Barbara Rush

Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927 in Denver, Colorado) is an American stage, film, and television actress.

A student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Barbara Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen debut in the 1951 movie The Goldbergs and went on to star opposite the likes of James Mason, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Kirk Douglas. In 1954 she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space.

Barbara Rush married actor Jeffrey Hunter in 1950 and had a son, Christopher. They divorced in 1955 She married publicist Warren Cowan in 1959. Their daughter, Claudia Cowan, is a journalist with Fox News television channel.

Rush began her career on stage and it has always been a part of her professional life. In 1970, she earned the Sarah Siddons Award for dramatic achievement in Chicago theatre for her leading role in Forty Carats and brought her one-woman play A Woman of Independent Means to Broadway in 1984. She began working on television in the 1950s. She later became a regular performer in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other shows including Peyton Place and the soap opera All My Children.

In 1962, she guest starred as Linda Kinkcaid in the episode "Make Me a Place" on the the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. In 1962-1963, she appeared three times as Lizzie Hogan on the short-lived NBC drama about newspapers, Saints and Sinners. In 1967, she guest starred on the ABC western series Custer starring Wayne Maunder.

She often played a willful woman of means or a polished, high-society doyenne. Rush also was cast in an occasional villainess role, as in the Rat Pack's gangster musical Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964) or in the Western drama Hombre (1967), as a rich, condescending wife of a thief who ends up taken hostage and tied to a stake.

She portrayed the devious Nora Clavicle in the TV series Batman. After appearing in the 1980 disco-themed Can't Stop the Music, Rush returned to television work. She was a regular cast member on the early 1980s soap opera Flamingo Road as Eudora Weldon. In 1998 she was featured in an episode called "Balance of Nature" on the television series The Outer Limits. Rush continues to make guest appearances on television as recent as 2005 in the recurring role of Ruth Camden on the series, 7th Heaven.

Selected filmography

• The Goldbergs (1951)
• Quebec (1951)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• It Came from Outer Space (1953)
• Magnificent Obsession (1954)
• Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
• The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
• Bigger Than Life (1956)
• Harry Black and the Tiger (1958)
• The Young Lions (1958)
• The Young Philadelphians (1959)
• The Bramble Bush (1960)
• Strangers When We Meet (film) (1960)
• Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
• Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964)
• Hombre (1967)
• Peege (1972)
• The Bionic Woman (1976)
• The Seekers (1979)
• The Last Day (1975)
• Flamingo Road (1980)
• Summer Lovers (1982)
• Web of Deceit (1990)
• The Outer Limits (1998)

Awards

External links

• Barbara Rush at the Internet Movie Database