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Jameson was also a television actress. She was a regular member of the cast on ''[[Club Oasis]]''.{{r|etvs|page1=195}} She made two appearances on ''[[Perry Mason]]'': first as Lorraine Iverson who killed her husband in the 1963 episode, "The Case of the Floating Stones", then as Dolly Jameson in the 1965 episode, "The Case of the Feather Cloak". She also had roles on |
Jameson was also a television actress. She was a regular member of the cast on ''[[Club Oasis]]''.{{r|etvs|page1=195}} She made two appearances on ''[[Perry Mason]]'': first as Lorraine Iverson who killed her husband in the 1963 episode, "The Case of the Floating Stones", then as Dolly Jameson in the 1965 episode, "The Case of the Feather Cloak". She also had roles on ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Stagecoach West]]'', ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', ''[[McHale's Navy]]'', ''[[My Favorite Martian]]'', ''[[The Munsters]]'', ''[[F-Troop]]'', ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' (in the 1967 episode "The Great Brinksmeyer Robbery", as Mady Pleiffer), ''[[Alias Smith and Jones]]'', ''[[Emergency!]]'' and ''[[Barney Miller]]''. She appeared in ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' (in the 1974 episode "The Dexter Crisis", as Marge White). Later in the 1970s, she appeared in ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' and ''[[The Feather and Father Gang]]'', and in the early 1980s in ''[[The Love Boat]]''. |
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Her ongoing role as Skippy<ref name="etvs">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=43|edition=2nd}}</ref> paired with Daphne (played by ''[[Jean Carson]]'') in the ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' established ''[[The Fun Girls]]'', and inspired the characters for the later series ''[[Laverne & Shirley]]''. |
Her ongoing role as Skippy<ref name="etvs">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=43|edition=2nd}}</ref> paired with Daphne (played by ''[[Jean Carson]]'') in the ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' established ''[[The Fun Girls]]'', and inspired the characters for the later series ''[[Laverne & Shirley]]''. |
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Joyce Jameson | |
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| Born | September 26, 1932 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | January 16, 1987 (aged 54) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Resting place | Cremains scattered into the Pacific Ocean |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1951–1984 |
| Spouse | Billy Barnes (divorced) |
| Children | Tyler Barnes (b. 1953) |
Joyce Jameson (September 26, 1932 – January 16, 1987) was an American actress, known for many television roles, including recurring guest appearances as “Skippy”, one of the "fun girls" in the 1960s television series The Andy Griffith Show, as well as for film portrayals such as the woman taken advantage of by philandering businessmen, and credited only as "The Blonde" in the 1960 Academy Award winner The Apartment.
Early years
Jameson was born in Chicago.[1] She graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[2]
Career
Stage
Jameson's Broadway credits include Venus at Large (1961), The Billy Barnes People (1961) and The Billy Barnes Revue (1959).[3]
Films
Jameson began work in the early 1950s with numerous uncredited roles in films and television. She made her film debut in 1951 playing a chorus girl dancer in the motion picture Show Boat. Her other notable film credits of that early period included Problem Girls (1953), Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957) and The Apartment (1960).
In 1962, she starred alongside Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in the Roger Corman horror film Tales of Terror as Annabel Herringbone. She played Lorre's vulgar, unfaithful wife and during the course of the film she and her paramour (Price) were locked up in Lorre's wine cellar. One year later, she again starred alongside Lorre and Price in the raucous comedy The Comedy of Terrors (released in 1964), where she was more typically cast as she had been in the 1950s. In 1964, she appeared as a hotel hooker in the comedy Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider.
For Jameson, 1966 proved to be an important year. She starred as Abigail in the Elvis Presley film Frankie and Johnny and in Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! alongside Bob Hope and Elke Sommer. She also appeared in 1968's The Split, a crime film with Jim Brown and Warren Oates, and in an unsold comedy pilot for CBS called The Mouse That Roared but it was never released.
In the 1970s, Jameson had notable roles in films such as Death Race 2000 (1975) playing Grace Pander and she appeared in the 1976 Clint Eastwood western The Outlaw Josey Wales as Rose, further illustrating that her acting spanned a great number of genres. She also appeared in Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and one of her last roles was Hardbodies (1984).
Television
Jameson was also a television actress. She was a regular member of the cast on Club Oasis.[4]: 195 She made two appearances on Perry Mason: first as Lorraine Iverson who killed her husband in the 1963 episode, "The Case of the Floating Stones", then as Dolly Jameson in the 1965 episode, "The Case of the Feather Cloak". She also had roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gunsmoke, Stagecoach West, The Twilight Zone, McHale's Navy, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, F-Troop, Hogan's Heroes (in the 1967 episode "The Great Brinksmeyer Robbery", as Mady Pleiffer), Alias Smith and Jones, Emergency! and Barney Miller. She appeared in The Rockford Files (in the 1974 episode "The Dexter Crisis", as Marge White). Later in the 1970s, she appeared in Charlie's Angels and The Feather and Father Gang, and in the early 1980s in The Love Boat.
Her ongoing role as Skippy[4] paired with Daphne (played by Jean Carson) in the The Andy Griffith Show established The Fun Girls, and inspired the characters for the later series Laverne & Shirley.
