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<html> <head> <title>Angie Dickinson</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/443/000023374/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Angie Dickinson<img src="angie1-sm.jpg" height=303 width=240 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Angie Dickinson">AKA Angeline BrownBorn: <a href="/lists/791/000106473/" class=proflink>30-Sep</a>-<a href="/lists/930/000105615/" class=proflink>1931</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/826/000081583/" class=proflink>Kulm, ND</a> Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: ActorNationality: United States Executive summary: Police WomanAngie Dickinson is a movie and television star, best known for playing Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson, TV's Police Woman, from 1974-78. Her character was a tough cop who often worked undercover, posing as a mob girl or prostitute. Police Woman was a spin-off from <a href="/people/968/000023899/">Joseph Wambaugh</a>'s Police Story, and it became TV's first successful hour-long drama starring a woman. Dickinson was born Angeline Brown, and her parents published a small-town weekly newspaper, The Kulm Messenger, in her North Dakota home town. The family moved to California when Angie was ten. After high school, she worked as a secretary, unsure what she wanted to do with her life. She entered NBC's Beauty Parade, a nationwide beauty contest, and was one of six winners, but there was no million-dollar jackpot as on today's reality shows. Dickinson went back to work as a secretary, but soon received a phone call from <a href="/people/911/000031818/">Jimmy Durante</a>'s producer, who said he had gotten her number from Beauty Parade, and asked her to make a guest appearance on Durante's comedy-variety show. "But I can't act", she explained. With no pause at all, the producer said, "Well, can you walk? Do you want the job or not?" She said yes, and immediately started taking acting lessons, four nights a week after work. She was violently murdered in the first episode of the original Mike Hammer TV series, starring <a href="/people/722/000025647/">Darren McGavin</a>. She had a bit part in her first film, Lucky Me with <a href="/people/975/000022909/">Doris Day</a>. Her first leading role came in a 1956 B-western, Gun the Man Down with <a href="/people/954/000022888/">James Arness</a>. Later films include <a href="/people/670/000032574/">Howard Hawks</a>'s western Rio Bravo with <a href="/people/605/000023536/">John Wayne</a>, <a href="/people/871/000023802/">Dean Martin</a>, and <a href="/people/347/000032251/">Walter Brennan</a>, the Rat Pack's original Ocean's Eleven, The Killers with <a href="/people/314/000026236/">Lee Marvin</a>, Dressed to Kill with <a href="/people/754/000022688/">Michael Caine</a> and <a href="/people/088/000025013/">Nancy Allen</a>, and <a href="/people/551/000022485/">Gus Van Sant</a>'s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues with <a href="/people/598/000023529/">Uma Thurman</a>. Dickinson became a blonde in 1960, for The Bramble Bush with <a href="/people/050/000078813/">Barbara Rush</a>, because Rush and Dickinson were both brunettes, but at the time Rush was a bigger star. Annoyed at first, Dickinson soon decided she liked being blonde. Her legs were once insured for $1-million dollars through Lloyds of London, but Dickinson hastens to point out that the policy was purchased by Universal Pictures, not her, and the studio would have been the beneficiary had anything happened to Dickinson's legs. In 1993, she became the first and only This Is Your Life honoree to refuse to do the retrospective show. Friends, acquaintances, and co-workers from her career were waiting to regale viewers with their memories of Dickinson, but as part of the program's format, honorees were never told in advance. She had been lured to a studio on the pretext that she was appearing in a tribute to <a href="/people/098/000024026/">Brian De Palma</a>, who had directed her in Dressed to Kill. When <a href="/people/668/000116320/">Ralph Edwards</a>, the show's host, walked on stage and said, "Angie Dickinson, this is your life!" she responded, "Fuck no, I won't do it." Father: Leo H. Brown (newspaper publisher) Mother: Frederica Sister: Janet Sister: Mary Lou (Alzheimer's) Husband: Gene Dickinson (semi-pro football player, m. 2-Jun-1952, div. 1960) Husband: <a href="/people/300/000023231/">Burt Bacharach</a> (composer, m. 15-May-1965, div. 1981) Daughter: Lea Nikki