Melodie Johnson
Melodie Johnson Howe, born 23octobre1943 in Los Angeles, is a former actress, now author of detective story.
She is interested in writing at a young age and writes short plays remained unpublished. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles in creative writing. Yet in 1965, she embarked on an acting career in Hollywood. She appears in episodes generic several television series, including The Virginian, It Takes a Thief, Bewitched and Mannix. She also landed small roles in film, especially in Coogan's Bluff (1968) Don Siegel, alongside Clint Eastwood, and bootleggers Wars (1970) Richard Quine, with Patrick McGoohan and Richard Widmark. It ended his acting career in the early 1980. Under her married name, Melodie Johnson Howe, she published a few years apart Shadow The Mother (1989) and Beauty Dies (1994), two thrillers putting Directed by Claire and Maggie Conrad Hill, two female detectives who maintain professional relationships similar to those prevailing between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, the heroes of Rex Stout. In 2011, she published Shooting Hollywood (2011), a collection of stories that tell the adventures of Diana Poole, former actress in her forties looking to resume his career and still is forced to solve criminal cases which continue to divert his art. In 2013 seems City of Mirrors, the first book devoted to this new heroine.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.625 |
Birthday | 1943-10-23 |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Also Known As |
1968
Coogan's Bluff
6.3/324
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads int...
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Coogan's Bluff
1967
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
4.6/14
Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
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The Ride to Hangman's Tree
1970
Rabbit, Run
3.5/4
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass i...
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Rabbit, Run
1966
Fame Is the Name of the Game
8/1
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names conta...
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
1970
The Moonshine War
5.8/11
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
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The Moonshine War
1971
Powderkeg
8/1
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his broth...
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Powderkeg
1973
I Love a Mystery
6/2
Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name.
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I Love a Mystery
1969
Gaily, Gaily
4/6
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who...
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