Barbara Baxley
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Baxley in 1960.
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| Born | Barbara Angie Rose Baxley Porterville, California, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film, stage, television actress |
| Years active | 1950–1990 |
Barbara Baxley (January 1, 1923 – June 7, 1990) was an American actress and singer.
Early life
Barbara Angie Rose Baxley was born in Porterville, California, the daughter of Emma (née Tyler) and Bert Baxley.[1]
Career
A life member of the Actors Studio,[2] Baxley also studied acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City. Her first film was East of Eden, where she portrayed Adam Trask's obnoxious nurse at the end of the film. She made a guest appearance in 1958 on Perry Mason as Enid Griffin in "The Case of the Gilded Lily". In 1961, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress (Dramatic) for her performance in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' comedy, Period of Adjustment.
She appeared in Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, as well as the 1960s Broadway musical She Loves Me, which co-starred Jack Cassidy, Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey. She also starred in the 1976 Broadway play Best Friend. She appeared in supporting roles in many television series of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, including her performance as a wife having her rodeo-performing husband, played by Lee Van Cleef, murdered in the CBS crime drama series, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring David Janssen and a widow of a bank robber in "Have Gun Will Travel" starring Richard Boone.
Death
Baxley died at age 67 at her home in Manhattan of an apparent heart attack.[3]
References
- ↑ Barbara Baxley profile, filmreference.com; accessed May 18, 2015.
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- ↑ "Barbara Baxley, 67, Who Acted In Theater, Movie and TV Roles", The New York Times, June 9, 1990.
External links
- Barbara Baxley at the Internet Movie Database
- Barbara Baxley at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Barbara Baxley at AllMovie
- Barbara Baxley at Find a Grave
- Barbara Baxley Papers, 1911-1988, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- New York Public Library blog about Barbara Baxley and William Inge
- Articles with hCards
- 1923 births
- 1990 deaths
- 20th-century American actresses
- 20th-century American singers
- Actresses from California
- Actors Studio members
- American film actresses
- American musical theatre actresses
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- Disease-related deaths in New York
- People from Porterville, California
