Phyllis Avery
Phyllis Avery ( born November 14, 1922 according to other sources: 1924 in New York City; † 19 May, 2011 Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress.
Life
Phyllis Avery was born as the daughter of the American theater writer and screenwriter Stephen Morehouse Avery and his wife Evelyn Martine Avery. She grew up in France and Los Angeles.
Avery completed his acting training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Her Broadway debut she had previously given already in May 1937, with the role of Goldie in the musical Orchids Preferred. 1940/1941 she appeared in the hit comedy Charley's Aunt on Broadway. She played on the side of José Ferrer, the role of Amy Spettigue, one of the young naive girl. From November 1943 to May 1944 she starred on Broadway in the musical theater piece Winged Victory by Moss Hart, a production of the U.S. Army Air Forces, in over 200 performances, the role of Dorothy Ross. One of their partners was the actor Don Taylor, the Avery later married.
Her film debut was in 1951 with the Avery role of the young girl Marjorie in the film comedy Queen for a Day. In 1952 she played the role of Tracy McAuliffe, the wife of the embodied Charlton Heston movie character Boake Tackman, in the MGM film Ruby Gentry drama. In 1956, she was beside Gordon MacRae, Ernest Borgnine, and Dan Dailey to the cast of the musical fanfare of joy, a biopic about three composers. She embodied Margaret Henderson, the wife of the music teacher and composer Ray Henderson.
Despite some more film roles Avery since the 1950s worked mainly as a television actress. She was seen in the continuous series roles, Episode roles and guest roles in more than 40 television series. From 1953 to 1955 she embodied as a professor wife Peggy McNutley the wife of Ray Milland in the U.S. sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley. From 1960 to 1962 she took over the role of Anne Shelby on the soap opera The Clear Horizon; she played the wife of a stationed in Cape Canaveral U.S. astronauts who feels attracted to another man.
She had, among other appearances in the television series Richard Diamond, Private Investigator (1957-1959), Perry Mason ( 1958, 1961), West of Santa Fe (1959 ), one thousand miles Dust (1959 ), Peter Gunn ( 1960), at the foot of blue Mountains (1960; 1963), people of the Virginian (1963 ), Dr. Kildare (1963 ), Daniel Boone (1967 ), All in the Family (1973 ) Charlie's Angels (1977) and Baretta (1978 ).
In the late 1970s ended Avery her career as an actress. For some sporadic film and television roles, she returned in the 1990s, again in front of the camera back, including for film comedy Made in America and the comedy series Coach.
Avery worked as a real estate agent since the 1960s in Los Angeles and the surrounding area.
Private
Avery married in 1944 to actor Don Taylor, whom she had met in the Broadway production of Winged Victory; the marriage was divorced in 1955. From this marriage two daughters were born.
Avery died at the age of 88 years at her home in Los Angeles of heart failure.