Jean Willes
Jean Willes made her acting career playing brassy, tough, sexually appealing, and sometimes vulgar characters, taking mostly costarring roles in B-movies, and even more minor ones in bigger films. She was often featured as one of the only female characters in a number of Three Stooges shorts, most notably in "A Snitch in Time" and "Gypped in the Penthouse." In the former, Willes played the attractive owner of a boarding house who teams up with the Stooges to hunt down a robber. In "Gypped in the Penhouse," Willes plays a calculating gold digger who scams all three of the Stooges. In one of her more significant roles, though still a costarring one, in a movie that was an unexpected hit and now a sci-fi cult classic, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," Willes played Nurse Sally Withers, right-hand assistant to the protagonist, who eventually becomes possessed by the alien pod people. The same year, Willes took another large role in a Western film that, though not particularly distinguished, was one of Clark Gable's last, "The King and Four Queens"; Willes played one of four calculating and sexy widows trying to seduce Gable's character. Willes became quite prevalent in the Western genre, though more so on television after the 1950s. One of her last bigger film parts was in the Rat Pack heist film "Ocean's Eleven," playing the widow of an electrician who was in on the casino robbery.
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Jean Willes
Filmography
Movies
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73% |
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Bite the Bullet | Rosie (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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The Cheyenne Social Club | Alice (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gun Street | Joan Brady (Character) | - | 1961 |
50% |
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By Love Possessed | Junie McCarthy (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Slowest Gun in the West | Kathy McQueen (Character) | - | 1960 |
94% |
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Elmer Gantry | Prostitute (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1960 |
45% |
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Ocean's Eleven | Mrs. Gracie Bergdorf (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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Desire Under the Elms | Florence Cabot (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hear Me Good | Rita Hall (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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The Man Who Turned to Stone | Tracy (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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The King and Four Queens | Ruby McDade (Character) | - | 1956 |
97% |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Nurse Sally Withers (Character) | - | 1956 |
40% |
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover | Gladys (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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5 Against the House | Virginia (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bowery to Bagdad | Claire Culpepper (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Count Three and Pray | Selma (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterson of Kansas | Dallas Corey (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All Ashore | Rose (Character) | - | 1953 |
88% |
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From Here to Eternity | Annette (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1953 |
33% |
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars | Capt. Olivia (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Yank in Indo-China | Cleo (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land | Denise (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Revenue Agent | Marge King (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chinatown at Midnight | Alice (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Winner's Circle | Jean Trent (Character) | - | 1948 |
100% |
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So Proudly We Hail | Lt. Carol Johnson (Character) | - | 1943 |
TV
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92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Ethel McConnell (Character) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 1964-1965 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Guns of Will Sonnett | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964-1965 |
83% | 92% | The Munsters | Mrs. Cartwright (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Francie Vollmer (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheyenne | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronco | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Flo (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lock Up | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bat Masterson | Lucy Slater (Guest Star) | 1958-1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zorro | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Irene Wallace (Guest Star) | 1957 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lawman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trackdown | Janette York (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Christine (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen Directors Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1953 |