Lola Albright
Lola Albright (born July 20, 1924 in Akron , Ohio - † March 23, 2017 in Toluca Lake , California ) was an American actress and singer .
Life
Lola Albright was working as a model when she went to Hollywood to begin a film career. In 1948 she had her first short appearance in Vincente Minnelli's dance film The Pirate . Her first important supporting role was in Mark Robson's 1949 Between Women and Ropes at the side of Kirk Douglas . In the next ten years she mainly played supporting roles and had her first appearances in television series . She gained greater fame with the role of the friend of the title hero Peter Gunn in the crime series of the same name. She played this role in 85 episodes from 1958 to 1961 and received an Emmy Award nomination for this work in 1959 . It owed its resulting popularity to the recording of a record with songs by Henry Mancini , who had also written the score for Peter Gunn . The LP was released in 1959.
In the 1960s she got bigger film roles. At the Berlinale 1966 , she was for her role in MollyMauk, the boy wonder of George Axelrod with the Silver Bear Award. Lola Albright played in television series until the early 1980s and then retired from the film business.
Lola Albright was married three times. First from 1944 to 1949 with the announcer Warren Dean, then from 1952 to 1958 with the actor Jack Carson and from 1961 to 1975 with the pianist Bill Chadney . She died on March 23, 2017 at the age of 92 in Toluca Lake , Los Angeles .
Discography
- 1957: Lola Wants You (Kern)
- 1959: Dreamsville (Columbia)
Filmography (selection)
- 1948: The Pirate (The Pirate)
- 1948: Easter Parade (Easter Parade)
- 1949: Between women and ropes (Champion)
- 1950: Beauty on Parade
- 1950: Cowboy Vengeance in Oklahoma (Sierra Passage)
- 1953: The Silver Whip
- 1955: The Tender Trap
- 1955: The Night is ours (The Magnificent Matador)
- 1955–1957: Everyone Loves Bob ( The Bob Cummings Show ; television series, seven episodes)
- 1957: The Monolith Monsters (The Monolith Monsters)
- 1957: The attack on the Rio Morte (Pawnee)
- 1958–1961: Peter Gunn (TV series, 85 episodes)
- 1960: A Cold Wind in August
- 1962: Kid Galahad - hard fists, hot love (Kid Galahad)
- 1964: Like big cats (Les Félins)
- 1965–1966: Peyton Place (TV series, 14 episodes)
- 1965/1967: Bonanza (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1966: Mollymauk, the boy wonder (Lord Love a Duck)
- 1967: The Way West (The Way West)
- 1968: As the lights went out (Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?)
- 1968: Everything That Is Forbidden (The Impossible Years)
- 1973: Mission in Manhattan (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1976: Columbo - Mord im Bistro ( Fade in to Murder ; TV movie)
- 1978: The two with the shoot (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1981: The Incredible Hulk (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1984: Airwolf (TV series, 1 episode)
Web links
- Lola Albright at Allmusic (English)
- Lola Albright at Discogs (English)
- Lola Albright at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Mark J. Price: Akron native Lola Albright, glamorous Hollywood actress, dies at age 92. In: Ohio.com. Akron Beacon Journal, March 23, 2017, accessed March 24, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albright, Lola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Akron , Ohio , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd March 2017 |
| Place of death | Toluca Lake , Los Angeles , California , United States |