
''Columbo'' is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo (character), Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originall ...
'' as Nurse Sharon Martin (season two, episode "A Stitch in Crime")
* 1973 ''
Cannon
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'' as Peggy Angel (season three, episode "Murder by Proxy")
* 1973 ''
Barnaby Jones
''Barnaby Jones'' is an American detective fiction, detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law. They run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, Califor ...
'' as Miriam Woodridge (season one, episode "Murder in a Dolls House")
* 1974 ''
Cry Panic
''Cry Panic'' is a 1974 American made-for-television mystery film
A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur Detective, sleuth ...
'' (TV movie) as Julie
* 1974 ''The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One'' (TV movie) as Colette
* 1975 ''The Last Survivors'' (TV movie) as Helen Dixon
* 1975 ''
A Girl Named Sooner'' (TV movie) as Selma Goss
* 1975 ''
Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City ...
'' as Nurse Chandler (season one, episode "The Adventure of the Lover's Leap")
* 1976 ''
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free'' (TV movie) as Flora Dobbs
* 1976 ''
Survive!'' as Anne
* 1976 ''
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a superheroine who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in ''All Star Comics'' Introducing Wonder Woman, #8, published October 21, 1941, with her first feature in ''Sensation Comic ...
'' as Lola Flynn (season one, episode "Beauty On Parade")
* 1978 ''
Little Mo'' (TV movie) as Sophie Fisher
* 1978 ''
Born Again
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'' as Patty Colson
* 1979 ''
The Rebels'' (TV movie) as Mrs. Harris
* 1979 ''
Beggarman, Thief'' (TV movie) as Teresa Kraler
* 1980 ''Detour to Terror'' (TV movie) as Sheila
* 1980 ''
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor'' (TV movie) as Nina Porter
* 1981 ''
Dallas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...
'' 4 episodes as Arliss Cooper
* 1981 CHIPs season 5 episode 18 (In the Best of Families) as Susan Wright
* 1982 ''
Mazes and Monsters'' (TV movie) as Ellie
* 1983 ''O'Malley'' (TV movie) as Amanda O'Malley
* 1983 ''Charley's Aunt'' (TV movie) as Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez
* 1984 ''
Riptide'' 6 episodes as Mama Jo
* 1985 ''
Return
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In business, economics, and finance
* Return on investment (ROI), the financial gain after an expense.
* Rate of return, the financial term for the profit or loss derived from an investment
* Tax return, a blank document or t ...
'' as Eileen Sedgeley
* 1986 ''
A Masterpiece of Murder'' (TV movie) as Ruth Beekman
* 1987 ''
Laguna Heat'' (TV movie) as Helene Long
* 1987 ''
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story'' (TV movie) as Marjorie Post Hutton
* 1988 ''
My First Love'' (TV movie) as Terry
* 1989 ''
The Golden Girls
''The Golden Girls'' is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning seven seasons. The show's ensemble cast stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty ...
'' as Trudy McMahon (1989, season four, episode 19 "Til Death Do We Volley")
* 1990 ''Little Vegas'' as Martha
* 1992 ''Love Can Be Murder'' (TV movie) as Maggie O'Brien
* 1992 ''
The Double 0 Kid
''The Double 0 Kid'' is a 1993 direct-to-video Adventure (genre), adventure/comedy film starring Brigitte Nielsen
Plot summary
17-year-old Lance Elliot is a summer intern at a US government department known as the Agency, on a youth agent scoutin ...
'' as Maggie O'Brien
* 1994 ''
Burke's Law'' as Honey Best (season one, episode three "Who Killed Nick Hazard?")
* 1995 ''Lover's Knot'' as Marian Hunter
* 1996 ''
Wings'' S7E22 "The Lady Vanishes" as Vera
* 1996 ''Have You Seen My Son'' (TV movie) as Catherine Pritcher
* 1997 ''
Conan the Adventurer'' as Gagool (season one, episode nine "The Curse of Afka")
* 1998 ''
The Drew Carey Show
''The Drew Carey Show'' is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from September 13, 1995, to September 8, 2004. Set in Cleveland, Ohio, the series revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionaliz ...
'' as Charlene Fifer (season 3, episode 18 "Nikki's Parents")
* 1999 ''
Fantasy Island'' as Cassie (season one, episode 13 "Heroes")
* 2004 ''
Without a Trace
''Without a Trace'' is an American police procedural drama television series created by Hank Steinberg that aired on CBS from September 26, 2002, to May 19, 2009 with the total of seven seasons and 160 episodes. The series focuses the cases of ...
'' as Rose Atwood (season two, episode 20 "Shadows")
References
External links
*
*
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1930 births
2011 deaths
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American women
Actors from Westchester County, New York
American child actresses
American child models
American female models
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (television) winners
Deaths from pancreatic cancer in California
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players
People from Ossining, New York
Western (genre) film actresses
Writers from New York (state)