Jeanne Bates
Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American radio, film and television actress. After performing in radio serials, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942 which began her career in films both in small parts and larger roles in a series of horror films and noirs, including The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946).
Jeanne Bates
May 21, 1918
November 28, 2007 (aged 89)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California
Actress
1943–2002
In her later career, Bates would collaborate with David Lynch on his films Eraserhead (1977) and Mulholland Drive (2001), the latter of which was her last film credit before her death in 2007.
Personal life[edit]
Bates married Lew X. Lansworth in 1943[2] and was married to him until his death in 1981.
Bates was a practicing Episcopalian and she was a registered Republican who supported the administrations of Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.[6]
Death[edit]
In 2007, Bates died of breast cancer at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at age 89.[7] Her remains are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California.[8]