Bacharach (b. 1966, d. 4-Jan-2007 suicide) Boyfriend: <a href="/people/300/000026222/">Frank Sinatra</a> (singer-actor) Boyfriend: <a href="/people/396/000022330/">Johnny Carson</a> (talk show host) Boyfriend: <a href="/people/429/000022363/">Larry King</a> (talk show host) Boyfriend: <a href="/people/930/000023861/">Julio Iglesias</a> (singer) Boyfriend: <a href="/people/569/000056401/">Harry Reasoner</a> (TV journalist) Boyfriend: Billy Vera (singer, The Beaters, "At this Moment", b. 1944) Boyfriend: John Barrowman (stage actor, b. 1967)     High School: Bellamarine Jefferson High School, Burbank, CA (1947)     University: <a href="/edu/137/000348090/">Immaculate Heart College</a>     University: Glendale College, Glendale, CA     <a href="/honors/636/000044504/">Golden Globe</a> Best Actress in a Dramatic Series, Police Woman     <a href="/honors/312/000044180/">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a>     TELEVISION     <a href="/tv/432/000067231/">Police Woman</a> Sgt. Pepper Anderson (1974-78)     <a href="/tv/773/000051620/">Celebrity Poker Showdown</a> Contestant     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/941/000349891/">Paul Williams Still Alive (11-Sep-2011)</a> · Herself     <a href="/films/853/000129466/">Elvis Has Left the Building (27-Aug-2004)</a> · Bobette     <a href="/films/657/000033558/">Ocean's Eleven (5-Dec-2001)</a> · Herself     <a href="/films/297/000092021/">Big Bad Love (12-May-2001)</a> · Mrs. Barlow     <a href="/films/437/000033338/">Pay It Forward (12-Oct-2000)</a> · Grace     <a href="/films/788/000059611/">Duets (9-Sep-2000)</a>     <a href="/films/607/000042481/">The Last Producer (22-Aug-2000)</a>     <a href="/films/663/000173144/">Sealed with a Kiss (19-Sep-1999)</a> · Lucille Ethridge     <a href="/films/124/000089854/">The Maddening (16-Apr-1999)</a>     <a href="/films/140/000089870/">The Don's Analyst (6-Sep-1997)</a>     <a href="/films/789/000268982/">Remembrance (2-Sep-1996)</a>     <a href="/films/152/000038038/">Sabrina (15-Dec-1995)</a> · Ingrid Tyson     <a href="/films/351/000034249/">Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (13-Sep-1993)</a>     <a href="/films/555/000271739/">Wild Palms (16-May-1993)</a>     <a href="/films/245/000161759/">Once Upon a Texas Train (3-Jan-1988)</a> · Maggie     <a href="/films/657/000084405/">Big Bad Mama II (Oct-1987)</a>     <a href="/films/344/000386183/">Jealousy (23-Jan-1984)</a>     <a href="/films/171/000064976/">Death Hunt (21-Sep-1981)</a>     <a href="/films/166/000035061/">Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (Feb-1981)</a>     <a href="/films/723/000040603/">Dressed to Kill (23-Jun-1980)</a> · Kate Miller     <a href="/films/375/000208748/">Klondike Fever (12-Jan-1980)</a>     <a href="/films/346/000066148/">Big Bad Mama (19-Sep-1974)</a> · Wilma McClatchie     <a href="/films/770/000107449/">The Norliss Tapes (21-Feb-1973)</a>     <a href="/films/876/000119519/">The Outside Man (21-Dec-1972)</a>     <a href="/films/036/000032937/">Pretty Maids All in a Row (28-Apr-1971)</a>     <a href="/films/889/000220229/">Young Billy Young (15-Oct-1969)</a> · Lily     <a href="/films/815/000220155/">Some Kind of a Nut (1-Oct-1969)</a> · Rachel     <a href="/films/698/000133299/">Sam Whiskey (1-Apr-1969)</a> · Laura Breckenridge     <a href="/films/326/000172807/">The Last Challenge (22-Dec-1967)</a> · Lisa Denton     <a href="/films/909/000042783/">Point Blank (30-Aug-1967)</a> · Chris     <a href="/films/051/000032952/">The Poppy Is Also a Flower (22-Apr-1966)</a>     <a href="/films/402/000074180/">Cast a Giant Shadow (30-Mar-1966)</a>     <a href="/films/027/000061841/">The Chase (19-Feb-1966)</a>     <a href="/films/966/000040846/">The Art of Love (30-Jun-1965)</a>     <a href="/films/435/000063246/">The Killers (7-Jul-1964)</a>     <a href="/films/503/000083254/">Captain Newman, M.D. (25-Dec-1963)</a>     <a href="/films/587/000262798/">Jessica (19-Apr-1962)</a> · Jessica     <a href="/films/603/000083354/">Rome Adventure (15-Mar-1962)</a> · Lyda     <a href="/films/799/000173280/">The Sins of Rachel Cade (10-Feb-1961)</a>     <a href="/films/528/000229838/">A Fever in the Blood (28-Jan-1961)</a> · Cathy Simon     <a href="/films/658/000033559/">Ocean's Eleven (10-Aug-1960)</a> · Beatrice Ocean     <a href="/films/221/000033122/">The Bramble Bush (24-Feb-1960)</a>     <a href="/films/012/000032913/">Rio Bravo (18-Mar-1959)</a> · Feathers     <a href="/films/429/000090159/">Cry Terror! 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