Skip to main content
Carolyn Jones
Actress 1930 - 1983

Carolyn Jones

Amarillo, Texas, USA

Carolyn Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American film and television actress. She began her career in the early 1950s and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person appears in

24 titles
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Marvin J. Chomsky 1979 1h 46m 6.0

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

Eaten Alive

Eaten Alive

Tobe Hooper 1976 1h 31m 6.4

A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family

1964 30m 9.0

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

John Ford, George Marshall 1962 2h 44m 7.2

Hollywood's most celebrated luminaries - behind the camera as well as in front of it - combine talents to present this epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net

Michael Curtiz 1959 1h 38m

A artist living in a quiet Connecticut is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things really turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law into their own hands.

Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill

John Sturges 1959 1h 38m 6.7

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

Career

Career

Joseph Anthony 1959 1h 45m

Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony. In this simplistic, backroom show-business-success saga, Anthony Franciosa plays Sam, a struggling young actor who will forsake his family and take any type of menial job in order to become a Broadway star.

A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head

Frank Capra 1959 2h 6.0

An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.

Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morningstar

Irving Rapper 1958 2h 3m 6.0

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater.

King Creole

King Creole

Michael Curtiz 1958 1h 56m 6.5

Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.

The Bachelor Party

The Bachelor Party

Delbert Mann 1957 1h 32m

Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson

Don Siegel 1957 1h 25m

Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Alfred Hitchcock 1956 2h 1m 7.9

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a remake by director Hitchcock of his own mystery thriller from 1934 starring James Stewart and Doris Day.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Don Siegel 1956 1h 20m 8.3

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

The Tender Trap

The Tender Trap

Charles Walters 1955 1h 51m 7.0

Charlie Reader is a successful theater agent. He is also successful with young ladies. One day he is visited by his old friend Joe, married with three children. Joe falls in love with Charlie's girl Sylvia while Charlie spends his time with young actress Julie. Written by Mattias Thuresson

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch

Billy Wilder 1955 1h 45m 7.1

A voluptuous woman (Marilyn Monroe) moves in above a man while his wife and child are away on summer vacation.

Shield for Murder

Shield for Murder

Edmond O'Brien, Howard W. Koch 1954 1h 22m 6.0

A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.

Make Haste to Live

Make Haste to Live

William A. Seiter 1954 1h 30m

A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.

Désirée

Désirée

Henry Koster 1954 1h 50m 6.5

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall.

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

Byron Haskin 1953 1h 25m 7.5

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

The Big Heat

The Big Heat

Fritz Lang 1953 1h 29m 8.1

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

House of Wax

House of Wax

André de Toth 1953 1h 28m 6.8

A horribly disfigured sculptor opens up the House of Wax in New York, using the wax-covered bodies of his victims as his displays.

The Turning Point

The Turning Point

William Dieterle 1952 1h 25m 7.0

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan.

Road to Bali

Road to Bali

Hal Walker 1952 1h 31m 6.0

Two unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.

Discussion

Loading the discussion…