Biography
Carolyn Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American film and television actress. She began her career in the early 1950s and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising actresses of 1959. In 1964 she began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the television series The Addams Family.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 1958 · nominated
Filmography44 titles
The Addams Family
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The Big Heat
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Quincy, M.E.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Roots
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Batman
Last Train from Gun Hill
Wonder Woman
How the West Was Won
The Seven Year Itch
Ironside
House of Wax
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The War of the Worlds
Four Star Playhouse
Shield for Murder
Lux Video Theatre
Wagon Train
Désirée
Fantasy Island
The Virginian
Dragnet
King Creole
The Love Boat
The Turning Point
Treasury Men in Action
A Hole in the Head
The Tender Trap
Road to Bali
Sail a Crooked Ship
Make Haste to Live
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Halloween with the New Addams Family
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Eaten Alive
Heaven with a Gun
The Opposite Sex
The Man in the Net
Three Hours to Kill
Mr. & Mrs. North