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Whitney Blake

Whitney Blake

Actor · 1926 – 2002 · Eagle Rock, California, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Whitney Blake (February 20, 1926 — September 28, 2002) was an American film and television actress, director and producer. Blake was born as Nancy Ann Whitney in 1926 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, the first child of Martha Mae Wilkensen and Harry Whitney. Her childhood was spent traveling across the country with her family, attending 16 different schools. Attending Pasadena City College, Blake worked in small-theater groups in the Los Angeles area, and in the summer, worked at her mother's ice cream stand in MacMinneville, Oregon. After her appearance in an amateur Hollywood production of "The Women" caught the attention of talent scouts, she appeared on a number of television programs, including the syndicated Johnny Midnight, Sheriff of Cochise, and twice on Rod Cameron's State Trooper. In addition, she guest-starred on Mike Connors's Tightrope detective series, in the 1960 episode "High Bridge" of the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. She also appeared in the first episode of the syndicated western series Pony Express in the episode "The Good Samaritan". Her guest appearance in the short-lived series "The D.A.'s Man" garnered an Emmy nomination in 1959. Blake is best remembered for having portrayed Dorothy Baxter, an interior designer and the wife of George Baxter (Don DeFore), a lawyer, on the NBC sitcom Hazel (1961), starring Shirley Booth in the title role as a bossy maid. In the last season on CBS, DeFore and Blake left the series and were replaced by Ray Fulmer and Lynn Borden, respectively in the roles of Steve and Barbara Baxter, the younger brother and sister-in-law of George Baxter. After Hazel ended, she guest-starred in an episode of ABC's western series The Legend of Jesse James starring Christopher Jones in the title role. In 1967 she played attorney Lee Drake on The Andy Griffith Show. As demand for her in network television and films dwindled, Blake became a hostess of a Los Angeles television talk show. After that, Blake again reinvented herself and became a film and television director, producer, and writer. Blake guest starred as "Angie" in "Incident of the Curious Street" in Series 1 Episode 13 of Rawhide, and played leading lady to James Garner in "The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick," the 1958 second season opener for Maverick. She appeared on the first episode of the long running television program Perry Mason as the defendant Evelyn Bagby (and at least one later episode), and appeared in the first film version of a Mike Hammer novel when she starred in My Gun Is Quick in the 1950s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Whitney Blake, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Series24

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV7.3

    Batman

    1966 · 617 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV6.2

    Cheyenne

    1955 · 26 votes

  • TV6.7

    Cannon

    1971 · 41 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV6.7

    Route 66

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV7.2

    77 Sunset Strip

    1958 · 26 votes

  • TV6.1

    Adventures in Paradise

    1959 · 7 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV6.0

    The Texan

    1958 · 6 votes

  • TV5.4

    M Squad

    1957 · 7 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    1964 · 75 votes

  • TV6.0

    Bronco

    1958 · 8 votes

  • TV6.8

    Branded

    1965 · 18 votes

Movies13

  • Movie4.8

    The Betsy

    1978 · 34 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie5.5

    My Gun Is Quick

    1957 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.0

    -30-

    1959 · 13 votes

  • Movie4.0
  • Movie10.0

    Collector’s Item

    1957 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Destination Space

    1959 · 6 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Law and Order

    1976 · 1 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie1.0

    The Fatal Impulse

    1960 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Returning Home

    1975 · 2 votes

  • Movie2.5

    Fright Flick

    2011 · 4 votes

  • Movie8.5

    Strange Homecoming

    1974 · 2 votes