Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson at the Governor's Ball party after the 1989 Academy Awards
Born	Angeline Brown September 30, 1931 (1931-09-30) (age 76) Kulm, North Dakota, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Gene Dickinson, 1952 - 1960 Burt Bacharach, 1965 - 1981
Awards won Golden Globe Awards Most Promising Newcomer (Female) 1960 Best TV Actress - Drama 1974 Police Woman

Angie Dickinson (born September 30, 1931) is a Golden Globe-winning American television and film actress, perhaps best known for her role as Sergeant Leann "Pepper" Anderson in the 1970s crime drama Police Woman. is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kulm is a city located in LaMoure County, North Dakota. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... This biographical article needs additional references for verification. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... // Best TV Actress - Drama: 1974: Angie Dickinson - Police Woman Teresa Graves - Get Christie Love! Michael Learned - The Waltons Jean Marsh - Upstairs, Downstairs Lee Meriwether - Barnaby Jones 1975: Lee Remick - Lady Randolph Churchill Angie Dickinson - Police Woman Rosemary Harris - Notorious Woman Michael Learned - The Waltons Lee Meriwether - Barnaby Jones 1976: Susan... Police Woman was an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from 1974 to 1978 on NBC. It is considered the first successful primetime drama to feature a female lead, and a female as a police officer. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ... Police Woman was an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from 1974 to 1978 on NBC. It is considered the first successful primetime drama to feature a female lead, and a female as a police officer. ...

Early life

Dickinson, the second of three daughters, was born Angeline Brown in Kulm, North Dakota, to Frederica and Leo H. Brown, who was a small-town newspaper publisher and editor.^[1] Dickinson's first job was selling Hershey's Kisses for five cents, so her sisters could buy ice cream cones. In 1942, her family moved to Burbank, California. She graduated from Bellamarine Jefferson High School in 1947, at 15 years of age. The previous year, she won the Sixth Annual Bill of Rights essay contest. She studied at Glendale Community College and in 1954 graduated from Immaculate Heart College with a degree in business. Taking a cue from her publisher father, she originally intended to be a writer. While a student from 1950-52, she worked as a secretary at the Burbank Airport (now Bob Hope Airport) and in a parts factory. Kulm is a city located in LaMoure County, North Dakota. ... Hersheys Kisses filled with Caramel. ... Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... Glendale Community College can refer to one of two colleges in the United States. ... In economics, a business is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within an economically free country designed to sell goods and/or services to consumers, usually in an effort to generate profit. ... Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR), formerly known as United Airport (1930-1934); Union Air Terminal (1934-1940); Lockheed Air Terminal (1940-1967); Hollywood-Burbank Airport (1967-1978); and most recently Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (1978-2003), is located in Burbank, California, United States. ...

Early career

In 1953, she placed second in a beauty pageant. After conquering the beauty pageant trail, and beginning to establish a name for herself on the big screen, Dickinson became one of the more versatile, popular and younger leading character actors of the 1950s and 1960s, guest-starring in dozens of TV series. Soon after her first marriage to Gene Dickinson, she decided to pursue an acting career under the name Angie Dickinson. She was approached by NBC to guest-star on a number of variety shows, including The Colgate Comedy Hour. She soon met Frank Sinatra who became a lifelong friend. She played Sinatra's wife in the film Ocean's Eleven. A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. ... A character actor is an actor who predominantly performs supporting parts, often in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ... This article is about the television network. ... The Colgate Comedy Hour was an American comedy-musical variety television show that ran on the NBC network from October 1950 to December 1955. ... Sinatra redirects here. ... Oceans Eleven is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. ...

