Anjanette Comer

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Anjanette Comer (born August 7, 1939 in Dawson , Texas ) is an American actress . She played the female lead in films like Death in Hollywood , Southwest to Sonora , $ 25,000 for a Man or San Sebastian in the 1960s .

life and career

Anjanette Comer was born in 1939 (other sources refer to 1942) in Dawson, Texas, to Rufus Franklin and Nola (Dell) Comer. As a teenager, she participated in basketball, cheerleading, and beauty pageants. After attending Baylor University in Waco and the University of Texas , Anjanette Comer came to California at the age of 18. There she studied acting for two years at the Pasadena Playhouse to prepare for a career as an actress.

At the beginning of the 1960s, she played her first smaller parts in well-known television series such as Heat Wave , Dr. Kildare or in western series like Smoking Colts and Bonanza .

In 1964 she made her feature film debut with the female lead in Delbert Mann's comedy Rasch, before it melts at the side of George Maharis and Robert Morse , followed in 1965 by a memorable role in the satire Death in Hollywood by director Tony Richardson again alongside actor Robert Morse . There she played a seductive undertaker.

Since the mid-1960s she was a busy actress in many American films such as Sidney J. Furies Western Southwest to Sonora, where she played alongside Marlon Brando . In 1967 she had the female lead in Ron Winston's drama $ 25,000 for a man alongside Robert Wagner . In 1968 she cast Henri Verneuil in his Western San Sebastian between actors like Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson . Films like John Updike's theatrical version followed , Rabbit . 1971 Sidney Hayers Hunt Through Fire as the female co-star of Chad Everett . She then took on roles in horror films such as Revenge of the 1000 Cats or in Ted Posts The Baby . In 1977 she appeared in Alan Arkin's comedy It burns on all corners , alongside actors such as Rob Reiner and Vincent Gardenia .

Since the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s she played mostly in TV films and popular TV series and Comer was only seen sporadically in feature films. In 1964 she had a guest role in Bonanza and in 1972 she starred in an episode of Columbo with Peter Falk . This was followed by roles in well-known television series such as Petrocelli , Harry O , The Bad Five , The Crooks' Coast , Bumpers Revier , Baretta , Mike Hammer , Hotel , Jake and McCabe , Perry Mason , Profiler or Practice - The Lawyers

Anjanette Comer's film career includes around 60 international cinema, television films and television series. Anjanette Comer's first marriage to actor Walter Koenig and from 1976 to 1983 with screenwriter Robert Klane.

Her uncle was the four-time Oscar- winning Hollywood production designer Sam Comer .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1964: Quick Before It Melts
  • 1965: Death in Hollywood (The Loved One)
  • 1966: Southwest to Sonora (The Appaloosa)
  • 1967: $ 25,000 for a man (Banning)
  • 1968: San Sebastian (La bataille de San Sebastian)
  • 1968: In Enemy Country
  • 1970: Let's get away, Rabbit (Rabbit, Run)
  • 1971: Hunt through the fire (The Firechasers)
  • 1972: Columbo (Etudes in black) Season 2, Episode 1
  • 1972: The revenge of the 1000 cats (La noche de los mil gatos)
  • 1973: The Baby
  • 1975: The New York gang boss (Lepke)
  • 1977: It burns in every corner (Fire Sale)
  • 1992: Under the Voodoo (Netherworld)
  • 1995: the other side of the coin (Underneath)
  • 2003: Screen Door Jesus
  • 2011: A Bird of the Air

literature

Web links

Commons : Anjanette Comer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Anjanette Comer in: Television Guest Stars: An Illustrated Career Chronicle for 678 Performers of the Sixties and Seventies , by Jack Ward, McFarland, 1993, p. 119
  2. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Comer, Anjanette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comer, Anji
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dawson , Texas , United States