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Full Name
  
Karen Steele

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Karen Steele


Years active
  
1953–1972

Cause of death
  
cancer

Education
  
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Born
  
March 20, 1931 (
1931-03-20
)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

Died
  
March 12, 1988, Kingman, Arizona, United States

Spouse
  
Maurice Ruland (m. 1973–1988)

Parents
  
Ruth Covey Merritt, Percy Davis Steele

Movies
  
Ride Lonesome, Decision at Sundown, Westbound, Marty, The Rise and Fall of Legs Dia

Similar People
  
Budd Boetticher, Susan Denberg, Delbert Mann, Maggie Thrett, James Olson

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Karen Steele (March 20, 1931 – March 12, 1988) was an American actress and model with more than 60 roles in film and television. Her most famous roles include starring as Virginia in Marty, as Mrs Lane in Ride Lonesome, and as Eve McHuron in the Star Trek episode "Mudd's Women".

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Karen steele


Early life

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Karen Steele was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Percy Davis Steele, a Bostonian of English descent and a career Marine who in 1956 was named assistant administrator of the Marshall Islands. Her mother, Ruth Covey Merritt, was a Californian of French and Danish heritage. Steele's childhood in the Hawaiian Islands brought her into contact with the Japanese and Polynesian languages, as well as English.

Steele attended the University of Hawaii and studied acting at Rollins College in Florida for a year. After that, she found work as a cover girl and model.

Career

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Steele's first acting job was in a radio play titled Let George Do It. She subsequently appeared in the films The Clown (in an uncredited role, 1953) and Man Crazy (also 1953) as Marge. The following year, she landed the role of Millie Darrow in "So False and So Fair" on the television anthology Studio 57, but a supporting role in Marty (1955) was her highest profile film role. She played Virginia and got the part because director, Delbert Mann, had confused her with an actress from New York who he and writer Paddy Chayevsky had intended to play it.

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In 1957, she guest starred on the TV program Maverick, as Molly Gleason in the episode "Point Blank" opposite James Garner and Mike Connors. The episode was originally intended by series writer/producer Roy Huggins to be the pilot but Warner Bros. instead substituted an episode based on a studio property in order to, according to Huggins' Archive of American Television interview, prevent him from obtaining the valuable creator's credit. In 1958, she played the titular role in the episode "Madame Faro" of NBC's Jefferson Drum, a western series.

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Steele made two guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, as Doris Stephanek in "The Case of the Haunted Husband" (1958) and as murder victim Carina Wileen in "The Case of the Fatal Fetish" (1965). She appeared as Mae Dailey in the 1961 episode "Big Time Blues" on the ABC/Warner Brothers drama, The Roaring 20s, along with other guest stars Peter Breck and Shirley Knight. Earlier, she was cast in a guest-starring role in another ABC/WB series, The Alaskans.

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In 1962, she portrayed the part of Dolly LeMoyne in the episode "The Woman Trap" on CBS's Rawhide. Her character in "Survival of the Fattest", a 1965 episode of NBC's Get Smart, was named Mary 'Jack' Armstrong, said to be "the strongest female enemy agent in the world". This is a reference to Jack Armstrong, the clean-cut fictional hero of Jack Armstrong the All American Boy, an adventure series broadcast on radio from 1933 to 1951. She appeared in an early episode of Star Trek (Mudd's Women, 1966). Like many actresses, as she got older, she turned to television commercials for income. She also became involved in charitable causes and community service. In early 1970, she went on a handshake tour of service hospitals in the South Pacific, rather than accept a series that would have paid her $78,000. As a result, she lost her agent.

Personal life

In later life, she settled in Golden Valley, Arizona, and married Dr. Maurice Boyd Ruland, a psychiatrist at the Mohave Mental Health Clinic. They were married until her death from cancer at age 56 at the Kingman Regional Medical Center in Kingman, Arizona.

