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Carolyn Jones is a Actor American born on 28 april 1930 at Amarillo (USA)

Carolyn Jones

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Birth name Carolyn Sue Baker
Nationality USA
Birth 28 april 1930 at Amarillo (USA)
Death 3 august 1983 (at 53 years) at West Hollywood (USA)

Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress. Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising actresses of 1959. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964 she began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the television series The Addams Family, receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination for her work.

Biography

Elle rejoint le Pasadena Playhouse en 1947. Elle décroche un contrat avec la Paramount et tourne son premier film en 1952. L'année suivante, elle épouse le cinéaste Aaron Spelling, et se convertit au judaïsme en même temps. Ils se séparent en 1964, année de son rôle le plus marquant dans La Famille Addams. Après la fin de la série en 1966, sa carrière décline.

Son visage étrange, un peu inquiétant, l'a sans doute desservie auprès des studios. Elle s'impose dans les chefs-d'œuvre des genres marginalisés au sein de l'industrie : L'Homme au masque de cire, L'Invasion des profanateurs de sépultures. Plus tard elle exploitera encore cette veine à la télévision dans La Famille Addams (qui en fait une icône) puis dans Batman et Wonder Woman.

À côté, si elle figure au premier rang dans des classiques (L'Ennemi public de Don Siegel avec Mickey Rooney et Bagarres au King Créole de Michael Curtiz avec Elvis Presley), elle se contente d'apparitions dans Sept Ans de réflexion et L'Homme qui en savait trop, et rate (pour cause de maladie) le rôle dévolu à Donna Reed dans Tant qu'il y aura des hommes de Fred Zinneman — film couvert d'Oscars dont celui du meilleur second rôle féminin pour Reed.

Par un tour de force, Jones trouve le moyen de gagner une citation à l'Oscar avec un rôle de quelques minutes. Elle pouvait par ailleurs se targuer d'avoir travaillé avec Fritz Lang, Elia Kazan, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock et Frank Capra, devenue un second (ou troisième) rôle apprécié. On peut la voir dans Le Dernier Train de Gun Hill, western de Sturges avec Kirk Douglas et Anthony Quinn, ou dans La Conquête de l'Ouest, western collectif où elle joue l'épouse de George Peppard.

L'actrice est ensuite sous employée dans des séries telles que Le Virginien, Quincy, L'Homme de fer, L'Île fantastique. Tardivement, Capitol, soap malchanceux qui se déroulait dans les coulisses de la vie politique à Washington, avait démontré le magnétisme intact de Carolyn Jones, teinte en rousse pour le personnage vénéneux de Myrna Clegg, son dernier rôle, digne rivale d'Alexis Colby (Joan Collins) dans Dynastie et d'Angela Channing (Jane Wyman) dans Falcon Crest.

Atteinte d'un cancer du côlon, elle continue toutefois à jouer mais dans un fauteuil roulant. Le cancer se propage rapidement à son foie et l'estomac et Carolyn Jones décède le 3 août 1983.

Best films

How the West Was Won (1962)
(Actress)
A Hole in the Head (1959)
(Actress)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Carolyn Jones (34 films)

