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Bethel Leslie

Acting

Born August 3, 1929 · New York, New York, USA

Died November 28, 1999

Also known as Jane Bethel Leslie

Biography

Born in New York City in 1928, Bethel Leslie was a prolific stage, film and TV actress, active on and off Broadway from 1944 to 1999, and in film and television from 1949 to 1999. She was also an occasional screenwriter for television. Beside the stage, she worked mainly in television, in numerous TV series such as "Perry Mason", "Rawhide", "Wagon Train" and "Gun Law".

Awards & recognition

  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actress in a Play · 1986 · nominated

Filmography40 titles

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955as Mabel

Kung Fu

1972as Rita Coblenz

Perry Mason

1957as Janet Morris

The Wild Wild West

1965

Bonanza

1959as Ann Grant

The Fugitive

1963as Marcie King

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Family

1976Writer

Rawhide

1959as Martha Hastings

The White Shadow

1978as Mrs. Lawrence

The Rifleman

1958

Daniel Boone

1964as Zerelda Fluellen

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958as Carole Easter

Maverick

1957as Janet Kilmer

Mannix

1967

The High Chaparral

1967as Annie Simmons

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948as Self

The Gift of Love

1978as Agnes

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963as Mrs. Helene Winston

Thriller

1960as Ann Merriweather

Route 66

1960as Lori Barton

Gunsmoke

1955as Elsa Poe

Saint Maybe

1998as Mrs. Dulcimer

The Rabbit Trap

1959as Abby Colt

Wagon Train

1957as Helen Martin

Letter to Loretta

as Shirley Parker

The Virginian

1962as Lydia Turner

Tales of Tomorrow

Message in a Bottle

1999as Marta Land

Ironweed

1987as Librarian

The Molly Maguires

1970as Mrs. Kehoe

Bat Masterson

1958as Mildred Conrad

In Cold Blood

Lights Out

The Texan

Falcon Crest

1981Writer

One Step Beyond

1959as Betty Barrett

Naked City

1958as Amy Langan

Old Boyfriends

1979as Mrs. Vantil

A Rage to Live

1965as Amy Hollister