Filmography

Actress
1972
Trap on Cougar Mountain
1970
Mannix (TV Series) as
Sheila Sprague
- Harlequin's Gold (1970) - Sheila Sprague
1969
The Happy Ending as
Divorcee
1969
A Boy... a Girl as
Elizabeth
1969
Hogan's Heroes (TV Series) as
Lady Valerie Stanford
- The Big Dish (1969) - Lady Valerie Stanford
1968
Premiere (TV Series) as
Louise Tratner
- Braddock (1968) - Louise Tratner
1967
Flipper (TV Series) as
Fran Whitman
- Flipper's New Friends: Part 2 (1967) - Fran Whitman
- Flipper's New Friends: Part 1 (1967) - Fran Whitman
1967
The Felony Squad (TV Series) as
Nina Barnes
- The Night of the Shark: Part 2 (1967) - Nina Barnes
- The Night of the Shark: Part 1 (1967) - Nina Barnes
1967
T.H.E. Cat (TV Series) as
Crystal Pierson
- A Hot Place to Die (1967) - Crystal Pierson
1966
Cyborg 2087 as
Dr. Sharon Mason
1966
Star Trek (TV Series) as
Eve McHuron
- Mudd's Women (1966) - Eve McHuron
1966
Death of a Salesman (TV Movie) as
Letta
1966
The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) as
Unis Vack
- Anyone for Spindling? (1966) - Unis Vack
1965
Get Smart (TV Series) as
Mary 'Jack' Armstrong
- Survival of the Fattest (1965) - Mary 'Jack' Armstrong
1965
A Man Called Shenandoah (TV Series) as
Naomi
- The Reward (1965) - Naomi
1965
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) as
Cara
- Leviathan (1965) - Cara
1965
The Long, Hot Summer (TV Series) as
Willow Sterne
- The Twisted Image: Part 2 (1965) - Willow Sterne
- The Twisted Image: Part 1 (1965) - Willow Sterne
1965
Branded (TV Series) as
Lorrie Heller
- I Killed Jason McCord (1965) - Lorrie Heller
1965
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) as
Fran Perez
- The Crime (1965) - Fran Perez
1965
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) as
Smitty
- Shakedown (1965) - Smitty
1965
McGhee (TV Movie) as
Ann Dorsey
1965
Summer Playhouse (TV Series)
- McGhee (1965)
1965
Valentine's Day (TV Series) as
Gina Kingsley
- Farrow's Fling (1965) - Gina Kingsley
1958
Perry Mason (TV Series) as
Carina Wileen / Doris Stephanak
- The Case of the Fatal Fetish (1965) - Carina Wileen
- The Case of the Haunted Husband (1958) - Doris Stephanak
1964
Hazel (TV Series) as
Rita Noll
- Just 86 Shopping Minutes to Christmas (1964) - Rita Noll
- Better to Have Loved and Lost (1964) - Rita Noll
- Mix-Up on Marshall Road (1964) - Rita Noll
1963
Kraft Mystery Theater (TV Series)
- Catch Fear by the Throat (1963)
1963
Empire (TV Series) as
Kate Callahan
- Burnout (1963) - Kate Callahan
1963
The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) as
DeeDee
- Five Moments Out of Time (1963) - DeeDee
1962
40 Pounds of Trouble as
Bambi
1962
Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) as
Sabina
- Whatever Happened to Miss Illinois? (1962) - Sabina
1962
Naked City (TV Series) as
Grace Harvey
- To Walk Like a Lion (1962) - Grace Harvey
1961
Laramie (TV Series) as
Linda James / Mary Lake
- A Grave for Cully Brown (1962) - Linda James
- The Lost Dutchman (1961) - Mary Lake
1961
Surfside 6 (TV Series) as
Sylvia Morton / Jean Pappas
- Who Is Sylvia? (1962) - Sylvia Morton
- The Impractical Joker (1961) - Jean Pappas
1962
Rawhide (TV Series) as
Dolly LeMoyne
- The Woman Trap (1962) - Dolly LeMoyne
1961
Bonanza (TV Series) as
Sylvia Ann Goshen
- The Tin Badge (1961) - Sylvia Ann Goshen
1961
Follow the Sun (TV Series) as
Doris #2
- The Primitive Clay (1961) - Doris #2
1961
Bronco (TV Series) as
Vicky Norton
- One Came Back (1961) - Vicky Norton
1961
Target: The Corruptors! (TV Series) as
Marie Kleberg
- Pier 60 (1961) - Marie Kleberg
1961
Dante (TV Series) as
Nina
- Friendly Assassin (1961) - Nina
1961
The Roaring 20's (TV Series) as
Mae Dailey
