Angie Dickinson
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Kulm, North Dakota, USA
Born in Kulm, North Dakota and educated at Glendale College and Immaculate Heart College, Angeline Brown acquired her professional name Angie Dickinson when she married college football star Gene Dickinson. A beauty contest winner, Dickinson entered films with an unbilled bit in the 1954 Warner Bros. musical Lucky Me. Her earliest films consisted mostly of "B" Westerns (at one point, she dubbed in actress Sarita Montiel's voice in 1957's Run of the Arrow) and television (Dickinson was rather nastily murdered in very first episode of Mike Hammer). She moved to the A-list when selected by Howard Hawks to play the female lead in Rio Bravo (1958). The film gave Dickinson ample opportunity to display her celebrated legs, which, for publicity purposes, were reportedly insured by Lloyd's of London. She went on to star in films both famous and forgettable: one of the roles for which she is best remembered is as the mistress of gangster Ronald Reagan (!) in The Killers (1964). In 1974, Dickinson jump-started her flagging career as the star of the TV cop drama Police Woman, which lasted four seasons and represented a tremendous step up in popularity for Dickinson. On that program, the actress played Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson, an undercover agent with the LAPD's criminal conspiracy division, whose assignments nearly always included donning a crafty and sexy guise in order to nab an underworld criminal.At about the same time, Dickinson also moved into motion pictures and (after years of consciously avoiding nude scenes), went au naturel for exploitation king Roger Corman in that producer's depression-era romp Big Bad Mama, which unsurprisingly became a cult favorite. (Years later, in 1987, she teamed up with Z-grade shlockmeister Jim Wynorski for New World's Big Bad Mama II). Brian DePalma's Psycho-influenced thriller Dressed to Kill (1980) brought the actress greater visibility, and like the Corman assignments, required Angie to do erotic nudity (though in this case, the below-the-waist shower shots were reportedly performed by a body double).In later years, Dickinson leaned more heavily on starring and supporting turns in made-for-television productions, including a telemovie follow-up to Police Woman, Police Woman: The Freeway Killings (1987); the Oliver Stone miniseries Wild Palms (1993); the direct-to-video thriller The Maddening (1995) (opposite longtime friend and colleague Burt Reynolds); and the prime-time soaper Danielle Steele's Rememberance (1996). The next decade found the septuagenarian actress unexpectedly returning to A-list Hollywood features, albeit in small supporting roles; these included Duets (2000), Pay it Forward (2000) and Ocean's Eleven (2001) (in a cameo as herself, nodding to her involvement in the original).Angie Dickinson was married to composer Burt Bacharach from 1965 to 1980.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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97% | Paul Williams Still Alive |
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$38.1k | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Mending Fences |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Brando |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 3055 Jean Leon |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Elvis Has Left the Building |
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— | 2004 |
33% | The Last Producer |
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— | 2002 |
83% | Ocean's Eleven |
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$183.4M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Rat Pack |
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— | 2001 |
42% | Big Bad Love |
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$0.2M | 2001 |
39% | Pay It Forward |
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$32.9M | 2000 |
21% | Duets |
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$4.3M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Final Hit |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Sealed with a Kiss, (Longfellow Bridge) |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Sealed with a Kiss |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | National Lampoon's The Don's Analyst |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Howard Hawks: American Artist |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Sun, the Moon and the Stars |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Danielle Steel's 'Remembrance' |
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— | 1996 |
65% | Sabrina |
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— | 1995 |
75% | The Crossing Guard |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | The Maddening |
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— | 1995 |
19% | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Wild Palms |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Treacherous Crossing |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Prime Target |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Fire and Rain |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Once upon a Texas Train |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Big Bad Mama II |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Jealousy |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | One Shoe Makes It Murder |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Dial M for Murder |
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— | 1981 |
33% | Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen |
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— | 1981 |
17% | Death Hunt |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Klondike Fever |
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— | 1980 |
80% | Dressed to Kill |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Jig Saw |
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— | 1979 |
71% | Big Bad Mama |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Pray for the Wildcats |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | The Norliss Tapes |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Un homme est mort (A Man Is Dead), (Funerale a Los Angeles) (The Outside Man) |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler |
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— | 1971 |
8% | Pretty Maids All in a Row |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Young Billy Young |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Some Kind of a Nut |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Sam Whiskey |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | The Last Challenge |
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— | 1967 |
92% | Point Blank |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | The Poppy Is Also a Flower |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | Cast a Giant Shadow |
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— | 1966 |
89% | The Chase |
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— | 1966 |
0% | The Art of Love |
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— | 1965 |
80% | The Killers |
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— | 1964 |
60% | Captain Newman, M.D. |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Rome Adventure |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | The Sins Of Rachel Cade |
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— | 1961 |
48% | Ocean's 11 |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | The Bramble Bush |
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— | 1960 |
100% | Rio Bravo |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | I Married a Woman |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Cry Terror! |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | China Gate |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Run of the Arrow |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Gun the Man Down |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Tension at Table Rock |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Hidden Guns |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Man with the Gun |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Tennessee's Partner |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | The Return of Jack Slade |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Lucky Me |
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— | 1954 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Judging Amy
1999-2005
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No Score Yet |
Ellen
1994-1998
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100% |
The Larry Sanders Show
1992-1998
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No Score Yet |
Empty Nest
1988-1995
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
The Fugitive
1963-1967
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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Quotes from Angie Dickinson's Characters
Feathers: | Me, I just talk all the time. |
Sheriff John T. Chance: | You most certainly do. |