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Olive Sturgess Dies: TV Western Stalwart, ‘The Raven’ Horror Spoof Actor Was 91
Her many acting credits through the 1950s and '60s included numerous TV Westerns and the Roger Corman horror spoof The Raven starring Vincent Price.
Olive Sturgess, whose many acting credits through the 1950s and ’60s included numerous TV Westerns and the Roger Corman horror spoof The Raven starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, died February 19 in Los Angeles. Although her TV career included guest roles in such comedies as The Donna Reed Show and Petticoat Junction, her forte was the television Western, a genre that was wildly popular in the ’50s and ’60s. Born October 8, 1933, in Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Sturgess was signed to Universal Studios in her early 20s, landing a supporting role in the 1956 comedy film The Kettles in the Ozarks and appearing in guest shots on TV.
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