On New Year's Eve 1954, Dickinson made her acting debut in an episode of Death Valley Days. This led to other roles in such productions as Buffalo Bill Jr, eight episodes of Matinee Theatre, General Electric Theater, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Broken Arrow, Gunsmoke, Cheyenne, Meet McGraw, The Restless Gun, Perry Mason, Mike Hammer, Wagon Train, Men Into Space, and a memorable turn as the duplicitous murder conspirator in a 1964 episode of the classic The Fugitive series with David Janssen and fellow guest star Robert Duvall. In 1965, she had a recurring role as Carol Tredman on Dr. Kildare. For other articles with similar names, see New Year (disambiguation). ... Death Valley Days was a long-running American radio and television anthology about true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. ... General Electric Theater was a half-hour CBS television anthology broadcast every Sunday evening beginning February 1, 1953 and ending May 27, 1962. ... This article is about the lawman; Wyatt Earp is also the name of a card game. ... This article is about the radio and television series. ... Cheyenne is a western television series broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1962. ... Perry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. ... Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer was the title used for two television series about the fictional private detective Mike Hammer, the creation of American crime author Mickey Spillane. ... Wagon Train was a television series on NBC from 1957 to 1962 and on ABC from 1962 to 1965. ... Men Into Space is the name of a half-hour American television series broadcast in black and white in 1959 and 1960 by CBS which depicted the efforts of the United States Air Force to explore and develop space. ... The Fugitive is an American television series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963-1967. ... David Janssen David Harold Meyer (March 27, 1931 - February 13, 1980), better known as David Janssen, was an American film and television actor who is best-known for his role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (ABC,1963-1967). ... Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award-, two-time Emmy Award-, and four-time Golden Globe Award-winning American film actor and director. ... Dr. James Kildare was a fictional character, the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, a 1960s television series of the same name and a comic book based on the TV show. ...

Leading lady

Though Dickinson enjoyed a moderately successful movie career for nearly two decades, and worked with many major directors and top leading men of the 1950s and '60s, she did not rise above the status of attractive, reliable working actress - real stardom came later.

Her film career began with small roles in Lucky Me (a 1954 cameo) with Doris Day, The Return of Jack Slade (1955), Man with the Gun (1955), and Hidden Guns (1956). She had her first starring role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness, and the Sam Fuller cult film China Gate (1957) which depicted an early view of the internal conflicts in Viet Nam. Rejecting the Marilyn Monroe/Jayne Mansfield style of platinum blonde because she felt it would narrow her acting options, Dickinson at first allowed studios to lighten her naturally-brunette hair to only honey-blonde.^{[citation needed]} Casting directors and audiences began noticing her enigmatic charisma and her ironic, albeit seductive, delivery--- at once femininely fluttery and undeniably edgy. She was armed with a fine physique, great legs, deepset brown eyes which could read as either warmly receptive or aloofly dismissive, and a striking, classical face which photographed as oval from the front but angular in profile. Her atypical screen presence initally caused critics to praise her-- if not always the films in which she played, those same critics lamenting the decline of the old Studio System in that newcomers such as Dickinson were no longer groomed, valued or protected in the fashion once commonplace in the 1930s and '40s. Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1924)[1] is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. ... This biographical article needs additional references for verification. ... Samuel Fuller Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1911 - October 30, 1997) was an American film director. ... China Gate was a Bollywood film. ... Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe award winning[1] American actress, model, Hollywood icon[2], and sex symbol. ... Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933—29 June 1967) was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. ...

She appeared mainly in B-movies early on, westerns, including Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957) co-starring with James Garner. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see James Garner (disambiguation). ...

Dickinson in Rio Bravo

It was another western that finally propelled her into Hollywood's A-list: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (1959), in which she played a flirtatious gambler named Feathers who is almost locked up by the town sheriff played by her childhood idol John Wayne. The film co-starred Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan. When Hawks sold his personal contract with her to a major studio without her knowledge, she was understandably upset and her hopes that the legendary director would mould her into the next Lauren Bacall seemed dashed.^{[citation needed]} Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era. ... John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance in the opening scene. ... For other persons named John Wayne, see John Wayne (disambiguation). ... Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor, and comedian. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was a three time Academy Award winning American actor. ... Betty Joan Perske (born on September 16, 1924), better known as Lauren Bacall, is a Golden Globe– and Tony Award–winning, as well as Academy Award–nominated, American film and stage actress. ...

