Barbara Nichols

Barbara Nichols

Birth : 1928-12-10, Mineola, New York, USA

Death : 1976-10-05

History

Barbara Marie Nickerauer (December 10, 1928 - October 5, 1976), better known by her stage name, Barbara Nichols, was an American actress and model, who became prominent in the 1950s and 1960s for playing brassy, comic roles in film and television.

Profile

Barbara Nichols

Movies

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Nick's Girl
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
The Photographer
Mrs. Wilde
A murder story with a comedic twist. A famous photographer uses his models for more than taking pictures. He needs them as victims to satisfy his blood-lust. Each murder becomes more bizarre than the next.
Charley and the Angel
Sadie
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Criminal Affair
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
The Power
Flora
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
The Swinger
Blossom LaTour
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
The Loved One
Sadie Blodgett
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
The Human Duplicators
Gale Wilson
An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies.
The Disorderly Orderly
Miss Marlowe
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
Dear Heart
June Loveland
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Looking for Love
Gaye Swinger
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
House of Women
Candy Kane
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
The George Raft Story
Texas Guinan
The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
Where the Boys Are
Lola Fandango
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.
Who Was That Lady?
Gloria Coogle
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
That Kind of Woman
Jane
A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
Woman Obsessed
Mayme Radzevitch
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.
The Scarface Mob
Brandy LaFrance
Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.
The Naked and the Dead
Mildred Croft
Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.
Ten North Frederick
Stella
A wealthy, aging businessman with political ambitions conducts an adulturous affair with his daughter's roommate.
Pal Joey
Gladys
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
The Pajama Game
Poopsie
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Sweet Smell of Success
Rita
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
The King and Four Queens
Birdie McDade
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Dolly Moore
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Miracle in the Rain
Arlene Parker
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Manfish
Mimi
Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.