Dawn Wells
Immortalized in American popular culture as the epitome of small town wholesomeness after playing shipwrecked farm girl Mary Ann Summers for three years on the popular sitcom "Gilligan's Island" (CBS, 1964-1967), Dawn Wells was an entertainment industry lifer who continued to work for 50 years. The great-granddaughter of an old West stagecoach driver and first-born child of a Las Vegas real estate mogul, Wells ditched her pre-med studies at Missouri's Stevens College when she discovered the campus drama department. While obtaining a theatre degree at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wells won the 1959 Miss Nevada competition. Denied the Miss America crown in 1960, the diminutive but determined Hollywood hopeful headed west, securing paying work in less than two months. A cultural icon by the age of 30, Wells returned to the role of her lifetime 10 years after the cancellation of "Gilligan's Island" for a run of made-for-TV reunion movies. A vivacious entrepreneur, spokesperson, acting coach, film festival founder and philanthropist, not even a 2007 arrest for marijuana possession could tarnish Dawn Wells' enduring reputation as the ultimate girl next door.
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Dawn Wells
Filmography
Movies
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American Christmas | Executive Producer | - | 2019 |
20% |
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The Gilligan Manifesto | Self | - | 2018 |
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This Is Our Time | Margo (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Silent But Deadly | Rose (Character) | - | 2012 |
29% |
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Super Sucker | Super Sucker (Character) | - | 2003 |
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Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three-Hour Tour in History | Self | - | 2001 |
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Evil Lives | Lucille Perkins (Character) | - | 1992 |
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High School U.S.A. | Unknown (Character) | - | 1983 |
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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island | Mary Ann Summers (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Castaways on Gilligan's Island | Mary Ann Summers (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Rescue From Gilligan's Island | Mary Ann Summers (Character) | - | 1978 |
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Return to Boggy Creek | Jolene (Character) | - | 1977 |
42% |
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Helen Reed (Character) | - | 1976 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bold And The Beautiful, The Beginning | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 1 vs. 100 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girlfriends | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
19% | No Score Yet | Three Sisters | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
83% | No Score Yet | Good vs. Evil | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
76% | 78% | Roseanne | Darlene (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Space Ghost: Coast to Coast | Guest | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baywatch | Mary Ann Summers (Guest Star) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Growing Pains | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 79% | ALF | Mary Ann Summers (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gilligan's Planet |
Mary Ann Summers/ |
1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1968 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
90% | 74% | Gilligan's Island | Mary Ann Summers (Character) | 1964-1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joey Bishop Show | Connie (Guest Star) | 1962 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Millie (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Yvonne Martell (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheyenne | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Meego | Unknown (Guest Star) |