In the early 1960s, Dickinson starred in numerous movies, making her one of the more prominent leading ladies of the decade, co-starring in The Bramble Bush with Richard Burton and Ocean's Eleven with Frank Sinatra, both released in 1960. These were followed by the political potboiler A Fever in the Blood (1961); a Belgian Congo-based melodrama The Sins of Rachel Cade (1962), in which she played a missionary nurse tempted by lust; and the European travelogue Rome Adventure (also known as Lovers Must Learn) in 1962, where Dickinson gets to deliver relatively wicked seductress dialogue; and Jean Negulesco's Jessica (1962) with Maurice Chevalier, in which she plays a young midwife who is resented by the married women of the town. Angie would also share the screen with friend Gregory Peck in the comedy-drama Captain Newman, M.D. For other persons named Richard Burton, see Richard Burton (disambiguation). ... Oceans Eleven is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. ... Sinatra redirects here. ... Rome Adventure, also known as Lovers Must Learn, is a 1962 drama, romance genre film, based on a Irving Finemans novel. ... French singer Maurice Chevalier with stars of Hellzapoppin at Expo 67, in Montreal, Quebec. ... Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 film with Bobby Darin. ...

In The Killers, a film originally intended to be the very first made-for-TV movie but sent to the theatres due to its violent content, Angie, reaching the apex of her skills as a great femme fatale, is slapped by a villainous boyfriend, played by future U.S. President Ronald Reagan in his last movie role. (Dickinson was rumored to have been romantically involved with John F. Kennedy at one time, thereby providing two intriguing connections to American presidents)^{[citation needed]}. But she has never spoken publicly of a relationship with JFK. The Killers, sometimes called Ernest Hemingways The Killers, released by Universal Studios in 1964, was Hollywoods second adaptation of the Hemingway short story. ... Reagan redirects here. ... John Kennedy and JFK redirect here. ...

Dickinson co-starred in the so-so comedy The Art of Love (1965), in which she plays the love interest of both James Garner and Dick Van Dyke. She enjoyed moderate success in a string of movies made during the later 1960s and early 1970s: the Arthur Penn/Sam Spiegel production, The Chase (1966), flooded with present-and-future stars like Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Miriam Hopkins and others; despite the potential in front and behind the camera, the more controversial aspects of the Lillian Hellman script were toned down, and the film languished in mediocrity--- although today its cast makes it an obvious curio. The Art of Love (1965) is a movie comedy about an American artist in Paris who fakes his own death in order to increase the worth of his paintings (new paintings keep posthumously hitting the market). ... For other uses, see James Garner (disambiguation). ... Richard Wayne Dick Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an Emmy-Award winning American actor of film, stage, and screen, comedian and dancer. ... Arthur Penn (born September 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a film director of thoughtful films that dont always find an audience. ... Sam Spiegel (11 November 1901 - 31 December 1985) was a successful independent film producer. ... The Chase may refer to: In film: The Chase (1946 film), a 1946 movie The Chase (1966 film), a 1966 American drama film directed by Arthur Penn The Chase (1994 film), a 1994 movie starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson In music: The Chase (Garth Brooks album), the fourth studio... Marlon Brando, Jr. ... Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. ... Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. ... Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award-, two-time Emmy Award-, and four-time Golden Globe Award-winning American film actor and director. ... Ellen Miriam Hopkins (October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. ... Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was a successful American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. ...

Dickinson's best movie of this era was arguably John Boorman's cult classic Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin as a betrayed thief and convict escaped from Alcatraz (and the first movie ever filmed at the infamous prison) out for revenge and the money he believes is due him. Epitomizing the stark mood of the period, the film did not acquire an audience or much critical appreciation until years later. In 1969, she starred in another Western, Young Billy Young with Robert Mitchum and Jack Kelly, and in Sam Whiskey where she gave young Burt Reynolds his first on-screen kiss. In 1971, she played a lascivious high school teacher in the dark comedy Pretty Maids All in a Row with Rock Hudson, and a scary doctor in the sci-fi flick The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler. One of her best-remembered movie roles is the tawdry widow Wilma McClatchie in the Depression romp Big Bad Mama (1974) with William Shatner and Tom Skerritt; her nude scenes set tongues wagging because this was then considered quite a risky move for an established actress of a certain age (she was 42). John Boorman (born January 18, 1933 in Shepperton, Surrey, United Kingdom), is a British filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, and The General. ... Point Blank is a 1967 crime film directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin, adapted from the classic pulp novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark. ... Alcatraz Island is located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California. ... Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an Academy award nominated American film actor and singer. ... For Jack Kelly, the triple gold medal winning Olympic rower and father of Grace Kelly and John B. Kelly, Jr. ... Sam Whiskey is a 1969 film starring movie and televvision star Burt Reynolds a decade before he zoomed to superstar status in the late 1970s. ... Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr. ... Pretty Maids All in a Row is an MGM American comedy film released in 1971, directed and produced by Roger Vadim with screenplay written by Gene Roddenberry based on the novel by Francis Pollin. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Big Bad Mama is a 1974 American film produced by Roger Corman, starring Angie Dickinson William Shatner, and Tom Skeritt. ... William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. ... Thomas Alderton Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an Emmy Award-Winning American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes (half Picket Fences). ...

