Anitra Ford

Anitra Ford

Birth : 1942-09-03, California, USA

History

Anitra Ford (born 1942) is an American actress. Ford was born in California. She was a model on The Price Is Right from its beginning in 1972 until the last days of 1976. She was replaced by Holly Hallstrom. Ford also appeared in the opening scene of The Longest Yard as Melissa, the girlfriend of Burt Reynolds' character, Paul Crewe. Anitra Ford was a popular fashion model on the West Coast in the 1960s—also modeling in New York. Her exotic looks paved the way for more diversity in the modeling industry than the classic looks of that era. Before becoming a model, she acted on the stage from an early age. In the 1970s, her modeling career led to acting in television and film. Ford's credits include the cult, B-movies: The Big Bird Cage, The Invasion of the Bee Girls (aka "Graveyard Tramps") and Messiah of Evil. Often camp and comedic, Anitra Ford garnered roles of emancipated women who were comfortable with their sexuality. Anitra Ford's television credits include: S.W.A.T., Banacek, The Streets of San Francisco, The Odd Couple, Love American Style, Starsky and Hutch, Baretta, Columbo and Mannix, and played the renegade Amazon in the TV movie "Wonder Woman" starring Cathy Lee Crosby.' Since leaving The Price is Right, she has become an accomplished photographer, published poet, and shows her artwork in Southern California galleries. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anitra Ford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Anitra Ford

Movies

Doses of Horror
Doses of Horror
Dr. Susan Harris ("A Dose of Bee Stings" segment) (archive footage) (uncredited)
"In an asylum, patients were subjected to watching horror films for psychiatric study... but they all went mad and now those films have been unearthed!" claims the product description. In reality, the "story" is told with silly title cards over random abandoned asylum shots while long scenes from eleven different 70s and 80s horror films are edited in.
Babes Behind Bars
Babes Behind Bars
This outlandish compilation of trailers and clips spotlights the women-in-prison sub-genre of grindhouse exploitation films.
From Manila with Love
From Manila with Love
Herself
Retrospective documentary on the making of the 70's women-in-prison exploitation cult favorites "The Big Doll House" and "The Big Bird Cage".
The Longest Yard
The Longest Yard
Melissa
In this rough-and-tumble yarn, filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.
Dirty O'Neil
Dirty O'Neil
Kyote Passenger
A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Ahnjayla
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Dr. Susan Harris
Neil Agar, a security agent with the State Department, is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research. His investigation is soon complicated by a growing number of deaths, all men who died of congestive heart failure caused by sexual exhaustion.
Messiah of Evil
Messiah of Evil
Laura
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
Stacey
Stacey
Tish Chambers
The sleazy and dangerous adventures of a gorgeous female private detective.
The Big Bird Cage
The Big Bird Cage
Terry
Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.
The Love Machine
The Love Machine
Model (uncredited)
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.