Kathleen Crowley
Kathleen Crowley
Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley (born December 26, 1931) was an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year (she came in sixth). After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies. Most well known for playing a variety of sirens in TV's Maverick (1957) opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, she appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies; "The Jeweled Gun" (with Jack Kelly), "Maverick Springs" (with James Garner and Jack Kelly), "The Misfortune Teller" (with Garner), "A Bullet for the Teacher" (with Roger Moore), "Kiz" (with Moore), and "Dade City Dodge," "The Troubled Heir," and "One of Our Trains Is Missing," with Kelly. Crowley made 81 television appearances on various series and appeared in twenty movies between 1951 and 1970 (one of her last movie roles was in Downhill Racer with Robert Redford). Many of her films were low-budget sci-fi and horror movies, but she seemed to appear in practically every narrative television series produced in the late '50s and '60s, including Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Bat Masterson, Bonanza, Branded, My Three Sons, Donna Reed, Perry Mason, Checkmate, Bronco, Route 66, Thriller, Batman, Disneyland, Family Affair, Rawhide, The Lone Ranger, and many others. Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Pat Crowley (frequently billed as "Patricia Crowley"), who appeared as guest leading lady in different episodes of many of the same television series and was not related. The two Crowleys were apparently never cast in the same episode. In the Philip Roth novel American Pastoral, the protagonist marries Miss New Jersey 1949, in the book named Dawn Dwyer and having few similarities to Crowley's post-Miss New Jersey life (including a poorer finish in the Miss America pageant). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Crowley,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For Acting
Popularity 5.743
Birthday 1931-12-26
Place of Birth
Also Known As Betty Jane Crowley,
Target Earth
1954

Target Earth

Downhill Racer
1969

Downhill Racer

City of Shadows
1955

City of Shadows

Westward Ho, The Wagons!
1956

Westward Ho, The Wagons!

Female Jungle
1956

Female Jungle

Sabre Jet
1953

Sabre Jet

FBI Code 98
1963

FBI Code 98

The Rebel Set
1959

The Rebel Set

The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953

The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Flame Barrier
1958

The Flame Barrier

Curse of the Undead
1959

Curse of the Undead

The Quiet Gun
1957

The Quiet Gun

Showdown
1963

Showdown

Ten Wanted Men
1955

Ten Wanted Men

The Phantom Stagecoach
1957

The Phantom Stagecoach

The Silver Whip
1953

The Silver Whip

Seven Cities of Gold
1955

Seven Cities of Gold

The Lawyer
1970

The Lawyer

Family Affair
1966

Family Affair

77 Sunset Strip
1958

77 Sunset Strip

Cheyenne
1955

Cheyenne

Maverick
1957

Maverick

Bourbon Street Beat
1959

Bourbon Street Beat

Batman
1966

Batman

Route 66
1960

Route 66

Surfside 6
1960

Surfside 6

Perry Mason
1957

Perry Mason

General Electric Theater
1953

General Electric Theater

Hawaiian Eye
1959

Hawaiian Eye

Redigo
1963

Redigo

The High Chaparral
1967

The High Chaparral

The Virginian
1962

The Virginian

Thriller
1960

Thriller

Yancy Derringer
1958

Yancy Derringer

Lux Video Theatre
1950

Lux Video Theatre

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Climax!
1954

Climax!

Bronco
1958

Bronco

The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The Donna Reed Show
1958

The Donna Reed Show

Matinee Theater
1955

Matinee Theater

Branded
1965

Branded

Bat Masterson
1958

Bat Masterson

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
1956

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Robert Montgomery Presents

Cavalcade of America
1952

Cavalcade of America

City Detective
1953

City Detective

The Americans
1961

The Americans

Gidget
1965

Gidget

Maverick
1957

Maverick

Bonanza
1959

Bonanza

Checkmate
1960

Checkmate

Perry Mason
1957

Perry Mason

Bat Masterson
1958

Bat Masterson

Perry Mason
1957

Perry Mason

Climax!
1954

Climax!

Climax!
1954

Climax!

Climax!
1954

Climax!

Bonanza
1959

Bonanza