Person Details

Birthday: 1931-12-26 02:01:36

Death: 2017-04-23 02:01:36

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: New Jersey, US

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Movie Involvements: 16

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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.

Most Famous Work

Checkmate
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4

Checkmate

(1960) Pauline Spencer
Downhill Racer
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6

Downhill Racer

(1969) American Newspaper Woman
Female Jungle
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6

Female Jungle

(1956) Peggy Voe
Showdown
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6

Showdown

(1963) Estelle
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
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6

Westward Ho, The Wagons!

(1956) Laura Thompson
The Quiet Gun
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6

The Quiet Gun

(1957) Teresa Carpenter
The Rebel Set
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3

The Rebel Set

(1959) Jeanne Mapes
Curse of the Undead
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5

Curse of the Undead

(1959) Dolores Carter

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1970 Alice Fiske
1969 American Newspaper Woman
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Estelle
Marian Nichols
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1961 N/A
1960 N/A
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Pauline Spencer
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1959 N/A
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Jeanne Mapes
Dolores Carter
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1958 N/A
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Carol Dahlmann
1957 N/A
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Teresa Carpenter
Fran Maroon
1956 Laura Thompson
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Peggy Voe
1955 N/A
Mother
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Fern Fellows
1954 Nora King
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1953 N/A
Susan Crenshaw
Susanna
Kathy Riley
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1952 N/A
1951 N/A
1950 N/A
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