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Olive Sturgess

Olive Sturgess

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1933-10-08

Biography

Olive Sturgess (October 8, 1933 - February 19, 2025) was a Canadian actress who worked in films, television shows, and theatre in the 1950s and 1960s.

Known For & Full Filmography41 Titles

#1Perry Mason

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Fran Celane

7.7 / 10
MysteryDramaCrime

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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#2Bonanza

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Nancy

7.5 / 10
WesternAction & AdventureDrama

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

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#3Bonanza

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Mary Ann Wilson

7.5 / 10
WesternAction & AdventureDrama

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

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#4The Donna Reed Show

Drama Series - 1958, 16 episodes • as Alice Burke

6.5 / 10
ComedyFamily

Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.

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#5The Donna Reed Show

Drama Series - 1958, 16 episodes • as Carol Berke

6.5 / 10
ComedyFamily

Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.

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#6Ironside

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as Nurse

6.9 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

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#7Ironside

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as Mary Connell

6.9 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

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#8Maverick

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Phyllis Hulett

6.9 / 10
ComedyWestern

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

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#9Maverick

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Phoebe Albright

6.9 / 10
ComedyWestern

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

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#10Wagon Train

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Melanie Evans

6.6 / 10
WesternDramaFamily

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

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#11The Virginian

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes • as Laura Carter

6.5 / 10
WesternDrama

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

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#12Rawhide

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Sally Devereaux

7.2 / 10
WesternDrama

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

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#13Have Gun, Will Travel

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Helen Martin

7.3 / 10
WesternAction & AdventureDrama

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

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#14The Red Skelton Show

Drama Series - 1951, 16 episodes • as Elaine

7.4 / 10
ComedyTalkFamily

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.

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#15Cheyenne

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Kathy Donovan

6.1 / 10
WesternDrama

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

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#16Lawman

Drama Series - 1958, 16 episodes • as Wanda

5.8 / 10
Western

Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.

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#17Petticoat Junction

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Elsie Barton

5.8 / 10
ComedyFamily

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

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#18Studio One

Drama Series - 1948, 16 episodes • as Shirley Gibson

5.4 / 10
Drama

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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#19Thriller

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes • as Evie Bishop

6.7 / 10
Crime

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

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#20Thriller

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes • as Beth Pettit

6.7 / 10
Crime

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

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#21Hawaiian Eye

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Nina McKay

5.6 / 10
CrimeDrama

Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.

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#22The Rebel

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Jeannie

5.1 / 10
Western

After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REBEL is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.

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#23The Rebel

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Charity Brunner

5.1 / 10
Western

After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REBEL is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.

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#24Sugarfoot

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Olive Turner

5.1 / 10
Western

Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.

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#25The Jack Benny Program

Drama Series - 1950, 16 episodes • as Miss Johnson

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.

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#26Checkmate

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes • as Felice O'Neill

4.8 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.

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#27Bronco

Drama Series - 1958, 16 episodes • as Virginia Munger

6.0 / 10
Western

Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.

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#28The Texan

Drama Series - 1958, 16 episodes • as Mary Lou Martin

6.0 / 10
Western

The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.

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#29Studio 57

Drama Series - 1954, 16 episodes • as Kathy Gresham

7.5 / 10
DramaFamily

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.

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#30Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Drama Series - 1958, 16 episodes • as Gloria

6.3 / 10
Drama

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.

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#31The Tall Man

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes • as May McBean

6.9 / 10
Western

The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.

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#32West Point

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes • as Connie

7.5 / 10
Drama

The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season. The West Point Story, produced with the full cooperation of the United States Department of Defense and the United States Military Academy, was said to be based on actual files documenting many of the real-life dramatic occurrences at West Point over the years. Names and dates were altered in order to protect the privacy of the real people portrayed, however. The program was at first hosted by a fictional cadet, Charles C. Thompson, but this device was discontinued prior to the end of 1956. During its second season on ABC, The West Point Story was in competition with NBC's The Californians, set in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s, and with The $64,000 Question quiz series on CBS. The West Point Story was replaced on the summer schedule in 1958 by Jack Wyatt's Confession, which continued to air during the first half of the 1958-1959 season in the 10 p.m. Tuesday evening time slot. At the time that The West Point Story was broadcast, four other military dramas aired either through syndication or on the major networks: Harbor Command, Navy Log, The Silent Service, and Men of Annapolis.

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#33The Bob Cummings Show

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Carol Henning

6.3 / 10
Comedy

The Bob Cummings Show is an American sitcom starring Robert "Bob" Cummings which was produced from January 2, 1955 to September 15, 1959. The Bob Cummings Show was the first series ever to debut as a midseason replacement. The program began with a half-season run on NBC, then ran for two full seasons on CBS, and returned to NBC for its final two seasons. The program was later rerun in the daytime hours on ABC and then syndicated under the title Love That Bob. A similar, but less successful, follow-up series, The New Bob Cummings Show, was broadcast on CBS during the 1961-62 television season.

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#34The Raven

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Estelle Craven

6.3 / 10
ComedyHorrorFantasy

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

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#35The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

Drama Series - 1958, 16 episodes • as Alice Anthony

9.0 / 10

Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero of the new, live, full-hour detective show. George Nader plays the stalwart writer turned investigator.

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#36Lady Godiva of Coventry

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Girl

5.5 / 10
DramaHistory

Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

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#37General Electric Theater

Drama Series - 1953, 16 episodes • as Effie Weber

6.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

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#38Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Drama Series - 1951, 16 episodes • as Judy Collins

7.2 / 10
DramaComedy

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

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#39Requiem for a Gunfighter

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Bonnie Young

7.5 / 10
Western

A gunfighter takes the identity of a murdered judge in order to avenge his death.

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#40The Kettles in the Ozarks

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Nancy Kettle

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.

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#41Creepy Classics

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Estelle Craven - (archive footage)

6.4 / 10
Documentary

A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.

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