Pamela Bellwood | |
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Born | Pamela King |
Other names | Pamela Bellwood-Wheeler |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1974–2005, 2013 |
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Children | 1 |
Pamela Bellwood (born Pamela King) [1] is an American actress known for her role as Claudia Blaisdel Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera, Dynasty .
Bellwood became interested in an acting career when she portrayed Emily in Our Town . She studied acting in New York with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and in London. [2] [3] By 1972 she was on Broadway, taking over from Blythe Danner in Butterflies Are Free and appearing with Barbara Bel Geddes in Finishing Touches. [3] Her performance in Butterflies Are Free earned her a Clarence Derwent Award in 1972. [4]
Early on, Bellwood was credited as Pamela Kingsley because there was already a working actress named Pamela King. [1] In 1974, she appeared in an episode of Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers . Later in 1974, she appeared as Jill Martin in an episode of Rhoda entitled "9-E is available". In 1978, she played the starring role of TV executive Ellen Cunningham in W.E.B. , an NBC drama about a fictional television network. [5] Poor ratings led to the show being cancelled after only five episodes.
Bellwood was an original cast member of Dynasty in January 1981, and was written out of the series early in the third season, in late 1982. She appeared once in March 1983 to help usher in Jack Coleman as a recast Steven Carrington, and later returned full-time in October 1983. She remained a key character for several seasons until leaving the series a final time in 1986 to become a full-time mother. 20 years later, in 2006, she appeared with her former Dynasty castmates in the non-fiction special Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar.
Bellwood posed for an eight-page pictorial in the April 1983 edition of Playboy magazine. [3]
She also appeared in such films as Two-Minute Warning , Airport '77 and The Incredible Shrinking Woman , as well as a number of TV movies. [3] She continues to perform in film and on stage. She is now known and often credited as Pamela Bellwood-Wheeler.
In the early 1970s, Bellwood was married to writer Peter Bellwood. [1] In 1984, she married photographer Nik Wheeler. [6]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1976 | Two-Minute Warning | Peggy Ramsay | |
1977 | Airport '77 [3] | Lisa Stevens | |
1980 | Serial | Carol | |
1980 | Hangar 18 | Sarah Michaels | |
1981 | The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Sandra Dyson | |
1988 | Cellar Dweller | Amanda | |
1997 | Le zombie de Cap-Rouge | Patty | |
1998 | The Gardener | Mrs. Swenson | |
1998 | Joseph's Gift | Rachel Keller | |
2001 | Family Secrets | ||
2005 | Going Shopping | Landlady |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1970 | Mannix | Susan Miller | "Once Upon a Saturday" (season 3, episode 25) |
1974 | Ironside | Nancy | Episode: "Once More for Joey" |
1974 | The Wide World of Mystery | Mary | Episode: "The Book of Murder" |
1974 | Nourish the Beast | Sylvia | TV film |
1974 | Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers | Joanne | Episode: "Moran's the Man" |
1974 | Rhoda | Jill Martin | Episode: "9-E Is Available" |
1975 | Mannix | Miriam | Episode: "Man in a Trap" (season 8, episode 14) |
1975 | Police Story | Judy Bartlett | Episode: "Sniper" |
1975 | Matt Helm | Patricia | Episode: "Scavenger's Paradise" |
1975 | Baretta | Jenny | Episode: "When Dues Come Down" |
1975 | Cannon | Louise Bishop | Episode: "To Still the Voice" |
1976 | Insight | Thelma Mann | Episode: "All Out" |
1976 | The Nancy Walker Show | Darlene Rogers | Episode: "The Homecoming" |
1976 | The War Widow | Amy | TV film |
1977 | Serpico | Allison | Episode: "The Party of Your Choice" |
1977 | Emily, Emily | Emily Ward | TV film |
1977 | Westside Medical | Melissa Mapes | Episode: "The Witch of Four West" |
1977 | The Love Boat | Judy Watson | 1 episode |
1977 | Big Hawaii | Episode: "Sarah" | |
1978 | Deadman's Curve | Annie | TV film |
1978 | Switch | Andrea | Episode: "The Siege at Bouziki Bar" |
1978 | W.E.B. | Ellen Cunningham | Regular role (5 episodes) |
1980 | Hagen | Laurie | Episode: "The Straw Man" |
1981–1986 | Dynasty [3] | Claudia Blaisdel Carrington | Regular role (117 episodes) |
1982 | The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch | Sarah | TV film |
1983 | Cocaine: One Man's Seduction [3] | Robin Barstowe | TV film |
1983 | Baby Sister | Marsha Burroughs | TV film |
1983 | Sparkling Cyanide | Ruth Lessing | TV film |
1983 | Choices of the Heart [3] | Sister Dorothy Kazel | TV film |
1984 | Finder of Lost Loves | Susan Blaine | Episode: "Losing Touch" |
1987 | Deep Dark Secrets | Anna | TV film |
1988 | Double Standard | Joan Harik | TV film |
1989 | The Twilight Zone | Andrea Moffatt | Episode: "Cat and Mouse" |
1989 | Boon | Rebecca Patterson | Episodes: "All in a Day's Pork", "The Eyes of Texas" |
1989 | Murder, She Wrote | Vivian Proctor | Episode: "Weave a Tangled Web" |
1992 | Life Goes On | Future Becca | Episode: "Bec to the Future" |
1994 | Murder, She Wrote | Vanessa Cross | Episode: "A Murderous Muse" |
1997 | Women: Stories of Passion | Myra | Episode: "Angel from the Sky" |
1997 | Heartless | Jennifer Chadway | TV film |
2013 | Criminal Minds | Wanda Sullivan | Episode: "Pay It Forward" |
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