Sheila Bromley
Born: 1911-10-31 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 2003-07-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Sheila Bromley, (October 31, 1911 – July 23, 2003) was an American television and film actress. She is best known for her roles in B-movies, mostly Westerns of the era. Born in San Francisco, California, she began her career in the 1930s under contract with Monogram Pictures. She was first billed as Sheila LeGay starring in 1930 westerns alongside Tom Tyler. She frequently co-starred with Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Cody, and Dick Foran. She starred alongside Bill Cody in Land of Wanted Men (1932), John Wayne in Westward Ho (1935), Lawless Range (1935) and Idol of the Crowds (1937). In 1944 Bromley appeared in the touring production of Good Night Ladies. On television she guest-starred in episodes of Rawhide, I Love Lucy, and Perry Mason. During World War II she worked often for the USO, continuing that service until the war ended in 1945. There she met her husband Jairus Bellamy. She is credited with seventy-five films in her career, of which seventeen were westerns, for which she is best known. Bromley retired from films and lived in the Greater Los Angeles Area until her death in 2003, aged 91.
Filmography
1974
- Barn of the Naked Dead as Mrs. Baynes
1972
1968
- Adam-12 as Myrna Huffman
1967
- Hotel as Mrs. Grandin
1966
1965
- The Big Valley as Mrs. Haley
- Morning Star
- Hank as Ethel Weiss
- The Girls on the Beach as Mrs. Winters
1964
- Wendy and Me
- The Cara Williams Show
- For Those Who Think Young as Mrs. Harkness
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Mrs. Burris
- Vacation Playhouse as Martha Sweetley
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Mrs. Thompson
1961
- Hazel as Mrs. Arnold
- 87th Precinct
- Cain's Hundred as Helen Marstow
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Mrs. Ives (uncredited)
1960
- Checkmate as Mrs. Welch
- Guestward, Ho!
- Peter Loves Mary
- Ice Palace as Lucy Husack
- Young Jesse James as Mrs. Samuels
1959
- Rawhide as Lydia
- Adventures in Paradise as Sylvia Simmons
- Bourbon Street Beat
1958
- The Donna Reed Show as Margaret Harrison
- Cool and Lam as Flo Mortonson
1957
- Perry Mason as Agnes Nulty
- Maverick
- The Lawless Eighties as Mrs. Sutter
- Spoilers of the Forest as Linda Mitchell
1956
- State Trooper
- There's Always Tomorrow as Woman from Pasadena
- A Day of Fury as Marie
- World in My Corner as Mrs. Mallinson
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lois
- The Millionaire as Letita Wainwright
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
1954
- Climax!
- The Whistler
- A Star Is Born as Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
1952
1951
- I Love Lucy as Helen Kaiser
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Martha Henderson - Teacher
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Lucy
1948
- Studio One as Marie
1942
- Time to Kill as Lois Morny
1940
- Calling Philo Vance as Doris Delafield
- A Fugitive from Justice as Ruby Patterson
1939
- Nancy Drew... Reporter as Bonnie Lucas
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Jackie McGuire
- Torture Ship as Poison Mary Slavish
- Women in the Wind as Frieda Boreman
- Death Goes North as Elsie Barlow
- Thou Shalt Not Kill as Julie Mancini
- Waterfront as Marie Cordell
1938
- Reformatory as Mrs. Regan
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Gladys Wagner (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Mystery House as Terice Von Elm
- Accidents Will Happen as Nona Gregg
- King of the Newsboys as Connie Madison
- Girls on Probation as Hilda Engstrom
- Rebellious Daughters as Flo Russell
- Midnight Intruder as Peggy Reitter
- Making the Headlines as Grace Sandford
1937
- Idol of the Crowds as Helen Dale
- Missing Witnesses as Gladys Wagner
- West of Shanghai as Lola Galt
- The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning as Mrs. John Jones
- The Luck of Roaring Camp as Susan Oakhurst
1936
- Desert Phantom as Jean Halloran
- Lady Be Careful as Hazel
- Born to Fight as Ada
- Kelly of the Secret Service as Sally Flint
1935
- Westward Ho as Mary Gordon
- Moonlight on the Prairie as Barbara Roberts
- Lawless Range as Ann Mason
- The Pace That Kills as Fanny
- Carnival as Puppet Assistant
- Danger Ahead as Lorraine Matthews
- Together We Live as Mary
- Behind the Evidence as Ruth Allen
1934
- The Merry Widow as Sonia's Maid (uncredited)
- The Woman Condemned as Actress
- The Prescott Kid as Dolores Ortega
1933
- Only Yesterday as May (Uncredited)
- Meet the Baron as Equestrienne Wearing Black Vest (uncredited)
- King for a Night as Telephone Operator
1932
- One Hour with You as Colette's Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
- Texas Pioneers as Nancy Thomas
- Horse Feathers as Wagstaff's Receptionist (uncredited)
- Lady with a Past as Party Guest (Uncredited)
- Tiger Shark as 'Red' (uncredited)
- Texas Gun Fighter as Jane Adams
- The Cowboy Counsellor as Ruth Avery
1931
- Working Girls as Carrie (uncredited)
- Girls About Town as Party Girl (uncredited)
- The Lawyer's Secret as Madge - Madame X's Girlfriend (uncredited)
- Land of Wanted Men as Cynthia
- Daddy Long Legs as Gloria
- Ten Nights in a Bar-room as June Manners
1930
- The Call of the Desert as Jean Walker
- Chiselers of Hollywood
- The Canyon of Missing Men as Inez Sepulveda