Coleen Gray
Born: 1922-10-23 in Staplehurst, Nebraska, USA
Died: 2015-08-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Coleen Gray (born Doris Bernice Jensen; October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015) was born in Staplehurst, Nebraska. After graduating from high school she studied dramatics at Hamline University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree, she then decided to see America and traveled to California, stopping off at La Jolla where she worked as a waitress. After several weeks there, she moved to L.A. and enrolled in a drama school. Her performances attracted a talent scout from 20th Century-Fox, with whom she signed a contract after a screen test. Although Fox put her in several good pictures (Kiss of Death (1947), Nightmare Alley (1947), The Razor's Edge (1946) in which she acquitted herself well, many of the roles they gave her were not worthy of her talent and she never became as big a star as many thought she should have. Still, she has an extensive list of credits in films, TV, radio and on the stage.
Filmography
2009
2004
1985
- Cry from the Mountain as Marian Rissman
1984
- Tales from the Darkside as Cecilia Matthews
1979
- The Best Place to Be as Dottie Parker
1972
- Emergency! as Clair Brightweiser
- The Sixth Sense
1971
- The Late Liz as Sue Webb
- Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You as Mrs. Cazalis
1968
- Adam-12 as Mrs. O'Neill
- The Name of the Game as Sylvia Trager
- P.J. as Betty Orbison
1966
1965
- The F.B.I. as Mrs. Barth
- Run for Your Life as Sally Holt
- Branded
- Town Tamer as Carol Rosser
1963
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Dorothy Nehf
- The Dakotas
1962
- The Virginian as Pearl
1961
1960
- My Three Sons
- The Tall Man
- Coronado 9 as Ruth Evans
- The Leech Woman as June Talbot
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Johnny Rocco as Lois Mayfield, Teacher
- Hell's Five Hours as Nancy Brand
1957
- Perry Mason as Lorraine McClaine Kendall
- Maverick
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- The Vampire as Carol Butler
- Copper Sky as Nora Hayes
- Destination 60,000 as Mary Ellen
1956
- The Killing as Fay
- Star in the Dust as Nellie Mason
- Death of a Scoundrel as Mrs. Edith Van Renasslear
- Frontier Gambler as Sylvia Melbourne
- The Wild Dakotas as Sue 'Lucky' Duneen
- The Black Whip as Jeannie
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mrs. Lois Callen
- The Millionaire as Jean Smith Fortune
- Frontier
- Tennessee's Partner as Goldie Slater
- The Twinkle In God's Eye as Laura
- Las Vegas Shakedown as Julie Rae
1954
- Climax! as Amanda Shepard
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Peggy Minters
- Arrow In The Dust as Christella Burke
1953
- General Electric Theater as Jo Parkes
- The Vanquished as Jane Colfax
- The Fake as Mary Mason
- Sabre Jet as Mrs. Gil Manton nee Jane Carter
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Lisa
- Kansas City Confidential as Helen Foster
- Models Inc. as Rusty Faraday
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Maria Tasnady
- Apache Drums as Sally
- I'll Get You for This as Kay Wonderly
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- What's My Line? as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Blanche
- Your Show of Shows
- Danger
- The Sleeping City as Ann Sebastian
- Riding High as Alice 'Princess' Higgins
- Father Is a Bachelor as Prudence Millett
1949
- Sand as Joan Hartley
1948
- Red River as Fen
- Fury at Furnace Creek as Molly Baxter
1947
- Nightmare Alley as Molly Carlisle
- Kiss of Death as Nettie Cavallo