Jameson provided one of the voices for the cartoon series Jokebook.[4]: 543
Jameson also was co-host of Tempo III, a program on KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, California.[5]
Personal life and death
She was married to actor/songwriter Billy Barnes for many years; they had one child, a son named Tyler Barnes. Subsequently, Jameson was a longtime girlfriend of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. star Robert Vaughn. She acted opposite Vaughn as the guest star on a 1966 U.N.C.L.E. episode, "The Dippy Blond Affair".
According to Vaughn's autobiography, A Fortunate Life, Jameson suffered from depression. She was also an insomniac and regularly took Miltown to help her sleep.[6]
On January 16, 1987, Jameson committed suicide by overdosing on pills at the age of 54.[7] Her body was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.
Selected filmography
| Film | |||
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| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1951 | Show Boat | Chorus Girl | Uncredited |
| 1951 | The Strip | Show Girl | Uncredited |
| 1951 | The Son of Dr. Jekyll | Barmaid | Uncredited |
| 1953 | Problem Girls | Peggy Carstairs | |
| 1954 | Phffft! | Secretary | Uncredited |
| 1956 | Crime Against Joe | Gloria Wayne | |
| 1956 | Tension at Table Rock | Singer | Uncredited |
| 1957 | Tip on a Dead Jockey | Sue Fan Finley | |
| 1960 | The Apartment | The Blonde | |
| 1962 | Tales of Terror | Annabel Herringbone | (segment "The Black Cat") |
| 1963 | The Balcony | Penitent | |
| 1963 | The Comedy of Terrors | Amaryllis Trumbull | |
| 1964 | Good Neighbor Sam | Elsie Hooker | |
| 1966 | Frankie and Johnny | Abigail | |
| 1966 | Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! | Telephone operator | |
| 1968 | The Split | Jennifer | |
| 1975 | Death Race 2000 | Grace Pander | |
| 1976 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | Rose | |
| 1976 | Scorchy | Mary Davis | Alternative title: Race with Death |
| 1979 | Every Which Way But Loose | Sybil | |
| 1980 | Pray TV | Millie Peebles | Alternative title: K-GOD |
| 1983 | Ladies Night | Emcee | |
| 1983 | The Man Who Loved Women | Uncredited | |
| 1984 | Hardbodies | Rounder's Mom | |
| 1984 | Lovelines | Mary Assquith | (final film role) |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1956 | Science Fiction Theatre | Nina Lasalle | 1 episode |
| 1958 | Playhouse 90 | Miss Cooper | 1 episode |
| 1959 | Yancy Derringer | Bonnie Mason | 1 episode |
| 1960 | The Betty Hutton Show | Beverly Bell | |
| 1961 | Lock-Up | Coralee | 1 episode |
| 1961–1963 | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | Lola LaVerne | 3 episodes |
| 1962 | Outlaws | Lotus | 1 episode |
| 1962–1965 | Andy Griffith Show | Skippy | 3 episodes |
| 1963 | The Danny Thomas Show | Nikki Stewart | 1 episode |
| 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Rosie Feather | 1 episode |
| 1963 | McHale's Navy | Kate O'Hara | 1 episode |
| 1964 | Grindl | Laverne | 1 episode |
| 1965 | The Baileys of Balboa | Mary Brown | 1 episode |
| 1965 | The Munsters | Miss Valentine | Season 1 Episode 22 |
| 1966 | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Jojo Tyler | Season 2 Episode 16 |
| 1966 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Blanche | 1 episode |
| 1966 | Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. | Irene | 1 episode |
| 1966 & 1967 | Hogan's Heroes | Mady Pfeiffer Eva Mueller |
1 episode 1 episode |
| 1967 | The Big Valley | The Blonde | 1 episode |
| 1967 | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Shirley Fummer | 1 episode |
| 1969 | The Virginian | Millie | 1 episode |
| 1970 | Run, Simon, Run | Esther | Television movie Alternative titles: Savage Run The Tradition of Simon Zuniga |
| 1971 | Ironside | Mrs. Akerman | 1 episode |
| 1972 | Women in Chains | Simpson | Television movie |
| 1973 | Here's Lucy | Prisoner | 1 episode |
| 1974 | Movin' On | Angela Wentworth | 1 episode |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Marge White | 1 episode |
| 1975 | The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant | Mrs. Graham | Television movie |
| 1976 | Baretta | Lucille | 1 episode |
| 1977 | The Feather and Father Gang | Norma | 1 episode |
| 1978 | Crash | Sophie Cross | Television movie Alternative title: Crash of Flight 401 |
| 1979 | The Wild Wild West Revisited | Lola (Showgirl) | Television movie |
| 1982 | The Fall Guy | Lucille | 1 episode |
References
- ^ Johnson, Erskine (July 18, 1960). "Hollywood Today". The Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Texas, Corpus Christi. Newspaper Enterprise Association. p. 29. Retrieved April 14, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Gaver, Jack (March 25, 1962). "'Shadow' for Monroe? Joyce Just Fits". The Salt Lake Tribune. Utah, Salt Lake City. United Press International. p. 69. Retrieved April 14, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "("Joyce Jameson" search results)". Playbill Vault. Playbill. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
- ^ a b c Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
- ^ Vernon, Terry (November 30, 1967). "Progress Report on Ch. 9 Format". Independent. California, Long Beach. p. 48. Retrieved April 14, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Vaughn, Robert (2008). A Fortunate Life. Macmillan. p. 88. ISBN 0-312-37112-8.
- ^ Del Valle, David (2001-01-01). "CAMP DAVID JANUARY 2007". filmsinreview.com. p. 4. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
