Marie Windsor

Marie Windsor
(1954)
Born	Emily Marie Bertelsen December 11, 1919(1919-12-11) Marysvale, Utah
Died	December 10, 2000(2000-12-10) (aged 80) Beverly Hills, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1941–1991
Spouse	Ted Steele (1946) annulled 1 step son Jack Hupp (1954-2000) (her death) 1 child

Marie Windsor (December 11, 1919 - December 10, 2000). Born as Emily Marie Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Windsor was an actress known as "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many B-movies and film noirs.^[1]

Career

Windsor, a former Miss Utah, trained for the stage under Maria Ouspenskaya, and after several years as a telephone operator, a stage and radio actress, and a bit and extra player in films, she began playing feature and lead parts in 1947.^[2]

The 5'9" actress's first memorable role was opposite John Garfield in Force of Evil playing seductress Edna Tucker. Windsor also had large roles in film noirs including The Sniper, The Narrow Margin, City That Never Sleeps, and Stanley Kubrick's heist movie The Killing playing Elisha Cook Jr.'s scheming wife.

Later she moved on to television, appearing on such shows as Maverick (in episodes "The Quick and the Dead" with James Garner and "Epitaph for a Gambler" with Jack Kelly), Bat Masterson (in "The Fighter") opposite Gene Barry, The Incredible Hulk, General Hospital, Murder, She Wrote, Rawhide ("Incident on the Edge of Madness"), and Salem's Lot. She was one of the 500 stars nominated to become one of the 50 greatest American screen legends as part of the American Film Institute's 100 years. Windsor was politically conservative, a member of the Screen Actors Guild and was supportive of The Motion Picture and Television Fund^[3].

Windsor married twice, first briefly to bandleader Ted Steele,^[4] and later to Jack Hupp, a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic basketball team. Hupp, with whom Windsor had a son, was posthumously inducted into the University of Southern California (USC) Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.^[5] After her acting career was over, Windsor became a painter and sculptor. She died of undisclosed causes on the day before her 81st birthday. She is interred with Hupp in Marysvale, Utah.

Filmography

Source: ^[6]

Television

• The Public Defender, as Melody Scanlon in "The Ring" (1954)
• Stories of the Century, as Belle Starr in the series premiere episode (1954)
• Bat Masterson, as saloon owner Polly Landers in the episode "The Fighter" (1958)
• Perry Mason, in the episode "The Case of the Daring Decoy" (1958)
• Rawhide, in the episode "Incident on the Edge of Madness" (1959)
• Rawhide, in the episode "Incident of the Painted Lady" (1961)
• Wild Women (1970) (TV)
• Perry Mason, in the episode "The Case of the Tarnished Trademark" (1962)
• Manhunter (1974) (TV)
• Salem's Lot (1979) (TV)
• Charlie's Angels, in the episode "Angels at the Altar" (1979)
• Lou Grant (2 episodes, 1979 and 1980) (TV)
• The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) as Belle Star in the episode "Sideshow" (1980)(TV)
• The Perfect Woman (1981) (TV)
• J.O.E. and the Colonel (1985) (TV)
• Tales from the Darkside (1986) (TV)
• Commando Squad (1987) (TV)
• Supercarrier (1988) (TV)
• Adam 12 (1990) (TV)
• Murder She Wrote (2 episodes, 1987 and 1991) (TV)
• Gunsmoke, in the episode "Trafton" (1971)

References

Notes

Further reading

• Oderman, Stuart, Talking to the Piano Player 2. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN #1-59393-320-7.

External links

Biography portal

• Marie Windsor at the Internet Movie Database
• Marie Windsor at the Internet Broadway Database
• Marie Windsor at AllRovi
• Marie Windsor interview with The Perfect Vision magazine at Modern Times Classic Film Pages
• Marie Windsor at Find a Grave
• Literature on Marie Windsor