Date of Death: 3 August2015, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA Coleen Gray was born in Staplehurst, Nebraska, in 1922. 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.
Movie | Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz | Self | 2004-12-19 |
Movie | Cry from the Mountain | Marian Rissman | 1985-11-01 |
Series | Tales from the Darkside | Unknown | 1984-09-30 |
Movie | The Best Place to Be | Dottie Parker | 1979-05-27 |
Series | Emergency! | Clair Brightweiser | 1972-01-22 |
Series | The Sixth Sense | Unknown | 1972-01-15 |
Movie | The Late Liz | Sue Webb | 1971-09-01 |
Series | Bright Promise | Ann Boyd Jones | 1969-09-29 |
Movie | P.J. | Betty Orbison | 1968-03-27 |
Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
Series | Judd for the Defense | Unknown | 1967-09-08 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Series | Family Affair | Unknown | 1966-09-12 |
Movie | Town Tamer | Carol Rosser | 1965-07-07 |
Series | Branded | Unknown | 1965-01-24 |
Series | Run for Your Life | Unknown | 1965-09-13 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Unknown | 1965-09-19 |
Series | The Dakotas | Unknown | 1963-01-07 |
Series | The Virginian | Unknown | 1962-09-19 |
Movie | The Phantom Planet | Liara | 1961-12-13 |
Series | Window on Main Street | 1961-10-02 | |
Series | Mister Ed | Unknown | 1961-01-05 |
Movie | The Leech Woman | June Talbot | 1960-05-01 |
Series | The Tall Man | Unknown | 1960-09-10 |
Series | Coronado 9 | Unknown | 1960-09-06 |
Series | My Three Sons | Unknown | 1960-09-29 |
Series | Rawhide | Unknown | 1959-01-09 |
Movie | Johnny Rocco | Lois Mayfield, Teacher | 1958-12-21 |
Series | 77 Sunset Strip | Unknown | 1958-10-10 |
Movie | Hell's Five Hours | Nancy Brand | 1958-04-13 |
Movie | Destination 60,000 | Mary Ellen | 1957-05-12 |
Movie | The Vampire | Carol Butler | 1957-06-14 |
Movie | Copper Sky | Nora Hayes | 1957-09-01 |
Series | Have Gun, Will Travel | Unknown | 1957-09-14 |
Series | Maverick | Unknown | 1957-09-22 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | Star in the Dust | Nellie Mason | 1956-06-13 |
Movie | The Killing | Fay | 1956-06-06 |
Movie | The Wild Dakotas | Sue 'Lucky' Duneen | 1956-02-28 |
Movie | Frontier Gambler | Sylvia Melbourne | 1956-07-01 |
Movie | Death of a Scoundrel | Mrs. Edith Van Renasslear | 1956-10-31 |
Movie | The Black Whip | Jeannie | 1956-12-01 |
Movie | The Twinkle In God's Eye | Laura | 1955-10-13 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Movie | Tennessee's Partner | Goldie Slater | 1955-09-21 |
Movie | Las Vegas Shakedown | Julie Rae | 1955-05-15 |
Series | The Millionaire | Unknown | 1955-01-19 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Movie | Arrow In The Dust | Christella Burke | 1954-04-25 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Sabre Jet | Mrs. Gil Manton nee Jane Carter | 1953-09-04 |
Movie | The Vanquished | Jane Colfax | 1953-06-03 |
Movie | The Fake | Mary Mason | 1953-09-25 |
Movie | Kansas City Confidential | Helen Foster | 1952-11-11 |
Movie | Models Inc. | Rusty Faraday | 1952-05-19 |
Movie | Apache Drums | Sally | 1951-04-01 |
Movie | I'll Get You for This | Kay Wonderly | 1951-01-01 |
Movie | The Sleeping City | Ann Sebastian | 1950-09-20 |
Series | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown | 1950-09-10 |
Movie | Riding High | Alice 'Princess' Higgins | 1950-04-12 |
Series | Your Show of Shows | Unknown | 1950-02-25 |
Movie | Father Is a Bachelor | Prudence Millett | 1950-02-22 |
Movie | Sand | Joan Hartley | 1949-08-03 |
Movie | Red River | Fen | 1948-08-26 |
Movie | Fury at Furnace Creek | Molly Baxter | 1948-04-30 |
Movie | Nightmare Alley | Molly Carlisle | 1947-10-09 |
Movie | Kiss of Death | Nettie Cavallo | 1947-08-27 |