Carolyn Jones

Also Credited As:

Carolyn Sue Jones
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Biography

Most typically in offbeat roles, Jones received an Oscar nomination for her supporting turn as a quirky, artsy type encountered by a group of men out on the town in "The Bachelor Party" (1957). At one time the wife of producer Aaron Spelling, Jones is best remembered for her highly amusing characterization of the deliberately ghoulish Morticia on the ABC TV sitcom "The Addams Family" (1964-66).
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Job Title

Actor

Born

April 28, 1930

LATEST CREDITS

The Addams Family

Morticia Addams; Mother, Morticia Addams; the mother

Color Me Dead

Paula Gibson

Baby Face Nelson

Sue

The Man in the Net

Linda Hamilton

Heaven With a Gun

Madge McCloud

King Creole

Ronnie

Johnny Trouble

Julie

Last Train From Gun Hill

Linda

Ice Palace

Bridie

Eaten Alive

Miss Hattie

Amos Burke: Who Killed Julie Greer?

Julie Greer

Sail a Crooked Ship

Virginia

A Ticklish Affair

Tandy Martin

House of Wax

Cathy Gray

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Beth

Midnight Lace

Bernadette Chase

How the West Was Won

Julie Rawlings

Career

Shirley Drake

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Theodora

Shield For Murder

Girl at Bar

Little Ladies of the Night

Marilyn Atkins

A Hole in the Head

Shirl

The Dance of Death

Jenny

Marjorie Morningstar

Marsha