Barbara Darrow

Barbara Darrow

Born: November 18, 1931
Died: August 26, 2018
in Hollywood, California, USA
Barbara Darrow (November 18, 1931 - August 26, 2018) was an American actress. She was born in Hollywood, California, to George H. Wittlinger, a motion picture landscape artist, and Alice Simpson Wittlinger, a former silent screen actress. She graduated from Hollywood High School.

Darrow's work as a model led to her receiving offers of film contracts. On August 31, 1950, a judge approved her seven-year contract with RKO Studios. She made mostly B-movie films in the 1950s, including The Monster That Challenged The World and Queen of Outer Space. She replaced Marla English opposite Spencer Tracy in The Mountain, after English had an adverse reaction to a smallpox vaccine. By 1955 she was one of only three actors under contract to RKO.

On television, Darrow portrayed Nurse Forester in the NBC medical drama Doctors' Hospital. She also made several appearances in one or two episodes of popular television shows in the 1950s. Some of these include The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Bachelor Father, The Bob Cummings Show, M Squad, and Peter Gunn.

Movies for Barbara Darrow...

Title: Love, American Style
Character: Elizabeth
Released: September 29, 1969
Type: TV
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
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Title: Mission: Impossible
Character: Proprietress
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: TV
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
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Tall Story
Title: Tall Story
Character: Frieda Jensen
Released: April 6, 1960
Type: Movie
A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.
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The Silent Kill
Title: The Silent Kill
Character: Linda Hollander
Released: August 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Retired football player and current P. I. Brock Callahan (Ken Clark) is hired to investigate the death of a decorator. The police think it's a suicide, but Callahan's not so sure. Directed by Don Siegel from a script by Stirling Silliphant as the pilot for a CBS television show called "Brock Callahan" which was not picked up.
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Queen of Outer Space
Title: Queen of Outer Space
Character: Kaeel
Released: September 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A mission to Venus discovers the planet inhabited only by women led by their evil Queen Yllana. Yllana had all the men of Venus killed, now that's she met Earth men, she wants them dead, too.
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The Monster That Challenged the World
Title: The Monster That Challenged the World
Character: Jody Simms
Released: June 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
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The Mountain
Title: The Mountain
Character: Simone
Released: May 31, 1956
Type: Movie
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.
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Diane
Title: Diane
Character: Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
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The French Line
Title: The French Line
Character: Donna Adams
Released: February 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.