Katherine Justice

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Katherine Justice
Promotion photo of Katherine Justice in 'The Way West', 1967.jpg
Justice in 1967
Born (1942-10-28) October 28, 1942 (age 82)
Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater Carnegie Tech
OccupationActress
Years active1952-2015
SpouseJames Brown Jr.

Katherine Justice (born October 28, 1942) is an American actress with many television guest star roles in the 1960s on through the 1980s and a few major film roles. [1]

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She had a leading role as a criminal conspirator in the made-for-TV movie, Prescription Murder (1968), which later became the popular television mystery series Columbo . [2]

She played the recurring role of Sheila Hogan in Falcon Crest starting in 1982. She portrayed Rita Jones in the syndicated drama Dangerous Women (1991). [3]

Early life and education

Justice was born and grew up in Ohio. She briefly was the 1960 Miss Ohio Universe, but wasn't able to compete in the Miss Universe competition when it was discovered she was 17, under the minimum 18 year age limit. [4] Justice graduated from Carnegie Tech Drama School in 1964. [5]

Career

After graduating, Justice went to the Front Street Theater in Memphis for the summer of 1964. From there she performed at Washington's Arena Stage starring as Lola in Damn Yankees , and in other plays like He Who Gets Slapped , Heartbreak House and Hard Travelin'. [6] [7] Then for the summer of 1965, she toured with a summer stock company doing Nobody Loves an Albatross . [8]

Justice's first television role was on The Big Valley in 1966. Before she even left the TV studio, she got a major part in the movie The Way West starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark. [8] Before the release of that movie, she was the mistress and accomplice (third billing) in the made-for-TV movie Prescription: Murder starring Peter Falk as Columbo and Gene Barry as the murderer. [5] [9] Her next movie role was the second female lead in 5 Card Stud with Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum starring. [10] Dailies of her convinced Paramount Pictures to sign her for a five-year contract to make five pictures. [11]

On March 14, 1967, she was a guest star on the science fiction television series The Invaders portraying a past love in the season one episode, "The Innocents". She guest starred again in 1968 in the season two episode "The Possessed".

She guest starred in the TV Western series Gunsmoke four times, including the 1971 three part episode, "The Bullet", and as a dance hall girl pretending to be a dying gunfighter's dead daughter in the 1970 episode, "Luke" (S16E8). She guest starred on Cannon as Meg, S1:E19 - "Blood on the Vine", airing January 18, 1972. She guest starred three times on Mannix as Maggie S3:E8 - "Memory: Zero", airing November 22, 1969, as Ellen, S4:E13 - "Duet for Three", airing December 19, 1970, and as Holly, S8:E19 - "Quartet for Blunt Instrument", airing February 22, 1975.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1967 The Way West Amanda Mack
1968 5 Card Stud Nora Evers
1972 The Stepmother Margo Delgado
1972 Limbo Sharon Dornbeck
1973Frasier, the Sensuous LionAllison Stewart
1981Separate WaysSheila

