Constance Ford
Born: 1923-07-01 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1993-02-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Constance Ford began her career in television in the 1950s, performing in live television dramas on "Studio One in Hollywood" (1948),"Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1950), "Goodyear Playhouse" (1951), and other acclaimed series, and playing recurring characters in four afternoon serials; "Rose Peabody" in "Search for Tomorrow" (1951), "Lynn Sherwood" in "Woman with a Past" (1954), "Eve Morris" in "The Edge of Night"(1956) and "Ada Davis Downs Hobson" in "Another World" (1964). Ford's assertive style made her a favorite of TV casting directors, and she was often featured in episodes of "Ponds Theater" (1953), "Bat Masterson" (1958), "Rawhide" (1959), "Gunsmoke" (1955), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955), "Twilight Zone" (1959), and other series, as tough but sensible career women.
Filmography
1974
- 99 and 44/100% Dead as Dolly
1966
- Shane as Longhorn Jenny
1964
1963
- The Dakotas
- The Caretakers as Nurse Bracken
1962
- Sam Benedict
- The Cabinet of Caligari as Christine
- Rome Adventure as Daisy Bronson
- All Fall Down as Mrs. Mandel
- Shootout at Big Sag as Goldie Bartholomew
- House of Women as Sophie Brice
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Reba Guy
- 87th Precinct
- Target: The Corruptors!
- Claudelle Inglish as Jessie Inglish
1960
- Thriller as Louise Jenkins
- Surfside 6
- Outlaws
- Home from the Hill as Opal Bixby
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Barbara Polk
- Rawhide as Georgia
- Adventures in Paradise as Reba
- The Deputy
- Law of the Plainsman as Jessie Lawrence
- A Summer Place as Helen Jorgenson
1958
- Naked City as Rhonda Cameron
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Sarah Lawton
- Bat Masterson as Gwen Parsons
1957
- Perry Mason as Helen Reed
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Trackdown
- Bailout at 43,000 as Mrs. Frances Nolan
- The Iron Sheriff as Claire
- The Comedian as Connie
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Laura Lovett
- Playhouse 90 as Connie
- State Trooper
- The Edge of Night
- The Last Hunt as Peg
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Gunsmoke as Pearl Bender
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Ellen Grant
- The Millionaire as Anna Hartley
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
1954
- Climax! as Ellen MacKenzie
- Inner Sanctum
- Woman With A Past
- The Dark, Dark Hours as Betty
1953
- General Electric Theater as Betty
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Mrs. Bannon
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Marty
- Danger
- Once Too Often as Norma (uncredited)
- The Two Kingdoms as Erika Koerner