Angel Tompkins
Angel Tompkins | |
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| Born | Angel Stromberg |
| Spouse | Ted Lang |
Angel Tompkins (born December 20, 1942) is an American actress and Golden Globe nominee, who appeared in several films and television shows.[1][2]
Career
Angel Tompkins was a model and the host of a late night television show entitled "Ted & The Angel" in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles and beginning her television and film acting career in the late 1960s. She made her major film debut as the exquisitely seductive blonde who blatantly inserted herself between husband and wife Elliott Gould and Brenda Vaccaro in the comedy I Love My Wife (1970)for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. Studio politics and film promotional money, though, backed Carrie Snodgrass, another Universal contract player, who attained the honor of keeper of the statue.
She starred in Prime Cut (1972) with co-stars Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin and newcomer Sissy Spacek in a featured role as a young girl confined to a corral, She also appeared with Charles Bronson in Murphy's Law (1986). As a result of her starring in "Prime Cut," Miss Tompkins was 'used' as a film promotion in the pictorial "Angel" in the February 1972 edition of Playboy Magazine.[3]
On television, Tompkins appered in the pilot film for and some of the early episodes of Search (1972), and appeared in many guest spots in shows such as The Wild Wild West (1965), Mannix (1967), Police Woman (1970), Knight Rider (1982) and Simon & Simon (1981).
In 1988, Tompkins appeared with Ann-Margret in the film A Tiger's Tale,[4], and made her last film appearances in 1989 in Relentless (1989) and Crack House (1989). Tompkins has appeared in over three hundred television episodes during her career but was notable for burning down the "Pondarosa" in "Bonanza," as a conniving woman in the premier episode of "The Wild, Wild West," as "Grace, The Cruise Director" in "Three's Company." She is known for her flashing wit and off-the-cuff comments that seem to make it to script. Her last television appearance was in NCIS. She continues to appear in national Tv commercials.
In 1991 Tompkins was elected as National Recording Secretary of the Screen Actors Guild, and ran for President of the guild, but was unsuccessful in her bid during a record turnout of voters.[5][6]
Angel Tompkins is married to screen/television/comedy 're-writer'/columnist, Ted Lang, born in San Francisco before transitioning to Oakland/Berkeley where he met Angel Stromberg when they were children. They live between Los Angeles and San Francisco, have two children, several dogs, one cat and extensive collections of various stuff. Angel continues to be very active in the Screen Actors Guild (where she's been a National Board of Directors member for nineteen years) and her husband, who has gone gray, become aged and too cynical for his own good, is one of the lead Plaintiffs in the Television Writers of Age lawsuit, having worked and enjoyed a pleasant career in comedy re-writing with Sidney Marshall, Lucien Hubbard, Larry Tucker, Steven Barcus, Dom Deluise, Sandy Fries, ad infinitum and writing for many notable club and television stand-up comedians prior to losing his natural red highlights...
References
- ^ Angel Tompkins at IMDb
- ^ "Angel Tompkins to be star of the week". The Los Angeles Times. 1971-01-16.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Angel Tompkins". Playboy Magazine. 1972-02-01.
{{cite magazine}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help); Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ^ Film: 'A Tiger's Tale,' Starring Ann-Margret The New York Times
- ^ Kupcinet, Irving (1991-11-20). "Kup's Column". Chicago Sun-Times.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "SAG vote draws record turnout". Hollywood Reporter. 2002-03-08.
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