Virginia Christine (1920–1996)

Actress

Virginia has a long career as a character actress on the screen, but she will always be best ...

Born: March 5, 1920
Died: July 24, 1996 (age 76)

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Filmography

Known For

Invasion of the Body Snatchers Wilma Lentz (1956)
The Mummy's Curse Princess Ananka (1944)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Hilary St. George (1967)
Known For

Judgment at Nuremberg Mrs. Halbestadt (1961)
Actress

The Insiders (1986)
The Puppy's Further Adventures (1982)
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Additional Voices (1979)
Kojak Mrs. Yankowski (1976)
Woman of the Year Alma (1976)
Ironside Esther. Hawkins (1974)
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf Miss Cummings (1970)
Nanny and the Professor Mrs. Wilson (1970)
Daniel Boone Mrs. Brewster (1968-1970)
Daughter of the Mind Helga (1969)
Hail, Hero! Eleanor Murchiston (1969)
Lancer Hannah Sickles (1969)
The F.B.I. Eugenia Sayres (1966-1968)
In Enemy Country Frau Gulden (1968)
The Virginian Margaret Conlan (1963-1967)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Hilary St. George (1967)
The Invaders Mrs. Thorne (1967)
Judd for the Defense Alice Lindsay (1967)
The Felony Squad Cleaning Woman (1967)
Jericho Frau Luders (1966)
A Man Called Shenandoah Fran Macauley (1966)
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula Eva Oster (1966)
Laredo Agnes Halsey (1966)
A Rage to Live Emma (1965)
The Big Valley Margaret Coleman (1965)
Wagon Train Mrs. Reed (1961-1965)
Gunsmoke Bess Clum (1957-1965)
Broadside Wave Commander Peabody (1965)
The Fugitive Alma Mercer (1964-1965)
Bonanza Martha Hale (1963-1964)
Hazel Mrs. McGuire (1964)
The Killers Miss Watson (1964)
One Man's Way Anna Peale (1964)
Ben Casey Rose Evans (1963-1964)
Mr. Novak Mrs. Payne (1964)
The Prize Mrs. Bergh (1963)
4 for Texas Brunhilde (1963)
Perry Mason Edith Summers (1961-1963)
Cattle King Ruth Winters (1963)
77 Sunset Strip Greta Haggman (1960-1963)
The Untouchables Dora Mizo (1960-1963)
The Eleventh Hour Mrs. Drury (1963)
Stoney Burke Flora Hill (1962)
Going My Way Mrs. Randall (1962)
Incident in an Alley Mrs. Connell (1962)
Tales of Wells Fargo Ovie Swenson (1961-1962)
Target: The Corruptors! Lorraine (1962)
The New Breed Annabelle (1962)
Bronco Martha Gant (1962)
Shotgun Slade Melissa Haggerty (1961)
Judgment at Nuremberg Mrs. Halbestadt (1961)
The Rifleman Mrs. Dalrymple (1959-1961)
Rawhide Ada Covey (1960-1961)
Mister Ed Margaret (1961)
The Asphalt Jungle Miss Brandt (1961)
This Is the Life Sophia Szabo (1961)
The Deputy Molly Baker (1961)
Shirley Temple's Storybook Rebecca Baines (1961)
Maverick Verna Lyme (1961)
Coronado 9 Margaret Hammock (1960-1961)
Flaming Star Mrs. Phillips (1960)
Death Valley Days Kate Hanson (1960)
Thriller Marge (1960)
Happy Janice (1960)
The Loretta Young Show Mrs. Spencer (1958-1960)
Riverboat Aunt Samantha Dexter (1960)
M Squad Mrs. Jake Fassard (1960)
Special Agent 7 (1959)
The Man from Blackhawk Mary Schuler (1959)
The Twilight Zone Ethel Bedeker (1959)
General Electric Theater Sarah (1956-1959)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson Mother (1959)
Wanted: Dead or Alive Harriet Meecham (1959)
How to Marry a Millionaire Alma (1959)
Man Without a Gun Sarah Carver (1959)
State Trooper Rena Desmond (1957-1959)
Frontier Doctor Hester Gray, Stan's Sister (1959)
The Lawless Years Mrs. Pavlock (1959)
Steve Canyon Mary Moore (1959)
Rescue 8 Millie Wilde (1959)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Martha Evans (1958)
The Donna Reed Show Margaret Lang (1958)
Trackdown Millie (1957-1958)
Buckskin Miss Emily Pringle (1958)
Zane Grey Theater Julie Hart (1958)
Peter Gunn Nancy Davis (1958)
Behind Closed Doors Julie (1958)
Target (1958)
