Amanda Blake
Born: February 20, 1929 (as Beverly Louise Neill) (in Buffalo, NY)
Died: August 16, 1989
Spouse(s): Don Whitman (married 1954 - 1955, divorced)
Jason Day (married 1964 - 1967, divorced)
Frank Gilbert (married 1964 - 1982, divorced)
Mark Spaeth (married 1984 - 1985, divorced)
Parents: Jesse Neill, Louise Puckett Neill
Children: none
Height: 5'6"
Movies:
1950
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
Duchess of Idaho
Stars in My Crown
1951
The Family Secret (uncredited)
Sunny Side of the Street
Criminal Lawyer (uncredited)
Never Trust a Gambler (uncredited)
China Corsair (uncredited)
Smuggler's Gold
1952
Cattle Town
Scarlet Angel
1953
Sabre Jet
Lili
1954
Miss Robin Crusoe
The Adventures of Hajji Baba
A Star Is Born
About Mrs. Leslie
1955
High Society
The Glass Slipper
1966
Clown Alley
1974
Betrayal
1986
The Wildest West Show of the Stars
1987
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
1988
B.O.R.N.
The Boost
TV Shows:
The Alan Hamel Show
- Episode dated February 21 (1977)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Whodunit (1956)
Breakaway
- Episode #1.58 (1983)
Brothers
- A Penny a Dance (1986)
Cavalcade of America
- Breakfast at Nancy's (1953)
Celebrity Sweepstakes
- Episode dated May 26 (1974)
- Episode dated April 28 (1975)
Clown Alley
- Episode dated March 1 (1966)
The David Frost Show
- Episode #4.144 (1972)
Dinah!
- Episode #1.45 (1974)
The Donald O'Connor Show
- Episode dated May 14 (1969)
Dragnet
- Nouveau Gypsies (1989)
The Edge of Night
- Episode #1.66 (1956)
- Episode #1.88 (1956)
- Episode #1.261 (1957)
- Episode #1.459 (1958)
- Episode #1.520 (1958)
- Episode #1.1404 (1961)
- Episode #1.3376 (1969)
- Episode #1.3378 (1969)
- Episode #1.3999 (1971)
- Episode #1.4000 (1971)
Family Feud
- Country & Western Singers vs. TV & Film Cowboys (1984)
Fireside Theatre
- Refuge (1953)
- Nine Quarts of Water (1954)
Four Star Playhouse
- Vote of Confidence (1954)
General Electric Theater
- The Wine of St. Albans (1953)
- Night Club (1959)
Gunsmoke (regular)
Hart to Hart
- The Wayward Hart (1983)
Hee Haw
- Episode #2.15 (1971)
- Episode #3.3 (1971)
- Episode #3.12 (1971) (uncredited)
Here's Hollywood
- Episode #1.19 (1960)
The Hollywood Squares
- Episode #3.108 (1969)
- Episode #3.109 (1969)
- Episode #3.110 (1969)
- Episode #3.111 (1969)
- Episode #3.112 (1969)
- Episode #3.113 (1969)
- Episode #3.114 (1969)
- Episode #3.115 (1969)
- Episode #3.116 (1969)
- Episode #3.117 (1969)
- Episode dated September 1 (1969)
- Episode dated May 3 (1971)
- Episode dated March 20 (1972)
- Episode dated April 30 (1973)
- Episode dated December 31 (1973)
- Episode dated April 29 (1974)
Hollywood Talent Scouts
- Episode dated March 28 (1966)
Hour Magazine
- Episode dated July 15 (1986)
Jerry Visits
- Episode dated February 19 (1972)
The John Davidson Show
- Episode dated April 28 (1981)
The Linkletter Show
- Episode dated January 21 (1964)
The Love Boat
- The Grass Is Always Greener/Three Stages of Love/Oldies But Goodies (1979)
Lux Video Theatre
- Something to Live For (1953)
Match Game 73
- Episode dated November 27 (1974)
- Episode dated November 29 (1974)
- Episode dated December 2 (1974)
- Episode dated December 3 (1974)
- Episode dated December 4 (1974)
The Merv Griffin Show
- Episode dated June 21 (1974)
The Mike Douglas Show
- Episode #11.106 (1972)
- Episode #11.107 (1972)
- Episode #11.108 (1972)
- Episode #11.109 (1972)
- Episode #11.110 (1972)
- Episode dated July 22 (1974)
The New Hollywood Squares
- Episode dated September 21 (1987)
Password All-Stars
- Amanda Blake vs. Darren McGavin (1971)
The Pet Set
- Episode #1.11 (1971)
The Quest
- Day of Outrage (1976)
The Red Skelton Hour
- Red Goes to Barber College (1955)
- Medicine Man (1957)
- Clem the Dentist (1958)
- San Fernando's Treasure Hunt (1959)
- San Fernando for Governor (1960)
- San Fernando and Herbie (1961)
- San Fernando and the Kaaka Maami Island (1961)
- Frontier Coward (1963)
Schlitz Playhouse
- Crossroads (1952)
- Double Exposure (1952)
Star's Table
- Episode #1.15 (1986)
State Trooper
- Coate of Many Colors (1957)
Steve Canyon
- Room 313 (1959) (uncredited)
Studio One in Hollywood
- Tide of Corruption (1958)
Stump the Stars
- Amanda Blake vs. Sebastian Cabot (1963)
- Episode dated September 16 (1963)
Tattletales
- Episode #1.87 (1974)
- Episode #1.88 (1974)
- Episode #1.89 (1974)
- Episode #1.90 (1974)
- Episode #1.91 (1974)
- Episode #2.55 (1974)
- Episode #2.57 (1974)
- Episode #2.59 (1974)
- Episode #2.60 (1974)
- Episode #2.61 (1974)
- Episode #2.62 (1974)
- Episode #2.63 (1974)
- Episode #2.64 (1974)
- Episode #2.149 (1975)
- Episode #2.150 (1975)
- Episode #2.151 (1975)
- Episode #2.152 (1975)
- Episode #2.153 (1975)
This Is Your Life
- Ken Curtis (1972)
Other Film Work:
1954
A Star Is Born World Premiere (TV Short)
1975
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon (TV Special)
1976
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Dennis Weaver (TV Special)
1978
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: George Burns (TV Special)
1982
The Best Little Special in Texas (TV Movie documentary)
1999
Television: The First Fifty Years (Video documentary)
Regular Shows:
Gunsmoke (Sept. 1955 - Mar. 1975, 635 episodes)
The longest running Western, and one of the longest running television shows of all time, Gunsmoke was undoubtebly a popular series.
The series starred James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City, Kansas.
Amanda Blake played Miss Kitty, who works at/owns the Long Branch Saloon. Amanda Blake left the series for the final season, therefore playing Kitty for nineteen years.
Other regulars include Milburn Stone as Doc Adams (complete series), Dennis Weaver as Chester Goode (seasons 1 - 9), and Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen (seasons 9 - 20).
When Gunsmoke began, it was half an hour long, black and white, and stayed more strictly geared toward adults* than in later years when it became about an hour-long color show.
Many others had regular or semi-regular roles throughout the long series. Glenn Strange, Buck Taylor, Burt Reynolds, and Roger Ewing all had their turns at appearing regularly on Gunsmoke.
* When refering to old Westerns, "adult" usually means that the plot outweighs the action. Heroes are generally less perfect-seeming in adult westerns, too.
In the case of Gunsmoke both of the above cases are true, and also Miss Kitty's "full-time occupation" was alluded to more directly in the first few years.
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