Audrey Totter obit

Audrey Totter, 1940s film noir actress, dead at 95

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Audrey Totter, the radio actress who became a silver screen star by playing femme fatales in 1940s film noir including "Lady in the Lake," has died.

Totter's daughter, Mea Lane, tells the Los Angeles Times that her mother died Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. She was 95 and had recently had a stroke.

Totter was under contract with MGM starting in 1944. After landing a small part in "The Postman Always Rings Twice," Totter went on to a series of roles as tough-talking blondes.

Her breakthrough came with "Lady in the Lake," the 1947 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe detective tale. She also appeared in the thriller "The Unsuspected" and the boxing drama "The Set-Up."

After retiring to raise a family, Totter later resurfaced on television.

 

Filmography and TV appearances

 

    1945: Main Street After Dark as Jessie Belle Dibson

    1945: Dangerous Partners as Lili Roegan

    1945: Bewitched as Karen (voice, uncredited)

    1945: Ziegfeld Follies as Phone Operator ('Number Please') (voice, uncredited)

    1945: The Hidden Eye as Perfume Saleslady (uncredited)

    1945: Her Highness and the Bellboy as Mildred (uncredited)

    1945: The Sailor Takes a Wife as Lisa Borescu

    1945: Adventure as Ethel (uncredited)

    1946: The Postman Always Rings Twice as Madge Gorland

    1946: The Cockeyed Miracle as Jennifer Griggs

    1946: Lady in the Lake as Adrienne Fromsett

    1946: The Secret Heart as Dinner Party Guest (voice, uncredited)

    1947: The Beginning or the End as Jean O'Leary

    1947: The Unsuspected as Althea Keane

    1947: High Wall as Dr. Ann Lorrison

    1948: The Saxon Charm as Alma Wragg

    1949: Alias Nick Beal as Donna Allen

    1949: The Set-Up as Julie

    1949: Any Number Can Play as Alice Elcott

    1950: Tension as Claire Quimby

    1951: The Blue Veil as Helen Williams

    1951: F.B.I. Girl as Shirley Wayne

    1952: The Sellout as Cleo Bethel

    1952: Assignment: Paris as Sandy Tate

    1952: My Pal Gus as Joyce Jennings

    1953: Woman They Almost Lynched as Kate Quantrill

    1953: Man in the Dark as Peg Benedict

    1953: Cruisin' Down the River as Sally Jane Jackson

    1953: Champ for a Day as Miss Peggy Gormley

    1953: Mission Over Korea as Kate, Nurse-Lieutenant

    1954: Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) as Lila Lamont

    1954: Massacre Canyon as Flaxy

    1954: The Whistler (TV Series) as Kay Fallon

    1955: Women's Prison as Joan Burton

    1955: A Bullet for Joey as Joyce Geary

    1955: Science Fiction Theatre (TV Series) as Ellie Ferguson

    1955: Fireside Theatre (TV Series)

    1953–1955: The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series) as Breezy Adams / Joyce Evans

    1955: The Vanishing American as Marion Warner

    1956: Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) as Cheryl

    1956: The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) as Ellen Benson

    1956: Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) as WAF Dietician

    1956: Matinee Theatre (TV Series)

    1956: Warner Brothers Presents (TV Series)

    1956: Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) as Martha Phillips

    1957: The Joseph Cotten Show (TV Series) as Ellen Parsons

    1957: Ghost Diver as Anne Stevens

    1957: The Californians (TV Series) as Dr. Louise Kendall

    1958: Suspicion (TV Series) as Marie Farrell

    1955–1958: Climax! (TV Series) as Anna Lederer / Dr. Helen Koenig / Edna Shaddick

    1958: Cheyenne (TV Series) as Martha Fullerton

    1958: Jet Attack as Tanya Nikova

    1958: Man or Gun as Fran Dare

    1958: Wagon Train (TV Series) as Goldie

    1958: Lux Playhouse (TV Series)

    1958–1959: Cimarron City (TV Series) as Beth Purcell (Recurring role, 21 episodes)

    1957–1959: The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) as Clara Appleby / Nancy Lump Lump

    1959: Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) as Martha Gregory

    1960: The Lineup (TV Series) as Mary

    1960: The Ann Sothern Show (TV Series) as Lil

    1960: The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) as Mrs. Page

    1961: My Darling Judge (TV Movie)

    1954–1961: General Electric Theater (TV Series) as Betsy Dunn / Olga Lemaire / Mary Lund / Ellen

    1960–1961: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) as Mrs. Philips / Betsy Blake

    1962: Route 66 (TV Series) as Babe Hunter

    1962: Rawhide (TV Series) as Vada Nordquist

    1962–1963: Our Man Higgins (TV Series) as Alice MacRoberts (Recurring role, 34 episodes)

    1964: Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) as Mrs. Myra Moran

    1964: The Carpetbaggers as Prostitute

    1964 Perry Mason (TV Series) as Reba Burgess

    1965: Harlow as Marilyn

    1965–1966: Dr. Kildare (TV Series) as Ella Vitnack / Norma Littell

    1966: Bonanza (TV Series) as Beth Riley

    1967: Chubasco as Theresa

    1967: The Outsider (starring Darren McGavin) as Mrs. Bishop

    1968: Run for Your Life (TV Series) as Dorothy Young

    1969: Ironside (TV Series) as Norma Baum

    1967–1969: The Virginian (TV Series) as Audry / Mrs. Archer

    1970: The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (TV Series) as Edith Powell

    1970: Insight (TV Series) as Mrs. Goddard

    1973: Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) as Mrs. Royce

    1975: Harry O (TV Series) as Mrs. Dante

    1975: Police Story (TV Series) as Judge

    1976: Matt Helm (TV Series) as Mrs. Simmons / Ellen's mom

    1969–1976: Medical Center (TV Series) as Nurse Eve Wilcox

    1978: The Nativity (TV Movie) as Elizabeth

    1979: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again as Martha Osten - Blind Cabin Widow

    1980: The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway (TV Movie) as Judge

    1984: City Killer (TV Movie) as Receptionist

    1987: Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) as Sister Paul (final appearance)