Claudia Barrett

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Claudia Barrett (* 3. November 1929 in Los Angeles , California as Imagene Williams ) is an American actress . She gained fame through the role of Alice in the 1953 low budget science fiction film Robot Monster .

Life

Imagene Williams was born in 1929 in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles . After attending high school there, she took a year of acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse and worked as an actress at the Encino Little Theater.

At the age of eighteen Williams signed a contract with Warner Brothers . She had her first small film appearance in 1949 in the role of a cashier in the film noir Leap to Death with James Cagney and Virginia Mayo . With the beginning of her acting career, she took on the stage name Claudia Barrett , which the producer Jack L. Warner had come up with for the young actress. After only a year, however, Barrett moved from Warner Brothers to Republic Pictures , but was not permanently employed there. This made it possible for her to work in films from other film studios.

In the years that followed, Barrett appeared in nearly 70 feature films and television series, including several westerns . She had her best-known film appearance in 1953 in the female lead as the alien monster Ro-Man kidnapped Alice in the science fiction film Robot Monster , which is one of the worst films of all time due to its low budget and the resulting bad special effects. but thereby achieved the status of a cult film . Barrett then spent most of her career appearing on a variety of television series, including two episodes of The Lone Ranger in 1953 and 1954, an episode of Lawman in 1960, and 77 Sunset Strip in 1961 . After ending her acting career in 1964, she worked for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Claudia Barrett was married to Alan Wells from 1953 to 1956. The marriage ended in divorce.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: Leap to Death (White Heat)
  • 1949: The Story of Seabiscuit
  • 1950: Rustlers on Horseback
  • 1950: The Devil's Pilot (Chain Lightning)
  • 1950: The Happy Years in Lawrenceville
  • 1950: The Great Jewel Robber at midnight
  • 1950: The Old Frontier
  • 1951: Night Riders of Montana
  • 1952: Desperadoes' Outpost
  • 1953: Robot Monster
  • 1953/1954: The Lone Ranger (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1954–1959: In the Wild West ( Death Valley Days ; TV series, three episodes)
  • 1955: The Talking Wire (TV movie)
  • 1955: A Life at Stake
  • 1955: Police Car 2150 ( Highway Patrol ; TV series, an episode)
  • 1960: Peter Gunn (TV series, an episode)
  • 1960: Lawman (TV series, an episode)
  • 1961: The Last Time I Saw Archie
  • 1961: You Have to Run Fast
  • 1961: 77 Sunset Strip (TV series, one episode)
  • 1962: Escape from Zahrain (Escape from Zahrain)
  • 1964: Taggart

literature

  • Paul Parla, Charles P. Mitchell: Screen Sirens Scream! . McFarland, Jefferson 2000, ISBN 0-7864-4587-4
  • Michael G. Fitzgerald, Boyd Magers: Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s . McFarland, Jefferson 2006, ISBN 1-4766-0796-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael G. Fitzgerald, Boyd Magers: Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s . McFarland, Jefferson 2000, ISBN 1-4766-0796-6 , page 15.
  2. ↑ Paul Parla, Charles P. Mitchell: Screen Sirens Scream! . McFarland, Jefferson 2000, ISBN 0-7864-4587-4 , p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Barrett, Claudia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Imagene (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States