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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 26, 1929
Died
April 23, 2017
Place of Birth
N/A
Also Known As
- Betty Jane Crowley
Kathleen Crowley
0.7 Popularity
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Crowley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
The Lawyer
as Alice Fiske
1970
5.0
Downhill Racer
as American Newspaper Woman
1969
5.8
The High Chaparral
as Countess Maria Kettenden von München
1967
6.6
Family Affair
1966
6.7
Batman
as Sophia Starr
1966
7.3
Gidget
1965
6.6
Branded
1965
6.6
Redigo
1963
5.0
Showdown
as Estelle
1963
5.9
FBI Code 98
as Marian Nichols
1963
3.8
The Virginian
as Jennifer McLeod
1962
6.4
The Americans
1961
6.0
Route 66
1960
6.3
Surfside 6
1960
5.0
Checkmate
as Pauline Spencer
1960
4.1
Thriller
as Dr. Lois Walker
1960
6.6
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.2
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
5.0
Bonanza
as Kathleen aka Quick-Buck Kate
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Mademoiselle Denise
1959
7.5
The Rebel Set
as Jeanne Mapes
1959
2.9
Curse of the Undead
as Dolores Carter
1959
5.4
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.7
Bat Masterson
as Jo Hart
1958
6.1
Bat Masterson
as Mari Brewster
1958
6.1
Yancy Derringer
as Desiree
1958
6.0
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.2
Bronco
1958
5.9
The Flame Barrier
as Carol Dahlmann
1958
4.4
Maverick
1957
6.9
Maverick
as Daisy Harris
1957
6.9
Perry Mason
as Marylin Clark
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Lillian Bradisson
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Grace Knapp
1957
7.7
The Quiet Gun
as Teresa Carpenter
1957
6.4
The Phantom Stagecoach
as Fran Maroon
1957
5.0
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
as Laura Thompson
1956
5.5
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
1956
5.0
Female Jungle
as Peggy Voe
1956
5.5
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Seven Cities of Gold
as Mother
1955
5.5
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
Cheyenne
1955
6.0
City of Shadows
as Fern Fellows
1955
5.0
Ten Wanted Men
1955
5.8
Target Earth
as Nora King
1954
5.8
Climax!
as Laura Harriss
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Louise
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Sally
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Jeanne Warren
1954
3.3
City Detective
1953
7.0
Sabre Jet
as Susan Crenshaw
1953
6.7
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Susanna
1953
3.3
The Silver Whip
as Kathy Riley
1953
6.3
General Electric Theater
as Mary
1953
6.4
Cavalcade of America
as Abigail Paddock
1952
3.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
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Lux Video Theatre
as Dot
1950
6.3
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Esther Blodgett
1950
5.6