Pat Crowley
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Patricia "Pat" Crowley is an American film and television actress.
Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley
, who appeared as guest
leading lady
in different episodes of many of the same television series and is not related.
Pat Crowley appeared in The Untouchables
pilot, a movie-length episode entitled "The Scarface Mob", in 1959. She played the part of Ness's fiancee, then wife.
Crowley then appeared as Sylvia Decker in the 1960 episode "Threat of Evil" of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson
. In 1963, she portrayed a character named "Georgi" in the episode "Five Moments Out of Time" on NBC
's medical drama
, The Eleventh Hour
. Also in 1963 she starred in The Twilight Zone
episode entitled "Printer's Devil
" with Robert Sterling
and Burgess Meredith
, and in the second episode of "The Fugitive" entitled "The Witch". In 1964, she starred in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
in the first episode entitled "The Vulcan Affair".
She then starred from 1965-1967 as Joan Nash in the NBC sitcom Please Don't Eat the Daisies
, based on the Doris Day
film and the 1957 Jean Kerr
novel
.
In 1968, she appeared with Russ Conway
, Darren McGavin
, and Darby Hinton
, in the two-part episode "Boomerang: Dog of Many Talents" on NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. In 1973, she guest starred in the episode "All the Lonely People" of Lorne Greene
's ABC
crime drama, Griff
. Crowley appeared on the series Happy Days
in an episode titled "A Potsie is Born" (Season 7, episode 23) which first aired in 1980. She acted in a 1998 episode of Beverly Hills, 90210
entitled "Budget Cuts." Crowley also appeared in an episode of Bonanza
in 1963 titled "The Actress", as a traveling actress who was a love interest of Little Joe (Michael Landon
).
A character actress or leading lady on a number of 1950s series such as Maverick
, Crowley is known to a later era of television viewers for her roles on soap operas such as Generations from 1989 to 1990 and Port Charles
from 1997 to 2003. The actress appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful
in 2005 for a limited run as Natalie DeWitt.
She starred with the comedy team of Martin and Lewis
in the 3-D film Money from Home
in 1953 and in their final film together Hollywood or Bust
(1956). She was featured in the George Seaton
1953 Paramount film Forever Female
(starring Ginger Rogers
and William Holden
). The film was not a success and unfortunately didn't do much for Crowley's career.
She was a murder victim in a 1971 episode of Columbo and appeared in 10 episodes of the hit series Dynasty
.
More recently, Crowley portrayed the widow of baseball's Roger Maris
in the biopic 61* directed by Billy Crystal
. She made a one-episode appearance on The Closer
in 2006 and in a 2009 episode of Cold Case portrayed an oppressed wife.
Crowley has been confusingly billed as Pat or Patricia interchangeably throughout her career. During her three appearances on Maverick, she rotated back and forth, billed as "Patricia Crowley" for the episode "The Rivals" with James Garner
and Roger Moore
, and as "Pat Crowley" for an installment called "Betrayal" with Jack Kelly
.
, a mine foreman.
In 1958, Patricia married Edward Gregory Hookstratten, who became a successful attorney for top entertainment and sports icons. They had a son, Jon (b May 5, 1958), and a daughter, Ann (b. December 21, 1960). After their two-decade marriage ended, she went on to marry producer Andy Friendly in 1986.
Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley
Kathleen Crowley
Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies...
, who appeared as guest
Guest appearance
In show business , a guest appearance is a participation of an outsider performer , usually called guest artist , in an event , i.e., the participation of a performer which does not belong to the regular crew In performance...
leading lady
Leading lady
Leading lady is an informal term for the actress who plays a secondary lead or supporting role, usually a love interest, to the leading actor in a film or play. It is not usually applied to the leading actress in the performance if her character is the protagonist.A leading lady can also be an...
in different episodes of many of the same television series and is not related.
Pat Crowley appeared in The Untouchables
The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...
pilot, a movie-length episode entitled "The Scarface Mob", in 1959. She played the part of Ness's fiancee, then wife.
Crowley then appeared as Sylvia Decker in the 1960 episode "Threat of Evil" of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961...
. In 1963, she portrayed a character named "Georgi" in the episode "Five Moments Out of Time" on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's medical drama
Medical drama
A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the...
, The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)
The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.-Series premise:...
. Also in 1963 she starred in The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...
episode entitled "Printer's Devil
Printer's Devil
"Printer's Devil" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The title comes from the profession printer's devil, an apprentice in the industry....
" with Robert Sterling
Robert Sterling
Robert Sterling, born William Sterling Hart was an American film and television actor.-Early life:...
and Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith
Oliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director...
, and in the second episode of "The Fugitive" entitled "The Witch". In 1964, she starred in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...
in the first episode entitled "The Vulcan Affair".
She then starred from 1965-1967 as Joan Nash in the NBC sitcom Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (TV series)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 14, 1965 to April 22, 1967. The series was based upon the 1957 book by Jean Kerr and 1960 film starring Doris Day and David Niven....
, based on the Doris Day
Doris Day
Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
film and the 1957 Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr was an American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary...
novel
Please Don't Eat The Daisies
Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys. The essays do not have a plot or through-storyline, but the book sold so well it was later adapted into a film starring Doris Day...
.
