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Elizabeth Allen (actress) (Elizabeth Ellen Gillease) was born on 25 January, 1929 in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S., is an American actor. Discover Elizabeth Allen (actress)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Elizabeth Ellen Gillease
Occupation Actress
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 25 January 1929
Birthday 25 January
Birthplace Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 19 September, 2006
Died Place Fishkill, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Baron Karl von Vietinghoff-Scheel (m. 1952-1955)

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Elizabeth Allen (actress) Net Worth

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Timeline

1925

She made numerous television appearances in guest-starring roles on such programs as The Fugitive, Kojak, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

She was also a regular cast member on TV's Bracken's World, The Paul Lynde Show, C.P.O. Sharkey, Another World, and its spin-off, Texas.

Her television, film, and stage career spanned three decades.

1929

Elizabeth Allen (born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease, January 25, 1929 — September 19, 2006) was an American theatre, television, and film actress and singer whose 40-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s, and included scores of TV episodes and six theatrical features, two of which (1963's Donovan's Reef, for which she received a second-place Golden Laurel Award as Top New Female Personality, and 1964's Cheyenne Autumn) were directed by John Ford.

1950

girl on The Jackie Gleason Show in the 1950s.

1956

She was a cast member in five TV series: The Jackie Gleason Show (1956–1957), Bracken's World (1969–1970), The Paul Lynde Show (1972–1973), C.P.O. Sharkey (1976–1977), and the daytime drama Texas (1980–1981), while also maintaining a thriving theatrical career as a musical comedy star and receiving two Tony nominations, in 1962 for The Gay Life and in 1965 for Do I Hear a Waltz?.

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Allen began her career as a Ford Agency high-fashion model.

Allen landed the television role of the "Away We Go!"

1961

She was featured with William Shatner in "The Hungry Glass", the 16th episode in the first season of Boris Karloff's Thriller in 1961.

1962

In 1962, she played a leading role in the first season of Combat!, in the episode "No Hallelujahs for Glory" as a persistent war correspondent.

Allen is perhaps best known on TV for her role as the creepy saleslady in the first-season episode of Rod Serling's original version of The Twilight Zone, entitled "The After Hours", where actress Anne Francis (playing Miss Marsha White) finally realizes that she is a mannequin and that her month of freedom and living among the humans is over.

Allen's saleslady character (seen by no one but Marsha) is the mannequin whose turn in the outside world is up next and has already been delayed by one full day, thus explaining her slightly peeved attitude.

Allen was twice nominated for Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in The Gay Life, as Actress, Supporting or Featured (Musical) (1962) and Do I Hear a Waltz?, as Best Actress in a Musical (1965).

She can be heard singing throughout the original cast album of Waltz, available on CD.

1963

In 1963, Allen starred with John Wayne, Dorothy Lamour, and Lee Marvin in the John Ford film Donovan's Reef.

She also starred in Diamond Head with Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux.

Both movies were filmed on location in Hawaii.

Allen also appeared with James Stewart in Cheyenne Autumn and won a Laurel Award in 1963 as the year's most promising film actor.

Allen honed her stage skills by joining and performing with the Helen Hayes Repertory Group before expanding into the big and small screens.

1970

In the late 1970s, Allen ventured into retail business, as she operated a dress store in a San Fernando Valley shopping mall.

Entertainment columnist Dick Kleiner reported: "She found a vacant store, rented it, decorated it. She does all her own buying and delivering ... and a lot of the selling."

She told Kleiner that she thought it wise "for an actor to have something going for her when there is nothing doing on the acting front."

She was married briefly to Baron Karl von Vietinghoff-Scheel, but they divorced and she never remarried.

Allen later appeared on the game show Tattletales in the 1970s as the partner of Charles Nelson Reilly, though Reilly was gay in real life.

This was done so that Reilly could appear on the show.

Allen died from kidney disease, aged 77, in Fishkill, New York.

She was predeceased by her only sibling, brother Joseph L. Gillease, and survived by her sister-in-law, Marion Gillease, her nephew and godson, Patrick J. Gillease, her niece, Erin Gillease Phelan, and two grand-nieces, Alicia Phelan and Alexandria Phelan.

1980

Her other notable stage productions on the Great White Way and beyond included Romanoff and Juliet, Lend an Ear, Sherry!, California Suite, The Pajama Game, The Tender Trap, Show Boat, and South Pacific, and culminating in the 1980s Broadway musical 42nd Street, as fading star Dorothy Brock.

1983

In 1983, she appeared as Dr. Gwen Harding on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light.

1996

Allen quietly retired from show business in 1996, after touring numerous cities throughout the world for over a decade with her 42nd Street role from Broadway.

This was her last, significant acting job after appearing in Texas for two seasons.