Stella StevensStella Stevens (born October 1, 1938 is an American film, television and stage actress, who began her acting career in 1959 and starred in such popular films as The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor is a 1963 Paramount Pictures science fiction comedy feature film produced, directed, co-written and starring Jerry Lewis...

, The Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby...

, The Silencers

The Silencers

The Silencers is the title of a 1962 spy novel by Donald Hamilton, the fourth in a series of books featuring assassin Matt Helm.-Plot summary:...

, The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner.Set in the desert of Arizona during the transitional period when the frontier was closing, the movie follows three years in the life of Cable Hogue, a failed...

and The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, released in 1969. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the SS Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the...

.

She is also a film producer, director and pin-up girl

Pin-up girl

A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall...

.

Early life

Born Estelle Caro Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi

Yazoo City, Mississippi

Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle. It is the county seat of Yazoo County and the principal city of the Yazoo City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the...

, the only child of Thomas Ellett Eggleston and Dovey Estelle (née Caro), at the age of 18 she married electrician Noble Herman Stephens on December 1, 1954, probably in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

. They had one child (her only child), actor/producer Andrew Stevens

Andrew Stevens

Andrew Stevens is an American executive, film producer, director and former actor.-Early life:Andrew Stevens was born Herman Andrew Stephens in Memphis, Tennessee...

, née Herman Jonathan Stephens. The couple divorced three years later, although she and her son retained a variation of his surname as their own professional surnames.

Career

Stevens was first under contract to 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

, then dropped after six months. After winning the role of "Appassionata Von Climax" for the musical Li'l Abner (1959), she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

 (1959-1963) and later Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

 (1964-1968). She shared the 1960 Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

 for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female", with Tuesday Weld

Tuesday Weld

Tuesday Weld is an American actress.Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960...

, Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...

 and Janet Munro

Janet Munro

-Career:Munro starred in three Disney motion picture releases, Darby O'Gill and the Little People , Third Man on the Mountain and Swiss Family Robinson , as well as The Horsemasters , which aired on Disney's weekly television series...

 for Say One For Me.

When High Speed Ektachrome film was introduced in 1959, Stevens was the first person ever photographed for a formal portrait by the light of a single candle and several reflectors for the cover of a photography magazine.

In 1960, Stevens was Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

magazine's Playmate of the Month for January (and had featured pictorials in 1965 and 1968). Stevens was in the 100 sexiest stars of the 20th Century (#27). During the 1960s, she was one of the ten most photographed women in the world, carving herself a distinctive 'sexy kitten' niche which was quite distinct from the overwhelming sexpot image of Marilyn Monroe and the numerous Monroe clones of the period.

Films

In 1962, Stevens starred opposite Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

 in Girls! Girls! Girls!

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaiian fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. "Return to Sender", which reached #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the movie...

. Later that year, she portrayed Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...

's love interest in The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor is a 1963 Paramount Pictures science fiction comedy feature film produced, directed, co-written and starring Jerry Lewis...

. This was followed by other comic turns as the former "Miss Montana" beauty queen in Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made...

's The Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film)

The Courtship of Eddie's Father is a 1963 romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Glenn Ford as a widowed father, with a young son to care for, played by Ron Howard....

and opposite Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

 in the "Matt Helm

Matt Helm

Matt Helm is a fictional character created by author Donald Hamilton. He is a U.S. government counter-agent—a man whose primary job is to kill or nullify enemy agents—not a spy or secret agent in the ordinary sense of the term as used in spy thrillers.-The character and the series:The...

" spy spoof The Silencers

The Silencers (film)

The Silencers is the title of an American spy film spoof motion picture produced in 1966 and starring Dean Martin as agent Matt Helm. It is only loosely based upon the novel The Silencers by Donald Hamilton, as well as another of Hamilton's Helm novels, Death of a Citizen.The film was the first of...

plus How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life. Stevens was featured in Sam Peckinpah

Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an American filmmaker and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch...

