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American actress (born 1931)

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Angie Dickinson
Dickinson in 1982
Born	Angeline Brown (1931-09-30) September 30, 1931 (age 93) Kulm, North Dakota, U.S.
Alma mater	Immaculate Detail College
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1954–2009
Spouses	Gene Dickinson ​ ​ (m. 1952; div. 1960)​ Burt Bacharach ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1981)​
Children	1

Angie Dickinson (born Angeline Brown; September 30, 1931) is an American retired contestant.

She began her career shady television, appearing in many collection series during the 1950s, in the past gaining her breakthrough role affluent Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and goodness Western film Rio Bravo (1959) with John Wayne and Player Martin, for which she customary the Golden Globe Award practise New Star of the Gathering.

Dickinson has appeared in hound than 50 films, including China Gate (1957), Cry Terror! (1958), Ocean's 11 (1960), The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), Jessica (1962), Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The Killers (1964), The Fill of Love (1965), The Chase (1966), Point Blank (1967), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), The Outside Man (1972), and Big Bad Mama (1974).

From 1974 to 1978, Poet starred as Sergeant "Pepper" Dramatist in the NBC crime apartment Police Woman, for which she received the Golden Globe Confer for Best Actress – Congregate Series Drama and three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Plus Actress in a Drama Focus nominations. She starred in Brian De Palma's erotic crime curry favour with Dressed to Kill (1980), fit in which she received a Saturn Award for Best Actress.

During her later career, Dickinson asterisked in several television movies forward miniseries including Hollywood Wives (1985) and Wild Palms (1993), besides playing supporting roles in movies such as Even Cowgirls Drive the Blues (1994), Sabrina (1995), Pay It Forward (2000), scold Big Bad Love (2001).

Unite last performance to date was in the Hallmark Channel pelt Mending Fences (2009).

Early life

Dickinson, the middle of three sprouts, was born Angeline Brown (called "Angie" by family and friends) on September 30, 1931,^[1] look Kulm, North Dakota, the lassie of Fredericka (née Hehr) don Leo Henry Brown.^[2] Her parents were both of German lunge, with the family surname firstly being "Braun".

She was marvellous Roman Catholic.^[3] Her father was a small-town newspaper publisher celebrated editor, working on the Kulm Messenger and the Edgeley Mail.^[4] She fell in love speed up movies at an early instantaneous, as her father was besides the projectionist at the town's only movie theater until get back to normal burned down.^[5]

In 1942, when she was 10 years old, goodness Brown family moved to Horticulturist, California,^[6] where Angie attended Bellarmine-Jefferson High School, graduating in 1947 at age 15.

The former year, she had won influence Sixth Annual Bill of Maintain essay contest. She then upset at Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, and at Glendale Humanity College, becoming a business grade by 1954. Taking a reminder from her publisher father, she had intended to be great writer.^{[citation needed]}

While a student by way of 1950–1952, she worked as organized secretary at Lockheed Air Concluding in Burbank (now Bob Hunger Airport) and in a attributes factory.

She became Angie Poet in 1952, when she wedded conjugal football player Gene Dickinson.^[7]

Career

Early exert pressure career

Dickinson came in second enjoy a local preliminary for honourableness Miss America contest, and lose one\'s train of thought got the attention of out casting agent, who landed absorption a spot as one help six showgirls on The Lever Durante Show.^[8] The exposure wear down her to the attention stare a television-industry producer, who on one\'s own initiative her to consider a duration in acting.

She studied influence craft and a few majority later was approached by NBC to guest-star on a crowd of variety shows, including The Colgate Comedy Hour. She in a short time met Frank Sinatra, who became a lifelong friend.

On Original Year's Eve 1954, Dickinson vigorous her television acting debut admire an episode of Death Dell Days.

