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Kathleen Crowley

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

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Perry Mason7.7
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Perry Mason

1957 · Series

Bonanza7.5
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Bonanza

1959 · Series

The Phantom Stagecoach7.5
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The Phantom Stagecoach

1957 · Movie

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers7.5
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Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

1956 · Series

City Detective7.5
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City Detective

1953 · Series

Batman7.3
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Batman

1966 · Series

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars7.2
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951 · Series

77 Sunset Strip7.1
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77 Sunset Strip

1958 · Series

Sabre Jet7.0
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Sabre Jet

1953 · Movie

Maverick6.9
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Maverick

1957 · Series

Branded6.8
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Branded

1965 · Series

The High Chaparral6.8
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The High Chaparral

1967 · Series

Gidget6.8
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Gidget

1965 · Series

Family Affair6.7
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Family Affair

1966 · Series

General Electric Theater6.8
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General Electric Theater

1953 · Series

Route 666.7
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Route 66

1960 · Series

Thriller6.7
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Thriller

1960 · Series

Lux Video Theatre
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Lux Video Theatre

1950 · Series

The Quiet Gun6.6
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The Quiet Gun

1957 · Movie

The Virginian6.5
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The Virginian

1962 · Series

The Americans6.5
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The Americans

1961 · Series

The Donna Reed Show6.5
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The Donna Reed Show

1958 · Series

Redigo6.3
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Redigo

1963 · Series

Surfside 66.3
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Surfside 6

1960 · Series

The Silver Whip6.4
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The Silver Whip

1953 · Movie

Yancy Derringer6.2
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Yancy Derringer

1958 · Series

Showdown6.1
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Showdown

1963 · Movie

Bat Masterson6.1
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Bat Masterson

1958 · Series

Cheyenne6.1
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Cheyenne

1955 · Series

Downhill Racer5.9
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Downhill Racer

1969 · Movie

Bourbon Street Beat6.0
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Bourbon Street Beat

1959 · Series

Bronco6.0
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Bronco

1958 · Series

The Lawyer5.9
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The Lawyer

1970 · Movie

The 20th Century Fox Hour6.0
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The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955 · Series

Target Earth6.0
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Target Earth

1954 · Movie

Robert Montgomery Presents6.0
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Robert Montgomery Presents

1950 · Series

Ten Wanted Men5.9
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Ten Wanted Men

1955 · Movie

Westward Ho, The Wagons!5.8
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Westward Ho, The Wagons!

1956 · Movie

Seven Cities of Gold5.7
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Seven Cities of Gold

1955 · Movie

Female Jungle5.6
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Female Jungle

1956 · Movie

Hawaiian Eye5.6
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Hawaiian Eye

1959 · Series

Curse of the Undead5.5
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Curse of the Undead

1959 · Movie

City of Shadows5.5
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City of Shadows

1955 · Movie

FBI Code 985.4
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FBI Code 98

1963 · Movie

Matinee Theater5.3
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Matinee Theater

1955 · Series

The Flame Barrier5.0
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The Flame Barrier

1958 · Movie

Checkmate4.8
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Checkmate

1960 · Series

Cavalcade of America4.6
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Cavalcade of America

1952 · Series