Coleen Gray
Actor
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.
Filmography
Red River
as Fen 1948
Nightmare Alley
as Molly Carlisle 1947
Kiss of Death
as Nettie Cavallo 1947
Kansas City Confidential
as Helen Foster 1952
The Phantom Planet
as Liara 1961
The Leech Woman
as June Talbot 1960
The Vampire
as Carol Butler 1957
Apache Drums
as Sally 1951
Death of a Scoundrel
as Mrs. Edith Van Renasslear 1956
Tennessee's Partner
as Goldie Slater 1955
Star in the Dust
as Nellie Mason 1956
The Sleeping City
as Ann Sebastian 1950
Fury at Furnace Creek
as Molly Baxter 1948
P.J.
as Betty Orbison 1968
The Vanquished
as Jane Colfax 1953
The Fake
as Mary Mason 1953