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Actress

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, 1h45
Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman, Carolyn Jones, Ronee Blakley
Roles Beth
Rating58% 2.948562.948562.948562.948562.94856
In 1954 in Freedom, a fictional small Kansas town, Evelyn Wyckoff, a lonely and greatly depressed 35-year-old high-school Latin teacher, no longer finds any satisfaction in her work, in spite of being well-liked by students and colleagues. Attractive but still a virgin, on the verge of premature menopause, her physician Dr. Neal thinks her problems would be solved if she got a love life. He directs her to Dr. Steiner, a Jewish psychiatrist in Wichita. The talks with Steiner help her to alleviate her grief and slowly she acknowledges her craving for love. She starts flirting with Ed Eckles, the friendly bus driver in her trips to Wichita. Ed cares for her and suggests they should have a love affair. She was hesitant about that because Ed was married and of a lower status. When she finally was willing to, Ed had left town for good and she felt distraught.
Halloween with the New Addams Family, 1h14
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror
Actors John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy, Lisa Loring, Ken Weatherwax
Roles Morticia Addams/Ophelia Frump
Rating56% 2.810012.810012.810012.810012.81001
Gomez's brother, Pancho, is staying with the family while Gomez goes to a lodge meeting in Tombstone, Arizona. Gomez is jealous of his brother, who once courted Morticia. Halloween is nigh, and Pancho tells the legend of Cousin Shy, who distributes gifts and carves pumpkins. A gang of crooks have bugged the Addamses' home and plan to take advantage of Gomez's absence to steal the family fortune. The lead crook "Bones" Lafferty sends an associate named Mikey to investigate. Wednesday (Senior) is home from music academy, where she studies the piccolo (she breaks glass with it). Pugsley (Senior) is home from Nairobi medical school, where he is training to be a witch doctor. Mikey panics and flees after treading on the tail of the family's pet lion Kitty Kat. The crooks have a fake Gomez and Morticia to help in their plans, along with two strong-arm goons, Hercules and Atlas. Gomez returns home for the Halloween party and trimming of the scarecrow. Lafferty poses as Quincy Addams (from Boston) to get in. He has his men tie up Gomez and Morticia and his doubles take their places, confusing Pancho, who is still in love with Morticia. Lurch scares off the thugs and terrifies the assistant crook Louie the Lard (who was dressed as Little Bo Peep). Fester, trying to be nice, puts Lafferty on the rack. Lafferty tries to escape through the secret passage and steps on Kitty Kat's tail. When the police arrive upon responding to a noise complaint, Lafferty and his gang surrender. The Addams Family are then free to celebrate Halloween happily.
Roots (TV miniseries), 9h30
Directed by Gilbert Moses, Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, David Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Georg Stanford Brown, Leslie Uggams
Rating83% 4.1986454.1986454.1986454.1986454.198645
In The Gambia, West Africa, in 1750 Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala), a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta (Cicely Tyson). When Kunta (LeVar Burton) reaches the age of 15, he and a group of other adolescent boys take part in tribal manhood training, ending with a ceremony, after which they become recognized as men and Mandinka warriors. While trying to carry out a task to catch a bird and take it home unharmed, Kunta sees white men carrying firearms, along with their black collaborators. Later, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother, Kunta is captured by black collaborators under the direction of white men. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard a ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies (Edward Asner) for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the voyage a group of rebels among the human cargo try but fail to stage a mutiny and to take over the ship.
Eaten Alive, 1h31
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Serial killer films, Reptile
Actors Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Marilyn Burns, William Finley, Stuart Whitman
Roles Miss Hattie
Rating55% 2.750612.750612.750612.750612.75061
After refusing a request from frisky customer named Buck (Robert Englund), naive prostitute Clara Wood (Roberta Collins) is evicted from the town brothel by the madam, Miss Hattie (Carolyn Jones). Clara makes her way to a decrepit hotel, called the Starlight Hotel, located deep in a swamp, where she encounters the middled-aged, mentally disturbed proprietor Judd (Neville Brand) and his pet Nile crocodile in the swamp beside the porch. Upon realizing Clara was a prostitute, the sexualy frustrated Judd attacks her while ranting and raving. When Clare fights back, Judd stabs her with a garden rake and feeds her dead body to the crocodile.
Color Me Dead, 1h37
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones, Rick Jason, Tony Ward, Tom Oliver, Suzy Kendall
Roles Paula Gibson
Rating56% 2.817012.817012.817012.817012.81701
Lawyer Frank Bigelow discovers he has been poisoned and has only weeks to live. He spends the time tracking down his own murderer.
Heaven with a Gun, 1h41
Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson, David Carradine, Violetta Villas
Roles Madge McCloud
Rating62% 3.142593.142593.142593.142593.14259
Preacher Jim Killian (Ford) arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. Killian is not just any preacher. He is a former gunslinger who has set upon a different path.
A Ticklish Affair, 1h28
