Sally Fraser

from Williston, North Dakota, USA

Artwork for North by NorthwestImage of Sally Fraser

Biography

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Sally Fraser (born December 12, 1932) is an American actress who appeared on television and in numerous films. She became best known for appearing in low-budget science fiction films of the 1950s.

Born in Williston, North Dakota, Fraser moved to Southern California with her family after spending a few years in Minneapolis. Spotted after singing on a local TV show, she was encouraged to take drama lessons and eventually gained experience in stage plays. On television she appeared opposite Tyler MacDuff in the episode "The Saga of Clement O'Toole" of the western series, Annie Oakley. She also appeared on Guy Madison's series, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok. and in the 1954 TV presentation of A Christmas Carol starring Frederic March.

Fraser eventually became typecast in low budget 1950s sci-fi films. She played a wife possessed by aliens in the Roger Corman film It Conquered the World (1956), the sister of the titular monster in War of the Colossal Beast (1958), and a mother protecting her baby in Earth vs. the Spider (1958). She was briefly onscreen as the United Nations receptionist who introduces Cary Grant's character to Philip Ober's Lester Townsend in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

She continued to work on television and the stage into the 1960s until she decided to retire to raise her family. Fraser moved to Idaho in the 1980s and lives on a cattle ranch.        

                    

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Timeline

1987Aged 55

  • Poster for Creepy Classics

    Joyce Manning - (archive footage)

1962Aged 30

  • Poster for Dangerous Charter

    June

1960Aged 28

  • Poster for Elmer Gantry

    Prostitute

1959Aged 27

  • Poster for Roadracers

    Joanie Wilson

  • Poster for North by Northwest

    Second United Nations Receptionist (uncredited)

1958Aged 26

  • Poster for Giant from the Unknown

    Janet Cleveland

  • Poster for War of the Colossal Beast

    Joyce Manning

  • Poster for Earth vs. the Spider

    Helen Kingman

1956Aged 24

  • Poster for It Conquered the World

    Joan Nelson

1955Aged 23

  • Poster for It's a Dog's Life

    Dorothy Wyndham

1954Aged 22

  • Poster for A Christmas Carol

    Belle / Spirit of Christmas Past

  • Poster for Outlaw's Son

    (Unknown)

1953Aged 21

  • Poster for All I Desire

    Daughter in Auditorium

  • Poster for Flight Nurse

    Best Girl