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Jeanne Bates

Magazine/billboard model, actress, Jeanne Mary Bates played the lead in an airwave mystery series, Lew X. Lansworth's "Whodunit" (Bates' scream was the show's 'signature'), which became so successful that it (and Bates) moved to Hollywood in 1941. Bates began her career in films both in bit parts and larger roles in a series of horror films and noirs, including The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946). In her later career, Bates appeared in Eraserhead (1977) and Mulholland Drive (2001),


Aliases
  • Jeanne R. Bates
  • Jean Bates
English
  • Born In Berkeley, California, USA
  • Born May 21, 1918
  • Died November 28, 2007
  • Gender Female
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Die Hard 2

1990
as Older Woman (Northeast Plane)

Eraserhead

1977
as Mrs. X

Mom

1991
as Emily Dwyer

Vice Raid

1959
as Marilyn

Dream Lover

1993
as Jeanne

Poco… Little Dog Lost

1977
as Mrs. John Ashmore

Sergeant Mike

1944
as Terry Arno

The Racket Man

1944
as Phyllis Lake

Getting Married

1978
as Divorced Woman

The Black Parachute

1944
as Olga - Peasant Woman

Ben Casey

1961
as Nurse Wills

Sundown Valley

1944
as Sidney Hawkins

The Phantom Serial

1943
as Diana Palmer

Gus

1976
as Nurse

The Strangler

1964
as Clara Thomas

Sabaka

1954
as Durga

The Mask of Diijon

1946
as Victoria

Shadows in the Night

1944
as Adele Carter

Trouble In-Laws

1951
as Mrs. Herbert

Back from the Dead

1957
as Agnes, the Bradley housekeeper

The Soul of a Monster

1944
as Ann Winson

Guest Star

Episode Lock-Up
Leading Young Citizen
1961
Episode Three's Company
Old Folks at Home
1979
Episode Bonanza
Death on Sun Mountain
1959
Episode The Restless Gun
Better Than A Cannon
1959
Episode Riverboat
The Faithless
1959
Episode Wagon Train
The Weight of Command
1961
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
Tower Beyond Tragedy
1972
Episode That '70s Show
I Can't Quit You Baby
2002
Episode Gunsmoke
Night Visitor
1955
Episode Barnaby Jones
Victim of Love
1978
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
The Taffeta Mayor
1959
Episode Cannon
The Rip-Off
1972
Episode One Step Beyond
The Trap
1960
Episode Rawhide
Incident of the Power and the Plow
1959
Episode Rawhide
Incident of the Tinker’s Dam
1960
Episode M Squad
High School Bride
1959
Episode My Three Sons
The New Vice-President
1971
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Strangers In Our Own Land
1968
Episode Dallas
End of the Road (1)
1981
Episode Barnaby Jones
Conspiracy of Terror
1974
Episode Mackenzie's Raiders
Murder is the Bid
1959
Episode Gunsmoke
Smoking Out the Nolans
1955
Episode Sister, Sister
The Volunteers
1996
Episode One Step Beyond
The Day the World Wept: The Lincoln Story
1960
Episode The Commish
No Greater Gift
1991
Episode Checkmate
Phantom Lover
1961
Episode The Restless Gun
Strange Family in Town
1958
Episode M Squad
Guilty Alibi
1958
Episode The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Fanatic
1960
Episode Mayberry R.F.D.
The Health Fund
1970
Episode One Step Beyond
Night of April 14th
1959
Episode State Trooper
No Fancy Cowboys
1957
Episode The Restless Gun
Gratitude
1958
Episode State Trooper
The Last Waltz
1958
Episode Peter Gunn
Edge of the Knife
1959
Episode Wonder Woman
Pot of Gold
1978
Episode 77 Sunset Strip
Condor's Lair
1960
Episode Marcus Welby, M.D.
Go Get 'Em, Tiger
1970
Episode Wagon Train
The Jesse Cowan Story
1958
Episode The Lone Ranger
The Cross of Santo Domingo
1956
Episode Checkmate
The Deadly Silence
1961
Episode The Twilight Zone
It's a Good Life
1961
Episode The Restless Gun
No Way to Kill
1958
Episode Man with a Camera
The Picture War
1960
Episode Barnaby Jones
The Coronado Triangle
1978
Episode The Restless Gun
Jody
1957
Episode M Squad
Ten Minutes to Doomsday
1959
Episode Wagon Train
The Frank Carter Story
1962
Episode Charlie's Angels
Bullseye
1976
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Buried Clock
1958
Episode The Rockford Files
The Reincarnation of Angie
1975
Episode Wagon Train
The Nancy Palmer Story
1961
Episode Wings
The Team Player
1996
Episode Wagon Train
The Dick Richardson Story
1958
Episode The ABC Afterschool Special
A Special Gift
1979
Episode Quincy, M.E.
A Question of Death
1979
Episode Mannix
Night Out of Time
1968
Episode Mannix
Mask For a Charade
1974
Episode State Trooper
The Perilous Picnic
1958