In 1968, she appeared with Russ Conway
Russ Conway (actor)
Russ Conway was a Canadian-American character actor who appeared on film and television between 1947 and 1975.-Early years:...
, Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and his portrayal in the film A Christmas Story of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his son overhears...
, and Darby Hinton
Darby Hinton
Darby Hinton is an American actor and filmmaker initially cast in commercials when he was six months old. From 1964–1970 he portrayed Israel Boone, a son of American pioneer Daniel Boone, on the NBC adventure series Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker in the title role...
, in the two-part episode "Boomerang: Dog of Many Talents" on NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. In 1973, she guest starred in the episode "All the Lonely People" of Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica...
's ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
crime drama, Griff
Griff (TV series)
Griff is a 13-episode ABC crime drama starring Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy, which aired from September 29, 1973, to January 4, 1974. Nine months after the expiration of his nearly 14-year role as Ponderosa Ranch patriarch Ben Cartwright on NBC's Bonanza western series, the Canadian native Greene...
. Crowley appeared on the series Happy Days
Happy Days
Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in mid-1950s to mid-1960s America....
in an episode titled "A Potsie is Born" (Season 7, episode 23) which first aired in 1980. She acted in a 1998 episode of Beverly Hills, 90210
Beverly Hills, 90210
Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise...
entitled "Budget Cuts." Crowley also appeared in an episode of Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...
in 1963 titled "The Actress", as a traveling actress who was a love interest of Little Joe (Michael Landon
Michael Landon
Michael Landon was an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza , Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie , and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven...
).
A character actress or leading lady on a number of 1950s series such as Maverick
Maverick (TV series)
Maverick is a western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, a cagey, articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother...
, Crowley is known to a later era of television viewers for her roles on soap operas such as Generations from 1989 to 1990 and Port Charles
Port Charles
Port Charles was a daytime soap opera which aired on ABC from June 2, 1997 to October 3, 2003. It is a spin-off of the serial General Hospital, which has been running since 1963 and takes place in the fictional city of Port Charles, New York...
from 1997 to 2003. The actress appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
in 2005 for a limited run as Natalie DeWitt.
She starred with the comedy team of Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis were an American comedy team, comprising singer Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis as the comedic "foil". The pair first met in 1945; their debut as a duo occurred at Atlantic City's 500 Club on July 24/25, 1946....
in the 3-D film Money from Home
Money From Home
Money From Home is a 1953 film starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The comedy was the first for the Martin and Lewis team to be shot in color and was their only film in 3-D. The picture was premiered as a special preview screening across the U.S...
in 1953 and in their final film together Hollywood or Bust
Hollywood Or Bust
Hollywood or Bust is a 1956 film comedy starring the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The picture was filmed from April 16 to June 19, 1956 and released on December 6, 1956 by Paramount Pictures, almost five months after the Martin and Lewis partnership split up.-Plot:Malcolm Smith wins a...
(1956). She was featured in the George Seaton
George Seaton
George Seaton was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director.Born George Stenius in South Bend, Indiana, Seaton moved to Detroit after graduating from college to work as an actor on radio station WXYZ. John L...
1953 Paramount film Forever Female
Forever Female
Forever Female is a 1953 film directed by Irving Rapper. It stars Ginger Rogers and William Holden. It won a Golden Globe in 1954.-Cast:*Ginger Rogers as Beatrice Page*William Holden as Stanley Krown*Paul Douglas as E. Harry Phillips...
(starring Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....
and William Holden
William Holden
William Holden was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974...
). The film was not a success and unfortunately didn't do much for Crowley's career.
She was a murder victim in a 1971 episode of Columbo and appeared in 10 episodes of the hit series Dynasty
Dynasty
A dynasty is a sequence of rulers considered members of the same family. Historians traditionally consider many sovereign states' history within a framework of successive dynasties, e.g., China, Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire...
.
More recently, Crowley portrayed the widow of baseball's Roger Maris
Roger Maris
Roger Eugene Maris was an American Major League Baseball right fielder. During the 1961 season, he hit a record 61 home runs for the New York Yankees, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 home runs...
in the biopic 61* directed by Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal
William Edward "Billy" Crystal is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes...
. She made a one-episode appearance on The Closer
The Closer
The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...
in 2006 and in a 2009 episode of Cold Case portrayed an oppressed wife.
Crowley has been confusingly billed as Pat or Patricia interchangeably throughout her career. During her three appearances on Maverick, she rotated back and forth, billed as "Patricia Crowley" for the episode "The Rivals" with James Garner
James Garner
James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...
and Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
, and as "Pat Crowley" for an installment called "Betrayal" with Jack Kelly
Jack Kelly (actor)
Jack Kelly was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of "Bart Maverick" in the TV series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962...
.
Personal life
A photo model at age 11, she was the daughter of Helen and Vincent CrowleyCrowley
-Places:*Crowley, Mendocino County, California, an unincorporated community*Crowley, Tulare County, California*Crowley County, Colorado*Crowley, Colorado, a town in Crowley County*Crowley, Louisiana, a city*Crowley, Texas, a city...
, a mine foreman.
In 1958, Patricia married Edward Gregory Hookstratten, who became a successful attorney for top entertainment and sports icons. They had a son, Jon (b May 5, 1958), and a daughter, Ann (b. December 21, 1960). After their two-decade marriage ended, she went on to marry producer Andy Friendly in 1986.