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Anjanette Comer

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Anjanette Comer
Comer in 1965
Born (1939-08-07) August 7, 1939 (age 85)
OccupationActress
Years active1962–2011
Spouse
(m. 1976; div. 1983)

Anjanette Comer (born August 7, 1939) is an American actress.

Early years

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Born in Dawson, Texas, to Rufus Franklin Comer, Jr., and Nola Dell "Sue" (Perkins) Comer, she attended Dawson High School.[1] Comer gained acting experience at the Pasadena Playhouse.[2]

Career

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Comer's first major television credit was a guest appearance in a 1962 episode of My Three Sons titled "Heat Wave", followed by roles in several other dramatic series of the 1960s, such as Dr. Kildare and Bonanza. In 1964, she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress for her work on an episode on Arrest and Trial.[3]

She made her film debut as the female lead in the 1964 comedy Quick, Before It Melts followed by a memorable role in the 1965 satire The Loved One, playing a seductive mortician who offers Robert Morse a choice for his uncle's funeral arrangements of "Inhumement, entombment, inurnment, immurement? Some people just lately have preferred ensarcophagusment."[4]

Although Comer was cast opposite Michael Caine for Funeral in Berlin and appeared in publicity stills (she can be seen with Caine and Eva Renzi in a photograph on the DVD release), she had to be replaced because of illness. She had another leading role as a love interest of Marlon Brando and John Saxon in The Appaloosa (1966). The film, shot on location in Mexico, presented Anjanette as a Mexican peasant girl, a role she repeated in Guns for San Sebastian (1968). In between, she starred in Banning.[5]

Comer's movie activity dropped off in 1970 after she played Ruth in the film version of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1970). She later claimed she let her love life interfere with her work. Comer's later films include The Firechasers (1971) and Fire Sale (1977), and the TV movie The Long Summer of George Adams (1983).

Personal life

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From 1976 to 1983, Comer was married to Robert Klane; the marriage ended in divorce.[6]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1964 Quick, Before It Melts Tiara Marshall
1965 The Loved One Aimee Thanatogenous
1966 The Appaloosa Trini Medena
1967 Banning Carol Lindquist
1968 La Bataille de San Sebastian Kinita English Title: Guns for San Sebastian
1968 In Enemy Country Denise
1970 Rabbit, Run Ruth Leonard
1971 The Firechasers Toby Collins
1972 Blood Feast Cathy
1973 The Baby Ann Gentry
1975 Lepke Bernice Meyer
1975 The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery Arlevia Jessup
1977 Fire Sale Marion Fikus
1992 Netherworld Mrs. Palmer
1995 The Underneath Mrs. Chambers
2003 Screen Door Jesus Verna Lynn Cunningham
2011 A Bird of the Air Mrs. Weber

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1962 My Three Sons Janie Stempel Season 3 Episode 11: ”Heat Wave”
1962 The Donna Reed Show Barbie Season 5 Episode 13: "The Winning Ticket"
1963 Gunsmoke Cara Miles Season 9 Episode 8: "Carter Caper"
1963 Ben Casey June Season 3 Episode 13: "My Love, My Love"
1963 Arrest and Trial Annabelle Selinsky Season 1 Episode 12: "Journey into Darkness"
1964 Dr. Kildare Carol Montgomery 2 episodes
1964 Bonanza Joan Wingate Season 5 Episode 22: "Love Me Not"
1964 Combat! Annette Season 2 Episode 27: "Weep No More"
1969 The Young Lawyers Bonnie Baron Season 1 Episode 0: "The Young Lawyers"
1969–1971 Love, American Style Billie Joe Hollister / Audrey Woods / Chris 3 episodes
1970 Then Came Bronson Vhea Samos Season 1 Episode 26: "What's an Ark Without Centaurs?"
1970 The Mod Squad Billie Season 3 Episode 1: "The Long Road Home"
1971 The Most Deadly Game Gretchen Season 1 Episode 10: "The Classic Burial Position"
1971 Banyon Diane Jennings Season 1 Episode 0: "Pilot"
1971 Five Desperate Women Lucy TV Movie
1971 The Deadly Hunt Martha TV Movie
1972 Columbo Jenifer Welles Season 2 Episode 1: "Étude in Black"
1972 Mannix Gina Hunter/Margo Moore Season 6 Episode 4: "Broken Mirror"
1972–1973 Doctor Simon Locke Andi / Norma Carlin 2 episodes
1973 Search Anne Ramon Season 1 Episode 18: "Goddess of Destruction"
1974 Police Story Constantina 2 episodes
1974 The Wide World of Mystery Danna Forester Season 2 Episode 8: "Shadow of Fear"
1974 The Wide World of Mystery Danna Forester TV Movie
1974 Night Games Jenny Kenedisis TV Movie
1974 Terror on the 40th Floor Darlene Porter TV Movie
1975 Death Stalk Pat Trahey TV Movie
1975 Petrocelli Mary Thorpe Season 1 Episode 17: "A Lonely Victim"
1975 Harry O Grace Duvall Season 2 Episode 4: "Shades"
1975 S.W.A.T. Alicia Woodward Season 2 Episode 11: "Strike Force"
1975 Barbary Coast Mary Louise Season 1 Episode 11: "The Day Cable Was Hanged"
1975 The Blue Knight Reba Season 1 Episode 3: "Odds Against Tomorrow"
1976 Jigsaw John Mavis Bellamy Season 1 Episode 1: "Promise to Kill"
1976 McNaughton's Daughter Andrea Farelli Miniseries (Episode 1: "Love Is a Four-Letter Word")
1976 Baretta Det. Ann Harley Season 3 Episode 8: "Dear Tony"
1977 Dead of Night Alexis TV Movie
1980 Barnaby Jones Vivian Harper Season 8 Episode 20: "The Silent Accuser"
1982 The Long Summer of George Adams Venida TV Movie
1986 Mike Hammer Toni Cordell Season 3 Episode 4: "Mike's Baby"
1988 Hotel Maggie Season 5 Episode 12: "Double Take"
1991 Jake and the Fatman Wanda Lee / Vera Lake 3 episodes
1992 Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo Nora Turner TV Movie
1995 Streets of Laredo Beulah Miniseries (2 episodes)
1995 Deadly Family Secrets Hilda Potter TV Movie
1999 Profiler Barbara Henkley Season 3 Episode 15: "Spree of Love"
1999 The Practice Sister Christine Season 3 Episode 19: "Closet Justice"
2002 The Pennsylvania Miners' Story Sue Unger TV Movie

References

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  1. ^ "FFA Sweetheart". Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light. Texas, Corsicana. December 24, 1954. p. 7. Retrieved September 24, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Hopper, Hedda (February 29, 1964). "Natalie Wood, Loew Will Wed on Yacht". The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate. p. Part III - 6. Retrieved September 25, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Anjanette Comer Awards & Nominations". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  4. ^ "The Loved One". TV Cream. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  5. ^ Scott, Vernon (September 24, 1981). "Scott's World: Whatever Happened to Anjanette Comer?". United Press International.
  6. ^ Broeske, Pat H. (June 17, 1990). "In Search Of . . . Anjanette Comer". Los Angeles Times.
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