Person Details

Birthday: 1918-05-21 06:25:32

Death: 2007-11-28 06:25:32

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Berkeley, California, USA

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 30

TV Involvements: 20


Most Famous Work

Biography

Jeanne Bates began her acting career while a student at San Mateo Junior College, appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco. She 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 and Lansworth married in 1943. By the time the two were married, Bates was already under contract to Columbia Pictures, where she debuted in a Boston Blackie mystery.

Most Famous Work

Perry Mason
Average
8

Perry Mason

(1957) Jean Strague
Charlie's Angels
Average
7

Charlie's Angels

(1976) Alice Clements
Hawaii Five-O
Average
7

Hawaii Five-O

(1968) Grace Willis
The Twilight Zone
Average
8

The Twilight Zone

(1959) Ethel Hollis
Rawhide
Average
7

Rawhide

(1959) Henny Morton
The Saint
Average
7

The Saint

(1962) Lila Prentice
One Step Beyond
Average
5

One Step Beyond

(1959) Edna Gibbs
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Average
5

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2001 Irene
1999 Irene
1998 Game Show Contestant (voice)
1993 Jeanne
1991 Mrs. Mencken
Mrs. Felt
N/A
Nurse
1990 Katherine
Northeast Plane - Older Woman
Emily Dwyer
N/A
1989 Nurse
1979 Ballet Teacher
1978 Divorced Woman
1977 Mrs. X
Alice
1976 N/A
Alice Clements
Nurse
1975 Mrs. Walls
Mrs. Bates
1972 N/A
1969 Mrs. Collins
1968 N/A
Jennie Mae Swanson
Receptionist
Grace Willis
1967 N/A
1964 Clara Thomas
1962 Lila Prentice
1961 N/A
1960 N/A
The Wife
1959 Marilyn
Ethel Hollis
N/A
Sara Crane
Mrs. Teller
Mary Todd Lincoln
Edna Gibbs
Henny Morton
N/A
1958 N/A
N/A
N/A
Almee
1957 Anna Ritter
Miss Clay
Jean Strague
Nurse
N/A
Ann Weaver
Mrs. Ross Baxter
1956 Lee Devlin
N/A
1955 N/A
Mrs. Wyatt
Mrs. Nolan
N/A
Durga
1954 N/A
1953 Eve
Sister Mary
1952 N/A
N/A
1951 Mother (uncredited)
N/A
Mary - Sister of Lazarus
1950 N/A
1948 N/A
1946 Victoria
1945 W.A.C. Woman (uncredited)
1944 Terry Arno
Mrs. Tom Blair
Ann Winson
Adele Carter
'Red' Burns (uncredited)
Olga - Peasant Woman
Sidney Hawkins
Phyllis Lake
1943 Diana Palmer
Miss Northcutt (uncredited)
Mary Watson
Year Character Movie/Tv

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