
Carolyn Jones
Born April 28, 1930 · Amarillo, Texas, USA
Carolyn Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American film and television actress. She began her career in the early 1950s and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising actresses of 1959. In 1964 she began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the television series The Addams Family.
Notable Appearances
Movies

How the West Was Won

The War of the Worlds

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Seven Year Itch

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

House of Wax

The Big Heat

Last Train from Gun Hill

King Creole

Eaten Alive

Heaven with a Gun

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family

Désirée

Marjorie Morningstar

The Opposite Sex

Demon and the Mummy

A Hole in the Head

Three Hours to Kill

The Tender Trap

Road to Bali

The Turning Point

The Man in the Net

Make Haste to Live

Who Killed Julie Greer?

Halloween with the New Addams Family

Little Ladies of the Night

Geraldine

Baby Face Nelson

Sail a Crooked Ship

A Ticklish Affair

Ice Palace

Off Limits

Shield for Murder

Mondo Hollywood

Color Me Dead

Midnight Lace

The Saracen Blade

The Bachelor Party

The Addams Family Album

Johnny Trouble

Creepy Classics

Career
TV Shows

Ironside

Quincy, M.E.

Wagon Train

Dr. Kildare

Climax!

Batman

Four Star Playhouse

The Virginian

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Dragnet

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Name of the Game

Capitol

Fantasy Island

Burke's Law

The Oscars

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Colgate Comedy Hour

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The Mod Squad

The Addams Family

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Ellery Queen

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

The Millionaire

Studio 57

The Danny Kaye Show

Wonder Woman

Hollywood Squares

City Detective

Ghost Story

Roots

You Are There

The Dick Powell Show

Dan August

The New Scooby-Doo Movies

Mr. & Mrs. North

The Lloyd Bridges Show

Panic!

Wire Service

Treasury Men in Action












