Most Recent Role: Vicky Coles on Holby City
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.
Birthday: 4-28-1929
Birth Name: Carolyn Sue Baker
Date of Death: 8-3-1983
Cause of Death: Colon Cancer
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.
Birthday: 4-28-1929
Birth Name: Carolyn Sue Baker
Date of Death: 8-3-1983
Cause of Death: Colon Cancer
Trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, Texas-born Carolyn Jones supported herself as a radio disk jockey when acting jobs were scarce. She entered films as a bit player in 1952, attaining prominence for a role in which (for the most part) she neither moved nor spoke: the waxwork Joan of Arc -- actually one of mad sculptor Vincent Price's many murder victims -- in 1953's House of Wax. In 1957, Jones...
Most Recent Appearance
Soft Centred
Tuesday 2 August 2005 on BBC-1
Owen is preoccupied at work as his ex-wife Laura is trying to get an injunction to stop him seeing his daughter Katie. Ric wants his job back and Tricia helps Michael out of a jam.
Carolyn's favorite performers were Danny Kaye and Spike Jones.
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Carolyn suffered from asthma as a child and wasn't able to go in to movies, but spent all of her free time reading movie magazines.
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Carolyn specifically asked her sister to have her tombstone read "She gave joy to the world."
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Carolyn proposed to her first husband, Aaron Spelling, by having a waiter at an Italian restaraunt bring the note with her proposal during their dinner.
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Carolyn worked with Alfred Hitchcock in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).
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Carolyn: I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.
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Other Appearances
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Capitol
Myrna Clegg (#1) (1982-1983) |
The Addams Family
Morticia Addams |
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Batman (1966)
Marsha, Queen Of Diamonds |
Password
Carolyn Jones |
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The Addams Family
Ophelia Frump |
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Cheney Vase Pamela Waring |
Biography
Carolyn Jones: Morticia and More Herself (archival footage) |
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Bracken's World
King David |
Burke's Law
Who Killed Sweet Betsy? Betsy Richards, Jane Richards, Meredith Richards & Olivia Manning |
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Burke's Law
Who Killed Madison Cooper? Carole Durand |
City Detective
A Girl's Best Friend Alene |
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Capitol
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CAPITOL was a political soap opera about three families, the McCandless, the Cleggs and the Tylers. The McCandless family was headed by Clarissa, a widow. She and her husband, Baxter, had five... more
The Addams FamilyThe Addams Family centers around one of the two "creepy" families that premiered on television in 1964. ABC aired The Addams Family and CBS aired The Munsters . The Addams Family... more