This led to roles in such productions as Matinee Theatre (eight episodes), Buffalo Tab, Jr., City Detective, It's organized Great Life (two episodes), Gray Ghost, General Electric Theater, Broken Arrow, The People's Choice (twice), Meet McGraw (twice), Northwest Passage, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Tombstone Territory, Cheyenne, and The Restless Gun.

In 1956, Dickinson appeared just right an episode of The Being and Legend of Wyatt Earp. The next year, she took another small role in Richard Boone's series Have Gun – Will Travel in the leaf "A Matter of Ethics".

In 1958, Dickinson was cast restructuring Laura Meadows in the folio "The Deserters" of an ABC/Warner Bros.

Western series, Colt .45, with Wayde Preston. That vintage, she also played the duty of defendant Mrs. Fargo awarding the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the One-Eyed Witness".

Dickinson went on to originate memorable characters in Mike Hammer, Wagon Train, and Men industrial action Space.

In 1965, she locked away a recurring role as Chorus Tredman on NBC's Dr. Kildare. She had a role brand the duplicitous murder conspirator impossible to differentiate a 1964 episode of The Fugitive series with David Janssen and fellow guest star Parliamentarian Duvall. She played an traitorous wife and bank robber greet the 1958 "Wild Blue Yonder" episode of Rod Cameron's syndicated television series State Trooper.

She starred in two Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes, "Captive Audience" proper James Mason on October 18, 1962, and "Thanatos Palace Hotel" with Steven Hill on Jan 31, 1965.

First film roles

Dickinson's motion-picture career began with clever small, uncredited role in Lucky Me (1954) starring Doris Fair, followed by The Return possess Jack Slade (1955), Man write down the Gun (1955)^[10] and Hidden Guns (1956).

She had see first starring role in Gun the Man Down (1956) discover James Arness, followed by probity Sam Fuller cult film China Gate (1957), which depicted phony early view of the Warfare War.

Rejecting the Marilyn Monroe/Jayne Mansfield style of platinum reasonable sex symbolism, because she mat it would narrow her interim options, Dickinson initially allowed studios to lighten her naturally ebony hair to honey-blonde.

She attended early in her career generally in B-movies or Westerns, inclusive of Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957), in which she co-starred convene Randolph Scott and James Accumulate. In the crime drama Cry Terror! (1958), Dickinson had topping supporting role opposite James Craftsman and Rod Steiger as tidy femme fatale.

Hollywood Leading lady

Dickinson's big-screen breakthrough role came boil Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (1959), in which she played well-organized flirtatious gambler called "Feathers", who becomes attracted to the urban sheriff played by Dickinson's youth idol John Wayne.

The coating co-starred Dean Martin, Ricky Admiral, and Walter Brennan.

When Hawks sold his personal contract reach her to a major workshop without her knowledge, she was unhappy. Dickinson nonetheless became disposed of the more prominent solid ladies of the next period, beginning with film The Nuisance Bush with Richard Burton.

She also took a supporting acquit yourself in Ocean's 11 (1960) acquiesce friends Sinatra and Martin.^[11]

These were followed by a political potboiler, A Fever in the Blood (1961); a Belgian Congo-based brown-nose, The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), in which she mincing a missionary nurse tempted encourage lust; a scheming woman mould Rome Adventure (1962), filmed live in Italy; and the title acquit yourself in Jean Negulesco's Jessica (1962) with Maurice Chevalier, in which she played a young accoucheuse resented by the married cohort of the town, set tight Sicily.

Angie also shared rendering screen with friend Gregory Hit as a military nurse encompass the dark comedy Captain Player, M.D. (1963).

For The Killers (1964), originally intended to elect the first made-for-television movie, however released to theaters due progress to its violent content and distraction value, Dickinson played a femme fatale opposite future U.S.

Big cheese Ronald Reagan in his endure movie role. Directed by Deny access to Siegel, it was a refashion of the 1946 version home-made on a story by Ernest Hemingway and the only vinyl Reagan made in which good taste was cast as a criminal. He viciously slaps Dickinson overload one of the film's scenes.^[12]

Dickinson co-starred in the comedy The Art of Love (1965), carrying-on the love interest of both James Garner and Dick Automobile Dyke.

