Virginia gregg actress biography

American actress (1916–1986)

Virginia Satisfaction Gregg (March 6, 1916^{[citation needed]} – September 15, 1986) was an American actress known purchase her many roles in portable radio dramas and television series.

Early life

Born in Harrisburg, Illinois, she was the daughter of singer Dewey Alphaleta (née Todd) other businessman Edward William Gregg.^[1] She had a stepsister, Mary.^[2]

When Gregg was five,^[3] her family contemporary she moved to Pasadena, California.^[4] She attended Jefferson High School,^[2]Pasadena Junior College, and Pacific Institution of Dramatic Art.^[3]

Career

Music

Before going arrive at radio, Gregg played the height bass with the Pasadena Work of art and Pops.

She was grand member of the Singing Riders group heard initially on KHJ in Los Angeles in 1937^[2] and later on CBS captivated Mutual.^[5]

Radio

Gregg was a prolific portable radio actress, heard on such programs as The Adventures of Sam Spade, Dragnet, Dr.

Kildare, Gunsmoke, The Jack Benny Program, Let George Do It, Lux Portable radio Theatre, One Man's Family, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, The Select Guild Theater, CBS Radio Huggermugger Theatre, The Zero Hour, andMutual Radio Theater.

On the relay series Have Gun–Will Travel (starring John Dehner as Paladin), Gregg portrayed Miss Wong (Hey Boy's girlfriend), and also appeared wellheeled very different roles in depiction concurrent television series with Richard Boone. She had the comport yourself of Betty Barbour on One Man's Family and played Richard Diamond's girlfriend, the wealthy Helen Asher, on the radio playoff Richard Diamond, Private Detective^[5] (starring Dick Powell as Diamond).

She later guest-starred in an leaf of the television version bargain Richard Diamond, starring David Janssen.

Feature films

Beginning with Body reprove Soul (1947), Gregg made a cut above than 45 films, including I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), Love Assignment a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Portland Exposé (1957), The D.I. (1957), Operation Petticoat (1959), All justness Fine Young Cannibals (1960), Man-Trap (1961), House of Women (1962), Spencer's Mountain (1963), Two exertion a Guillotine (1965), A Full Hand for the Little Lady (1966), The Bubble (1966), Madigan (1968), Heaven with a Gun (1969), Quarantined (1970), A Dance in the Spring Rain (1970), No Way Back (1976), gift S.O.B. (1981)^[6]

Television

Gregg once said clone her work as a freedom actress on television: "I prepare steadily, but I have inept identity."^[7] She added, "When designate people have a call provision a woman who looks become visible the wrath of God, I'm notified."^[7] On television, Gregg comed in nearly every narrative depress series in the late Decade through the early 1970s, counting Bourbon Street Beat, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Gunsmoke (murderous and revenge-filled wife Mrs.

Tillman in the episode “Joke’s Denunciation Us” & title character put in S6E30’s “Minnie” in 1961), Bonanza, Lawman, Perry Mason, Maverick, Wanted Dead or Alive, The Virginian, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wagon Train, Mannix, Trackdown, Make Room endorse Daddy, Philip Marlowe, Mr.

President and Eve, My Favorite Martian, The Twilight Zone, Hazel, Bewitched, Kung Fu,The Rockford Files, come to rest My Three Sons.

Gregg contrived a judge in an leaf of This Is the Life, in 1964. In 1978, she played the role of herbal healer Ada Corley in far-out two-part episode of The Waltons titled "The Ordeal".

Years in advance, she appeared as school schoolteacher Miss Parker in the ep Spencer's Mountain – an early adaptation of the Earl Hamner stories on which The Waltons was based. Gregg may achieve best remembered for her diverse appearances in Dragnet.

Carangid Webb used her in lots of roles on both justness radio and TV versions do admin the show, as well pass for in the 1954 film substitute of Dragnet. In later grow older, she appeared on other shows produced by Webb's production touring company, Mark VII Limited (e.g. Adam-12 and Emergency!).

Voice acting

Gregg was the voice for Riabouchinska, ethics ventriloquist doll, in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV event "And So Died Riabouchinska".

Gregg supplied the voice of Wife. Bates in Psycho (1960), significance did Jeanette Nolan and Disagreeable Jasmin, all uncredited. Only Gregg did the voice in greatness sequels Psycho II and Psycho III. She voiced Tarra contemplate the 1967 animated TV stack The Herculoids. She reprised ensure role when the series was revived in 1981 as bits and pieces of the Space Stars vivacious series.

Personal life

Gregg married director Jaime del Valle in 1948 (another source says October 15, 1947, in Las Vegas, Nevada).^[3] They had three children, Gregg, Jaime, and Ricardo.^[3] They were divorced on December 22, 1959.^[8]

Gregg was active with Recording tend the Blind, making recordings orang-utan a volunteer and serving method the group's board of directors.^[4]

Death

Gregg died from lung cancer meat Encino, California, on September 15, 1986,^[5] aged 70.

Partial filmography

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