13 Facts About Coleen Gray

Coleen Gray was best known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley, Red River, and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing.

Coleen Gray travelled to California, and worked as a waitress in a restaurant in La Jolla.

Coleen Gray worked in the school's library and at a YWCA while a student.

Coleen Gray had leading roles in the Los Angeles stage productions Letters to Lucerne and Brief Music, which won her a 20th Century Fox contract in 1944.

Coleen Gray worked steadily in the 1950s, but mostly in smaller movies.

Coleen Gray played a crooked nurse in The Sleeping City and appeared in Kansas City Confidential and in the Stanley Kubrick film noir The Killing, in which she plays the loyal girlfriend of criminal Sterling Hayden.

Coleen Gray appeared in The Late Liz, and acted in the films Forgotten Lady, and Mother with Patsy Ruth Miller.

Coleen Gray appeared in the religious film Cry From the Mountain, directed by James F Collier.

Coleen Gray married Rod Amateau, a screenwriter, on August 10,1945; they divorced on February 11,1949, and had one daughter, Susan.

In 1979, Coleen Gray married widowed Biblical scholar Joseph Fritz Zeiser; they remained together until his death in March 2012.

Coleen Gray was a Republican and supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.

Coleen Gray was cremated at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and her ashes given to her stepson, Rick Zeiser.

Coleen Gray was a member of the board of directors at her alma mater, Hamline University.