Police Woman

Dickinson returned to the small screen in March 1974 to play a character on an episode of the critically-acclaimed hit anthology series Police Story. That one guest appearance proved to be so popular that NBC had decided to turn it into a weekly detective series to be called Police Woman, which would make her the first successful female TV police officer. (Beverly Garland and Anne Francis had actually done it first, but their shows had been short-lived). Dickinson played Sgt. Leann "Pepper" Anderson, a cool, sexy, classy blond member of the Los Angeles Police Department's Criminal Conspiracy Unit. A tough but lovely woman, Pepper adopted a number of undercover guises to lure thugs to justice. Police Story was an anthology television drama on the NBC broadcast network from the years 1973 through 1977. ... This article is about the television network. ... Police Woman was an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from 1974 to 1978 on NBC. It is considered the first successful primetime drama to feature a female lead, and a female as a police officer. ... Police officers in South Australia A police officer (or policeman/policewoman) is a warranted worker of a police force. ... Beverly Garland (born Beverly Lucy Fessenden on October 17, 1926) is a veteran American film and television actress with a half-century of credits, from cult 1950s B movies to the hit WB series 7th Heaven. ... Anne Francis Anne Francis (born September 16, 1930, in Ossining, New York) is an American actress, famous for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and as private detective Honey West in the television series Honey West (1965-1966). ... LAPD and L.A.P.D. redirect here. ...

The role consolidated Dickinson's star status and as an over-40 sex symbol. The series became perhaps the first successful prime-time drama to feature a woman in the title role. As a result, she became a pop icon of the 1970s. Police Woman was shown in more than 70 countries, becoming the number one show in many. It was essentially NBC's feminine answer to other successful, male-dominated 1970s crime drama series Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, The Streets of San Francisco, McMillan and Wife, The Rockford Files and Baretta (later that same season) airing concurrently on three different networks. For the British television series, see Pop Idol. ... This article is about the television network. ... For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ... Hawaii Five-O is an American television series that starred Jack Lord and James MacArthur as detectives for a fictional Hawaii state police department. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Streets of San Francisco was a successful 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. ... McMillan & Wife was a lighthearted American crime drama television series that aired on NBC from September 17th, 1971 to April 24th, 1977. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The cover of the Baretta Season 1 DVD set. ...

Co-starring on the show was a familiar actor, Earl Holliman (who replaced Bert Convy, who had portrayed Crowley in the pilot episode), as Sgt. Anderson's half-Italian commanding officer and long-time friend, Sergeant Bill Crowley, and Ed Bernard and Charles Dierkop as Investigators Joe Styles and Pete Royster, respectively. On the first day of shooting, both Dickinson and Holliman realized their chemistry worked very well, and the writers quickly began tailoring scripts to this.^{[citation needed]} Earl Holliman Earl Holliman (born Anthony Earl Numkena on September 11, 1928 in Delhi, Louisiana) is an American film and television actor. ... Bernard Whalen Bert Convy (July 23, 1933 – July 15, 1991) was an American game show host and panelist, actor and singer known for his tenure as the host for Tattletales, Super Password, and Win, Lose or Draw. ... Charles Dierkop (born September 11, 1936) is a film and television actor. ...

On occasion, Dickinson gave her boss's daughter a chance to play the role of her autistic young sister, Cheryl, during the 1974 season; the role lasted only a few episodes.