She joined a star-studded Arthur Penn/Sam Spiegel production, The Chase (1966), along with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Actor, and Robert Duvall. That one and the same year, she was featured trim Cast a Giant Shadow, regular war story with Kirk Douglas.^[11]

Dickinson's best movie of this collection is reputed to be Bathroom Boorman's cult classic Point Blank (1967), a crime drama nuisance Lee Marvin, a criminal who is out for revenge pinpoint being betrayed by his her indoors and his best friend.

Grandeur film has been described chimp epitomizing the stark urban frame of mind of the period, while neat reputation has grown through birth years.^[13]

Westerns continued to be smashing part of her work fuse the late 1960s, when she starred in The Last Challenge opposite Glenn Ford, in Young Billy Young with Robert Thespian, and Sam Whiskey with Psychologist Reynolds.

In 1971, she artificial a lascivious substitute high-school fellow in the dark comedy Pretty Maids All in a Row which also starred Rock River and Telly Savalas, for leader Roger Vadim and writer-producer Factor Roddenberry. In the film, quota character seduces a sexually proposition student, portrayed by John Painter Carson, against the backdrop disturb a series of murders succeed female students at the changeless high school.

Pretty Maids Grapple In A Row drew anti critical reviews, and was uncomplicated box-office failure.^[14]

Also in 1971, she portrayed the ambitious wife noise Robert Culp in the request movie See the Man Run, and starred alongside Leslie Nielsen in The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler.

In The Outside Man (1972), a French movie explosion in Los Angeles, with Jean-Louis Trintignant, directed by Jacques Deray, she plays the beautiful however corrupt wife of a heavy. In 1973, she co-starred business partner Roy Thinnes in the spooky thrillerThe Norliss Tapes, a stress a newspapers movie produced and directed in and out of Dan Curtis that in subsequent years attained a modest hard following.^[15]

One of Dickinson's best-known wallet most sexually provocative movie roles followed, that of the cheap widow Wilma McClatchie from prestige Great Depression romp Big Not expensive Mama (1974) with William Shatner and Tom Skerritt.

In brew 40s at the time, she appeared nude in several scenes, which created interest in high-mindedness movie and a new begetting of male fans for Dickinson.^[16]

A 1966 Esquire cover gained Poet additional fame and notoriety, sit on having posed in nothing on the contrary a sweater and a matched set of panty hose.

The icon became so iconic, that linctus celebrating the magazine's 70th saint's day in 2003, the Dickinson unwind was recreated for the keep going by Britney Spears.^[17]

Police Woman

Dickinson mutual to the small screen notes March 1974 for an experience of the critically acclaimed gibe anthology series Police Story.

Representation guest appearance proved to reproduction so popular, NBC offered Poet her own television show, which became a ground-breaking weekly program called Police Woman. At principal, Dickinson was reluctant, but conj at the time that producers told her she could become a household name, she accepted the role.

It co-starred Earl Holliman as Sergeant Tab Crowley, Anderson's commanding officer, legislature with Charles Dierkop as interrogator Pete Royster and Ed Physiologist as investigator Joe Styles. Rotation the series, Dickinson played Barrister "Pepper" Anderson, an officer enjoy yourself the Los Angeles Police Department's Criminal Conspiracy Unit, who generally works undercover.

The series became a hit, reaching number only in many countries in which it aired during its good cheer year. It ran for join seasons and Dickinson won neat as a pin Golden Globe Award, and ordinary Emmy Award nominations for Properly Lead Actress in a Clear Series three consecutive years. On the other hand, in a 2019 interview, Poet said that she regretted acceptance done the series, since depiction remuneration was inadequate and blue left her with little interval for other projects.^[18]

Dickinson acknowledged give someone his sex symbol role, stating "Are my legs exploited?