's western The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner.Set in the desert of Arizona during the transitional period when the frontier was closing, the movie follows three years in the life of Cable Hogue, a failed...

in 1970 with Jason Robards

Jason Robards

Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American actor on stage, and in film and television, and a winner of the Tony Award , two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award...

. In 1972, she appeared in Irwin Allen

Irwin Allen

Irwin Allen was a television and film director and producer nicknamed "The Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. He was also notable for creating a number of television series.- Biography :...

's The Poseidon Adventure as "Linda Rogo" (the former-hooker wife of Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty...

's character).

Television

Stevens has appeared in many television shows. An early appearance was in the Bonanza episode "Silent Thunder", playing a deaf mute (the episode aired in December 1960) a role she played with exceptional charm and success. She was a regular on the 1981-82 primetime soap opera Flamingo Road. She teamed with the late Sandy Dennis

Sandy Dennis

Sandra Dale “Sandy” Dennis was an American theater and film actress. In 1966, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.-Early life:...

 in a touring production of an all-female version of Neil Simon

Neil Simon

Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and The Odd Couple. He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Lost In Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that...

's The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple is a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing and...

, playing the Oscar Madison character. She had a contract role on NBC's daytime drama Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara (TV series)

Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolved around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California...

as Phyllis Blake from 1989 to 1990. Stevens produced and directed two films, The Ranch (1989) and The American Heroine (1979).

Personal life

In the late 1970s, Stevens moved to the small town of Twisp, Washington

Twisp, Washington

Twisp is a town in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. The population was 938 at the 2000 census and decreased to 919 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Twisp is located at ....

, and opened an art gallery.

Films

• Say One for Me
  Say One for Me
  Say One For Me is a film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.-Cast:*Bing Crosby as Father Conroy*Debbie Reynolds as Holly LeMaise aka Conroy*Robert Wagner as Tony Vincent*Ray Walston as Phil Stanley...
  
  (1959)
• The Blue Angel
  The Blue Angel (1959 film)
  -Cast:* Curd Jürgens as Professor Immanuel Rath * May Britt as Lola-Lola* Theodore Bikel as Klepert* John Banner as Principal Harter* Fabrizio Mioni as Rolf* Ludwig Stössel as Dr. Fritz Heine* Wolfe Barzell as Clown* Ina Anders as Gussie...
  
  (1959) (uncredited)
• Li'l Abner (1959), as Appassionata Von Climax
• Man-Trap
  Man-Trap
  Man-Trap is a 1961 American drama film about a Korean War veteran who becomes involved in a scheme to steal $3.5 million dollars from a Central American dictator. The film was directed by Edmond O'Brien, and stars Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens, Elaine Devry, Arthur Batanides, Cortez...
  
  (1961)
• Too Late Blues
  Too Late Blues
  Too Late Blues is a 1962 John Cassavetes film that stars Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Vince Edwards, Seymour Cassel, and Everette Chambers. It is the story of jazz musician "Ghost" Wakefield , and his relationship between both his fellow band members and his love interest, Jess, a beautiful...
  
  (1961)
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
  Girls! Girls! Girls!
  Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaiian fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. "Return to Sender", which reached #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the movie...
  
  (1962)
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father
  The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film)
  The Courtship of Eddie's Father is a 1963 romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Glenn Ford as a widowed father, with a young son to care for, played by Ron Howard....
  
  (1963)
• The Nutty Professor
  The Nutty Professor
  The Nutty Professor is a 1963 Paramount Pictures science fiction comedy feature film produced, directed, co-written and starring Jerry Lewis...
  
  (1963)
• Advance to the Rear
  Advance to the Rear
  Advance to the Rear is a light-hearted 1964 western comedy film set in the American Civil War. It stars Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens and Melvyn Douglas and is directed by George Marshall. The film is based on the 1957 novel Company of Cowards by Jack Schaefer, with the film having that title in...
  
  (1964)
• Synanon
  Synanon (film)
  Synanon is a 1965 film directed by Richard Quine. It stars Edmond O'Brien and Chuck Connors. It was filmed at Synanon in Santa Monica, California.-Cast:*Edmond O'Brien as Chuck Dederich*Chuck Connors as Ben*Stella Stevens as Joaney...
  
  (1965)
• The Secret of My Success (1965)
• The Silencers
  The Silencers (film)
  The Silencers is the title of an American spy film spoof motion picture produced in 1966 and starring Dean Martin as agent Matt Helm. It is only loosely based upon the novel The Silencers by Donald Hamilton, as well as another of Hamilton's Helm novels, Death of a Citizen.The film was the first of...
  
  (1966)
• Rage
  Rage (1966 film)
  Rage is a Drama/Movie, starring Glenn Ford and directed by Gilberto Gazcón-Plot:In a Drama film classics. Dr. Reuben is an angry loner living in a tiny Mexican border town. Soon after a man dying of rabies staggers into town, Dr. Reuben himself is bitten by the same rabid can...
  
  (1966)
• How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
  How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
  How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life is a 1968 film directed by Fielder Cook. It stars Dean Martin and Stella Stevens.-Cast:*Dean Martin as David Sloane*Stella Stevens as Carol Corman*Eli Wallach as Harry Hunter*Anne Jackson as Muriel Laszlo...
  
  (1968)
• Sol Madrid
  Sol Madrid
  -Cast:*David McCallum ... Sol Madrid*Stella Stevens ... Stacey Woodward*Telly Savalas ... Emil Dietrich*Ricardo Montalban ... Jalisco*Rip Torn ... Dano Villanova*Pat Hingle ... Harry Mitchell*Paul Lukas ... Capo Riccione...
  
  (1968)
• Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
  Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
  Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows is a movie comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Stella Stevens. The film is a sequel to The Trouble with Angels and was written by Blanche Hanalis from a story by Jane Trahey, and directed by James Neilson....
  
  (1968)
• The Mad Room (1969)
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue
  The Ballad of Cable Hogue
  The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner.Set in the desert of Arizona during the transitional period when the frontier was closing, the movie follows three years in the life of Cable Hogue, a failed...
  
  (1970)
• A Town Called Hell (1971)
• Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
• Slaughter (1972)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972), as Linda Rogo
• Arnold (1973)
• Las Vegas Lady (1975)
• Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
  Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
  Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold is a 1975 action-adventure Blaxploitation movie starring Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra It is the sequel to the 1973 film Cleopatra Jones.-Plot:...
  
  (1975)
• Nickelodeon
  Nickelodeon (film)
  Nickelodeon is a 1976 comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, and Tatum O'Neal. According to Bogdanovich, the film was based on true stories told to him by silent movie directors Alan Dwan and Raoul Walsh...
  
  (1976)
• Mister Deathman (1977)
• The Manitou
  The Manitou
  The Manitou is an American horror movie from 1978 with Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg, based on a 1975 book by Graham Masterton. The movie is based on an old legend about the Native American spirit-concept Manitou.-Plot:...
  
  (1978)
• Wacko
  Wacko (film)
  Wacko is a 1982 horror film parody directed by Greydon Clark and starring Joe Don Baker and George Kennedy.-Plot:It all started exactly 13 years ago, when Mary Graves' older sister was murdered on Halloween prom night by a power-mowing maniac. Poor Mary...since then she has experienced horror,...
  
  (1982)
• Ladies Night
  Ladies' Night (film)
  Ladies' Night is a 2003 Mexican film directed by Gabriela Tagliavini. The film is a romantic comedy about two girls who find love in modern-day Mexico City.- Plot :Alicia is an apparently conservative girl that is about to marry...
  
  (1983)

• Chained Heat
  Chained Heat
  Chained Heat is a 1983 exploitation film in the women-in-prison genre. It was co-written and directed by Paul Nicholas for Jensen Farley Pictures.-Plot:...
  
  (1983)
• A Masterpiece of Murder (1986)
• The Longshot (1986)
• Monster in the Closet
  Monster in the Closet
  Monster in the Closet is a 1986 horror/comedy with a veteran cast, including Howard Duff and John Carradine, as well as The Black Eyed Peas' Stacy Ferguson and Paul Walker in early roles. The film was distributed by Troma Entertainment...
  
  (1987)
• Exiled in America (1990)
• Mom (1990)
• Down the Drain
  Down the Drain (film)
  Down the Drain is a 1990 American comedy film. It was directed by Robert C. Hughes and starred Andrew Stevens, Teri Copley and John Matuszak, in his last film. Jerry Mathers and Stella Stevens also appeared in the film. It was released on video April 25, 1990.-Plot:A crooked lawyer brings together...
  
  (1990)
• The Terror Within II
  The Terror Within II
  The Terror Within II is a 1991 science fiction/horror film starring Andrew Stevens, who also directed it.-Plot summary:In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them...
  
  (1990)
• Exiled in America (1990)
• Last Call
  Last Call (1991 film)
  Last Call is a 1991 thriller film about a woman who decides to take revenge on an estate agent who killed her mother. The film was directed by Jag Mundhra, and stars William Katt, Shannon Tweed, and Joseph Campanella....
  
  (1991)
• South Beach (1992)
• The Nutt House (1992)
• Eye of the Stranger (1993)
• Little Devils: The Birth (1993)
• Hard Drive (1994)
• Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III (1994) (V)
• Molly & Gina
  Molly & Gina
  Molly & Gina is a 1994 movie directed by Paul Leder and written by Leder and his son, Reuben. It stars Frances Fisher, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and Peter Fonda. It is also the feature film debut of Elizabeth Berkley. The plot deals with a secretary and an actress who attempt to find the killers of...
  
  (1994)
• Star Hunter (1995) (V)
• Illicit Dreams (1995)
• The Granny
  The Granny
  The Granny is a 1995 American horror comedy directed by Luca Bercovici and co-written by Bercovici and Sam Bernard. The film stars Stella Stevens as a grandmother who comes back from her grave to seek revenge on her greedy family. After a limited release at drive-in theaters, the film was printed...
  
  (1995)
• Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995) (V)
• Virtual Combat (1996)
• Bikini Hotel (1997)
• Invisible Mom (1997) (V)
• Size 'Em Up (2001)
• The Long Ride Home (2003)
• Blessed (2004)
• Glass Trap (2005)
• Hell to Pay (2005)
• Popstar
  Popstar (film)
  Popstar is an American film that features teen singer Aaron Carter in his first and only lead role in a feature film. The direct-to-video film was directed by Richard Gabai and written by Timothy Barton; the film was released on November 8, 2005. The premiere was held in The Woodlands, Texas. It...
  
  (2005)

Television

^* - TV movie

• Twenty Good Years
  Twenty Good Years
  Twenty Good Years was an NBC situation comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor, John Lithgow, Heather Burns and Jake Sandvig that ran from October 11, 2006 until November 1, 2006. The series had also been slated to air on CTV in Canada...
  
  (1 episode, 2006)
• Strip Mall (2001)
• By Dawn's Early Light ^* (2000)
• Viper - "The Getaway" (1998)
• The Christmas List
  The Christmas List
  The Christmas List is a 1997 TV movie, shown first on The Family Channel, but currently on ABC Family during their 25 Days of Christmas programming block.-Synopsis:...
  
  ^* (1997)
• Nash Bridges
  Nash Bridges
  Nash Bridges is an American television police drama created by Carlton Cuse. The show starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit. The show ran for six seasons on CBS from March 29, 1996 to May 4, 2001 with a total of...
  
  - "Deliverance" (1997)
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! ^* (1997)
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  (1996, 1999)
• In Cold Blood
  In Cold Blood (film)
  In Cold Blood is a 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. Richard Brooks prepared the adaptation and directed the film. Some scenes were filmed on the locations of the original events, in Garden City and Holcomb, Kansas including the Clutter residence...
  
  (1996) (miniseries)
• Silk Stalkings
  Silk Stalkings
  Silk Stalkings is a TV crime drama originally shown on CBS in 1991 as part of the network's late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package, and rebroadcast on the USA Network. After CBS ended the Crimetime experiment in 1993, the series ran exclusively on USA until its finale in the...
  
  - "When She Was Bad" (1996)
• Arli$$ - "What About the Fans?" (1996)
• Renegade
  Renegade (TV series)
  Renegade is an American television series that ran for 110 episodes spanning 5 seasons between September 19, 1992 and April 4, 1997.The series stars Lorenzo Lamas as Reno Raines, a police officer who is framed for a murder he didn't commit. Raines goes on the run and joins forces with Native...
  
  - "Love Hurts" (1996)
• Subliminal Seduction ^* (1996)
• Dave's World
  Dave's World
  Dave's World is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1993 to 1997. The series was based on the writing of Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry.-Plot:...
  
  - "The Mommies" (1995)
• Highlander: The Series
  Highlander: The Series
  Highlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985...
  
  - "Vendetta" (1995)
• Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women ^* (1994)
• Burke's Law
  Burke's Law
  Burke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud...
  
  - "Who Killed the Romance?" (1994)
• The Commish
  The Commish
  The Commish is a television series that aired on ABC in the United States from 1991 to 1996. The series focused on the work and home life of a suburban police commissioner in upstate New York....
  
  - "Eastbridge Boulevard" (1993)
• Dangerous Curves
  Dangerous Curves
  Dangerous Curves is the fifth studio album by British-American hard rock/heavy metal singer and guitarist Lita Ford, released in 1991. Though popular among her fans, the album failed to success as musical tastes were shifting towards alternative rock in late 1991...
  
  - "In the Name of Love" (1992)
• In the Heat of the Night
  In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
  In the Heat of the Night is a television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995...
  
  - "A Woman Much Admired" (1991)
• Dream On - "Over Your Dead Body" (1990)
• Santa Barbara
  Santa Barbara (TV series)
  Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolved around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California...
  
  (1989-1990)
• Jake Spanner, Private Eye ^* (1989)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...
  
  - "Twist" (1988), "Craig's Will" (1960)
• Man Against the Mob* ^* (1988)
• Father Dowling Mysteries
  Father Dowling Mysteries
  Father Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that appeared between November 30, 1987 and May 2, 1991. For its first season, the show was on NBC; it moved to ABC network for its last two seasons...
  
  - "Fatal Confession" (1987)
• A Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery ^* (1987)
• Tales from the Hollywood Hills: A Table at Ciro's ^* (1987)
• Adventures Beyond Belief ^* (1987)
• Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson ^* (1987)
• Magnum, P.I.
  Magnum, P.I.
  Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network....
  
  - "Find Me a Rainbow" (1986)
• A Masterpiece of Murder ^* (1986)
• The History of White People in America: Volume II ^* (1986)
• Murder, She Wrote
  Murder, She Wrote
  Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...
  
  - "Funeral at Fifty-Mile" (1985)
• Night Court
  Night Court
  Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 20, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone...
  
  - "Harry and the Madam" (1984)
• Highway to Heaven
  Highway to Heaven
  Highway to Heaven is an American television drama series which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1989.- Season 1 :- Season 2 :- Season 3 :- Season 4 :- Season 5 :...
  
  - "Help Wanted: Angel" (1984)
• Hotel
  Hotel
  A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...
  
  - "Flesh and Blood" (1984)
• No Man's Land
  No Man's Land (1984 film)
  No Man's Land was a television pilot film made in 1984. The pilot featured Stella Stevens as the sheriff of a town in the Old West with three daughters. The youngest daughter was played by Melissa Michaelsen. Stella's two older daughters were played by Terri Garber and Donna Dixon....
  
  ^* (1984)
• Amazons ^* (1984)
• Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.-Original series:...
  
  (2 episodes, 1983)

• Newhart
  Newhart
  Newhart is a television situation comedy starring comedian Bob Newhart and actress Mary Frann as an author and wife who owned and operated an inn located in a small, rural Vermont town that was home to many eccentric characters. The show aired on the CBS network from October 25, 1982 to May 21, 1990...
  
  (2 episodes, 1983)
• Women of San Quentin ^* (1983)
• The Love Boat
  The Love Boat
  The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
  
  (2 episodes, 1983)
• Matt Houston
  Matt Houston
  Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.-Synopsis:...
  
