Lois Nettleton
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| Lois June Nettleton | |
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| Image:Lois Nettleton at the 1989 Emmy Awards.jpg Lois Nettleton at the 1989 Emmy Awards | |
| Born | August 6 circa 1929 Oak Park, Illinois |
Lois June Nettleton is an actress of film, stage and television. She was Miss Chicago of 1948, as well as a semi-finalist at that year's Miss America Pageant.
Born near Chicago to Edward and Virginia Nettleton, her career stretches all the way back to 1949. She understudied Barbara Bel Geddes in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and first appeared on television in Captain Video. Since then she has performed dozens of guest-starring roles on shows ranging from the original Twilight Zone series, where she starred in the classic 1961 episode, "The Midnight Sun", to Cagney & Lacey, Seinfeld and Baywatch Nights. She also appeared on the soap opera General Hospital.
In recent years she has done several voice roles for Disney series such as Mickey's House of Villains, House of Mouse and Herc's Adventures. She also starred on the first season of In the Heat of the Night.
[edit] Marriage
She was the first caller to disk jockey/writer Jean Shepherd's late-night program on WOR-AM. She became a regular guest, known to listeners as "The Caller", and they married in 1960, divorcing seven years later. They had no children.
[edit] External links
- Lois Nettleton at the Internet Movie Databasepl:Lois Nettleton
