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Kathleen Crowley
Actor
Born December 26, 1931Died April 23, 2017 (85 years)
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).
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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).
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Filmography
| 1970 | The Lawyer · as Alice Fiske |
| 1969 | Downhill Racer · as American Newspaper Woman |
| 1967 | The High Chaparral (TV Series) · as Countess Maria Kettenden Von München |
| 1966 | Family Affair (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Batman (TV Series) · as Sophia Starr |
| 1965 | Gidget (TV Series) |
| 1965 | Branded (TV Series) |
| 1963 | The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) · as Grace |
| 1963 | Showdown · as Estelle |
| 1963 | FBI Code 98 · as Marian Nichols |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Jennifer Mcleod |
| 1961 | The Americans (TV Series) |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | SurfSide 6 (TV Series) |
| 1960 | My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Lois Wilson |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Pauline Spencer |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) · as Dr. Lois Walker |
| 1959 | Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Bourbon Street Beat (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Laurie Allen |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | The Deputy (TV Series) · as Martha Jackson |
| 1959 | The Rebel Set · as Jeanne Mapes |
| 1959 | Markham (TV Series) · as Ellen Childs |
| 1959 | Curse of the Undead · as Dolores Carter |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Millie Wade |
| 1958 | Cimarron City (TV Series) · as Claire Norris |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson (TV Series) · as Mari Brewster |
| 1958 | Yancy Derringer (TV Series) · as Desiree |
| 1958 | The Rough Riders (TV Series) · as Tess Pearce |
| 1958 | The Donna Reed Show (TV Series) |
| 1958 | Bronco (TV Series) |
| 1958 | The Flame Barrier · as Carol Dahlmann |
| 1957 | Colt .45 (TV Series) · as Elena Duncan |
| 1957 | Tombstone Territory (TV Series) · as Wyn Simmons |
| 1957 | Suspicion (TV Series) · as Lurene Guthrie |
| 1957 | The Restless Gun (TV Series) · as Mary Blackwell |
| 1957 | Maverick (TV Series) · as Daisy Harris |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Lillian Bradisson |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Ann Jamison |
| 1957 | The Phantom Stagecoach · as Fran Maroon |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Gilda |
| 1957 | The Quiet Gun · as Teresa Carpenter |
| 1956 | Westward Ho, the Wagons! · as Laura Thompson |
| 1955 | Female Jungle · as Peggy Voe |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater (TV Series) |
| 1955 | Seven Cities of Gold · as Mother |
| 1955 | Crossroads (1955) (TV Series) · as Terry |
| 1955 | The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) |
| 1955 | The Adventures of Champion (TV Series) · as Ellie Powell |
| 1955 | The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) · as Felicity O'brien |
| 1955 | Cheyenne (TV Series) |
| 1955 | City of Shadows · as Fern Fellows |
| 1955 | |
| 1955 | The Star and the Story (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1954 | Target Earth · as Nora King |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Laura Thompson |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Sally |
| 1954 | Studio 57 (TV Series) · as Clara |
| 1954 | The Lone Wolf (TV Series) · as Niki Armon |
| 1954 | Public Defender (TV Series) · as Sharon Ferrari |
| 1954 | Waterfront (TV Series) · as Terry Van Buren |
| 1953 | Sabre Jet · as Susan Crenshaw |
| 1953 | The Farmer Takes a Wife · as Susanna |
| 1953 | The Silver Whip · as Kathy Riley |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Mary |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Abigail Paddock |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Elizabeth Hayward |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) |
| 1950 | Ashley Banjo’s Big Town Dance (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Dot |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre (TV Series) · as Esther Blodgett |
| 1949 | The Lone Ranger (TV Series) · as Cindy Powers |
| 1949 | Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Peggy |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) · as Jane Eyre |