Stella Stevens
Born: 1938-10-01 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA
Died: 2023-02-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
Stella Stevens (born Estelle Eggleston; October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023) was an American actress, model, film producer, director, and writer. She began her acting career in 1959 and starred in popular films such as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), The Silencers (1966), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960, 1988), Bonanza (1960), The Love Boat (1977, 1983), Hart to Hart (1979), Newhart (1983), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1986), Highlander: The Series (1995), and Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. She appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960. Stevens died from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles at the age of 84. [Biography, excerpted, from Wikipedia]
Filmography
2025
- Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2010
- Megaconda as Mary Jane
2009
2007
- Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll as Self (archive footage)
- Elvis: #1 Hit Performances as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Twenty Good Years as Martha
- Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Popstar as Henrietta
- Glass Trap as Joan Highsmith
- Hell to Pay as Mary Potter
2004
- Blessed as Betty
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
2003
- The Long Ride Home as Fiona Champyon
- Cult Culture: The Poseidon Adventure as Herself / Narrator
2002
- Jim Brown: All-American as Self
2001
- By Dawn's Early Light as Eli
- Size 'Em Up as Stella
1997
- The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! as Josephine 'Mama Jo' Max
- Bikini Hotel as Gail Regent
- The Christmas List as Natalie Parris
1996
- Nash Bridges as Suzie Dupree
- Arli$$ as Flora Lansing
- In Cold Blood as Hotel Keeper
- Invisible Mom as Mrs. Pringle
- Star Hunter as Mrs. March
- Subliminal Seduction as Mrs. Beecham
1995
- Marker
- Virtual Combat as Mary
- Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure as Fran Sibley
- The Granny as Granny (Anastasia Gargoli)
1994
- Viper as Lorraine
- Burke's Law as Candice Collier
- Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III as Frannie Sibley
- Illicit Dreams as Cicily
- Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women as Lawanda
- Hard Drive as Susan
- Molly and Gina as Mrs. Sweeny
1993
- Dave's World as Dave's Mother
- South Beach as Nancy
- Little Devils: The Birth as Clara Madison
- Eye of the Stranger as Doc
1992
- Highlander: The Series as Margaret Lang
- The Nutt House as Mrs. Robinson
- Exiled in America as Sonny Moore
- Playboy Playmates: The Early Years as Self
1991
- The Commish as Donna DeVries
- The Terror Within II as Kara
- Last Call as Betty
1989
- Hoodwinked as Sandra Summers
- The Ranch ... (Director)
1988
- Man Against the Mob as Joey Day
1987
- Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson as Mimi Carter
- Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery as Katherine 'Kate' St. Urban
1986
- The History of White People in America: Volume II
- Monster in the Closet as Margo Crane
- A Masterpiece of Murder as Della Vance
- The Longshot as Nicki Dixon
1985
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Georgia Brooks
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Sally Mestin
- Night Court as Irene Danbury
- Highway to Heaven as Stella
- Santa Barbara as Phyllis Blake
- Amazons as Kathryn Lundquist
- No Man's Land as Nellie Wilder
1983
- Chained Heat as Captain Taylor
- Women of San Quentin as Lt. Janet Alexander
1982
- Newhart as Erica Chase
- Matt Houston as Clover McKenna
- Wacko as Mrs. Doctor Graves
1981
- Flamingo Road as Lute-Mae Sanders
- Twirl as Carolyn Moore
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Lolly van der Post
- Make Me an Offer as Deidre Price
- Flamingo Road as Lute-Mae Sanders
- Children of Divorce as Sherry Malik
1979
- Supertrain as Lucy
- The French Atlantic Affair as Louise Crawford
- Hart to Hart as Dr. Fleming
- Express to Terror as Lucy
- Friendships, Secrets and Lies as Edyth
1978
- The Eddie Capra Mysteries
- The Manitou as Amelia Crusoe
- Cruise Into Terror as Marilyn Magnesun
- The Jordan Chance as Verna Stewart
1977
- The Love Boat as Toni Cooper
- The Oregon Trail as Hannah Morgan
- Mister Deathman as Liz
- The Night They Took Miss Beautiful as Kate Malloy
- Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging as Martha McVea
- The New Love Boat as Leonora Klopman
- Murder in Peyton Place as Stella Chernak
1976
- Nickelodeon as Marty Reeves
- Wanted: The Sundance Woman as Lola Wilkins
- Kiss Me... Kill Me as Stella Stafford
1975
- Wonder Woman as Marcia
- Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold as Dragon Lady
- Las Vegas Lady as Lucky
1974
- The Day the Earth Moved as Kate Barker
- Honky Tonk as Gold Dust
1972
- Banacek as Jill Hammond
- Ghost Story as Joanna Brent
- The Poseidon Adventure as Linda Rogo
- Hec Ramsey as Ivy Turnwright
- Slaughter as Ann
- Stand Up and Be Counted as Yvonne Kellerman
- Climb an Angry Mountain as Sheila Chilko
1971
- In Broad Daylight as Elizabeth Chappel
- A Town Called Bastard as Alvira
1970
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Hildy
1969
- The Mad Room as Ellen Hardy
1968
- How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life as Carol Corman
- Sol Madrid as Stacey Woodward
- Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows as Sister George
1967
- Lionpower from MGM as Self - Stacey (archive footage) (uncredited)
1966
- The Silencers as Gail Hendricks
- Rage as Perla
1965
- Synanon as Joaney Adamic
- The Secret of My Success as Violet Lawson
1964
- Advance to the Rear as Martha Lou Williams
1963
- Miss USA as Self - Judge
- The Nutty Professor as Stella Purdy
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Dollye Daly
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- Girls! Girls! Girls! as Robin Gantner
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Too Late Blues as Jess Polanski
- Man-Trap as Nina Jameson
1959
- Bonanza as Ann 'Annie' Croft
- Hawaiian Eye as Carol Judd
- Johnny Ringo as Suzanne Crale
- Li'l Abner as Appassionata Von Climax
- The Blue Angel as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- Say One for Me as Chorine
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Judy
1953
- General Electric Theater as Laura Jericho
1950
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee