Lee Ann Meriwether was born on May 27,1935 and is an American actress, former model, and the winner of the Miss America 1955 pageant.
25 Facts About Lee Meriwether
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Lee Meriwether has appeared in many films and television shows, notably as Betty Jones, the title character's secretary and daughter-in-law in the 1970s crime drama Barnaby Jones starring Buddy Ebsen.
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Lee Meriwether was born in Los Angeles, California, to Claudius Gregg Lee Meriwether and Ethel Eve Mulligan.
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Lee Meriwether grew up in San Francisco after the family moved there from Phoenix, Arizona.
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Lee Meriwether attended George Washington High School, where one of her classmates was Johnny Mathis.
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Lee Meriwether later attended City College of San Francisco, where one of her classmates was fellow actor Bill Bixby.
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Lee Meriwether was a "Today Girl" on NBC's The Today Show from 1955 to 1956.
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Lee Meriwether appears in The Phil Silvers Show episode, "Cyrano de Bilko".
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In 1961, Lee Meriwether guest starred once as Gloria in the episode "Buddy and the Amazon" on her first husband's one-season CBS sitcom, Bringing Up Buddy.
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Lee Meriwether appeared in Leave It To Beaver episode "Community Chest" in season four.
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Lee Meriwether played Nurse Dickens in a 1962 episode of the ABC sitcom, I'm Dickens, He's Fenster.
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Lee Meriwether guest starred in the season 2 episode "Big Brother".
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Lee Meriwether portrayed The Catwoman for the Batman movie, and appeared in two episodes of the Batman TV series in 1967 as Lisa Carson, a love interest to Bruce Wayne in the episodes "King Tut's Coup" and "Batman's Waterloo".
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Lee Meriwether starred in the 1978 television movies True Grit: A Further Adventure with Warren Oates as Rooster Cogburn and Cruise Into Terror with an all-star ensemble cast, appeared on Circus of the Stars four times, and was a regular panelist on the game show Match Game.
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Lee Meriwether made several guest appearances on The Love Boat and Fantasy Island.
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In 1996, Lee Meriwether took over for Mary Fickett in the role of Ruth Martin on the soap opera All My Children, Fickett having played the role since its inception in 1970.
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Negotiations with the network broke down and Lee Meriwether was cast as Ruth Martin.
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Lee Meriwether was hence brought back and remained a featured recurring performer on the show until it ended.
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In 2003, Lee Meriwether appeared in the TV-Movie Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt.
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Lee Meriwether appeared off-Broadway in the interactive comedy, Grandma Sylvia's Funeral.
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Lee Meriwether voiced Big Mama in the video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the PlayStation 3.
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Lee Meriwether appears in one of the game's opening videos as a talkshow host having an interview with David Hayter, who voices Solid Snake in the game.
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In 2008, Lee Meriwether had a brief cameo as comic book character Battle Diva in the episode "Harper Knows" of the Disney Channel original series Wizards of Waverly Place.
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Lee Meriwether continued to work on stage, television, game voice-overs, and feature films.
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Lee Meriwether makes appearances at Comic Cons where she speaks about her roles in Batman, Star Trek, and Time Tunnel.