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Anjanette Comer

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Anjanette Comer

Born August 7, 1939 in Dawson, Texas, USADied May 28, 202630 films

Anjanette Comer (August 7, 1939 — May 28, 2026) was an American actress.

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Born in Dawson, Texas to Rufus Franklin and Nola (Dell) Comer, her first major television credit was a guest appearance in a 1963 episode of Gunsmoke, followed by roles in several other dramatic series of the 1960s, such as Dr. Kildare and Bonanza. She made her feature film debut as the female lead in the 1964 comedy Quick, Before It Melts followed by a memorable role in the 1965 satire The Loved One, playing a seductive mortician who offers Robert Morse a choice for his uncle's funeral arrangements of "Inhumement, entombment, inurnment, immurement? Some people just lately have preferred ensarcophagusment."

Though Comer was cast opposite Michael Caine for Funeral In Berlin and even appeared in publicity stills, she was replaced because of illness. Fortunately, she had another leading role as a love interest to Marlon Brando and John Saxon in the Western adventure The Appaloosa (1966). The film, shot on location in Mexico, presented Anjanette as a Mexican peasant girl, a role she repeated in the 1968 Anthony Quinn vehicle Guns for San Sebastian. In between she starred with Robert Wagner and Jill St. John in the golf-themed 1967 film Banning.

Comer's film activity dropped off in 1970 after she played Ruth in the film version of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1970). She later claimed she let her love life interfere with her work. Comer's most recent films include Fire Sale (1977) and the made-for-TV The Long Summer of George Adams (1983). In subsequent years, she was frequently cast as mysterious or exotic characters.

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Guns for San Sebastian posterFirst watchGuns for San Sebastian19677.0as KinitaLeon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian.View film

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Filmography

30 films as actor
  1. 2011A Bird of the AirMrs. Weber
  2. 2003Screen Door JesusVerna Lynn Cunningham
  3. 2002The Pennsylvania Miners' StorySue Unger
  4. 1995Deadly Family SecretsHilda Potter
  5. 1995The UnderneathMrs. Chambers
  6. 1992Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless RomeoNora Turner
  7. 1992NetherworldMrs. Palmer
  8. 1982The Long Summer of George AdamsVenida
  9. 1977Fire SaleMarion Fikus
  10. 1977Dead of NightAlexis
  11. 1975LepkeBernice Meyer
  12. 1975The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper MysteryArlevia Jessup
  13. 1975Death StalkPat Trahey
  14. 1974Terror on the 40th FloorDarlene Foster
  15. 1974Night GamesJenny Kenedisis
  16. 1974Shadow of FearDanna Forester
  17. 1973The BabyAnn Gentry
  18. 1972The Night of a Thousand CatsCathy
  19. 1971The Deadly HuntMartha
  20. 1971Five Desperate WomenLucy
  21. 1971BanyonDiane Jennings
  22. 1971The FirechasersToby Collins
  23. 1970Rabbit, RunRuth Leonard
  24. 1969The Young LawyersBonnie Baron
  25. 1968In Enemy CountryDenise
  26. 1967BanningCarol Lindquist
  27. 1967Guns for San SebastianKinita
  28. 1966The AppaloosaTrini
  29. 1965The Loved OneAimee Thanatogenos
  30. 1965Quick, Before It MeltsTiara Marshall