Living Co-Stars from every Joan Crawford Movie, UPDATED as of August 2021
by BWRocks | created - 31 Oct 2016 | updated - 22 Sep 2021 | PublicNote: (This goes for all of my lists of surviving people.) - If you see someone on my list and they have passed away that is because their passing was not reported until well after August 2021 (even if the date is before then, it is because it was retro dated with the date they passed away, not with the date that it was reported – which sometimes could be months or even years after they have passed away). Many deaths of retired actors go unreported and I try my best to be up-to-date because it is important that this information remain accurate. I respectfully ask the families of these celebrated people to help by reporting the passing of their loved ones online if it has not been done yet or if there is not a public obituary.
Over the years I have been in touch with nearly everyone on this list. They are all wonderful people and very talented actors.
Sadly, none of Joan's co-stars from any of her movies from the '20s and '30s are living. Although it was not a starring role, the last known living actor that appeared on film with Joan prior to the '40s was Mary Carlisle who was in "Grand Hotel". Miss Carlisle passed away in 2018 at the age of 104.
1. Richard Nichols
Actor | A Woman's Face
Richard Franklin Nichols was born on December 14, 1935 in Hollywood, California. He worked in movies from 6-months-old until about 12 years. He was the youngest of seven children, most of whom worked in movies. Older brothers worked in "Our Gang" comedies and in "The East Side Kids". Both Ray ...
"A Woman's Face" '41 (Lars-Erik Barring)
2. Ann Blyth
Actress | Mildred Pierce
The dark, petulant beauty of this petite American film and musical star worked to her advantage, especially in her early dramatic career. Anne Marie Blythe was born of Irish stock to Harry and Annie (nee Lynch) Blythe on August 16, 1928 in Mt. Kisco, New York. Her parents split while she was young ...
"Mildred Pierce" '45 (Veda Pierce, formerly Veda Forrester)
3. Robert Blake
Actor | Lost Highway
American actor who began as a child in Our Gang comedies and reappeared as a powerful adult performer of leading and character roles. Born in New Jersey, the young Mickey Gubitosi won a role in MGM's Our Gang series at the age of 5. As one of the more prominent children in the Gang, he gained ...
"Humoresque" '46 (Paul Boray as a child)
4. Tommy Cook
Actor | Night Passage
Spry, curly-haired, dark-complexioned child actor Tommy Cook's most famous roles happened during his nascent career in serial adventures. He came on the feature film scene auspiciously in the role of young Indian boy Little Beaver alongside western good guy 'Don 'Red' Barry' in the Adventures of ...
"Humoresque" '46 (Phil Boray as a child)
5. Jimmy Moss
Actor | Man-Eater of Kumaon
Jimmy Moss was born on September 9, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948), Inside Job (1946) and The Girl on the Bridge (1951).
"The Damned Don't Cry" '50 (Tommy Whitehead)
6. Pat Mitchell
Actor | The Alan Young Show
Pat Mitchell is known for The Alan Young Show (1950), The Well (1951) and Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951).
"Harriet Craig" '50 (Danny Frazier)
7. Lucy Marlow
Actress | Queen Bee
Lucy Marlow was born on November 20, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Queen Bee (1955), My Sister Eileen (1955) and A Star Is Born (1954). She was married to Andrew Carey. She died on December 18, 2018 in Beaumont, California, USA.
"Queen Bee" '55 (Jennifer "Jenn" Stewart)
8. Linda Bennett
Actress | Creature with the Atom Brain
Linda Bennett was born on June 19, 1942 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. She is an actress, known for Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), Queen Bee (1955) and The Seven Little Foys (1955).
"Queen Bee" '55 (Tessa Phillips)
9. Katherine Anderson
Actress | Tight Spot
Katherine Anderson was born on May 9, 1911 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Tight Spot (1955), Guiding Light (1952) and Queen Bee (1955). She was married to Poul W. Fricke. She died on January 16, 2001 in the USA.
"Queen Bee" '55 (Miss Breen)
10. Vera Miles
Actress | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she ...
"Autumn Leaves" '56 (Virginia Hanson)
11. Janina Faye
Actress | Dracula
Janina Faye is a former child actress, quite popular during the 1950s and 1960s. She was born in England to a Polish expatriate father. She appeared in several classic fantasy and horror films, having a substantial role in "Dracula" (1958).