- Big Town Blues (1961) - Mae Dailey
1959
77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) as
Gabriella Neuman / Iris Wayne / Candy Varga
- The Antwerp Caper (1960) - Gabriella Neuman
- The Negotiable Blonde (1960) - Iris Wayne
- Hong Kong Caper (1959) - Candy Varga
1960
Bourbon Street Beat (TV Series) as
Barbara Komack
- Teresa (1960) - Barbara Komack
1960
Lawman (TV Series) as
Laura Soldano
- Man on a Wire (1960) - Laura Soldano
1960
The Deputy (TV Series) as
Julie Grant
- Palace of Chance (1960) - Julie Grant
1960
Tightrope (TV Series) as
Maria Braden
- The Horse Runs High (1960) - Maria Braden
1960
The Alaskans (TV Series) as
Linda Fair / Nora Weber / Ellen Chambers
- Counterblow (1960) - Linda Fair
- Black Sand (1960) - Nora Weber
- The Trial of Reno McKee (1960) - Ellen Chambers
1960
Riverboat (TV Series) as
Sue Parker
- Hang the Men High (1960) - Sue Parker
1960
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as
Alice Scott
1959
Wildcatters (TV Short) as
Kelly
1959
Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) as
Marian Summers
- All Expenses Paid (1959) - Marian Summers
1957
Maverick (TV Series) as
Myra / Molly Gleason
- You Can't Beat the Percentage (1959) - Myra
- Point Blank (1957) - Molly Gleason
1959
Bat Masterson (TV Series) as
Elsa Dorn
- The Desert Ship (1959) - Elsa Dorn
1959
Northwest Passage (TV Series) as
Mary Clark
- The Killers (1959) - Mary Clark
1959
Ride Lonesome as
Mrs. Carrie Lane
1959
Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
- You Can't Win 'Em All (1959)
1958
Westbound as
Jeanie Miller
1956
The Millionaire (TV Series) as
Rita Morgan / Rita Hanley
- The Fred Morgan Story (1958) - Rita Morgan
- The Rita Hanley Story (1956) - Rita Hanley
1958
Jefferson Drum (TV Series) as
Madame Faro
- Madame Faro (1958) - Madame Faro
1957
Wagon Train (TV Series) as
Sarah Dawson
- The Riley Gratton Story (1957) - Sarah Dawson
1957
Decision at Sundown as
Lucy Summerton
1957
Bailout at 43,000 as
Carol Peterson
1957
Conflict (TV Series)
- Pattern for Violence (1957)
1955
Climax! (TV Series) as
Lee Rogers / Gloria
- Circle of Destruction (1957) - Lee Rogers
- Edge of Terror (1955) - Gloria
1956
Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) as
Susanna / Ruby
- The Gay Sisters (1956) - Susanna
- The Quick and the Dead (1956) - Ruby
1956
The Sharkfighters as
Martha Staves
1956
Toward the Unknown as
Polly Craven
1956
Dragnet (TV Series)
- The Big Mama (1956)
1956
The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series) as
Lorraine
- Airborne Honeymoon (1956) - Lorraine
1955
Matinee Theatre (TV Series)
- The Milwaukee Rocket (1955)
1955
Medic (TV Series) as
Helen Varecka
- All the Lonely Night (1955) - Helen Varecka
1955
Stage 7 (TV Series) as
Mary Anderson
- The Traveling Salesman (1955) - Mary Anderson
1955
The Man Behind the Badge (TV Series) as
Peggy
- The Case of the Educated Prisoner (1955) - Peggy
1955
The Halls of Ivy (TV Series)
- The Voice of Ivy's Vine (1955)
1955
The Man Who Tore Down the Wall (TV Movie) as
Nurse
1955
Marty as
Virginia
1955
General Electric Theater (TV Series) as
Receptionist
- Big Shot (1955) - Receptionist
1954
Studio 57 (TV Series) as
Millie Darrow
- So False and So Fair (1954) - Millie Darrow
1953
Man Crazy as
Marge
1952
Chevron Theatre (TV Series)
- A Letter for the Queen (1953)
- Horses and Fur Coats (1952)
1953
The Clown as
Blonde (uncredited)
Archive Footage
2020
Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (Documentary short) as
Self (uncredited)
2005
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (TV Movie documentary) as
Jeanie Miller

References

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