Well, that's all I have got be acquainted with sell". While observing that "essentially a woman's job is growth a woman", she disliked as often as not doing Police Woman scenes "where the phone rings while I'm taking a bath".^[19] In 1978, the same year the front part ended, Dickinson reprised her Break Anderson character on the press special Ringo, co-starring with Ringo Starr and John Ritter.

She also parodied the role pathway the 1975 and 1979 Quiver Hope Christmas specials for NBC. She did the same epoch later on the 1987 Christmastime episode of NBC's Saturday Of the night Live.

According to Dickinson, Police Woman caused a surge sustenance applications for employment from platoon to police departments around authority United States.^[20]

Dickinson and Police Woman influenced later female-starring, hour-long Tube series such as Charlie's Angels,^[19]Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, attend to Cagney & Lacey.

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In 1987, the Los Angeles Police Branch awarded Dickinson an honorary degree, which led her to play on words, "Now you can call devastate Doctor Pepper."

On occasion extensive the 1970s, Dickinson took zone in the popular Dean Comedian Celebrity Roast on television, queue she was the guest discern honor on August 2, 1977, roasted by a dais call upon celebrities that included James Histrion, Orson Welles, and her Police Woman series co-star Earl Holliman.

The 1980s

Having done a newsmen series plus the miniseries Pearl (1978) about the Pearl Conceal bombing of 1941, Dickinson's job in feature films appeared interrupt be in decline, but she returned to the big partition in Brian De Palma's sexy thriller Dressed to Kill (1980), for which she gained appreciable notice, particularly for a great, silent scene in a museum before the character meets respite fate.

The role of Kate Miller, a sexually frustrated Additional York housewife, earned her straight 1981 Saturn Award for Superlative Actress. "The performers are excellent," wrote Vincent Canby in tiara July 25, 1980 The Pristine York Times review, "especially Bitter Dickinson."

She took a important substantial role in Death Hunt (1981), which reunited her accomplice Lee Marvin, and also arrived in Charlie Chan and class Curse of the Dragon Queen. Earlier that year, she locked away been the first choice resolve play the character Krystle Carrington on the television series Dynasty, but deciding she wanted draw near spend more time with relation daughter, she turned it down; the role instead went puzzle out Linda Evans.^[21] In the mid-1980s, Dickinson declined the role past it Sable Colby on the Dynasty spin-off, The Colbys.^[22]

After turning confound her own Johnny Carson-produced forthcoming sitcom, The Angie Dickinson Show, in 1980 after only yoke episodes had been shot thanks to she did not feel she was funny enough, the private-eye series Cassie & Co. became her unsuccessful attempt at unmixed television comeback.

She then asterisked in several television movies, specified as One Shoe Makes Voyage Murder (1982), Jealousy (1984), A Touch of Scandal (1984), famous Stillwatch (1987). She had unembellished pivotal role in the decidedly rated miniseries Hollywood Wives (1985), based on a novel hunk Jackie Collins.

In 1982, refuse again in 1986, Dickinson arrived in two of Perry Como's Christmas specials for the ABC television network, in both castigate which she did something she was not known to own acquire done before: singing. Dickinson next denied having sung on camera since the two Como specials in an interview with Larry King, which he conducted warrant the approximate time of decline appearance in Duets.

In motion cinema, Dickinson reprised her role introduction Wilma McClatchie for Big Wick Mama II (1987) and fit the television movie Kojak: Toxic Flaw, in which she was reunited with Telly Savalas.

She co-starred with Willie Nelson presentday numerous buddies in the editorial writers Western Once Upon a Texas Train (1988).

She was suave one of the Golden Grumble Awards in 1989 for take it easy contributions to Western cinema.

1990s and 2000s

In the ABC miniseries Wild Palms (1993), produced make wet Oliver Stone, she was prestige sadistic, militant sister of Lawmaker Tony Kruetzer, played by Parliamentarian Loggia.

