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Whitney Blake (February 20, 1926 — September 28, 2002) was an American film and television actress, director and producer.
Blake was born as Nancy Ann Whitney in 1926 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, the first child of Martha Mae Wilkensen and Harry Whitney. Her childhood was spent traveling across the country with her family, attending 16 different schools. Attending Pasadena City College, Blake worked in small-theater groups in the Los Angeles area, and in the summer, worked at her mother’s ice cream stand in MacMinneville, Oregon.
After her appearance in an amateur Hollywood production of “The Women” caught the attention of talent scouts, she appeared on a number of television programs, including the syndicated Johnny Midnight, Sheriff of Cochise, and twice on Rod Cameron’s State Trooper.
In addition, she guest-starred on Mike Connors’s Tightrope detective series, in the 1960 episode “High Bridge” of the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. She also appeared in the first episode of the syndicated western series Pony Express in the episode “The Good Samaritan”. Her guest appearance in the short-lived series “The D.A.’s Man” garnered an Emmy nomination in 1959.
Blake is best remembered for having portrayed Dorothy Baxter, an interior designer and the wife of George Baxter (Don DeFore), a lawyer, on the NBC sitcom Hazel (1961), starring Shirley Booth in the title role as a bossy maid. In the last season on CBS, DeFore and Blake left the series and were replaced by Ray Fulmer and Lynn Borden, respectively in the roles of Steve and Barbara Baxter, the younger brother and sister-in-law of George Baxter.
After Hazel ended, she guest-starred in an episode of ABC’s western series The Legend of Jesse James starring Christopher Jones in the title role. In 1967 she played attorney Lee Drake on The Andy Griffith Show. As demand for her in network television and films dwindled, Blake became a hostess of a Los Angeles television talk show. After that, Blake again reinvented herself and became a film and television director, producer, and writer.
Blake guest starred as “Angie” in “Incident of the Curious Street” in Series 1 Episode 13 of Rawhide, and played leading lady to James Garner in “The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick,” the 1958 second season opener for Maverick. She appeared on the first episode of the long running television program Perry Mason as the defendant Evelyn Bagby (and at least one later episode), and appeared in the first film version of a Mike Hammer novel when she starred in My Gun Is Quick in the 1950s.
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Whitney Blake Biography / Wiki
| Name | Whitney Blake |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Eagle Rock, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1926-02-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday | 2002-09-28 |
Whitney Blake Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Lycanthrope | Lisa | 2007-02-01 | Three friends road trip to the home of one friend’s deceased relative to gather personal belongings and documents. Locals in the town discuss some biz… |
| My Gun Is Quick | Nancy Williams | 1957-08-01 | Detective Mike Hammer’s investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves…. |
| The Boy Who Stole the Elephant | Helen Owens | 1970-09-20 | A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, wh… |
| Destination Space | 1959-01-01 | 1959 television science fiction… | |
| Strange Homecoming | Peggy Harwood | 1974-10-29 | A small-town sheriff is surprised to see his brother show up in town, a man whom he hasn’t seen in 20 years–and who has graduated from petty thievery… |
| Collector’s Item | Jan Hendricks | 1957-12-01 | Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased col… |
| -30- | Peggy Gatlin | 1959-11-11 | A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom…. |
| Returning Home | Millie Stephenson | 1975-04-30 | The story of three returning World War II veterans, and how they try to cope with returning to civilian life…. |
| The Stranger Who Looks Like Me | Emma Verko | 1974-03-06 | A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping… |
| Fright Flick | Kat | 2011-01-25 | A second rate film crew is shooting the third in a trilogy of tasteless (yet cheesy) horror flicks called FRIGHT FLICK. The schmuck-of-a-director can’… |
| Law and Order | Mary-Ellen Crowley | 1976-05-06 | Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Creator | The misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and new building superintendent in Indianapolis…. | ||
| Creator | In a reimagining of the TV classic, a newly single Latina mother raises her teen daughter and tween son with the “help” of her old-school mom…. | ||
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