![]() ![]() Rand Brooks guest stars in the episode as Tom Hickey. In the series premiere, "The Ferris Wheel" (September 23, 1958), of the syndicated television series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries, Bates played a woman recently released from a mental institution who is trapped at the top of a Ferris wheel with her young daughter, portrayed by Gina Gillespie. She also appeared in a 1956 episode of The Lone Ranger entitled "The Cross of Santo Domingo". She played Bela Lugosi's first victim in The Return of the Vampire (1943), Anne Winson in The Soul of a Monster (1944), Victoria in The Mask of Diijon (1946), Diana Palmer in The Phantom serial (1943), Agnes in Back from the Dead (film) (1957), and she also had a minor role in Death of a Salesman (1951).īates worked steadily in television beginning in the 1950s, including an appearance on the syndicated western series The Range Rider, and thereafter on episodes of NBC's Buckskin, Riverboat, and Peter Gunn, as well as the crime drama Sheriff of Cochise, and the aviation adventure series Sky King and Whirlybirds. She also had her film debut in 1943, in a Boston Blackie mystery, The Chance of a Lifetime. Bates also appeared in radio's "Gunsmoke", including the episode "Post Martin" and the episode "Newsma'am". Following the war, the show was revived under the name "Murder Will Out." In 1943, she married the writer of Whodunit, Lew X. ![]() Bates had the lead role, and supplied the signature scream, on the radio mystery series Whodunit. She began her acting career while attending San Mateo Junior College, with roles on radio soap operas produced in San Francisco. Bates was born in Berkeley, California in 1918.
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