Anne Francis
Smoldering sex symbol Anne Francis is most remembered for her role in the sci-fi movie "Forbidden Planet" and her title part in the detective show "Honey West." Born in 1930 in Ossining, New York, Francis began work as a model as a young girl and made her Broadway debut at just 11 years old. She starting appearing as beautiful blondes in motion pictures in the late '40s, an archetype that continued into the mid-'50s when she starred opposite Spencer Tracy in the thriller "Bad Day at Black Rock" as the only kind soul in an inhospitable town. Francis took the lead in the '55 juvenile delinquent classic "Blackboard Jungle" before journeying to the future with Leslie Nielsen's hero in "Forbidden Planet," playing one of the alien world's few surviving inhabitants. In the '60s, Francis began to act extensively on the small screen, and took the starring role in "Honey West"; she played a comely private eye who solves her cases with the help of hi-tech gadgets, sex appeal, and her pet ocelot, Bruce. Although she rarely appeared in feature films during subsequent decades, Francis maintained an active career on television well into her 70s; she died in 2011 at age 80.
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Anne Francis
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have You Seen My Son? | Catherine Pritcher (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lover's Knot | Marian Hunter (Character) | $5.0K | 1996 |
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The Double O Kid | Maggie Lomax (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Double 0 Kid | Mrs. Lomax (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Vegas | Martha (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder by Night | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My First Love | Terry (Character) | - | 1988 |
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Poor Little Rich Girl | Marjorie Post Hutton (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laguna Heat | Helene Long (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Masterpiece of Murder | Ruth Beekman (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return | Eileen Sedgeley (Character) | - | 1985 |
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Mazes and Monsters | Ellie (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Detour to Terror | Sheila (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Mo | Sophie Fisher (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born Again | Patty Colson (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Young Runaways | Marian Lockhart (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Banjo Hackett | Flora Dobbs (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Abide With Me | Winnie Mason (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Survival | Anne (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Girl Named Sooner | Selma Goss (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Survivors | Helen Dixon (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cry Panic | Julie (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Horse of a Slightly Different Color | Katherine Wells (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy No. 1 | Colette (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Life | Midge Ross (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chant of Silence | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
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Pancho Villa | Flo (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Desafío de Pancho Villa | Unknown (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fireball Forward | Helen Sawyer (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Haunts of the Very Rich | Annette Larrier (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mongo's Back in Town | Angel (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August: The Jealousy Factor | Nina Porter (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Forgotten Man | Marie Hardy Forrest (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Intruders | Leora Garrison (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Women | Jean Marshek (Character) | - | 1970 |
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Hook, Line & Sinker | Nancy Ingersoll (Character) | - | 1969 |
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More Dead Than Alive | Monica Alton (Character) | - | 1969 |
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The Love God? | Lisa LaMonica (Character) | - | 1969 |
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Impasse | Bobby Jones (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lost Flight | Gina Talbott (Character) | - | 1969 |
95% |
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Funny Girl | Georgia James (Character) | $223.3K | 1968 |
57% |
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The Satan Bug | Ann Williams (Character) | - | 1965 |
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Brainstorm | Lorrie Benson (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl of the Night | Robin "Bobbie" Williams (Character) | - | 1960 |
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The Crowded Sky | Kitty Foster (Character) | - | 1960 |
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Don't Go Near the Water | Lt. Alice Tomlen (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hired Gun | Ellen Beldon (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great American Pastime | Betty Hallerton (Character) | - | 1956 |
94% |
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Forbidden Planet | Altaira Morbius (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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The Rack | Aggie Hall (Character) | - | 1956 |
74% |
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Blackboard Jungle | Anne Dadier (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Battle Cry | Rae (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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The Scarlet Coat | Sally Cameron (Character) | - | 1955 |
97% |
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Bad Day at Black Rock | Liz Wirth (Character) | - | 1955 |
43% |
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Susan Slept Here | Isabella Alexander (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Rogue Cop | Nancy Corlane (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rocket Man | June Brown (Character) | - | 1954 |
67% |
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A Lion Is in the Streets | Flamingo McManamee (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Dreamboat | Carol Sayre (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lydia Bailey | Lydia Bailey (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Elopement | Jacqueline 'Jake' Osborne (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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The Whistle at Eaton Falls | Jean (Character) | - | 1951 |
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So Young, So Bad | Loretta Wilson (Character) | - | 1950 |
93% |
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Portrait of Jennie | Teenager in art gallery (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1948 |
71% |
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Summer Holiday | Elsie Rand (Character) | - | 1948 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 75% | Without a Trace | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Drew Carey Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Home Improvement | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wings | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
43% | No Score Yet | Burke's Law | Honey Best (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Lee Haley (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Golden Girls | Trudy McMann (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Finder of Lost Loves | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Partners in Crime | Sarah - Health Instructor (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Riptide | Mama Jo (Character) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon | Angel Barkley (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CHiPs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 1980-1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Littlest Hobo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Liz Adams (Guest Star) | 1976 1978 |
100% | 82% | Wonder Woman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 1975 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Kung Fu | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Banacek | Katherine Wells (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Peggy Angel (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Columbo | Nurse Sharon Martin (Guest Star) | 1972-1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Sarah (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August | Nina Porter (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Felice Greer (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honey West | Honey West (Character) | 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1963 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Victoria Greenly (Guest Star) | 1964 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Gloria Fowler (Guest Star) | 1963-1964 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Marsha White (Character) | 1960 1963 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Nyla Foster (Character) | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lights Out | Unknown (Character) | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1949 |