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Whitney Blake
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Whitney Blake
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1926-02-20,Eagle Rock, California, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Whitney Blake (February 20, 1926 — September 28, 2002) was an American film and television actress, director and producer. Blake was born as Nancy Ann Whitney in 1926 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, the first child of Martha Mae Wilkensen and Harry Whitney. Her childhood was spent traveling across the country with her family, attending 16 different schools. Attending Pasadena City College, Blake worked in small-theater groups in the Los Angeles area, and in the summer, worked at her mother's ice cream stand in MacMinneville, Oregon. After her appearance in an amateur Hollywood production of "The Women" caught the attention of talent scouts, she appeared on a number of television programs, including the syndicated Johnny Midnight, Sheriff of Cochise, and twice on Rod Cameron's State Trooper. In addition, she guest-starred on Mike Connors's Tightrope detective series, in the 1960 episode "High Bridge" of the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. She also appeared in the first episode of the syndicated western series Pony Express in the episode "The Good Samaritan". Her guest appearance in the short-lived series "The D.A.'s Man" garnered an Emmy nomination in 1959. Blake is best remembered for having portrayed Dorothy Baxter, an interior designer and the wife of George Baxter (Don DeFore), a lawyer, on the NBC sitcom Hazel (1961), starring Shirley Booth in the title role as a bossy maid. In the last season on CBS, DeFore and Blake left the series and were replaced by Ray Fulmer and Lynn Borden, respectively in the roles of Steve and Barbara Baxter, the younger brother and sister-in-law of George Baxter. After Hazel ended, she guest-starred in an episode of ABC's western series The Legend of Jesse James starring Christopher Jones in the title role. In 1967 she played attorney Lee Drake on The Andy Griffith Show. As demand for her in network television and films dwindled, Blake became a hostess of a Los Angeles television talk show. After that, Blake again reinvented herself and became a film and television director, producer, and writer. Blake guest starred as "Angie" in "Incident of the Curious Street" in Series 1 Episode 13 of Rawhide, and played leading lady to James Garner in "The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick," the 1958 second season opener for Maverick. She appeared on the first episode of the long running television program Perry Mason as the defendant Evelyn Bagby (and at least one later episode), and appeared in the first film version of a Mike Hammer novel when she starred in My Gun Is Quick in the 1950s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Whitney Blake, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

5.962

-30-
1959-11-11

My Gun Is Quick

5.5

My Gun Is Quick
1957-08-01

Collector’s Item

10

Collector’s Item
1957-12-01

6.5

Returning Home
1975-04-29

Destination Space

4.667

Destination Space
1959-01-01

2.5

Fright Flick
2011-01-25

8

Law and Order
1976-05-06

The Lycanthrope

0

The Lycanthrope
2007-02-01

The Fatal Impulse

1

The Fatal Impulse
1960-11-29

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

4

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
1970-09-20

Strange Homecoming

8.5

Strange Homecoming
1974-10-29

The Stranger Who Looks Like Me

6.5

The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1974-03-06

4.8

The Betsy
1978-02-02

The Andy Griffith Show

7.6

The Andy Griffith Show
1960-10-03

77 Sunset Strip

7.1

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

7.311

Batman
1966-01-12

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

6.679

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.658

Cannon
1971-09-14

6.4

Laredo
1965-09-16

7.224

Rawhide
1959-01-09

The Millionaire

5.75

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

6.514

The Virginian
1962-09-19

6.675

Thriller
1960-09-13

6

The Aquanauts
1960-09-14

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

6.2

Here's Boomer
1981-09-12

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

6.8

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01

5.429

M Squad
1957-09-20

6.833

Hazel
1961-09-28

Adventures in Paradise

6.143

Adventures in Paradise
1959-10-05

Pete and Gladys

6.25

Pete and Gladys
1960-09-19

6

Bronco
1958-09-23

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

6.333

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958-10-06

6.778

Branded
1965-01-24

6.5

Riverboat
1959-09-13

9

Wire Service
1956-10-04

6

The Texan
1958-09-29

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

6.2

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05

The Legend of Jesse James

5.8

The Legend of Jesse James
1965-09-13

Pete Kelly's Blues

8

Pete Kelly's Blues
1959-04-05

6.1

Cheyenne
1955-09-20

8

Panic!
1957-03-05

Letter to Loretta

6.571

Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20

8.2

Hunter
1977-02-18

6.333

Tightrope
1959-09-08

6.94

Maverick
1957-09-22

6.94

Maverick
1957-09-22

7

Alcoa Theatre
1957-09-30

6.5

The Deputy
1959-09-12

The Mike Douglas Show

5.8

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11

6.679

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

The Millionaire

5.75

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

6.2

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05

7.521

Bonanza
1959-09-12

The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

9

The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1958-09-26

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

6.833

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1958-01-07

6.1

Cheyenne
1955-09-20

6

The Outsider
1968-09-18

The Wonderful World of Disney

7.9

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954-10-27

6.755

Mannix
1967-09-16

Love, American Style

6.105

Love, American Style
1969-09-29

5.714

State Trooper
1956-09-25

6.725

Route 66
1960-10-07

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

7.097

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964-09-22

6

Bronco
1958-09-23

5

Medical Story
1975-09-04