Audrey Totter
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Audrey Totter (born December 20, 1918 in Joliet , Illinois - † December 12, 2013 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .
Life
Audrey Totter began her radio career, was signed to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film production company , and made her screen debut in Main Street After Dark in 1945 . In the Web of Passions was the first of a series of film noirs in which she appeared and which are now among her best-known films, including The Lady in the Lake , The Un suspect , Ring Free for Stoker Thompson and Tear Up . Totter was one of the actresses who were in conversation for the role of "Kitty Lester" in Robert Siodmak's Avengers of the Underworld , before it was awarded to Ava Gardner and made Gardner known overnight. From the early 1950s, after her contract with MGM ended, she increasingly shifted to appearances on television series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents , A Thousand Miles of Dust and The People of Shiloh Ranch . She last appeared in front of the camera in 1987 in the series Murder Is Her Hobby ( hereinafter Old Habits Die Hard ).
Audrey Totter was married to the doctor Leo Fred from 1953 until his death.
Filmography (selection)
- 1945: Main Street After Dark - Director: Edward L. Cahn
- 1945: Dangerous Partnership (Dangerous Partners) - Director: Edward L. Cahn
- 1945: The Sailor Takes a Wife - Director: Richard Whorf
- 1946: The Postman Always Rings Twice (The Postman Always Rings Twice) - Director: Tay Garnett
- 1946: The Cockeyed Miracle - Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
- 1947: Lady in the Lake (Lady in the Lake) - Director: Robert Montgomery
- 1947: The Beginning or the End - Directed by Norman Taurog
- 1947: The Unsuspected (The unsuspected) - Director: Michael Curtiz
- 1947: Indictment of Murder (High Wall) - Director: Curtis Bernhardt
- 1948: The Saxon Charm - Directed by Claude Binyon
- 1949: aka Nick Beal - Director: John Farrow
- 1949: Clear the Ring for Stoker Thompson (The Set-Up) - Director: Robert Wise
- 1949: stretched to breaking point (Tension) - Director: John Berry
- 1949: Any Number Can Play - Director: Mervyn LeRoy
- 1951: The Heart of a Mother (The Blue Veil) - Director: Curtis Bernhardt
- 1951: FBI Girl - Director: William Berke
- 1951: The Muzzle Before Eyes (Under the Gun) - Director: Ted Tetzlaff
- 1952: Budapest does not answer (Assignment: Paris) - Director: Robert Parrish
- 1953: On the death over (The Woman They Almost Lynched) - Director: Allan Dwan
- 1953: Man in the Dark - Director: Lew Landers
- 1955: Revolt in the Women's Prison - Director: Lewis Seiler
- 1955: Files XP 15 (A Bullet for Joey) - Directed by Lewis Allen
- 1955: The Vanishing American - Director: Joseph Kane
- 1958: Man or Gun - Director: Albert C. Gannaway
- 1964: The Insatiable (The Carpet Baggers)
- 1965: Harlow - Director: Alex Segal
Web links
- Audrey Totter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Audrey Totter on Thecolumnists.com (English)
- Audrey Totter in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Michael (Ed.): The American Movies Reference Book: The Sound Era. Prentice-Hall 1969, p. 232; Tracy Stevens (Ed.): International Television & Video Almanac 2002. Quigley Publishing, 2002, p. 421; Audrey Totter in the Internet Movie Database . The English Wikipedia entry gives 1917 as the year of birth, but the specified supporting sources Intelius.com and Ancestry.com are only available for a fee.
- ↑ PASSINGS: Audrey Totter
- ↑ a b c Geoff Mayer: Historical Dictionary of Crime Films. Scarecrow Press, Lanham (Maryland) 2012, pp. 372-373.
- ^ Joseph Greco: The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941–1951. Dissertation.com, 1999, ISBN 1-58112-081-8 , p. 91.
- ↑ James Bawden: Audrey Totter ( memento from September 23, 2008 in the web archive archive.today ) on Thecolumnists.com, accessed on February 24, 2013.
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SURNAME | Totter, Audrey |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1918 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Joliet , Illinois , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | December 12th 2013 |
Place of death | Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California , United States |