1. Jeanne Bates was an American radio, film and television actress.
11 Facts About Jeanne Bates
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Jeanne Bates began her acting career while attending San Mateo Junior College, with roles on radio soap operas produced in San Francisco.
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Jeanne Bates had the lead role, and supplied the signature scream, on the radio mystery series Whodunit.
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Jeanne Bates had her film debut in 1943, in a Boston Blackie mystery, The Chance of a Lifetime.
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Jeanne Bates played Bela Lugosi's first victim in The Return of the Vampire, Anne Winson in The Soul of a Monster, Victoria in The Mask of Diijon, Diana Palmer in The Phantom serial, Agnes in Back from the Dead, and she had a minor role in Death of a Salesman.
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Jeanne Bates worked steadily in television beginning in the 1950s, including an appearance on the syndicated western series The Range Rider, and thereafter on episodes of NBC's Buckskin, Riverboat, and Peter Gunn, as well as the crime drama Sheriff of Cochise, and the aviation adventure series Sky King and Whirlybirds.
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Jeanne Bates appeared in a 1956 episode of The Lone Ranger entitled "The Cross of Santo Domingo".
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Jeanne Bates is more remembered for having portrayed Nurse Wills on the ABC medical drama Ben Casey, from 1961 to 1966.
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Jeanne Bates appeared with John Payne in various roles in five episodes of his NBC western series The Restless Gun, and guest starred as Mrs Wayne in the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Tinkers Dam".
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Jeanne Bates was a practicing Episcopalian and she was a registered Republican who supported the administrations of Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.
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Jeanne Bates's remains are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California.