Erin Gray
Actor
Born January 7, 1950 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
The very beautiful and talented model, actress, and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the highly watched TV show "Silver Spoons" (1982), and "Colonel Wilma Deering" on the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). Many women admired her commanding role as Col Deering, while many men admired her beautiful looks and sexy figure. Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, convinced her what she wanted to do in life. Moving to New York, she became one of the town's most sought-after models, in elite company with Farrah Fawcett, Veronica Hamel and Susan Blakely. TV viewers encountered her commercials for Breck, Max Factor, Clairol, Camay Soap and RC Cola, and a classic spot--for English Leather cologne--in which she provocatively declared, "My men wear English Leather--or they wear nothing at all!" Between modeling assignments, she studied acting with well-known coach Warren Robertson and, when movie-TV offers came in, she was ready. Universal was impressed by her performances on such series as "Police Story" (1973) and "Gibbsville" (1976) and signed her to a seven-year contract. Under that pact, the studio co-starred her as a tough-minded newspaper reporter in Irwin Shaw's Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV). Her performance scored with both critics and audiences, and led directly to the role in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). As a result, she has become a regular commuter between Hollywood and New York, the hub of the magazine and fashion world.
Filmography
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder
Brianna
Finding Grace
Judge Ariel Harper
A Christmas Princess
Queen Alice
Pandora
Captain Beth Grant
My Christmas Inn
Molly Anderson
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Martha Masters
A Perfect Christmas
Patricia Faber
Christmas in Palm Springs
Mayor Tomlin
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Self
I Married Who?
Ethel Swift
Nesting
Mrs. Deegan
Dreams Awake
Hope Emrys
Hunter Prey
Clea
Ghouls
Liz
My True Self
Mrs. Ellen Fields
Loaded
Susan Price
The Guild
Madeleine Twain
Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
Laura Sands
Nuclear Hurricane
Jane
The Wedding Bells
Candy Heller
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
Self
Siren
Sharon Cox
Caught in the Headlights
Mrs. Jones
ManFast
Gloria Day
Clover Bend
Beth Clayton
Serial Intentions
Virginia Madden
Social Misfits
Sharon Cox
Touched by a Killer
Liza Collins
The Last Producer
Dee Freeman
Profiler
Congresswoman Karen Archer
Crowfoot
Nora
T-Force
Mayor Pendleton
A Dangerous Place
Audrey
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Pamela Bozanich
Burke's Law
Brenda Palmer
Official Denial
Annie Corliss
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Diana Kimble
Renegade
Silk Stalkings
The Torkelsons
Jennifer
Dark Justice
Evening Shade
Laker Girls
Julie Lawrence
The New Lassie
Baywatch
Chief Monica Johnson
Addicted to His Love
Jenny Barrett
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Captain Terry O'Malley
Breaking Home Ties
Carol
Jake and the Fatman
L.A. Law
Rochelle Peters
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
Code of Vengeance
Nadine Flowers
Murder, She Wrote
Andrea Dean
Hunter
Kate Lawson
The Hitchhiker
Leslie
Born Beautiful
Betsy Forrest
Silver Spoons
Kate Summers Stratton
Hotel
Six Pack
Lilah
Simon & Simon
The Fall Guy
Coach of the Year
Paula DeFalco
Magnum, P.I.
Joy 'Digger' Doyle
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls
Colonel Wilma Deering
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Wilma Deering
The Ultimate Impostor
Beatrice 'Bucky' Tate
Winter Kills
Beautiful Woman Three
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Col. Wilma Deering
B. J. and the Bear
Vega$
Evening in Byzantium
Gail McKinnon
Evening in Byzantium
Gail McKinnon
The Love Boat
Maggie Cook
Battle of the Network Stars
The Rockford Files
Margaret 'Alta' Hatch
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self