Coleen Gray
Birthday: 1922-10-23
Place of Birth: Staplehurst, Nebraska, USA
Biography: Coleen Gray (born Doris Bernice Jensen; October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015) was born in Staplehurst, Nebraska. After graduating from high school she studied dramatics at Hamline University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree, she then decided to see America and traveled to California, stopping off at La Jolla where she worked as a waitress. After several weeks there, she moved to L.A. and enrolled in a drama school. Her performances attracted a talent scout from 20th Century-Fox, with whom she signed a contract after a screen test. Although Fox put her in several good pictures (Kiss of Death (1947), Nightmare Alley (1947), The Razor's Edge (1946) in which she acquitted herself well, many of the roles they gave her were not worthy of her talent and she never became as big a star as many thought she should have. Still, she has an extensive list of credits in films, TV, radio and on the stage.
Movies
The Killing
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...
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Red River
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive fr...
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Kansas City Confidential
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery....
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Kiss of Death
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge....
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The Phantom Planet
After an asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom ...
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Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound ge...
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The Sleeping City
A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can't find a clue even a...
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Tennessee's Partner
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duch...
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The Vanquished
A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few ...
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Nightmare Alley
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle ...
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The Leech Woman
An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seek...
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Apache Drums
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a ban...
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The Fake
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with ...
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The Vampire
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats whic...
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Hell's Five Hours
The manager (Stephen McNally) of a rocket-fuel plant deals with a worker (Vic Morrow) threatening to...
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Sabre Jet
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their...
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Riding High
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the b...
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Star in the Dust
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at...
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The Black Whip
A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to ...
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Fury at Furnace Creek
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is es...
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Las Vegas Shakedown
A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster....
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Models Inc.
The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a ...
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Arrow In The Dust
A cavalry deserter poses as a major and leads a wagon train with a hidden cargo of repeating rifles....
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I'll Get You for This
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist,...
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The Twinkle In God's Eye
A reverend goes West to a town where the Indians killed his priest-father and burned his church but ...
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The Wild Dakotas
When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River ...
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Frontier Gambler
A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beau...
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Father Is a Bachelor
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: Janua...
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Copper Sky
Alcoholic former cavalryman Hack Williams is arrested for killing an Indian, something he did not do...
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Sand
Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's San...
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Town Tamer
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep ...
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P.J.
Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble...
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The Best Place to Be
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill...
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the peop...
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Cry from the Mountain
The film centers on an emotional kayaking trip between a father and a son. The father has taken his ...
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Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically...
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