Jeanne Bates

Jeanne Bates

Birthday: 1918-05-20

Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, USA

Biography: Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American actress. After performing in radio serials, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942 which began her career in films both in bit parts and larger roles in a series of horror films and noirs, including The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946). In her later career, Bates would collaborate with David Lynch on his films Eraserhead (1977) and Mulholland Drive (2001), the latter of which was her last film credit before her death in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeanne Bates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Eraserhead
Eraserhead

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, a...

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Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigma...

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Die Hard 2
Die Hard 2

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in t...

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Getting Married
Getting Married

A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in...

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Vice Raid
Vice Raid

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop....

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Public Enemy #2
Public Enemy #2

Second City Television alumnus Dave Thomas stars in this hilarious spoof of "America's Most Wanted."...

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Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in mode...

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The Soul of a Monster
The Soul of a Monster

A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is ...

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The Mask of Diijon
The Mask of Diijon

A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt....

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Gus
Gus

The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from tea...

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The Chance of a Lifetime
The Chance of a Lifetime

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wart...

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Tonight and Every Night
Tonight and Every Night

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall....

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The Black Parachute
The Black Parachute

A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation....

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Mom
Mom

During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly el...

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Trooper Hook
Trooper Hook

When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to...

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Sundown Valley
Sundown Valley

In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant....

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The Slowest Gun in the West
The Slowest Gun in the West

The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A....

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Hi Grandma!
Hi Grandma!

A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here...

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The Racket Man
The Racket Man

A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees...

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Sergeant Mike
Sergeant Mike

A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the...

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She's a Soldier Too
She's a Soldier Too

Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics....

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The Phantom
The Phantom

Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a sc...

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General Electric Theater: Into the Night
General Electric Theater: Into the Night

A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a p...

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Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue

Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and ...

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Dream Lover
Dream Lover

Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Le...

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From the Dead of Night
From the Dead of Night

After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe...

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Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4

A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds her...

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The Strangler
The Strangler

An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a seri...

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Guns Don't Argue
Guns Don't Argue

The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face...

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The Return of the Vampire
The Return of the Vampire

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They th...

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Shadows in the Night
Shadows in the Night

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion....

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Sabaka
Sabaka

A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger....

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It's Murder
It's Murder

Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government infor...

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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the ...

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Blood Arrow
Blood Arrow

Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coate...

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