Melodie Johnson

Born: 1943-10-23

Melodie Johnson Howe, born 23octobre1943 in Los Angeles, is a former actress, now author of detective story. She is interested in writing at a young age and writes short plays remained unpublished. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles in creative writing. Yet in 1965, she embarked on an acting career in Hollywood. She appears in episodes generic several television series, including The Virginian, It Takes a Thief, Bewitched and Mannix. She also landed small roles in film, especially in Coogan's Bluff (1968) Don Siegel, alongside Clint Eastwood, and bootleggers Wars (1970) Richard Quine, with Patrick McGoohan and Richard Widmark. It ended his acting career in the early 1980. Under her married name, Melodie Johnson Howe, she published a few years apart Shadow The Mother (1989) and Beauty Dies (1994), two thrillers putting Directed by Claire and Maggie Conrad Hill, two female detectives who maintain professional relationships similar to those prevailing between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, the heroes of Rex Stout. In 2011, she published Shooting Hollywood (2011), a collection of stories that tell the adventures of Diana Poole, former actress in her forties looking to resume his career and still is forced to solve criminal cases which continue to divert his art. In 2013 seems City of Mirrors, the first book devoted to this new heroine.   


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Coogan's Bluff

as Millie
Released: 1968-10-02

Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the...

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Gaily, Gaily

as Lilah Letterby
Released: 1969-12-16

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a...

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The Moonshine War

as Lizann Simpson
Released: 1970-06-30

A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his...

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Powderkeg

as Miss Baker
Released: 1971-04-16

A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train...

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Rabbit, Run

as Lucy Eccles
Released: 1970-10-01

Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife...

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I Love a Mystery

as Charity
Released: 1973-02-27

Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio...

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Fame Is the Name of the Game

as Belle
Released: 1966-11-26

A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her...

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The Ride to Hangman's Tree

as Lillie
Released: 1967-05-01

Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.

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