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1966 The Big Valley MelanieSeason 1 Episode 27: "The River Monarch"
1966 Preview Tonight RachelSeason 1 Episode 4: "Roaring Camp"
1967 Iron Horse Kate PrestonSeason 1 Episode 20: "The Bridge at Forty-Mile"
1967 Run for Your Life Princess IngridSeason 3 Episode 2: "The Inhuman Predicament"
1967 Judd for the Defense Wendy LukasSeason 1 Episode 8: "Death from a Flower Girl"
1967–1968 The Invaders Helen / Janet Garner2 episodes
1967–1972 The F.B.I. Uli Rim / Laurel Wyant / Liz Carvellis / Ellen Conway4 episodes
1968 Prescription: Murder Joan HudsonTV Movie
1968 The Virginian Ruby FrenchSeason 7 Episode 8: "Ride to Misadventure"
1969 Lancer Julie DennisonSeason 2 Episode 10: "Legacy"
1969–1972 Gunsmoke Lydia Fletcher / Doris Prebble / Beth Tilton / Clarabelle Callahan6 episodes
1969–1975 Mannix Maggie Wells / Ellen Gray / Holly Warlock3 episodes
1970 The Psychiatrist PersephoneSeason 1 Episode 0: "God Bless the Children (Pilot)"
1971 Nanny and the Professor Laurel FieldingSeason 2 Episode 14: "A Diller, a Dollar"
1971 Storefront Lawyers Norma AndrewsSeason 1 Episode 22: "This Money Kills Dreams"
1971 Bearcats! HildaSeason 1 Episode 4: "The Feathered Serpent"
1972 Marcus Welby, M.D. Morgan EllisSeason 4 Episode 7: "The Wednesday Game"
1972–1976 Cannon Meg Warren / Liza Carter / Julie Foster3 episodes
1973–1977 Barnaby Jones Liza Mills / Shirley Jennings / Suzanne Montaigne / Libby Price4 episodes
1974 The New Perry Mason Maggie LawsonSeason 1 Episode 15: "The Case of the Violent Valley"
1974 The Magician Sandra CassidySeason 1 Episode 14: "The Illusion of the Queen's Gambit"
1974 Hawaii Five-O Andrea BurdickSeason 6 Episode 21: "Nightmare in Blue"
1974 The Streets of San Francisco Katherine WallachSeason 2 Episode 20: "Inferno"
1974 Doc Elliot Pamela BarrowsSeason 1 Episode 8: "A Time to Live"
1974The Fisher FamilyLiv AndersonEpisode: "The Harder They Fall"
1974 The Manhunter Esther CottonSeason 1 Episode 5: "Trackdown"
1975 Harry O AnneSeason 1 Episode 14: "The Last Heir"s
1975 Insight LoreleiSeason 1 Episode 391: "The Pendulum"
1975Dead Man on the RunLibby StocktonTV Movie
1975 Matt Helm PaulaSeason 1 Episode 1: "Dead Men Talk"
1975–1978 Police Woman Mary Ann Webster / Karen Walters2 episodes
1977 Guiding Light Hope Bauer Spaulding #6
1977 Tales of the Unexpected BarbaraSeason 1 Episode 4: "The Nomads"
1977 Most Wanted Jennie LawrenceSeason 1 Episode 20: "The People Mover"
1979 Ryan's Hope Dr. Faith Coleridge3 episodes
1979 Captain America II: Death Too Soon Helen MooreTV Movie
1980 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo Toni MooreSeason 1 Episode 11: "Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here"
1980 Freebie and the Bean MarshaSeason 1 Episode 1: "The Seduction of the Bean"
1981 Nero Wolfe Angela BellSeason 1 Episode 1: "The Golden Spiders"
1981A Gun in the HouseAndrea FreemontTV Movie
1981–1982 Quincy M.E. Holly Mahoney / Annie O'Connor2 episodes
1982Bush DoctorSamanthaTV Movie
1982–1983 Falcon Crest Sheila Hogan9 episodes (Recurring role)
1983 Lottery! Beverly HansonSeason 1 Episode 7: "Kansas City: Protected Winner"
1983–1984 T.J. Hooker Dr. Joan Wagner2 episodes
1984 Blue Thunder Kate CunninghamSeason 1 Episode 4: "Revenge in the Sky"
1985 Simon & Simon Donna BertolliSeason 5 Episode 5: "The Skull of Nostradamus"
1986 Hunter Shirley Humphreys2 episodes
1989 Alien Nation Dr. Marcie WrightSeason 1 Episode 11: "The Red Room"
1989–1993 Days of Our Lives Dr. Eleanor Smith10 episodes
1991 Dallas Alice KingdomSeason 14 Episode 22: "Conundrum, Part 1 and 2"
1991 The New Adam-12 Mrs. HutchinsonSeason 2 Episode 16: "Playing with Fire"
1991–1992 Dangerous Women Rita JonesSeries regular
2015The Nevermore ChroniclesMadame MocnySeason 1 Episode 6: "Lousy Psychic"

References

  1. ↑ Ward, Jack (1993). Television Guest Stars: An Illustrated Career Chronicle for 678 Performers of the Sixties and Seventies. McFarland & Company. ISBN   9780899508078.
  2. ↑ Pascal (November 19, 2016). "La toute première enquête de Columbo rediffusée ce samedi soir". LeBlogTVNews (in French). Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 233. ISBN   978-0-7864-6477-7.
  4. ↑ "Miss Ohio Too Young; Negro Girl Takes Place". The Florida Star . Vol. 12, no. 13. January 6, 1962. Retrieved November 30, 2022– via University of Florida Digital Collections.
  5. 1 2 Cohen, Harold V. (May 29, 1967). "At Random: The Monday Wash" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . p. 12. Retrieved August 31, 2017– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "'He Who Gets Slapped'" . The Baltimore Sun . February 28, 1965. p. 11D. Retrieved August 31, 2017– via ProQuest.
  7. ↑ Sherin, Edwin; Coe, Richard L; Lampell, Millard; Arena Stage (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress) (1965). Hard travelin'. OCLC   452500534.
  8. 1 2 "New Star Created by Hecht" . Democrat and Chronicle . Rochester, New York. December 31, 1966. p. 39. Retrieved August 31, 2017– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Prescription: Murder (1968) Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice, William Windom, Nina Foch Movie Review". The Movie Scene. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Kathy Justice in 'Five Card'". Reno Gazette-Journal . February 9, 1968. p. 40. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  11. ↑ Cohen, Harold V. (March 5, 1968). "At Random: The Monday Wash" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 20. Retrieved September 2, 2017– via Newspapers.com.
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