The Thin Man Mildred (1958)
The Millionaire Mrs. Barnett (1958)
Mike Hammer June Earl (1958)
Whirlybirds Mrs. Thompson (1957-1958)
Studio 57 Jenny Pickett (1956-1958)
The Restless Gun Amy Durant (1958)
Casey Jones Doris Jones (1957)
Code 3 Beverly (1957)
The Careless Years Mathilda Vernon (1957)
Matinee Theatre Julia (1956-1957)
Johnny Tremain Mrs. Lapham (1957)
The Lone Ranger Cecile Charron (1957)
The Spirit of St. Louis Secretary (1957)
Hey, Jeannie! Mrs. Warren (1957)
Wire Service Sigrid Jensen (1957)
Three Brave Men Helen Goldsmith (1956)
Cavalcade of America Mrs. Sargent (1955-1956)
The Adventures of Jim Bowie Katrina Gottschalk (1956)
Science Fiction Theatre Prof. Anna Adler (1956)
Sneak Preview (1956)
Passport to Danger (1956)
Big Town (1956)
Private Secretary Maud (1956)
The Ford Television Theatre Mrs. Talbot (1954-1956)
Nightmare Mrs. Sue Bressard (1956)
Father Knows Best Grace Miller (1956)
Front Row Center Mrs. Graf (1956)
The Star and the Story Alice (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Wilma Lentz (1956)
The Killer Is Loose Mary Gillespie (1956)
Crusader (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Secretary (1955)
Good Morning, Miss Dove Mrs. Rigsbee (1955)
Soldiers of Fortune Bonnie (1955)
Not as a Stranger Bruni (1955)
The Cobweb Sally (1955)
Public Defender Mom Kennedy (1955)
Stage 7 Secretary (1955)
The Whistler Helen (1954)
Dragnet Helen Karsten (1952-1954)
Dragnet Mrs. Caldwell (1954)
Schlitz Playhouse (1954)
Four Star Playhouse Miss Chase (1953-1954)
Adventures of Superman Mrs. Frank (1954)
The Abbott and Costello Show Mrs. Jackson (1952-1953)
Woman They Almost Lynched Jenny (1953)
I'm the Law Elliot (1953)
Chevron Theatre (1953)
Never Wave at a WAC Lt. Myles (1953)
Dangerous Assignment Carla Fabri (1952)
High Noon Mrs. Simpson (1952)
Personal Appearance Theater (1952)
Racket Squad (1952)
The First Time Nurse (1952)
Front Page Detective Shelly (1951)
Cyrano de Bergerac Sister Marthe (1950)
The Men Patient's Wife at Lecture (1950)
Special Agent Mabel Rumpler (1949)
Cover Up Margaret Baker (1949)
Night Wind Jean Benson (1948)
Women in the Night Claire Adams (1948)
The Gangster Mrs. Karty (1947)
The Invisible Wall Mildred Elsworth (1947)
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine Lola Carson (1946)
The Killers Lilly Harmon Lubinsky (1946)
The Inner Circle Rhoda Roberts (1946)
The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946)
House of Horrors Lady of the Streets (1946)
Murder Is My Business Dora Darnell (1946)
Idea Girl Evelina (1946)
The Scarlet Horseman Carla Marquette aka Matosca (1946)
Girls of the Big House Bernice Meyers (1945)
Phantom of the Plains Celeste (1945)
Counter-Attack Tanya (1945)
The Mummy's Curse Princess Ananka (1944)
The Old Texas Trail Queenie Leone (1944)
Raiders of Ghost City Countess Elsa von Merck - alias Trina Dressard (1944)
Women at War Mary Sawyer (1943)
Action in the North Atlantic Pebbles (1943)
Mission to Moscow Maria - Beautician (1943)
Edge of Darkness Hulda (1943)
Actress

Truck Busters Eadie Watkins (1943)
Archive footage

Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2013)
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (1999)
Archive footage

The Magical World of Disney (1958)
Superman in Scotland Yard (1954)

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Did You Know

Best-known to Americans as "Mrs. Olsen" in Folgers Coffee TV commercials in the 1960s/70s. Fans who knew little of her earlier film career were surprised to find that, even though she was raised in heavily Scandinavian communities in Iowa, she had ...

Quotes

[on Lionel Atwill, with whom she worked in Raiders of Ghost City (1944)] Lionel Atwill was a great ham, a poseur, and I mean that as a compliment. We got along very well - he was a delight.