Peggy Knudsen

Peggy Knudsen

Birth : 1923-04-27,

Death : 1980-07-11

History

Peggy Knudsen was an American character actress on radio, movies and television.

Profile

Peggy Knudsen

Movies

Istanbul
Marge Boyle
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
Hilda Crane
Nell Bromley
After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
The Bottom of the Bottle
Ellen Miller
An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
Good Morning, Miss Dove
Nurse Billie Jean Green
Beloved schoolteacher reflects back on her life and former students when she is hospitalized...
Unchained
Elaine
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a humanistic approach to reform and there are no armed guards, no lockups and no uniforms. The underlying philosophy is that if these things are not there, the prisoners will not want to escape, and will instead accept their punishment. A new inmate arrives and soon accustoms himself to the new idea. The story includes the Oscar nominated song Unchained Melody.
Betrayed Women
Nora Collins
Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.
Copper Canyon
Cora
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
Trouble Preferred
Dale Kent
A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
Half Past Midnight
Sally Ferris, alias Sally Parker
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Perilous Waters
Pat Ferris
Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
Roses Are Red
Martha McCormack
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
The Unfaithful
Claire
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Stallion Road
Daisy Otis
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
Humoresque
Florence Boray
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Never Say Goodbye
Nancy Graham
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
Shadow of a Woman
Louise Ryder, Eric's Ex
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
The Big Sleep
Mona Mars
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
A Stolen Life
Diedre
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.