Jeanne Bates

Acting

Jeanne Bates

Born 1918-05-20 · Berkeley, California, USA

Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American actress. After performing in radio serials, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942 which began her career in films both in bit parts and larger roles in a series of horror films and noirs, including The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946). In her later career, Bates would collaborate with David Lynch on his films Eraserhead (1977) and Mulholland Drive (2001), the latter of which was her last film credit before her death in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeanne Bates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Acting credits

Mulholland Drive poster
7.8

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Mulholland Drive

2001

Die Hard 2 poster
7.0

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

Die Hard 2

1990

Eraserhead poster
7.3

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Eraserhead

1977

Dream Lover poster
6.8

Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.

Dream Lover

1994

Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 poster
4.2

A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.

Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4

1990

Grand Canyon poster
6.4

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.

Grand Canyon

1991

Vice Raid poster
6.2

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.

Vice Raid

1959

The Return of the Vampire poster
6.1

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.

The Return of the Vampire

1943

Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue poster
5.3

Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the business and lead a normal life. Elle is hellbent to see that she never has one.

Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue

1991

Sabaka poster
4.6

A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger.

Sabaka

1955

The Chance of a Lifetime poster
6.7

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.

The Chance of a Lifetime

1943

Tonight and Every Night poster
5.5

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

Tonight and Every Night

1945

Gus poster
5.9

The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.

Gus

1976

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NR

A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of her grandchildren.

Hi Grandma!

1958

Death of a Salesman poster
7.0

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.

Death of a Salesman

1951

Guns Don't Argue poster
4.5

The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film.

Guns Don't Argue

1957

Trooper Hook poster
6.7

When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.

Trooper Hook

1957

Blood Arrow poster
8.0

Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout Mormon girl whose mission is to transport smallpox vaccine to her friends and neighbors. Unfortunately, this requires her to journey through hostile Indian territory. Appointing themselves as the girl's unofficial protectors are Indian scout Scott Brady, trapper Don Haggerty and (reluctantly) gambler Paul Richards.

Blood Arrow

1958

The Strangler poster
6.4

An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.

The Strangler

1964

Getting Married poster
6.0

A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.

Getting Married

1978

From the Dead of Night poster
6.0

After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back into the world of the dead. Her boyfriend Glen thinks she's crazy so Joanna turns to her ex-boyfriend, Peter. It just so happens that Peter is a strong believer in the supernatural and even teaches a course on it at a local college. Together they must confront the "walkers" so that Joanna can live to see another day.

From the Dead of Night

1989

There's Something About a Soldier poster
5.4

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

There's Something About a Soldier

1943

The Phantom poster
6.6

Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological site, and the other by a greedy treasure hunter who wants to keep the fabled treasures of the city for himself. An agent of a foreign power also wants to establish a secret airbase there, so he stirs up the natives against The Phantom, who has been able to get them to stay peaceful so far. When The Phantom is murdered, his son takes his place and sets out to restore peace to the jungle and stop the agents' and the treasure hunters' nefarious plans.

The Phantom

1943

Sergeant Mike poster
6.0

A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the canine corps. He begins to change his opinion when he learns that his army dog Mike was a gift from an eight-year-old whose father was killed in the war. Now the soldier becomes committed to training Mike into the best army dog there ever was.

Sergeant Mike

1944