In 1948, Faye was born in Hammersmith, a district of West ...
"The Story of Esther Costello" '57 (Esther Costello as a younger child)
12. Diane Baker
Actress | Marnie
Actress with a notable career in films and television. Born and raised in Hollywood, she moved to New York at eighteen to study acting with Charles Conrad and ballet with Nina Fonaroff. She continued her training in Los Angeles at the Estelle Harman Workshop, securing a contract with Twentieth ...
"The Best of Everything" '59 (April Morrison)
"Strait-Jacket" '64 (Carol Harbin)
"Fatal Confinement" aka "Della" and "Royal Bay" '64 (Jenny Chappell)
13. Gina Gillespie
Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Gina Gillespie was born on September 20, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) and Law of the Plainsman (1959). She has been married to James D. MacDonald since May 5, 1973.
(Now known as Gina G. MacDonald) "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" '62 (Blanche Hudson as a child)
14. Barbara Merrill
Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Barbara Merrill was born on May 1, 1947 in Santa Ana, California, USA. She is an actress, known for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Saturday Night with Connie Chung (1989) and This Is Your Life (1950).
(Now known as B. D. Hyman) "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" '62 (Liza Bates)
15. Janis Paige
Actress | Silk Stockings
Joyous scene-stealer Janis Paige started out playing rather bland film ingénues, but never seemed to be comfortable in those roles--she had too much snap, crackle and pop to be confined in such a formulaic way.
Born Donna Mae Tjaden in 1922 in Tacoma, Washington, she was singing in public from age 5...
"The Caretakers" '63 (Marion)
(Ms. Paige was also in "Hollywood Canteen" in '44, this was both a cameo for herself and for Joan.)
16. Diane McBain
Actress | Spinout
Signed on as a Warner Brothers starlet, bouncy, blonde-coiffed Diane McBain would develop a burgeoning career as lively '60s "bad girl" and "spoiled rich girl" types on film and TV. Born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 18, 1941, the family moved to California while still young and she started things off ...
"The Caretakers" '63 (Alison Horne)
"The Karate Killers" aka "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Five Daughters Affair: Part I" '67 (Contessa Margo De Fanzini)
17. Barbara Barrie
Actress | Breaking Away
After endless stage and television work, Barrie received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the ground-breaking racial drama One Potato, Two Potato (1964), as Julie, a young, white mother who marries a black man after she and her daughter are abandoned by her ...
"The Caretakers" '63 (Edna)
18. John Anthony Hayes
Actor | Strait-Jacket
John Anthony Hayes was born on April 25, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Strait-Jacket (1964), Ride the Wild Surf (1964) and Winter A-Go-Go (1965). He was married to JoAnn Marie Verna. He died on May 22, 2022 in Desert Hot Springs, California, USA.
"Strait-Jacket" '64 (Michael Fields)
19. Lee Majors
Actor | The Six Million Dollar Man
Lee Majors was born on April 23, 1939 in Wyandotte, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), The Fall Guy (1981) and Scrooged (1988). He has been married to Faith Majors since November 9, 2002. He was previously married to Karen Velez, Farrah Fawcett ...
"Strait-Jacket" '64 (Frank Harbin)
20. James Noah
Actor | Black Sheep
James Noah was born on March 1, 1935 in Perry, Iowa, USA. He is an actor, known for Black Sheep (1996), Sliver (1993) and Enough (2002). He has been married to Dolores Nora Martin since April 23, 1978. He was previously married to Marlyse Lee Reed.
"Fatal Confinement" aka "Della" and "Royal Bay" '64 (Chris Stafford)
21. Marianna Case
Actress | Burke's Law
Marianna Case was born on December 25, 1942 in the USA. She is an actress, known for Burke's Law (1963), Dimension 5 (1966) and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973).
"Fatal Confinement" aka "Della" and "Royal Bay" '64 (Addie Stafford)
22. Sara Lane
Actress | I Saw What You Did
Sara Lane's relatively brief fling with show biz began in 1966 when she was cast as the orphaned Wyoming frontier girl Elizabeth Grainger in the long-running NBC western series The Virginian (1962). Opposite her co-stars James Drury and Doug McClure, she went on to feature in some 105 episodes ...