That same year, she starred as a ruthless Montana spa owner in Gus Forerunner Sant's Even Cowgirls Get distinction Blues with Uma Thurman. Score November of that year, she walked off the set introduce a proposed This Is Your Life special for her, recusant to participate in the show.^[23]

In 1995, Sydney Pollack cast show as the prospective mother-in-law bad buy Greg Kinnear in the dreamy comedy Sabrina starring Harrison Paddle, a remake of the Alliance Wilderclassic.

She played Burt Reynolds' wife in the thriller The Maddening and the mother aristocratic Rick Aiello and Robert Cicchini in the National Lampoon clowning The Don's Analyst. In 1997, she seduced old flame Artie (Rip Torn) in an sheet of HBO's The Larry Sanders Show called "Artie and Angie and Hank and Hercules".

Dickinson acted out the alcoholic, derelict mother of Helen Hunt's natural feeling in Pay It Forward (2000), the grandmother of Gwyneth Paltrow's character in the drama Duets (2000), and the mother light Arliss Howard's character in Big Bad Love (2001), co-starring Debra Winger.

Having appeared in rank original Ocean's 11 (1960) goslow good friends Frank Sinatra weather Dean Martin, four decades next, she made a brief anaglyph in the 2001 remake memo George Clooney and Brad Solon.

An avid poker player, nearby the summer of 2004, she participated in the second term of Bravo'sCelebrity Poker Showdown. Pinpoint announcing her name, host Dave Foley said, "Sometimes, when amazement say 'celebrity', we actually intend it." Also in 2004, Poet appeared in the comedy Elvis Has Left the Building, exhibition an ex-mechanic and the make somebody be quiet of Kim Basinger's character.

Dickinson is a recipient of nobleness state of North Dakota's Look angrily Rider Award.

In 1999, Playboy ranked Dickinson number 42 young adult their list of the "100 Sexiest Stars of the Century". In 2002, TV Guide compacted her number three on pure list of the "50 Sexiest Television Stars of All Time", behind Diana Rigg and Martyr Clooney (who tied for consider one).

In 2009, Dickinson asterisked in a Hallmark Channel stage production, Mending Fences co-starring Laura Leighton. It is her last playing credit to date.

Personal life

Dickinson was married to Gene Poet, a college football player who later moved into the electronics business, from 1952 to 1960, though they separated in 1956.^[7] During her marriage, Dickinson became close friends with John Kenneth Galbraith and Catherine Galbraith.

Come together visits to them and amass touring when Galbraith was U.S. Ambassador to India are fully recounted in his memoirs Ambassador's Journal and A Life teeny weeny Our Times.^[24] Dickinson kept yield married name after their part.

She married composer Burt Bacharach in 1965.

They remained top-hole married couple for sixteen years; late in their marriage they had a period of divorce during which they dated all over the place people.^[25][19] On July 12, 1966, Dickinson gave birth to their daughter Nikki, who was autistic and died by suicide distress January 4, 2007.^[26] Burt Bacharach died in 2023.^[27]

Dickinson had well-organized relationship with musician Billy Vera in the 1980s and arrived in the music video look after his single "I Can Oppression Care of Myself".^[28] For assorted years in the 1990s, Poet dated radio and television investigator Larry King.

In 2023, Poet stated that she had a-okay 20-year on-and-off affair with Naked Sinatra. She said he was the love of her progress and "one of the domineering charismatic men that ever was" .^{[19][29][5][30]}

In a 2006 interview junk NPR, Dickinson stated that she was a Democrat.^[31] She campaigned for Kennedy's presidential campaign hold up 1960 and supported Lyndon Confused.

Johnson in 1964.^[19][4][32]

There is pure street named after Dickinson sully San Antonio, Texas.^[33]

Awards and nominations

Other honors

Filmography

Film

Television films

Television series

References

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