Pamela Bellwood
Pamela Bellwood | |
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| Born | Pamela King |
| Other names | Pamela Bellwood-Wheeler |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1974–2005, 2013 |
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| Children | 1 |
Pamela Bellwood (born Pamela King)[1] is an American actress known for her role as Claudia Blaisdel Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera, Dynasty.
Life and career
[edit]Bellwood became interested in an acting career when she portrayed Emily in Our Town. She studied acting in New York with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and in London.[2][3] By 1972 she was on Broadway, taking over from Blythe Danner in Butterflies Are Free and appearing with Barbara Bel Geddes in Finishing Touches.[3] Her performance in Butterflies Are Free earned her a Clarence Derwent Award in 1972.[4]
Early on, Bellwood was credited as Pamela Kingsley because there was already a working actress named Pamela King.[1] In 1974, she appeared in an episode of Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers. Later in 1974, she appeared as Jill Martin in an episode of Rhoda entitled "9-E is available". In 1978, she played the starring role of TV executive Ellen Cunningham in W.E.B., an NBC drama about a fictional television network.[5] Poor ratings led to the show being cancelled after only five episodes.
Bellwood was an original cast member of Dynasty in January 1981,[6] and was written out of the series early in the third season, in late 1982. She appeared once in March 1983 to help usher in Jack Coleman as a recast Steven Carrington, and later returned full-time in October 1983. She remained a key character for several seasons until leaving the series a final time in 1986 to become a full-time mother. 20 years later, in 2006, she appeared with her former Dynasty castmates in the non-fiction special Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar.
Bellwood posed for an eight-page pictorial in the April 1983 edition of Playboy magazine.[3]
She also appeared in such films as Two-Minute Warning, Airport '77 and The Incredible Shrinking Woman, as well as a number of TV movies.[3] She continues to perform in film and on stage. She is now known and often credited as Pamela Bellwood-Wheeler.
Personal life
[edit]In the early 1970s, Bellwood was married to writer Peter Bellwood.[1] In 1984, she married photographer Nik Wheeler.[7]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1976 | Two-Minute Warning | Peggy Ramsay | |
| 1977 | Airport '77[3] | Lisa Stevens | |
| 1980 | Serial | Carol | |
| 1980 | Hangar 18 | Sarah Michaels | |
| 1981 | The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Sandra Dyson | |
| 1988 | Cellar Dweller | Amanda | |
| 1997 | Le zombie de Cap-Rouge | Patty | |
| 1998 | The Gardener | Mrs. Swenson | |
| 1998 | Joseph's Gift | Rachel Keller | |
| 2001 | Family Secrets | ||
| 2005 | Going Shopping | Landlady |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Mannix | Susan Miller | "Once Upon a Saturday" (season 3, episode 25) |
| 1974 | Ironside | Nancy | Episode: "Once More for Joey" |
| 1974 | The Wide World of Mystery | Mary | Episode: "The Book of Murder" |
| 1974 | Nourish the Beast | Sylvia | TV film |
| 1974 | Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers | Joanne | Episode: "Moran's the Man" |
| 1974 | Rhoda | Jill Martin | Episode: "9-E Is Available" |
| 1975 | Mannix | Miriam | Episode: "Man in a Trap" (season 8, episode 14) |
| 1975 | Police Story | Judy Bartlett | Episode: "Sniper" |
| 1975 | Matt Helm | Patricia | Episode: "Scavenger's Paradise" |
| 1975 | Baretta | Jenny | Episode: "When Dues Come Down" |
| 1975 | Cannon | Louise Bishop | Episode: "To Still the Voice" |
| 1976 | Insight | Thelma Mann | Episode: "All Out" |
| 1976 | The Nancy Walker Show | Darlene Rogers | Episode: "The Homecoming" |
| 1976 | The War Widow | Amy | TV film |
| 1977 | Serpico | Allison | Episode: "The Party of Your Choice" |
| 1977 | Emily, Emily | Emily Ward | TV film |
| 1977 | Westside Medical | Melissa Mapes | Episode: "The Witch of Four West" |
| 1977 | The Love Boat | Judy Watson | 1 episode |
| 1977 | Big Hawaii | Episode: "Sarah" | |
| 1978 | Deadman's Curve | Annie | TV film |
| 1978 | Switch | Andrea | Episode: "The Siege at Bouziki Bar" |
| 1978 | W.E.B. | Ellen Cunningham | Regular role (5 episodes) |
| 1980 | Hagen | Laurie | Episode: "The Straw Man" |
| 1981–1986 | Dynasty[3] | Claudia Blaisdel Carrington | Regular role (117 episodes) |
| 1982 | The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch | Sarah | TV film |
| 1983 | Cocaine: One Man's Seduction[3] | Robin Barstowe | TV film |
| 1983 | Baby Sister | Marsha Burroughs | TV film |
| 1983 | Sparkling Cyanide | Ruth Lessing | TV film |
| 1983 | Choices of the Heart[3] | Sister Dorothy Kazel | TV film |
| 1984 | Finder of Lost Loves | Susan Blaine | Episode: "Losing Touch" |
| 1987 | Deep Dark Secrets | Anna | TV film |
| 1988 | Double Standard | Joan Harik | TV film |
| 1989 | The Twilight Zone | Andrea Moffatt | Episode: "Cat and Mouse" |
| 1989 | Boon | Rebecca Patterson | Episodes: "All in a Day's Pork", "The Eyes of Texas" |
| 1989 | Murder, She Wrote | Vivian Proctor | Episode: "Weave a Tangled Web" |
| 1992 | Life Goes On | Future Becca | Episode: "Bec to the Future" |
| 1994 | Murder, She Wrote | Vanessa Cross | Episode: "A Murderous Muse" |
| 1997 | Women: Stories of Passion | Myra | Episode: "Angel from the Sky" |
| 1997 | Heartless | Jennifer Chadway | TV film |
| 2013 | Criminal Minds | Wanda Sullivan | Episode: "Pay It Forward" |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ciccone, Rita (January 16, 1971). "Pam Kingsley Digs Playing Jill Tanner". Ford Lauderdale News. Florida, Fort Lauderdale. p. 22. Retrieved March 25, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "TV Spotlight". The Times and Democrat. South Carolina, Orangeburg. July 8, 1984. p. 61. Retrieved November 24, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Gritten, David (April 9, 1984). "Pamela Bellwood, Dynasty's Wacko, Wouldn't Mind a Home Where the Water Buffalo Roam". People. 21 (14). Retrieved February 12, 2013.
- ^ "The Clarence Derwent Award". The Equity Awards. Actors Equity. Archived from the original on 25 November 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ Shales, Tom (September 13, 1978). "W.E.B.: A Super Woman at the Network". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
- ^ Schemering, Christopher (September 1985). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia. pp. 80–81. ISBN 0-345-32459-5.
- ^ Schurman, Dewey (December 1990). "Photographer: Nik Wheeler". Islands Magazine: 16. Retrieved May 10, 2020 – via Google Books.
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