Kathleen Crowley

Known for ActingBorn 1929-12-26Died 2017-04-23

Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley (born December 26, 1931) was an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year (she came in sixth). After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies. Most well known for playing a variety of sirens in TV's Maverick (1957) opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, she appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies; "The Jeweled Gun" (with Jack Kelly), "Maverick Springs" (with James Garner and Jack Kelly), "The Misfortune Teller" (with Garner), "A Bullet for the Teacher" (with Roger Moore), "Kiz" (with Moore), and "Dade City Dodge," "The Troubled Heir," and "One of Our Trains Is Missing," with Kelly. Crowley made 81 television appearances on various series and appeared in twenty movies between 1951 and 1970 (one of her last movie roles was in Downhill Racer with Robert Redford). Many of her films were low-budget sci-fi and horror movies, but she seemed to appear in practically every narrative television series produced in the late '50s and '60s, including Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Bat Masterson, Bonanza, Branded, My Three Sons, Donna Reed, Perry Mason, Checkmate, Bronco, Route 66, Thriller, Batman, Disneyland, Family Affair, Rawhide, The Lone Ranger, and many others. Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Pat Crowley (frequently billed as "Patricia Crowley"), who appeared as guest leading lady in different episodes of many of the same television series and was not related. The two Crowleys were apparently never cast in the same episode. In the Philip Roth novel American Pastoral, the protagonist marries Miss New Jersey 1949, in the book named Dawn Dwyer and having few similarities to Crowley's post-Miss New Jersey life (including a poorer finish in the Miss America pageant). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Crowley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Perry Mason

Bonanza

The Phantom Stagecoach

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

City Detective

Batman

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

77 Sunset Strip

Sabre Jet

Maverick

Branded

The High Chaparral

Gidget

Family Affair

General Electric Theater

Route 66

Thriller

Lux Video Theatre

The Quiet Gun

The Virginian

The Americans

The Donna Reed Show

Redigo

Surfside 6

The Silver Whip

Yancy Derringer

Showdown

Bat Masterson

Cheyenne

Downhill Racer

Bourbon Street Beat

Bronco

The Lawyer

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Target Earth

Robert Montgomery Presents

Ten Wanted Men

Westward Ho, The Wagons!

Seven Cities of Gold

Female Jungle

Hawaiian Eye

Curse of the Undead

City of Shadows

FBI Code 98

Matinee Theater

The Flame Barrier

Checkmate

Cavalcade of America