Juli Reding, Actress in the Ghostly Horror Film ‘Tormented,’ Dies at 85
In her heyday in the 1960s, she also appeared on episodes of '77 Sunset Strip,' 'Burke's Law' and 'Dr. Kildaire.'
She was not on the list.
Juli Reding, who starred in the 1960 Bert I. Gordon horror film Tormented as a spurned woman who haunts the man who let her plunge to her death from a lighthouse balcony, has died. She was 85.
Reding died Sept. 16 in Springfield, Missouri, her family announced.
In Allied Artists’ Tormented, directed and co-written by famed horror maestro Gordon, Reding portrayed Vi Mason, the ex-girlfriend of a jazz musician (Richard Carlson) who’s planning to get married. When he refuses her advances, she threatens to blackmail him and ruin his life, which she manages to do as a ghostly apparition who at one point returns as a severed head.
One of seven children, Reding was born on Nov. 28, 1935, in Quanah, Texas. She graduated from Branson High School in Missouri and attended Southwest Missouri State University before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Signed by Warner Bros., she played a cigarette girl in Michael Curtiz’s The Helen Morgan Story (1957), starring Ann Blyth and Paul Newman, then appeared in Cowboy (1958), Darby’s Rangers (1958), Vice Raid (1959), Mission in Morocco (1959), Why Must I Die? (1960) and The Interns (1962).
On television, Reding showed up on episodes of 77 Sunset Strip, Sea Hunt, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Branded, Burke’s Law, Dr. Kildaire and The Big Valley and made her final onscreen appearance in 1987 on Murder, She Wrote. She also hosted her own talk show, Here’s Juli, on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles.
Survivors include her son, Christopher; grandson Christopher; sister Judy; and stepchildren Lynn and Jeffrey.
Her second husband, banker and Los Angeles Music Center co-founder Herbert Hutner, whom she married in 1969, died in 2008 at age 99. He was Zsa Zsa Gabor‘s fourth husband, married to the socialite from 1962-66.
Donations in her memory can be made to Help Give Hope, Harmony House or the Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks.
Actress (22 credits)
1987 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)
Mrs. Townsend
- Doom with a View (1987) ... Mrs. Townsend (as Juli Reding Hutner)
1986 Crossings (TV Mini Series)
Wife
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Wife (as Julie Reding)
1967 The Big Valley (TV Series)
Flo Briggs
- Four Days to Furnace Hill (1967) ... Flo Briggs
1966 Dr. Kildare (TV Series)
Miss Saftig
- No Other Road (1966) ... Miss Saftig (as Julie Reding)
1966 O.K. Crackerby! (TV Series)
Trixi
- Operation Susan (1966) ... Trixi (as Julie Reding)
1964-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
Clarice / 3rd Stripper
- Who Killed Nobody Somehow? (1965) ... Clarice (as Julie Reding)
- Who Killed Molly? (1964) ... 3rd Stripper
1965 Branded (TV Series)
Liz the Saloon Gal
- The Bounty (1965) ... Liz the Saloon Gal
1964 Take Me to Your Leader (TV Movie)
1962 The Interns
Party Girl (uncredited)
1961 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV Series)
Miss Evans
- Dancing Lessons (1961) ... Miss Evans
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series)
- The Wizard of Ice (1961)
1961 Sea Hunt (TV Series)
Blonde Woman
- Sonar Story (1961) ... Blonde Woman
1960 Lock Up (TV Series)
Willie Yates's Girl / Jeannie Lucas
- The Sisters (1960) ... Willie Yates's Girl
- So Shall Ye Reap (1960) ... Jeannie Lucas
1960 Tormented
Vi Mason
1960 Why Must I Die?
Mitzi
1960 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series)
Miss Saturn
- The Fix (1960) ... Miss Saturn
1959 Mission in Morocco
Carol Sampson
1959 Vice Raid
Gertie (uncredited)
1958 Darby's Rangers
Sexy Girl (uncredited)
1958 Cowboy
Reese's Girl (uncredited)
1957 Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series)
Bathing beauty #3
- Las Vegas Story (1957) ... Bathing beauty #3
1957 The Helen Morgan Story
Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
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