Joyce Jameson | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

Highest Rated: 93% The Apartment (1960)

Lowest Rated: 60% The Balcony (1963)

Birthday: Sep 26, 1932

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Actress Joyce Jameson made her initial splash as a performer in the musical comedy revues of Billy Barnes (her future husband) in the early 1950s. Her curvaceous figure and platinum blond hair were de rigueur in show business at the time, thanks to the phenomenal stardom of Marilyn Monroe. She made her screen debut (albeit uncredited) as a chorus girl in the 1951 musical "Show Boat." She played on her looks, portraying the bubbly bimbo to a host of male TV personalities like Danny Thomas, Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Jack Benny. She began to be taken more seriously and received juicier parts in the 1960s, in Billy Wilder's comedy "The Apartment," an adaptation of Jean Genet's drama "The Balcony," opposite Elvis Presley in the musical "Frankie and Johnny," and every bit the match for Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in the horror film "Tales of Terror." Jameson continued to appear in a variety of hit TV shows throughout the 1970s and diversified her film roles with appearances in the cult classic "Death Race 2000" and alongside Clint Eastwood twice, in the western "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and the comedy "Every Which Way But Loose." She was a long-time girlfriend of "Man From U.N.C.L.E." co-star Robert Vaughn, who later revealed in his autobiography that Jameson was prone to depression. She committed suicide by an overdose of pills at the age of 54.

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Highest rated movies

93% 94% The Apartment Watchlist 89% 69% The Comedy of Terrors Watchlist 80% 66% Good Neighbor Sam Watchlist 73% 63% Tales of Terror Watchlist 60% 47% The Balcony Watchlist 33% Hardbodies Watchlist Problem Girls Watchlist The Love Boat Watchlist Tip on a Dead Jockey Watchlist 30% The Split Watchlist

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THE COMEDY OF TERRORS, from left: Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Vincent Price, 1963, 5026131, Photo by: (5026131) TALES OF TERROR, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, 1962 GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM, Joyce Jameson, Louis Nye, Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, 1964. TALES OF TERROR, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, 1962 TALES OF TERROR, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, 1962 TALES OF TERROR, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, 1962 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 33% Hardbodies Rounder's Mom (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pray TV Millie Peebles (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet KGOD Millie Peebles (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 38% Scorchy Mary Davis (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Love Boat Louella McKenzie (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant Mrs. Graham (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Promise Him Anything Lucille (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Women in Chains Simpson (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crosscurrent Lulu (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 30% The Split Jenifer (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 40% Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! Telephone operator (Character) - 1966
80% 66% Good Neighbor Sam Girl (Character) - 1964
89% 69% The Comedy of Terrors Amaryllis Trumbull (Character) - 1964
60% 47% The Balcony Penitent (Character) - 1963
73% 63% Tales of Terror Annabel (Character) - 1962
93% 94% The Apartment The Blonde (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tip on a Dead Jockey Sue Fan Finley (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Problem Girls Peggy Carstairs (Character) - 1953

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fall Guy Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charlie's Angels Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barney Miller Catherine Lindsay (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rhoda Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Woman Mrs. Donherty (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Waltons Unknown (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Here's Lucy Unknown (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mod Squad Lois Johnson (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Natalie (Guest Star) 1966 1968
No Score Yet 100% Hogan's Heroes Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Danny Kaye Show Guest 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet F Troop Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
10% No Score Yet The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Big Valley Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dick Van Dyke Show Blanche (Guest Star) 1966
100% No Score Yet The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
83% 92% The Munsters Lou (Guest Star) 1965-1966
No Score Yet 88% The Andy Griffith Show Skippy (Guest Star) 1962 1964-1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason Lorraine Iverson (Guest Star) 1963 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Favorite Martian Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Grindl Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Hour Unknown (Character) 1963
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Starlet (Character) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lock Up Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dante Unknown (Guest Star) 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Goldie Beverly Bell (Guest Star) 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet G.E. Theater Gladys Arnold (Character) 1958
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