Kathleen Crowley

Kathleen Crowley

Birthday: 1929-12-26

Deathday: 2017-04-23

Place of birth:

Also known as: Betty Jane Crowley

imdb_id: nm0189754

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Sabre Jet

Score: 6.7

The Quiet Gun

Score: 6.4

The Silver Whip

Score: 6.3

Showdown

Score: 5.9

Downhill Racer

Score: 5.9

Target Earth

Score: 5.9

Ten Wanted Men

Score: 5.8

The Lawyer

Score: 5.6

Seven Cities of Gold

Score: 5.5

Westward Ho, The Wagons!

Score: 5.5

Curse of the Undead

Score: 5.4

Female Jungle

Score: 5.4

The Phantom Stagecoach

Score: 5.0

City of Shadows

Score: 4.9

The Flame Barrier

Score: 4.4

FBI Code 98

Score: 3.8

The Farmer Takes a Wife

Score: 3.3

The Rebel Set

Score: 2.8

Played in tv shows:

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Batman

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

City Detective

Score: 7.0

Maverick

Score: 6.8

Maverick

Score: 6.8

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Family Affair

Score: 6.6

The High Chaparral

Score: 6.5

Branded

Score: 6.4

Thriller

Score: 6.4

Gidget

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Route 66

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

The Donna Reed Show

Score: 6.2

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

The Americans

Score: 6.0

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Robert Montgomery Presents

Score: 5.6

Yancy Derringer

Score: 5.6

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Score: 5.4

Bronco

Score: 5.2

Hawaiian Eye

Score: 5.2

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

Score: 5.0

Matinee Theater

Score: 5.0

Redigo

Score: 5.0

Surfside 6

Score: 5.0

Bourbon Street Beat

Score: 5.0

Checkmate

Score: 4.1

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Climax!

Score: 3.3