
Person
Melodie Johnson
Acting · Born 1943-10-23 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Melodie Johnson Howe (born October 23, 1943) is an American actress and author. She became interested in writing at a young age and wrote several short plays that went unpublished. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles in creative writing. Yet in 1965, she embarked on an acting career in Hollywood. She appears in episodes generic several television series, including The Virginian, It Takes a Thief, Bewitched and Mannix. She also landed small roles in film, especially in Coogan's Bluff (1968) Don Siegel, alongside Clint Eastwood, and bootleggers Wars (1970) Richard Quine, with Patrick McGoohan and Richard Widmark. It ended his acting career in the early 1980. Under her married name, Melodie Johnson Howe, she published a few years apart Shadow The Mother (1989) and Beauty Dies (1994), two thrillers putting Directed by Claire and Maggie Conrad Hill, two female detectives who maintain professional relationships similar to those prevailing between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, the heroes of Rex Stout. In 2011, she published Shooting Hollywood (2011), a collection of stories that tell the adventures of Diana Poole, former actress in her forties looking to resume his career and still is forced to solve criminal cases which continue to divert his art. In 2013 seems City of Mirrors, the first book devoted to this new heroine.
Known for

Love, American Style
Ursula

Coogan's Bluff
Millie

Powderkeg
Miss Baker

The Moonshine War
Lizann Simpson

I Love a Mystery
Charity

Rabbit, Run
Lucy Eccles

Gaily, Gaily
Lilah Letterby

Fame Is the Name of the Game
Belle

The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Lillie

Enigma
Dr. Beverly Golden
Filmography
- 1977EnigmaDr. Beverly Golden
- 1973I Love a MysteryCharity
- 1971PowderkegMiss Baker
- 1970Rabbit, RunLucy Eccles
- 1970The Moonshine WarLizann Simpson
- 1969Gaily, GailyLilah Letterby
- 1969Love, American StyleUrsula
- 1968Coogan's BluffMillie
- 1967The Ride to Hangman's TreeLillie
- 1966Fame Is the Name of the GameBelle
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