"I Saw What You Did" aka "I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are" '65 (Kit Austin)
23. Andi Garrett
Actress | I Saw What You Did
Andi Garrett is known for I Saw What You Did (1965) and Black Sheep Squadron (1976).
"I Saw What You Did" aka "I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are" '65 (Libby Mannering)
24. Sharyl Locke
Actress | Father Goose
Sharyl Locke was born on June 13, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Father Goose (1964), I Saw What You Did (1965) and Burke's Law (1963). She has been married to Dominick Cordola since November 22, 1980. They have two children. She was previously married to ...
"I Saw What You Did" aka "I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are" '65 (Tess Mannering)
25. Joyce Meadows
Actress | The Brain from Planet Arous
Brunette, blue-eyed Joyce Meadows was one of three siblings, born of German ancestry as Joyce Johanna Burger in Alberta, Canada, to Joseph Henry Burger (1908-1989) and Johanna Louise Schelske (1913-1972). Being raised on a farm, she learned to ride from early childhood, a skill which later served ...
"I Saw What You Did" aka "I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are" '65 (Judith Marak)
26. David McCallum
Actor | The Great Escape
Since David McCallum's father, David McCallum Sr., was first violinist for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and his mother, Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist, it's not surprising that David was originally headed for a career in music, playing oboe. He studied briefly at the Royal Academy of Music. He ...
"The Karate Killers" aka "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Five Daughters Affair: Part I" '67 (Illya Kuryakin)
27. Kim Darby
Actress | True Grit
The child of professional dancers, Kim Darby began her career studying dance with her father, as well as Nico Charisse. At fourteen, she was granted special admission to Tony Barr's acting workshop at Desilu Studios on the Paramount Pictures lot. He wrote later that it was her remarkable openness, ...
"The Karate Killers" aka "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Five Daughters Affair: Part I" '67 (Sandy True)
28. Danielle De Metz
Actress | The Party
Danielle De Metz was born on July 27, 1938 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for The Party (1968), Valley of the Dragons (1961) and I Dream of Jeannie (1965). She has been married to Samuel Yale Kupper since January 4, 1972. She was previously married to Lanny Sher, Alan Jeffrey Luber and ...
"The Karate Killers" aka "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Five Daughters Affair: Part I" '67 (Yvonne)
29. Judy Geeson
Actress | To Sir, with Love
Born in Arundel, Sussex, in 1948, Judy's father moved the family to London when she was 10 years old and enrolled her and sister Sally Geeson into the Corona Academy, Chiswick. Judy initially wanted to be a ballet dancer but had to change course when she suffered from terrible headaches as a result...
"Berserk!" '68 (Angela Rivers)
30. Joe Cornelius
Actor | Trog
Joe Cornelius was born on May 1, 1928 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Trog (1970), The File of the Golden Goose (1969) and Adam Adamant Lives! (1966). He was married to Antoniette Roma. He died on October 30, 2021 in the UK.
"Trog" '70 (Trog)
31. John Hamill
Actor | Doing the Best I Can
John Hamill was born on May 3, 1947 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Doing the Best I Can (1974), The Over-Amorous Artist (1974) and Doctor Who (1963).
"Trog" '70 (Cliff)
32. Kim Braden
Actress | Star Trek: Generations
Kim Braden was born in 1949 in London, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Star Trek: Generations (1994), To Serve Them All My Days (1980) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). She is married to David Carson. They have two children.
"Trog" '70 (Anne Brockton)
33. David Griffin
Actor | Keeping Up Appearances
David Griffin was born on July 19, 1943 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Keeping Up Appearances (1990), Battle of Britain (1969) and The Song of Songs (1973).
"Trog" '70 (Malcolm Travers)
34. Geoffrey Case
Writer | Inspector Morse
Known for: 'The Accountant' - BBC film 1989, winner of the BAFTA award as Best Single Drama, starring Alfred Molina, directed by Les Blair, produced by Paul Knight. 'The Knock' ITV TV series, 'Scab' ITV movie, 'Inspector Morse' ITV TV series, 'Pulaski' BBC TV series, 'Fighting for Gemma' ITV movie....
"Trog" '70 (Bill)
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