Anjanette Comer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 7, 1939
- Died
- May 28, 2026 (aged 86)
- Place of birth
- Dawson, Texas, USA
- Credits
- 55
Anjanette Comer (August 7, 1939 — May 28, 2026) was an American actress.
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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Known for
Filmography
A Bird of the Air
2011Movie
Mrs. Weber
Possessed
2005Movie
Mrs. Palmer (segment "Resurrection of the Damned") (archive footage)
Screen Door Jesus
2003Movie
Verna Lynn Cunningham
The Pennsylvania Miners' Story
2002Movie
Sue Unger
The Practice
1997TV
Sister Christine
Profiler
1996TV
Barbara Henkley
Deadly Family Secrets
1995Movie
Hilda Potter
The Underneath
1995Movie
Mrs. Chambers
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
1992Movie
Nora Turner
Netherworld
1992Movie
Mrs. Palmer
Jake and the Fatman
1987TV
Vera Lake
Hotel
1982TV
Maggie
The Long Summer of George Adams
1982Movie
Venida
Fire Sale
1977Movie
Marion Fikus
Dead of Night
1977Movie
Alexis
McNaughton's Daughter
1976TV
Andrea Farelli
Barbary Coast
1975TV
Lepke
1975Movie
Bernice Meyer
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
1975Movie
Arlevia Jessup
S.W.A.T.
1975TV
Death Stalk
1975Movie
Pat Trahey
Baretta
1975TV
Terror on the 40th Floor
1974Movie
Darlene Foster
Harry O
1974TV
Grace Duvall
Petrocelli
1974TV
Mary Thorpe
Night Games
1974Movie
Jenny Kenedisis
Shadow of Fear
1974Movie
Danna Forester
Police Story
1973TV
The Baby
1973Movie
Ann Gentry
Barnaby Jones
1973TV
Vivian Harper
The Night of a Thousand Cats
1972Movie
Cathy
Search
1972TV
The Deadly Hunt
1971Movie
Martha
Five Desperate Women
1971Movie
Lucy
Columbo
1971TV
Jenifer Welles
Banyon
1971Movie
Diane Jennings
The Firechasers
1971Movie
Toby Collins
Rabbit, Run
1970Movie
Ruth Leonard
The Young Lawyers
1969Movie
Bonnie Baron
Love, American Style
1969TV
Billie Joe Hollister, Audrey, Chris
Then Came Bronson
1969TV
Vhea Samos
The Mod Squad
1968TV
In Enemy Country
1968Movie
Denise
Banning
1967Movie
Carol Lindquist
Mannix
1967TV
Gina Hunter / Margo Moore
Guns for San Sebastian
1967Movie
Kinita
Lionpower from MGM
1967Movie
Self - Kinita (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Appaloosa
1966Movie
Trini
The Loved One
1965Movie
Aimee Thanatogenos
Quick, Before It Melts
1965Movie
Tiara Marshall
Arrest and Trial
1963TV
Annabelle Selinsky
Ben Casey
1961TV
Dr. Kildare
1961TV
Carol Montgomery
Bonanza
1959TV
Joan Wingate
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Cara