During its first season (generally regarded as its best year) Police Woman became a quick and sizeable hit. But by the end of its fourth season in 1978, Police Woman had had by far its most difficult year, with the ratings dropping due to increasing schedule changes by NBC and a level of crispness mostly missing from the program--it was now far from the dynamic series it had originally been. The scripts seemed now to lack the bite they'd had at the outset. Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

Subsequently, NBC decided to cancel the series after four seasons and 91 episodes. But by all accounts, Dickinson enjoyed playing the alluring cop on one of television's most influential cop shows ever, and will likely always be fondly remembered for it. (The same year the show came to an end, she reprised her Pepper Anderson role on the television special, Ringo, co-starring with Ringo Starr and John Ritter; she also parodied the part in the 1975 and 1979 Bob Hope Christmas Specials for NBC; she would do the same years later on the 1987 Christmas episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live.) This article is about the television network. ... Richard Starkey Jr, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles. ... This article is about the American actor. ... Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-Born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. ... This article is about the American television series. ...

The impact of Police Woman resulted not only in a rash of sexy-but-strong female-driven series (mostly of a more fanciful nature) like Charlie's Angels, The Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman during the late '70s, but Angie Dickinson's show reportedly inspired a spate of applications from women for employment to police departments around the country. Journalists say they have been surprised by how often the Police Woman series has been referenced when asking long-time female law enforcement officials about what inspired them to join the force.^{[citation needed]} This article is about the television series. ... The Bionic Woman was a television series which spun off from The Six Million Dollar Man. ... Wonder Woman is an American television series based on the DC Comics comic book character Wonder Woman (which was co-created by William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway Marston). ...

In 1987, the Los Angeles Police Department awarded Dickinson an honorary Doctorate, which led her to quip, "Now you can call me 'Doctor Pepper.'"

The 1980s

After appearing in TV mini-series like Pearl (1978), Dickinson returned to the big screen in Brian De Palma's thriller Dressed to Kill (1980), which earned her a 1981 Saturn Award for Best Actress. Loved by some and derided by others (largely for its violence and a certain crassness), the film featured Dickinson in a 35-minute role early in the film which ends with her character's brutal murder in an elevator. Critics hailed her performance and today the film is viewed as a serious entry in the macabre genre, with her silent stalking through the maze of a New York City museum being one of the film's stylistic highlights. For other uses, see Pearl (disambiguation). ... The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. ...

Despite the career highs of Police Woman in the '70s and Dressed to Kill in 1980, Dickinson's focus as an actress now had begun to wane somewhat; in the 60s and early 70s, no one questioned her ability.

She had a less substantial role in Death Hunt with Charles Bronson in 1981, as well as Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen. She won the 1981 Saturn Award for her role as Kate Miller in the Brian De Palma film Dressed to Kill. Earlier that year, she had been the first choice to play 'Krystle Carrington' on the Dynasty TV series, but turned down the role (which went to Linda Evans). After nixing her own Johnny Carson-produced prospective sitcom, 'The Angie Dickinson Show', in 1980 (after only two episodes had been shot) because she didn't feel she was funny enough, the private eye series Cassie & Co. became the resultant, unsuccessful attempt at a TV comeback. She then starred in several TV movies such as, One Shoe Makes it Murder (1982), Jealousy (1984), A Touch of Scandal (1984), Hollywood Wives (1985), and Stillwatch (1987). promotional poster for Death Hunt Death Hunt is a 1981 film starring Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Tantoo Cardinal, Angie Dickinson, Carl Weathers, Maury Chaykin, Ed Lauter and Andrew Stevens. ... For other persons named Charles Bronson, see Charles Bronson (disambiguation). ... The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. ... Brian De Palma (born Brian Russell DePalma on September 11, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey) is a controversial American film director, best known for directing the Al Pacino classic Scarface, and the Academy Award-winning The Untouchables. ... Dynasty was an American primetime television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 10, 1989. ... Linda Evans (born Linda Evanstad on November 18, 1942, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. ... For other persons named John Carson, see John Carson (disambiguation). ...

On the big screen, she reprised her role as Wilma in Big Bad Mama II (1987), and completed the TV movie Kojak: Fatal Flaw, in which she was reunited with Telly Savalas. She co-starred with Willie Nelson and numerous old buddies in the 1988 TV western Once Upon a Texas Train. Aristotelis Telly Savalas (January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was a prominent Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor whose career spanned four decades. ... Willie Nelson (born Willie Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. ...

Dickinson also hosted the Dec. 12, 1987 "Saturday Night Live."

