Vivi Janiss
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Vivi Janiss (born Vivian Audrey Jamison; May 29, 1911 – September 7, 1988) was an American
Career
Vivi Janiss' father was Earl Alexander Jamison, born August 3, 1889, in Nebraska, and died June 17, 1962, in California. He was married to Helen Matilda Jamison née Liljgren. They were traveling theatricals in the Midwest in the 1920s and 1930s, eventually settling in California. Vivi was their only child. A native of
From 1952 to 1955, Janiss appeared in five episodes of
In 1955, she played the historical Mary Todd Lincoln in "How Chance Made Lincoln President" in the anthology series TV Reader's Digest. Richard Gaines was cast as Abraham Lincoln; Ken Hardison as Robert Todd Lincoln.[citation needed]
In 1957, Janiss joined
In its first season on the air, Janiss was cast with
Janiss appeared in many other series, too, three times on The F.B.I., starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and twice each on The Virginian and Ben Casey. She was cast once on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, Lawman, Trackdown, Cimarron City, Route 66, Have Gun – Will Travel, Follow the Sun, Gunsmoke, Outlaws, The Rockford Files, Laramie, 87th Precinct, Perry Mason, Mannix, and The Streets of San Francisco.[citation needed]
After she and Cummings divorced, Janiss wed actor John Larch, who was cast as the police chief in 1971 in the first of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films. She was married to Larch until her death. The couple appeared together on four television series, including the series premiere, "No Fat Cops", on October 3, 1961, of ABC's The New Breed, starring Leslie Nielsen. In this episode, Larch and Janiss were cast as John and Mary Clark. Earlier, the two had co-starred on November 23, 1959, as Johnny and Elsie in the episode "End of an Era" of NBC's Western series, Tales of Wells Fargo, starring Dale Robertson, and on May 23, 1960, as Isaiah and Rebecca Macabee in the episode "The Proud Earth" of the half-hour NBC anthology series Goodyear Theatre. On November 9, 1960, Larch and Janiss appeared as Ben and Sarah Harness in the episode "The Cathy Eckhart Story" of Wagon Train, with Susan Oliver in the starring role. Later, on December 19, 1968, the couple appeared again together in the 10th episode "Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born" of Jack Lord's CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O.[citation needed]
Janiss' last roles were in the 1978 CBS television film First, You Cry, a story about breast cancer starring Mary Tyler Moore, and in two 1979 CBS series appearances on Barnaby Jones with Buddy Ebsen (Janiss and Bob Cummings had appeared together with Ebsen 45 years earlier in the Ziegfeld Follies), and House Calls, starring Wayne Rogers.[citation needed]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1952 | Kansas City Confidential | Mrs. Rogers | Uncredited |
1953 | 99 River Street | Edna - Taxi Dispatcher | Uncredited |
1955 | The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues | Ethel Hall, Dr. King's Secretary | |
1956 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Maude Martin | Season 1 Episode 16: "You Got to Have Luck" |
1956 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Sergeant Bradford | Season 1 Episode 36: "Mink" |
1956 | The Fastest Gun Alive | Mabel Brown | Uncredited |
1957 | Spring Reunion | Grace | |
1957 | Man on the Prowl | Mrs. Gerhardt | |
1978 | First, You Cry | Martha | TV movie |
References
External links
- Vivi Janiss at IMDb
- Vivi Janiss at the Internet Broadway Database