Peggie Castle was an American

United States

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 actress who specialized in playing the "other woman" in B-movie

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

s. She was also billed under the names Peggy Castle and Peggie Call.

Career

Born Peggy Blair in Appalachia, Virginia

Appalachia, Virginia

Appalachia is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,839 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Appalachia is located at ....

, Castle was discovered by a talent scout while eating in a restaurant in Beverly Hills. She appeared in such films as Payment on Demand

Payment on Demand

Payment on Demand is a 1951 drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. The screenplay by Bernhardt and Bruce Manning chronicles a marriage from its idealistic early days to its dissolution.-Plot synopsis:...

, 99 River Street

99 River Street

99 River Street is a 1953 film noir, starring John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, and Peggie Castle.The film was directed by Phil Karlson, produced by Edward Small, with cinematography by Franz Planer.-Plot:...

, I, the Jury

I, the Jury

I, The Jury is Mickey Spillane's first novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer.-Plot summary:New York City, summer 1944. Although she runs a successful private psychiatric clinic on New York's Park Avenue, Dr. Charlotte Manning — young, beautiful, blonde, and well-to-do —...

, Invasion U.S.A.

Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film)

Invasion U.S.A. is a 1952 motion picture set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union....

, and Arrivederci Roma. Castle then moved to television, where she played the major character Lily Merrill in the television western series Lawman

Lawman (tv series)

Lawman is an American Western television series originally telecast from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay on the ABC Television Network. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during the mid to late 1870s. Warner Bros....

from 1959 to 1962.

Personal life and death

Castle retired from acting after she married director William McGarry in 1964; she was married four times overall. She subsequently became an alcoholic and died at the age of forty-five of cirrhosis of the liver.

For her contribution to the television industry, Peggie Castle has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...

 at 6230 Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard

-Revitalization:In recent years successful efforts have been made at cleaning up Hollywood Blvd., as the street had gained a reputation for crime and seediness. Central to these efforts was the construction of the Hollywood and Highland shopping center and adjacent Kodak Theatre in 2001...

.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1947	When a Girl's Beautiful	"Koko" Glayde	Credited as Peggy Call
	Bury Me Dead	Bit	Uncredited
1949	Mr. Belvedere Goes to College	Jean Auchincloss	Uncredited
1950	Outside the Wall	Waitress	Uncredited
	Woman in Hiding	Waitress	Uncredited
	Buccaneer's Girl	Cleo
	I Was a Shoplifter	Telephone operator	Uncredited
	Shakedown	Hat Check Girl
1951	Payment on Demand Payment on Demand Payment on Demand is a 1951 drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. The screenplay by Bernhardt and Bruce Manning chronicles a marriage from its idealistic early days to its dissolution.-Plot synopsis:...	Diana Ramsey
	Air Cadet	Pat
	The Prince Who Was a Thief	Princess Yasmin
	Bright Victory Bright Victory Bright Victory is a 1951 film, adapted by Robert Buckner from Baynard Kendrick's novel Lights Out. It was directed by Mark Robson, and it stars Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julia Adams, James Edwards, Will Geer, Nana Bryant, Jim Backus, and Rock Hudson....	Eleanor	Uncredited
	The Golden Horde	Lailee
1952	Harem Girl	Princess Shareen
	Wagons West	Ann Wilkins
	Invasion U.S.A. Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film) Invasion U.S.A. is a 1952 motion picture set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union....	Carla Sanford
1953	Cow Country	Melba Sykes
	Son of Belle Starr	Julie Wren
	I, the Jury	Charlotte Manning
	99 River Street 99 River Street 99 River Street is a 1953 film noir, starring John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, and Peggie Castle.The film was directed by Phil Karlson, produced by Edward Small, with cinematography by Franz Planer.-Plot:...	Pauline Driscoll
1954	The White Orchid	Kathryn Williams
	Overland Pacific	Ann Dennison
	The Long Wait The Long Wait -Plot:Johnny McBride is badly hurt while hitch hiking and loses his memory when the car he is riding in crashes. Two years later, a clue leads him to his old home town, where he finds he is a murder suspect. Johnny tries to clear his name of the presumed murder charges...	Venus
	The Yellow Tomahawk	Katherine "Kate" Bolden
	Jesse James' Women	Waco Gans
1955	Finger Man	Gladys Baker
	Tall Man Riding	Reva
	Two-Gun Lady	Karen Marshall (alias Kate Masters)	Credited as Peggy Castle
	Target Zero	Ann Galloway
1956	Miracle in the Rain Miracle in the Rain Miracle in the Rain is a novella by American writer Ben Hecht, published in The Saturday Evening Post bimonthly magazine on April 3, 1943 and adapted by him into a feature film released on March 31, 1956.-Film version:...	Millie Kranz
	Quincannon – Frontier Scout	Maylene Mason
	The Oklahoma Woman	Marie "Oklahoma" Saunders
1957	The Counterfeit Plan	Carole Bernard
	Hell's Crossroads	Paula Collins
	Beginning of the End Beginning of the End Beginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. The film is about an agricultural scientist who has successfully grown gigantic vegetables using radiation...	Audrey Aimes
	Back from the Dead	Mandy Hazelton Anthony
1958	Arrivederci Roma	Carol Ralston
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1952–1953	Fireside Theater Fireside Theater Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran from on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American television. Stories were low budget and often based on public domain stories or written by freelance writers such as Rod Serling. While it was panned...	Ann	2 episodes
1956	The Millionaire	Candy Caldwell	1 episode
	Four Star Playhouse Four Star Playhouse Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953...	Molly Barry	1 episode
	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.-Overview:Zane Grey Theatre was created by Luke Short and Charles A. Wallace...	Charity	1 episode
1956–1957	Cheyenne	Mary "Mississippi" Brown Amy Gordon	2 episodes
1957	Conflict Conflict (TV series) Conflict is a 1956 ABC series that directly succeeded Warner Brothers Presents. It is most famous for having hosted the effective pilots of 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick....	Lila Prescott	1 episode
	Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....	Nita Tucker	1 episode
	Perry Mason Perry Mason (TV series) Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...	Sally Fenner	1 episode
1958	The Restless Gun The Restless Gun The Restless Gun is a western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict...	Amity Hobbs in "Hornitas Town"	1 episode
	Frontier Justice Frontier Justice (TV series) For the NBC western anthology, see Frontier .Frontier Justice is a CBS television Western anthology series which had thirty-one telecasts over the summers of 1958, 1959, and 1961. It was a repackaging of episodes from CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, and was hosted by Lew Ayres, Melvyn...	Charity	1 episode
	The Texan The Texan (TV series) The Texan is a Western television series starring popular B movie star Rory Calhoun. It aired on the CBS television network from 1958-1960.-Production notes:...	Charlotta Rivera	1 episode
77 Sunset Strip 77 Sunset Strip 77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes....	Valerie Stacey	1 episode
1958–1959	The Restless Gun The Restless Gun The Restless Gun is a western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict...	Amity Hobbs Fern Foster	2 episodes
1959	World of Giants		1 episode
1959–1962	Lawman Lawman (tv series) Lawman is an American Western television series originally telecast from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay on the ABC Television Network. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during the mid to late 1870s. Warner Bros....	Lily	32 episodes
1966	The Virginian The Virginian (TV series) The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...	Melissa	1 episode

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