Erin Gray
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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.
Known for
Credits
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
as Diana Kimble
Winter Kills (1979)
as Beautiful Woman Three
Laker Girls (1990)
as Julie Lawrence
Code of Vengeance (1985)
as Nadine Flowers
Hunter Prey (2010)
as Clea
A Dangerous Place (1994)
as Audrey
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)
as Self
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
as Col. Wilma Deering
Ghouls (2008)
as Liz
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There (1985)
Actor
The Last Producer (2000)
as Dee Freeman
Serial Intentions (2001)
as Virginia Madden
Christmas in Palm Springs (2014)
as Mayor Tomlin
Finding Grace (2020)
as Judge Ariel Harper
My Christmas Inn (2018)
as Molly Anderson
A Christmas Princess (2019)
as Queen Alice
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (2022)
as Brianna
Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss (2007)
as Laura Sands
Six Pack (1982)
as Lilah
The Ultimate Impostor (1979)
as Beatrice 'Bucky' Tate
I Married Who? (2012)
as Ethel Swift
Caught in the Headlights (2005)
as Mrs. Jones
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
as Pamela Bozanich
Touched by a Killer (2001)
as Liza Collins
A Perfect Christmas (2016)
as Patricia Faber
Clover Bend (2002)
as Beth Clayton
T-Force (1994)
as Mayor Pendleton
Crowfoot (1995)
as Nora
Loaded (2008)
as Susan Price
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988)
as Captain Terry O'Malley
Official Denial (1993)
as Annie Corliss
ManFast (2003)
as Gloria Day
Siren (2006)
as Sharon Cox
Breaking Home Ties (1987)
as Carol
Nuclear Hurricane (2007)
as Jane
Addicted to His Love (1988)
as Jenny Barrett
Social Misfits (2001)
as Sharon Cox
Born Beautiful (1982)
as Betsy Forrest
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls (1979)
as Colonel Wilma Deering
My True Self (2008)
as Mrs. Ellen Fields
Dreams Awake (2011)
as Hope Emrys
Coach of the Year (1980)
as Paula DeFalco
Nesting (2012)
as Mrs. Deegan
Four Days At Dragon*Con (2011)
as Herself