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons, Edward Platt, Carolyn Jones, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Tandy Martin
Rating58% 2.9028752.9028752.9028752.9028752.902875
Commander Key Weedon (Gig Young), a pilot with the U.S. Navy, is sent to investigate when an S.O.S. emergency signal is spotted in the San Diego region. He discovers it is the doing of a six-year-old boy, Grover Martin, whose uncle Simon (Red Buttons), an airline pilot, gave the boy a blinker light as a gift.
How the West Was Won, 2h35
Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors James Stewart, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones
Roles Julie Rawlings
Rating70% 3.548723.548723.548723.548723.54872
Zebulon Prescott (Karl Malden) and his family set out west for the frontier via the Erie Canal, the “west” at this time being the Illinois country. On the journey, they meet mountain man Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), who is traveling east to Pittsburgh to trade his furs. He and Zebulon's daughter Eve (Carroll Baker) are attracted to each other, but Linus is not ready to settle down.
Sail A Crooked Ship, 1h28
Directed by Irving Brecher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films
Actors Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Carolyn Jones, Frankie Avalon, Ernie Kovacs, Frank Gorshin
Roles Virginia
Rating60% 3.049063.049063.049063.049063.04906
When Gilbert Barrows (Robert Wagner) disobeys his boss and tries to refit an old Liberty Ship for cargo use instead of scrapping it, he inadvertently puts it into the hands of a colorful group of crooks led by good-hearted screw-up Bugsy G. Fogelmeyer (Ernie Kovacs) and brainy sociopath George M. Wilson (Frank Gorshin). The crooks plan to use the ship to make their getaway after they pull a bank robbery in Boston, and they kidnap Barrows and his girlfriend Elinor Harrison (Dolores Hart) – his boss's daughter – to prevent leaving any witnesses behind. With the help of Bugsy's nephew Rodney J. Fogelmeyer (Frankie Avalon), Gilbert and Elinor manage to foil the crooks' plans by using Elinor's bra as a slingshot and attracting the Coast Guard.
Ice Palace
Ice Palace (1960)
, 2h23
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Martha Hyer, Carolyn Jones, Jim Backus, Ray Danton
Roles Bridie Ballantyne
Rating60% 3.048453.048453.048453.048453.04845
The film follows the Edna Ferber novel in telling the story of Zeb Kennedy (Richard Burton) and Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), Alaska settlers in the period following World War I. Kennedy works his way up through the Alaskan fish cannery business, befriending Wang, a Chinese worker (George Takei), and Storm, an idealistic fishing boat captain. Kennedy and Storm begin to plan a cannery together in the fictional Alaskan town of Baranof, when Kennedy falls for Bridie Ballantyne, Storm's fiancée (Carolyn Jones). The feeling is reciprocated, but Kennedy chooses money over love, marrying Seattle heiress Dorothy Wendt (Martha Hyer). When Storm discovers his disappointed fiancée's infidelity, he punches out Kennedy and flees into the wilderness on a dog sled.
Career
Career (1959)
, 1h45
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Dean Martin, Anthony Franciosa, Shirley MacLaine, Carolyn Jones, Joan Blackman, Robert Middleton
Roles Shirley Drake
Rating67% 3.3916753.3916753.3916753.3916753.391675
Actor-director Maurice "Maury" Novak (Dean Martin) works with actor Sam Lawson (Tony Franciosa) in an early grassroots theatrical group later targeted as "subversive" for its liberal views. Novak leaves the theater to become a well known Hollywood director until he is brought down by the blacklist himself.
The Man in the Net, 1h38
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alan Ladd, Carolyn Jones, John Rollin Lupton, Diane Brewster, Charles McGraw, Tom Helmore
Roles Linda Hamilton
Rating61% 3.092443.092443.092443.092443.09244
Commercial artist John Hamilton (Alan Ladd) and wife Linda (Carolyn Jones) leave New York and move to Stoneville, Connecticut, in the New England countryside, to escape the bustle of the city and because of John's growing concern about Linda's alcoholism.
Last Train from Gun Hill, 1h34
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter, Brian G. Hutton
Roles Linda, Craig's Girl
Rating72% 3.645853.645853.645853.645853.64585
Two old friends, Matt Morgan (Douglas) and Craig Belden (Quinn), now find themselves on opposite sides of the law. Belden is the de facto ruler of the town of Gun Hill, a rich cattle baron. Morgan is a U.S. marshal living in another town with his Native American wife (played by Ziva Rodann) and young son, Petey.
A Hole in the Head, 2h
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter
Roles Shirl
Rating61% 3.098353.098353.098353.098353.09835
Tony Manetta moved from the shabby area of Bronx to Miami, Florida with two friends searching for wealth and success. Although his two friends became prosperous over the next 20 years (his older friend owns luxury hotels, and his younger friend runs a local taxi company), Tony manages a small hotel called "Garden Of Eden". He grew spoiled, spending money on expensive suits and a Cadillac despite always being in debt and refusing to become more responsible. He is also a widowed father of an 11-year-old son, Alvin.
King Creole, 1h56
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Michael Vincenzo Gazzo, Hal B. Wallis, Herbert Baker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow
Roles Ronnie
Rating69% 3.4946253.4946253.4946253.4946253.494625
Nineteen-year-old high school student Danny Fisher (Elvis Presley) works before and after school in order to support his father (Dean Jagger) and sister Mimi (Jan Shepard). After Danny's mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist, and moved his impoverished family to the French Quarter in New Orleans.