Career Highlights: The Nude Bomb, Condominium, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
First Major Screen Credit: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Biography
Pamela Hensley's first TV job was as a "pointer" on the syndicated audience-participation series The New Treasure Hunt. Signed to a Universal Studios contract in 1973, Hensley seemed poised on the brink of the Big Time in 1975. That was the year that Hensley, in the role of Janet Blake, married Dr. Steve Kiley (James Brolin) on Marcus Welby MD. That same year, she played the Hispanic heroine in the expensive George Pal film Doc Savage: Man of Bronze (1975). While the Welby episode played to excellent ratings, Doc Savage sank like a stone; clearly, Hensley's future rested in the small rather than the large screen. Pamela Hensley's best post-Welby TV series assignments included the roles of the entrancing Princess Ardala on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-80) and lawyer C. J. Parsons on the Lee Horsley private-eye series Matt Houston (1982-85). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
She has several television and movie credits, including 1975's James Caan film, Rollerball, Marcus Welby, M.D. from 1975-1976, but after appearing in Matt Houston, she virtually disappeared from the screen.
Pamela Hensley reemerged in the literary world in 2004 with the publication of a small cookbook called The Jewish-Sicilian Cookbook authored under the name Pamela Hensley Vincent. She has been married to noted television executive producer, E. Duke Vincent, since the early 1980s.
Filmography
Matt Houston as C.J. Parsons (69 episodes, 1982-1984)