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Joan Weldon is a Actor American born on 5 august 1933 at San Francisco (USA)

Joan Weldon

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Birth name Joan Louise Welton
Nationality USA
Birth 5 august 1933 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 11 february 2021 (at 87 years)

Joan Weldon (born as Joan Louise Welton on August 5, 1930, San Francisco, California) is an American film and television actress. She began her career singing in the San Francisco Grand Opera Company chorus. Later she became a contract actress with Warner Bros. where she remained until her contract ended in 1954. Her most prominent film was the cult thriller Them!

Weldon had a brief television career in the 1950s. Her first appearance in 1955 was in an episode of The Millionaire, starring Marvin Miller. She made three appearances on Lux Video Theater in various roles. She also played Marian Keats in the title role of the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner" in 1957. Her final television appearance was in 1958 on Shirley Temple Theater.

She resumed her career as a singer in road company productions including The Music Man and Oklahoma!. Weldon retired in 1980.

Biography

Adolescente, elle se forme au chant et auditionne en 1947 (à dix-sept ans) au San Francisco Opera, dont elle intègre le chœur. En 1952, alors qu'elle chante au sein du Los Angeles Civic Light Opera , elle est repérée par un producteur de la Warner Bros. et signe un contrat avec cette compagnie.

Sous le nom de scène de Joan Weldon, elle contribue au cinéma à onze films américains sortis entre 1953 et 1958, dont les westerns Les Massacreurs du Kansas d'André De Toth (1953, avec Randolph Scott et Claire Trevor) et La poursuite dura sept jours de David Butler (1954, avec Guy Madison et James Whitmore), ou encore le classique de science-fiction Des monstres attaquent la ville de Gordon Douglas (1954, avec Edmund Gwenn et James Arness).

Elle apparaît également à la télévision, dans huit séries entre 1955 et 1958, dont Perry Mason (un épisode, 1957) et Maverick (un épisode, 1958).

En 1958, renonçant à poursuivre une carrière d'actrice, Joan Weldon intègre la tournée américaine (jusqu'en 1961) de la comédie musicale de Meredith Willson The Music Man, en vedette aux côtés de Forrest Tucker. De novembre 1961 à janvier 1962, elle tient son unique rôle à Broadway (New York) dans la comédie musicale Kean , avec Alfred Drake personnifiant Edmund Kean.

Suivent deux comédies musicales du tandem Rodgers-Hammerstein, Oklahoma ! (1963, avec Fess Parker, à New York et en tournée) et La Mélodie du bonheur (1964, à Fort Worth, dans le rôle de Maria Rainer), ainsi qu'une adaptation de l'opérette viennoise La Veuve joyeuse de Franz Lehár (1964, avec Mischa Auer, à New York).

Mariée en 1966, Joan Weldon se consacre désormais à sa famille, mais revient toutefois pour une ultime apparition sur scène, dans l'opérette de Sigmund Romberg The Desert Song , en 1980 à Sacramento.

Usually with

Ann Doran
Ann Doran
(3 films)
Clem Bevans
Clem Bevans
(2 films)
Olin Howland
Olin Howland
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Joan Weldon (11 films)

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Actress

Home Before Dark, 2h16
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist II, Mabel Albertson, Stephen Dunne
Roles Frances Barrett
Rating69% 3.4958053.4958053.4958053.4958053.495805
Tout juste guérie d'une dépression nerveuse, Charlotte Bronn rentre chez elle où son mari Arnold va tenter de l'aider. Les parents de Charlotte étant très peu concernés par l'état de leur fille et celle-ci soupçonnant une aventure entre sa mère et son mari, elle tombe amoureuse d'un professeur d'université.
Day of the Badman, 1h22
Directed by Harry Keller
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon, John Ericson, Robert Middleton, Marie Windsor, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Myra Owens
Rating62% 3.147583.147583.147583.147583.14758
Le juge Jim Scott veut condamner un meurtrier à la peine de mort, mais les membres de la famille du hors-la-loi ont l'intention de faire autrement. Le tout-puissant patriarche Charlie Hayes et son entourage sont persuadés qu'ils peuvent utiliser la violence pour faire commuer la peine de leur parent condamné à un simple bannissement. Alors que le shérif Barney Wiley faiblit sous les manigances de la famille, le juge Scott reste résolu à faire en sorte que justice soit faite.
Gunsight Ridge, 1h25
Directed by Francis D. Lyon
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Addison Richards, George Chandler, Carolyn Craig
Roles Molly Jones
Rating62% 3.146163.146163.146163.146163.14616
This script must be run from the command line
Deep in My Heart, 2h12
Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors José Ferrer, Helen Traubel, Merle Oberon, Walter Pidgeon, Doe Avedon, Paul Henreid
Roles Performer in New Moon
Rating63% 3.1509853.1509853.1509853.1509853.150985
Biographie romancée du compositeur autrichien Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951), auteur de nombreuses comédies musicales à succès sur Broadway au début du XX siècle.
The Command, 1h34
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Guy Madison, Joan Weldon, James Whitmore, Carl Benton Reid, Harvey Lembeck, Ray Teal
Roles Martha Cutting
Rating63% 3.19543.19543.19543.19543.1954
Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
Them!
Them! (1954)
, 1h34
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Giant monster films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, William Schallert, Fess Parker
Roles Dr. Pat Medford
Rating71% 3.59673.59673.59673.59673.5967
New Mexico State Police troopers Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) and Ed Blackburn (Chris Drake) discover a little girl in shock, wandering the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. They retrace her steps to a mobile home owned by an FBI agent named Ellinson, who was on vacation in the area with his family. The side of the trailer was ripped open from the outside, the rest of the family is missing and no money was taken. A single unidentifiable animal track seems to be the only clue. Then a strange, pulsating high-pitched noise echos out of the desert on the wind. The little girl briefly reacts in fear when she hears the sound, but this is not noticed by those around her.
Riding Shotgun, 1h13
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Wayne Morris (acteur britannique), Joan Weldon, Charles Bronson, Joe Sawyer
Roles Orissa Flynn
Rating63% 3.196143.196143.196143.196143.19614
Stagecoach guard Larry Delong is ambushed by a gang of outlaws associated with a man he's searching for, Dan Marady, who murdered Delong's sister and nephew. But when he returns to the town of Deep Water, nearly everyone there believes that Delong was involved in the holdup, in which the stage driver was killed.
The Stranger Wore a Gun, 1h23
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Lee Marvin, Alfonso Bedoya
Roles Shelby Conroy
Rating58% 2.9484152.9484152.9484152.9484152.948415
Jeff Travis (Randolph Scott), a former spy for Quantrill's Raiders, rides to Arizona to start a new life. Finding that his reputation has preceded him, crooked Jules Mourret (George Macready) hires him to monitor a series of gold shipments, in preparation for a major robbery. Travis falls in love with Shelby Conroy (Joan Weldon), daughter of freight-line operator Jason Conroy (Pierre Watkin), and decides to turn honest.
The System
The System (1953)
, 1h30
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Paul Picerni, Robert Arthur, Don Beddoe, Jerome Cowan
Roles Felice Stuart
Rating63% 3.1605753.1605753.1605753.1605753.160575
An honest bookmaker discovers the hard way that his line of work is a lot more dangerous that he first thought.