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
- Hank as Ethel Weiss
- Morning Star
- The Girls on the Beach as Mrs. Winters
1964
- The Cara Williams Show
- Wendy and Me
- 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
- Cain's Hundred as Helen Marstow
- 87th Precinct
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Mrs. Ives (uncredited)
1960
- Checkmate as Mrs. Welch
- Guestward, Ho!
- Peter Loves Mary
- Young Jesse James as Mrs. Samuels
- Ice Palace as Lucy Husack
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 20th Century Fox Hour
- The Millionaire as Letita Wainwright
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
- A Fugitive from Justice as Ruby Patterson
- Calling Philo Vance as Doris Delafield
1939
- Torture Ship as Poison Mary Slavish
- Waterfront as Marie Cordell
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Jackie McGuire
- Nancy Drew... Reporter as Bonnie Lucas
- Women in the Wind as Frieda Boreman
- Death Goes North as Elsie Barlow
- Thou Shalt Not Kill as Julie Mancini
1938
- Midnight Intruder as Peggy Reitter
- Mystery House as Terice Von Elm
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Gladys Wagner (archive footage) (uncredited)
- King of the Newsboys as Connie Madison
- Making the Headlines as Grace Sandford
- Girls on Probation as Hilda Engstrom
- Rebellious Daughters as Flo Russell
- Reformatory as Mrs. Regan
- Accidents Will Happen as Nona Gregg
1937
- The Luck of Roaring Camp as Susan Oakhurst
- The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning as Mrs. John Jones
- Idol of the Crowds as Helen Dale
- Missing Witnesses as Gladys Wagner
- West of Shanghai as Lola Galt
1936
- Lady Be Careful as Hazel
- Born to Fight as Ada
- Kelly of the Secret Service as Sally Flint
- Desert Phantom as Jean Halloran
1935
- Westward Ho as Mary Gordon
- Carnival as Puppet Assistant
- Together We Live as Mary
- Behind the Evidence as Ruth Allen
- Lawless Range as Ann Mason
- Moonlight on the Prairie as Barbara Roberts
- Danger Ahead as Lorraine Matthews
- The Pace That Kills as Fanny
1934
- The Merry Widow as Sonia's Maid (uncredited)
- The Prescott Kid as Dolores Ortega
- The Woman Condemned as Actress
1933
- Only Yesterday as May (Uncredited)
- King for a Night as Telephone Operator
- Meet the Baron as Equestrienne Wearing Black Vest (uncredited)
1932
- Horse Feathers as Wagstaff's Receptionist (uncredited)
- Lady with a Past as Party Guest (Uncredited)
- One Hour with You as Colette's Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
- Tiger Shark as 'Red' (uncredited)
- Texas Pioneers as Nancy Thomas
- Texas Gun Fighter as Jane Adams
- The Cowboy Counsellor as Ruth Avery
1931
- Working Girls as Carrie (uncredited)
- Land of Wanted Men as Cynthia
- Girls About Town as Party Girl (uncredited)
- Daddy Long Legs as Gloria
- The Lawyer's Secret as Madge - Madame X's Girlfriend (uncredited)
- Ten Nights in a Bar-room as June Manners
1930
- Call of the Desert as Jean Walker
- Chiselers of Hollywood
- The Canyon of Missing Men as Inez Sepulveda