In 1982, when she was 50 and yet to undergo any surgery, a panel of Hollywood designers and make-up artists ranked her first in a list of Best Female Star Bodies.^{[citation needed]}

1990s and later

In 1993, Dickinson appeared in the futuristic shocker TV-miniseries Wild Palms, produced by Oliver Stone, in which she played the sadistic, militant sister of a Political Figure Tony Kruetzer. The same year, she starred as a ruthless Montana spa owner in Gus Van Sant's bizarre Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; Uma Thurman and a cast of stellar cameos could not save the picture, which has been called the Single Worst Movie of the 1990s. In 1995, she played Burt Reynolds's wife in the thriller The Maddening, appeared in the remake of Sabrina with Harrison Ford, and played the mother of Rick Aiello and Robert Cicchini in the comedy National Lampoon's The Don's Analyst. In 1997, she seduced old flame Artie (Rip Torn) in an episode of HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" called "Artie and Angie and Hank and Hercules." Wild Palms is a six hour mini-series, which first aired in 1993 on the ABC Network in the United States. ... William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1976 novel by Tom Robbins. ... Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr. ... Sabrina may refer to: // Goddess of the River Severn in Insular Brythonic mythology. ... For the silent film actor, see Harrison Ford (silent film actor). ... Robert Cicchini (born in 1966) is an American film and television actor. ...

In a sexy and iconic photograph, Dickinson provided one of the most famous covers of Esquire (magazine), fronting a 1983 list of "Women We Love". The provocative 1966 photo featured Angie bare-bottomed and clad only in a sweater. It became so legendary that Britney Spears reproduced the pose for Esquire in 2003, the Victoria's Secret Angels and Danity Kane in 2008. August 2005 issue of Esquire Esquire is a mens magazine by the Hearst Corporation. ... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning[1] American pop singer, dancer, actress, author and songwriter. ... This article is about the title. ... For the Sonata Arctica single, see Victorias Secret (song) Victorias Secret is an American retailer of lingerie and beauty products. ... Danity Kane is an American R&B girl group signed to Bad Boy Records. ...

During the first decade of the new millennium, Dickinson played an alcoholic homeless mother to Helen Hunt in Pay it Forward (2000) with Kevin Spacey; grandmother to Gwyneth Paltrow in Duets (2000); and as Arliss Howard's mother in the critically well-received though little-seen Big Bad Love (2001) with Debra Winger. Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most widely known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You. ... For the moral philosophy, see Pay it forward. ... Kevin Spacey (born July 26, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American actor (film and stage) and director. ... Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972[1]) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ... Duets is a road-trip comedy film released in 2000, co-produced and directed by Bruce Paltrow. ... Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard on October 18, 1954 in Independence, Missouri) is an American actor, writer and film director, best known for his roles in Full Metal Jacket and Ruby, and for directing the film Big Bad Love (starring his wife Debra Winger). ... Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an Academy Award- nominated American actress. ...

Having appeared in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960) with good friends Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, she four decades later made a brief cameo in the 2001 version with George Clooney. Dickinson is often referred to as an honorary member of the Rat Pack. Oceans Eleven is the name of two American heist films: the original of 1960, and the remake of 2001. ... Sinatra redirects here. ... Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor, and comedian. ... George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as one of the lead doctors in the long-running television drama, ER (1994–99), as Anthony Edwardss best friend and partner, Dr. Douglas Doug Ross, but is best known for...

An avid poker player, Dickinson during the summer of 2004 participated in the second season of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown. After announcing her name, host Dave Foley said "Sometimes, when we say Celebrity, we actually mean it."^{[citation needed]} This article is about the U.S. cable network. ... Celebrity Poker Showdown was a celebrity game show on the cable network Bravo. ... Dave Foley (born January 4, 1963, in Etobicoke, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, best known for his work in The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. ...

Dickinson is a recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award. Official language(s) English Capital Bismarck Largest city Fargo Area  Ranked 19th  - Total 70,762 sq mi (183,272 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 340 miles (545 km)  - % water 2. ... The Roughrider Award is an award presented by the governor of the state of North Dakota. ...

Personal life

Angie was married to Gene Dickinson, a former football player, from 1952 to 1960.

