Peggie Castle

Peggie Castle

Born: December 22, 1927
Died: August 11, 1973
in Appalachia, Virginia, USA
Peggie Castle (December 22, 1927 – August 11, 1973) was an American actress who specialized in playing the "other woman" in B-movies. Castle was Miss Cheesecake in 1949.

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Title: The Virginian
Character: Melissa
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: Lawman
Character: Lily Merrill
Released: October 5, 1958
Type: TV
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
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Title: The Texan
Character: Charlotta Rivera
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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Title: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Character: Joan Barry
Released: January 7, 1958
Type: TV
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer. The gritty, crime fighting detective—created by American crime author Mickey Spillane—has also inspired several feature films and made-for-TV movies.
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Seven Hills of Rome
Title: Seven Hills of Rome
Character: Carol Ralston
Released: November 21, 1957
Type: Movie
After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.
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Title: The Restless Gun
Character: Amity Hobbs
Released: September 23, 1957
Type: TV
The Restless Gun is an American western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict wherever possible. He is gregarious, intelligent, and public-spirited. The half-hour black-and-white program aired seventy-eight episodes. Jeanne Bates appeared in varying roles with Payne in five episodes of The Restless Gun. The Restless Gun theme song begins: "I ride with the wind, my eyes on the sun, and my hand on my restless gun..." The song composer is probably Paul Dunlap, credited as the primary series composer, but could have been contributed to by either of the two other series composers, Dave Kahn and Stanley Wilson, also. Two versions are currently posted on YouTube, but neither posting lists any composer or performance credits.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Sally Fenner
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Back from the Dead
Title: Back from the Dead
Character: Mandy Hazelton Anthony
Released: August 12, 1957
Type: Movie
A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The woman's sister, husband and the sister's new boyfriend struggle with accepting what has happened, who has caused it and how to correct it, which soon brings them into contact with a coven of devil-worshippers and forces of the supernatural.
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Beginning of the End
Title: Beginning of the End
Character: Audrey Aimes
Released: June 28, 1957
Type: Movie
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
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Hell's Crossroads
Title: Hell's Crossroads
Character: Paula Collins
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their help in bringing Jesse and his brother Frank (Douglas Kennedy) to justice. Peggie Castle and Barton MacLane also star in this tale of the Old West's most famous traitor.
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Title: O. Henry Playhouse
Character: Fern Kilbane
Released: January 23, 1957
Type: TV
The O. Henry Playhouse was an early American anthology television series which featured television adaptations of short stories written by 19th-century author O. Henry and primarily set in New York City. The series was both hosted and narrated by Thomas Mitchell, who portrayed the title character, and featured several television and film stars during its run such as DeForest Kelley, Lisa Montell, Otto Kruger, Max Showalter and Ernest Borgnine. The series was syndicated and initially ran from January 23 to May 25, 1957, and its final episode aired on November 19 of that year.
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The Counterfeit Plan
Title: The Counterfeit Plan
Character: Carole Bernard
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Jenny
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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The Oklahoma Woman
Title: The Oklahoma Woman
Character: Marie 'Oklahoma' Saunders
Released: June 15, 1956
Type: Movie
After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Title: Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Character: Maylene Mason
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
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Miracle in the Rain
Title: Miracle in the Rain
Character: Millie Kranz
Released: March 31, 1956
Type: Movie
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
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Target Zero
Title: Target Zero
Character: Ann Galloway
Released: November 15, 1955
Type: Movie
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
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Two-Gun Lady
Title: Two-Gun Lady
Character: Karen Marshall, alias Kate Masters (as Peggy Castle)
Released: October 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A young woman teaches herself to become a sharpshooter so she can hunt down the three men who murdered her parents. She finds a sheriff who is willing to help her track them down.
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Title: Cheyenne
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Nita Tucker
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Tall Man Riding
Title: Tall Man Riding
Character: Reva
Released: June 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
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Finger Man
Title: Finger Man
Character: Gladys Baker
Released: June 15, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Candy Caldwell AKA Alice C. Horton (The Face)
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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The White Orchid
Title: The White Orchid
Character: Kathryn Williams
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
In the Southern Mexican jungle, an adventurous archaeologist is accompanied by an equally daring female photographer in a search for a lost Toltec city. They engage a guide to lead them on their expedition, and soon find themselves in the jungle's depths, far from civilization. Soon both the guide and the archaeologist are vying for the affection of the photographer. They must all deal with enormous danger and sacrifice before their quest is complete.
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Overland Pacific
Title: Overland Pacific
Character: Ann Dennison
Released: October 26, 1954
Type: Movie
A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.
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Jesse James' Women
Title: Jesse James' Women
Character: Waco Gans
Released: September 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Jesse James leaves Missouri for Mississippi, and immediately charms all the women in Mississippi out of their bloomers and garters. His first conquest is the banker's daughter who helps him loot the bank in exchange for a promise of marriage; he wanders over to the saloon and runs the crooked partner of the proprietress out of town, takes all of his-and-her money and leaves her, between kisses, hounding him for her share; the third one, the saloon singer, actually makes a mark out of him as she cons him into a boxing match against a professional fighter and he loses the fight and his money, but he holds the singer and the fighter up as they leave town and gets his money back; and then he romances and swindles Cattle Kate, a replay of what he had done somewhere before to Kate.
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The Long Wait
Title: The Long Wait
Character: Venus
Released: May 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.
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The Yellow Tomahawk
Title: The Yellow Tomahawk
Character: Katherine
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
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99 River Street
Title: 99 River Street
Character: Pauline Driscoll
Released: August 21, 1953
Type: Movie
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
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I, the Jury
Title: I, the Jury
Character: Charlotte Manning
Released: August 14, 1953
Type: Movie
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.
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Son of Belle Starr
Title: Son of Belle Starr
Character: Julie Wren
Released: June 26, 1953
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious female bandit Belle Starr wants to live an honest life, but finds himself getting drawn into his mother's old profession.
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Cow Country
Title: Cow Country
Character: Melba Sykes
Released: April 25, 1953
Type: Movie
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
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Invasion, U.S.A.
Title: Invasion, U.S.A.
Character: Carla Sanford
Released: December 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Molly Barry
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Wagons West
Title: Wagons West
Character: Ann Wilkins
Released: July 6, 1952
Type: Movie
Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.
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Harem Girl
Title: Harem Girl
Character: Princess Shareen
Released: January 22, 1952
Type: Movie
The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
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The Golden Horde
Title: The Golden Horde
Character: Lailee
Released: September 30, 1951
Type: Movie
The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
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Bright Victory
Title: Bright Victory
Character: Eleanor (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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The Prince Who Was a Thief
Title: The Prince Who Was a Thief
Character: Princess Yasmin
Released: May 17, 1951
Type: Movie
An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.
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Air Cadet
Title: Air Cadet
Character: Pat
Released: March 14, 1951
Type: Movie
A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
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Payment on Demand
Title: Payment on Demand
Character: Diana Ramsey
Released: February 3, 1951
Type: Movie
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Coat-Check Girl at Bay View Club (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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I Was a Shoplifter
Title: I Was a Shoplifter
Released: May 13, 1950
Type: Movie
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
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Buccaneer's Girl
Title: Buccaneer's Girl
Character: Cleo
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
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Outside the Wall
Title: Outside the Wall
Character: Crossroads Tavern Waitress (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.
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Woman in Hiding
Title: Woman in Hiding
Character: Diner Waitress (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Title: Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Character: Jean Auchincloss
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.