Audrey Dalton

Audrey Dalton
Dalton in Wagon Train, 1959
Born	(1934-01-21) 21 January 1934 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1952–1978
Spouse(s)	James H. Brown (1953–1977, divorced); 4 children Rod F. Simenz (1979–present)
Children	Tara Anne (b. 1953) Victoria Patricia (b. 1955) James E. (b. 1957) Richard P. (b. 1959)

Audrey Dalton (born 21 January 1934) is an Irish television and film actress.

Dalton was born in Dublin, the daughter of Emmet Dalton (1898-1978), an Irish soldier and film producer, who fought in World War I for the British but joined the Irish Republican Army and was on the pro-Treaty side during the Irish Civil War.

She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Dublin. After the family moved to London, she studied acting in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She moved to the United States on 17 March 1952.

In 1953 she secretly married UCLA student and basketball player James H. Brown of Los Altos, California, who later became a TV executive and assistant director.^[1] In 1977 she divorced Brown, father of her four children, after 25 years of marriage, and in 1979 married Rod F. Simenz, an engineer.^[2]

Among her many television appearances were six episodes of Wagon Train between 1958 and 1964. She made a guest appearance on Perry Mason in 1961 as Kate Eastman in "The Case of the Injured Innocent." In 1962 she appeared on Gunsmoke (S8:E18) in "The Renegades".^[1]

TV and filmography

• Police Woman as Mrs. Hunter (3 episodes, 1974–1978)
• Family Affair as Mrs. Thompson (1 episode, 1967)
• Insight (1 episode, 1967)
• Me and Benjy (1967) (TV) as Ruth
• Dragnet 1967 as Patricia Filmore (1 episode, 1967)
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Mrs. Wainright (1 episode, 1966)
• The Wild Wild West as Veda Singh (1 episode, 1966)
• The Big Valley as Amy Colter /(2 episodes, 1965–1966)
• Laredo as Alice Coverly (1 episode, 1965)
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Dr. Lydia Parrish (1 episode, 1965)
• The Bounty Killer (1965) as Carole Ridgeway
• Kitten with a Whip (1964) as Virginia Stratton
• Wagon Train as Dana Bannon /(6 episodes, 1958–1964)
• Dr. Kildare as Jo Grant (1 episode, 1964)
• Temple Houston as Amy Hart (1 episode, 1963)
• The Dakotas as Ronnie Kane in "A Nice Girl from Goliath" (1963)
• The Wide Country as Nancy Kidwell (1 episode, 1963)
• Death Valley Days as Mary O'Connell (1 episode, 1963)
• Gunsmoke as Lavinia Pate (1 episode, 1963)
• Kraft Mystery Theater (1 episode, 1962)
• Bonanza as Melinda Banning (1 episode, 1962)
• King of Diamonds as Lola Hayes (1 episode, 1962)
• Ripcord as Janice Dean (1 episode, 1962)
• Checkmate as Ann Miles (1 episode, 1961)
• Perry Mason as Kate Eastman (1 episode, 1961)
• The Investigators as Constance Moreno (1 episode, 1961)
• Mr. Sardonicus (1961) as Maude Sardonicus
• Whispering Smith as April (1 episode, 1961)
• Bringing Up Buddy as Ami Davenport /(1 episode, 1961)
• Michael Shayne as Pat Marshall (1 episode, 1961)
• Lock Up as Susan Carter (1 episode, 1961)
• Thriller as Norine Burton in "The Prediction" / Nesta Roberts in "Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook"/ Meg O'Danagh Wheeler in "The Hollow Watcher" (1960–1962)
• Bat Masterson as Abby Chancellor /(3 episodes, 1958–1961)
• National Velvet as Fiona Mulcahey (1 episode, 1961)
• The Tab Hunter Show as Ariel Evans (1 episode, 1961)
• The Aquanauts as Sylvia Jurgen (1 episode, 1961)
• Dante as Hazel Kennicut (1 episode, 1961)
• Lone Texan (1959) as Susan Harvey
• Disneyland as Mrs. Cunningham (1 episode, 1959)
• This Other Eden (1959) as Maire McRoarty
• Separate Tables (1958) as Jean
• Man with a Camera as Sharon Rogers (1 episode, 1958)
• The Millionaire as Ellen Curry (1 episode, 1958)
• Thundering Jets (1958) as Susan Blair
• The Bob Cummings Show (1 episode, 1957)
• Lux Video Theatre as Barbara (2 episodes, 1957)
• The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) as Gail MacKenzie
• Hold Back the Night (1956) as Kitty
• The 20th Century-Fox Hour as Carey Rydal (1 episode, 1956)
• Confession (1955) as Louise Nelson
• The Prodigal (1955) as Ruth
• Drum Beat (1954/I) as Nancy Meek
• Casanova's Big Night (1954) as Elena Di Gambetta
• Titanic (1953) as Annette Sturges
• The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) as Hester Halyard
• My Cousin Rachel (1952) as Louise Kendall

References

External links

• Audrey Dalton at the Internet Movie Database
• Audrey Dalton at AllMovie
• Interview May, 2014 in the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel
• Audrey Dalton interview at Classic Film & TV Cafe