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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Joyce Jameson
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Movies
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No Score Yet | | 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 | | 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 | | The Split | Jenifer (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | | Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! | Telephone operator (Character) | - | 1966 |
80% | | Good Neighbor Sam | Girl (Character) | - | 1964 |
89% | | The Comedy of Terrors | Amaryllis Trumbull (Character) | - | 1964 |
60% | | The Balcony | Penitent (Character) | - | 1963 |
73% | | Tales of Terror | Annabel (Character) | - | 1962 |
93% | | 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
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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 |