Erin Gray
Acting
Born 1950-01-07
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
77 credits
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The very beautiful and talented model, actress, and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the highly watched TV show "Silver Spoons" (1982), and "Colonel Wilma Deering" on the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). Many women admired her commanding role as Col Deering, while many men admired her beautiful looks and sexy figure. Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, convinced her what she wanted to do in life. Moving to New York, she became one of the town's most sought-after models, in elite company with Farrah Fawcett, Veronica Hamel and Susan Blakely. TV viewers encountered her commercials for Breck, Max Factor, Clairol, Camay Soap and RC Cola, and a classic spot--for English Leather cologne--in which she provocatively declared, "My men wear English Leather--or they wear nothing at all!" Between modeling assignments, she studied acting with well-known coach Warren Robertson and, when movie-TV offers came in, she was ready. Universal was impressed by her performances on such series as "Police Story" (1973) and "Gibbsville" (1976) and signed her to a seven-year contract. Under that pact, the studio co-starred her as a tough-minded newspaper reporter in Irwin Shaw's Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV). Her performance scored with both critics and audiences, and led directly to the role in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). As a result, she has become a regular commuter between Hollywood and New York, the hub of the magazine and fashion world.
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Filmography
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Acting
47 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Hunter
The Love Boat
Murder, She Wrote
Magnum, P.I.
Baywatch
L.A. Law
The Rockford Files
Profiler
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Hitchhiker
The Guild
Silver Spoons
Burke's Law
The Torkelsons
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Pandora
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
The Wedding Bells
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Hunter Prey
Ghouls
Code of Vengeance
Laker Girls
Six Pack
Winter Kills
Finding Grace
Christmas in Palm Springs
A Perfect Christmas
I Married Who?
Evening in Byzantium
Touched by a Killer
Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
A Dangerous Place
Malibu U
The Last Producer
Clover Bend
Serial Intentions
My Christmas Inn
A Christmas Princess
Loaded
Social Misfits
T-Force
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Other credits
13 credits
Simon & Simon
Hotel
The Fall Guy
Renegade
Jake and the Fatman
Silk Stalkings
Vega$
Evening Shade
Dark Justice
B. J. and the Bear
Battle of the Network Stars
The New Lassie
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
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