Anjanette Comer

American actress

Robert Klane

(m. 1976; div. 1983)

Anjanette Comer (born August 7, 1939) is an American actress.

Early years

Born in Dawson, Texas, to Rufus Franklin Comer, Jr., and Nola Dell "Sue" (Perkins) Comer, she attended Dawson High School.^[1] Comer gained acting experience at the Pasadena Playhouse.^[2]

Career

Comer's first major television credit was a guest appearance in a 1962 episode of My Three Sons titled "Heat Wave", followed by roles in several other dramatic series of the 1960s, such as Dr. Kildare and Bonanza. In 1964, she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress for her work on an episode on Arrest and Trial.^[3]

She made her film debut as the female lead in the 1964 comedy Quick, Before It Melts followed by a memorable role in the 1965 satire The Loved One, playing a seductive mortician who offers Robert Morse a choice for his uncle's funeral arrangements of "Inhumement, entombment, inurnment, immurement? Some people just lately have preferred ensarcophagusment."^[4]

Although Comer was cast opposite Michael Caine for Funeral in Berlin and appeared in publicity stills (she can be seen with Caine and Eva Renzi in a photograph on the DVD release), she had to be replaced because of illness. She had another leading role as a love interest of Marlon Brando and John Saxon in The Appaloosa (1966). The film, shot on location in Mexico, presented Anjanette as a Mexican peasant girl, a role she repeated in Guns for San Sebastian (1968). In between, she starred in Banning.^[5]

Comer's movie activity dropped off in 1970 after she played Ruth in the film version of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1970). She later claimed she let her love life interfere with her work. Comer's later films include The Firechasers (1971) and Fire Sale (1977), and the TV movie The Long Summer of George Adams (1983).

Personal life

From 1976 to 1983, Comer was married to Robert Klane; the marriage ended in divorce.^[6]

Select TV and filmography

My Three Sons as Janie Stempel (1 episode, 1962)
The Donna Reed Show (1 episode, 1962)
Arrest and Trial as Annabelle (1 episode, 1963)
Ben Casey (1 episode, 1963)
Gunsmoke as Cara Miles (1 episode, 1963)
Quick, Before It Melts (1964) as Tiara Marshall
Combat! as Annette (Episode: "Weep No More", 1964)
Bonanza as Joan Wingate (Episode: "Love Me Not", 1964)
Dr. Kildare as Carol Montgomery (2 episodes, 1964)
The Loved One (1965) as Aimee Thanatogenous
The Appaloosa (1966) as Trini
Banning (1967) as Carol Lindquist
In Enemy Country (1968) as Denise
La Bataille de San Sebastian [English title: The Guns of San Sebastian] (1968) as Kinita
The Young Lawyers (1969, TV) as Bonnie Baron
Love American Style as Billie Joe (segment 'Love and the Roommate', 1969)
Rabbit, Run (1970) as Ruth
The Mod Squad (1 episode, 1970)
Then Came Bronson as Vhea Samos (1 episode, 1970)
Lady Boss (1971) TV episode as (segment "Love and the Hiccups")
Dr. Simon Locke (later in series, called Police Surgeon)(1 episode, 1972, another, 1973)
Banyon (1971, TV) as Diane Jennings
Love American Style as Audrey Woods (segment 'Love and the Nutsy Girl', 1971)
The Most Deadly Game as Gretchen (1 episode, 1971)
The Firechasers (1971) as Toby Collins
Five Desperate Women as Lucy (1971 TV movie)
Love American Style as Chris (segment 'Love and the Hiccups', 1971)
Blood Feast as Cathy (1972 movie)
Mannix as Gina Hunter (1 episode, 1972)
Columbo: Étude in Black (1972, TV) as Jenifer Welles
The Baby (1973) as Ann Gentry
Search as Anne Ramon (1 episode, 1973)
Police Story as Constantina (2 episodes, 1974)
The Blue Knight (1 episode, 1975)
Barbary Coast as Mary Louise (1 episode, 1975)
S.W.A.T. as Alicia Woodward (2 episodes, 1975)
Harry O as Grace Duvall (1 episode, 1975)
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975) as Arlevia Jessup
Petrocelli as Mary Thorpe (1 episode, 1975)
Lepke (1975) as Bernice Meyer
Baretta as Det. Ann Harley (1 episode, 1976)
Jigsaw John as Mavis Bellamy (1 episode, 1976)
Fire Sale (1977) as Marion Fikus
Dead of Night (1977 film) (1977, TV) as Alexis
Barnaby Jones as Vivian Harper (1 episode, 1980)
The Long Summer of George Adams (1982, TV) as Venida
Hotel as Maggie (1 episode, 1988)
Jake and the Fatman as Vera Lake (3 episodes, 1991)
Netherworld (1992) as Mrs. Palmer
Streets of Laredo (1995) TV miniseries as Beulah
The Underneath (1995) as Mrs. Chambers
Profiler as Barbara Henkley (1 episode, 1999)

References

^ "FFA Sweetheart". Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light. Texas, Corsicana. December 24, 1954. p. 7. Retrieved September 24, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Hopper, Hedda (February 29, 1964). "Natalie Wood, Loew Will Wed on Yacht". The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate. p. Part III - 6. Retrieved September 25, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Anjanette Comer Awards & Nominations". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
^ "The Loved One". TV Cream. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
^ Scott, Vernon (September 24, 1981). "Scott's World: Whatever Happened to Anjanette Comer?". United Press International.
^ Broeske, Pat H. (June 17, 1990). "In Search Of . . . Anjanette Comer". Los Angeles Times.