  - "Whose Party Is It Anyway?" (1983)
• Flamingo Road (34 episodes, 1981-1982), as Lute-Mae Sanders
• Twirl ^* (1981)
• Children of Divorce ^* (1980)
• Flamingo Road ^* (1980), pilot for the TV series
• Make Me an Offer ^* (1980)
• Friendships, Secrets and Lies ^* (1979)
• The French Atlantic Affair
  The French Atlantic Affair
  The French Atlantic Affair is a novel by Ernest Lehman which was published in 1977. A 3 part TV miniseries based on the book was produced and broadcast in 1979.-Plot:...
  
  (1979) (miniseries)
• Hart to Hart ^* (1979), series pilot of Hart to Hart
  Hart to Hart
  Hart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who also moonlighted as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg...
  
  
• Express to Terror ^* (1979)
• The Jordan Chance ^* (1978)
• Cruise Into Terror ^* (1978)
• The Oregon Trail
  The Oregon Trail (TV series)
  The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children...
  
  - "Hannah's Girl", appearing with son Andrew Stevens (1977)
• The Night They Took Miss Beautiful ^* (1977)
• Murder in Peyton Place
  Murder in Peyton Place
  Murder in Peyton Place is a 1977 television film directed by Bruce Kessler. The film is based on the TV series Peyton Place, which aired from 1964 to 1969, and it was billed as a reunion movie as well as a NBC special...
  
  ^* (1977)
• Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging ^* (1977)
• The New Love Boat ^* (1977), pilot for The Love Boat
  The Love Boat
  The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
  
  
• Wanted: The Sundance Woman ^* (1976)
• Kiss Me, Kill Me ^* (1976)
• Wonder Woman - "The New Original Wonder Woman" (1975)
• Police Story - "The Losing Game" (1975)
• Honky Tonk ^* (1974)
• The Day the Earth Moved ^* (1974)
• Banacek
  Banacek
  Banacek is a short-lived, light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard on NBC from 1972 to 1974. It alternated in its timeslot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season...
  
  - "Ten Thousand Dollars a Page" (1973)
• Linda ^* (1973)
• Climb an Angry Mountain ^* (1972)
• Hec Ramsey
  Hec Ramsey
  Hec Ramsey is a television Western, a production of Jack Webb's production company, Mark VII Limited, in association with Universal Studios, broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel show during the 1972-73 and 1973-74 seasons.-Overview:This series was...
  
  - "Hangman's Wages" (1972)
• Ghost Story - "The Dead We Leave Behind" (1972)
• In Broad Daylight ^* (1971)
• Ben Casey
  Ben Casey
  Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, *, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph...
  
  (2 episodes, 1964)
• Frontier Circus
  Frontier Circus
  For the NBC program similarly named, see Frontier .Frontier Circus is a short-lived Western television series about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s...
  
  - "The Balloon Girl" (1962)
• Follow the Sun
  Follow the Sun (TV series)
  Follow the Sun is an American drama series which ran for thirty episodes on the ABC television network from September 17, 1961, through April 8, 1962.-Synopsis:...
  
  - "Conspiracy of Silence" (1961)
• General Electric Theater
  General Electric Theater
  General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:...
  
  - "The Great Alberti" (1961), "The Graduation Dress" (1960)
• Riverboat
  Riverboat (TV series)
  Riverboat is a western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds that was broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961....
  
  - "Zigzag" (1960)
• Bonanza
  Bonanza
  Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...
  
  - "Silent Thunder" (1960)
• Hawaiian Eye
  Hawaiian Eye
  Hawaiian Eye is an American television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company television network.-Premise:...
  
  - "Kakua Woman" (1960)
• Johnny Ringo
  Johnny Ringo (TV series)
  Johnny Ringo is a Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It was loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter Johnny Ringo, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, John "Doc" Holliday, and "Buckskin" Franklin Leslie.This fictional...
  
  - "Uncertain Vengeance" (1960)

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