Dickinson was well-liked by men and women in the industry for not only her beauty but her professionalism and good-natured personality. She was romantically linked to Frank Sinatra, whom Dickinson called "the most important man in my life" (because of the power he held when they first met in the mid-1950s) and with whom she shared "a very comfortable relationship" on and off for ten years. They remained friends until his death in 1998. She was also linked to actor David Janssen, and allegedly to President John F. Kennedy, although she has chosen not to address those rumors. Sinatra redirects here. ... David Janssen David Harold Meyer (March 27, 1931 - February 13, 1980), better known as David Janssen, was an American film and television actor who is best-known for his role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (ABC,1963-1967). ... John Kennedy and JFK redirect here. ...

She was married to musician/composer Burt Bacharach between 1965 and 1980.^[2] Dickinson temporarily put her career on hold, although she still appeared in the occasional picture such as the western The Last Challenge (1967) with Glenn Ford, and the comedy Some Kind of Nut (1969). This biographical article needs additional references for verification. ... Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was an acclaimed Canadian-born actor from Hollywoods Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. ...

While working in Police Woman, her marriage to Bacharach was in turmoil due to the overwhelming hours involved in starring in a series, as well as compounded by his reported affairs. She went through a divorce from Bacharach that she did not want in 1980, with Dickinson requesting only child support and none of Bacharach's lucrative musical publishing royalties. Years later she joked that "I deserved something for all those eggs I fried," a play not only on the midnight meals she'd prepared while Bacharach was composing, but also the Bacharach/David song "One Less Bell to Answer," the title of which Hal David had borrowed from a line Angie had uttered when guests were arriving for a party at the Bacharach home in the 1960s. In 2007, Dickinson conceded that she and Bacharach (of whom she still speaks well) "should never have gotten married" and instead should have "stayed in love and in the romance, and I should have walked away" long before. Police Woman was an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from 1974 to 1978 on NBC. It is considered the first successful primetime drama to feature a female lead, and a female as a police officer. ... Hal David (born May 25, 1921 in New York City, New York) is an American lyricist and songwriterFicticiousbyMichaelAlfredMontalbano. ...

Their daughter, Lea Nikki, known as Nikki, was born three months prematurely in 1966 and was eventually diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Her problems caused Dickinson to decline many roles as she focused on caring for her. Nikki spent several years at the Wilson Center, a psychiatric residential treatment facility for adolescents located in Faribault, MN. Although she had earned a degree in geology, poor eyesight resulting from her premature birth made it impossible for her to pursue a career in that field. Unable to cope with the effects of Asperger's, she ultimately committed suicide in her Los Angeles condo in January 2007.^[3] Asperger described his patients as little professors. Aspergers syndrome (AS, or the more common shorthand Aspergers), is characterized as one of the five pervasive developmental disorders, and is commonly referred to as a form of high functioning autism. ...

Award nominations

Emmy Awards

Nominations in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series : This is a list of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series winners: 1974: Michael Learned - The Waltons 1975: Jean Marsh - Upstairs, Downstairs 1976: Michael Learned - The Waltons 1977: Lindsay Wagner - The Bionic Woman 1978: Sada Thompson - Family 1979: Mariette Hartley - The Incredible Hulk 1980...

• 1975 - Police Woman
• 1976 - Police Woman
• 1977 - Police Woman

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Award wins Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Series : // Best TV Actress - Drama: 1974: Angie Dickinson - Police Woman Teresa Graves - Get Christie Love! Michael Learned - The Waltons Jean Marsh - Upstairs, Downstairs Lee Meriwether - Barnaby Jones 1975: Lee Remick - Lady Randolph Churchill Angie Dickinson - Police Woman Rosemary Harris - Notorious Woman Michael Learned - The Waltons Lee Meriwether - Barnaby Jones 1976: Susan...

• 1975 - Police Woman

Unsuccessful nominations in the category of Best TV Actress - Drama : // Best TV Actress - Drama: 1974: Angie Dickinson - Police Woman Teresa Graves - Get Christie Love! Michael Learned - The Waltons Jean Marsh - Upstairs, Downstairs Lee Meriwether - Barnaby Jones 1975: Lee Remick - Lady Randolph Churchill Angie Dickinson - Police Woman Rosemary Harris - Notorious Woman Michael Learned - The Waltons Lee Meriwether - Barnaby Jones 1976: Susan...

• 1976 - Police Woman
• 1977 - Police Woman
• 1978 - Police Woman

Filmography

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References

External links

• Angie Dickinson at the Internet Movie Database