# Anjanette Comer

Anjanette Comer (born August 7, 1939) is an American actress.

## Early years

Born in Dawson, Texas, to Rufus Franklin Comer, Jr., and Nola Dell "Sue" (Perkins) Comer, she attended Dawson High School. Comer gained acting experience at the Pasadena Playhouse.

## Career

Comer's first major television credit was a guest appearance in a 1962 episode of My Three Sons titled "Heat Wave", followed by roles in several other dramatic series of the 1960s, such as Dr. Kildare and Bonanza. In 1964, she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress for her work on an episode on Arrest and Trial.
She made her 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."
Although Comer was cast opposite Michael Caine for Funeral in Berlin and appeared in publicity stills (she can be seen with Caine and Eva Renzi in a photograph on the DVD release), she had to be replaced because of illness. She had another leading role as a love interest of Marlon Brando and John Saxon in The Appaloosa (1966). The film, shot on location in Mexico, presented Anjanette as a Mexican peasant girl, a role she repeated in Guns for San Sebastian (1968). In between, she starred in Banning.
Comer's movie 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 later films include The Firechasers (1971) and Fire Sale (1977), and the TV movie The Long Summer of George Adams (1983).

## Personal life

From 1976 to 1983, Comer was married to Robert Klane; the marriage ended in divorce.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1964 | Quick, Before It Melts | Tiara Marshall | |
| 1965 | The Loved One | Aimee Thanatogenous |
| 1966 | The Appaloosa | Trini Medena | |
| 1967 | Banning | Carol Lindquist | |
| 1968 | La Bataille de San Sebastian | Kinita | English Title: Guns for San Sebastian |
| 1968 | In Enemy Country | Denise | |
| 1970 | Rabbit, Run | Ruth Leonard |
| 1971 | The Firechasers | Toby Collins | |
| 1972 | Blood Feast | Cathy | |
| 1973 | The Baby | Ann Gentry | |
| 1975 | Lepke | Bernice Meyer | |
| 1975 | The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery | Arlevia Jessup | |
| 1977 | Fire Sale | Marion Fikus | |
| 1992 | Netherworld | Mrs. Palmer | |
| 1995 | The Underneath | Mrs. Chambers | |
| 2003 | Screen Door Jesus | Verna Lynn Cunningham | |
| 2011 | A Bird of the Air | Mrs. Weber | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | My Three Sons | Janie Stempel | Season 3 Episode 11: ”Heat Wave” |
| 1962 | The Donna Reed Show | Barbie | Season 5 Episode 13: "The Winning Ticket" |
| 1963 | Gunsmoke | Cara Miles | Season 9 Episode 8: "Carter Caper" |
| 1963 | Ben Casey | June | Season 3 Episode 13: "My Love, My Love" |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial | Annabelle Selinsky | Season 1 Episode 12: "Journey into Darkness" |
| 1964 | Dr. Kildare | Carol Montgomery | 2 episodes |
| 1964 | Bonanza | Joan Wingate | Season 5 Episode 22: "Love Me Not" |
| 1964 | Combat! | Annette | Season 2 Episode 27: "Weep No More" |
| 1969 | The Young Lawyers | Bonnie Baron | Season 1 Episode 0: "The Young Lawyers" |
| 1969–1971 | Love, American Style | Billie Joe Hollister / Audrey Woods / Chris | 3 episodes |
| 1970 | Then Came Bronson | Vhea Samos | Season 1 Episode 26: "What's an Ark Without Centaurs?" |
| 1970 | The Mod Squad | Billie | Season 3 Episode 1: "The Long Road Home" |
| 1971 | The Most Deadly Game | Gretchen | Season 1 Episode 10: "The Classic Burial Position" |
| 1971 | Banyon | Diane Jennings | Season 1 Episode 0: "Pilot" |
| 1971 | Five Desperate Women | Lucy | TV Movie |
| 1971 | The Deadly Hunt | Martha | TV Movie |
| 1972 | Columbo | Jenifer Welles | Season 2 Episode 1: "Étude in Black" |
| 1972 | Mannix | Gina Hunter/Margo Moore | Season 6 Episode 4: "Broken Mirror" |
| 1972–1973 | Doctor Simon Locke | Andi / Norma Carlin | 2 episodes |
| 1973 | Search | Anne Ramon | Season 1 Episode 18: "Goddess of Destruction" |
| 1974 | Police Story | Constantina | 2 episodes |
| 1974 | The Wide World of Mystery | Danna Forester | Season 2 Episode 8: "Shadow of Fear" |
| 1974 | The Wide World of Mystery | Danna Forester | TV Movie |
| 1974 | Night Games | Jenny Kenedisis | TV Movie |
| 1974 | Terror on the 40th Floor | Darlene Porter | TV Movie |
| 1975 | Death Stalk | Pat Trahey | TV Movie |
| 1975 | Petrocelli | Mary Thorpe | Season 1 Episode 17: "A Lonely Victim" |
| 1975 | Harry O | Grace Duvall | Season 2 Episode 4: "Shades" |
| 1975 | S.W.A.T. | Alicia Woodward | Season 2 Episode 11: "Strike Force" |
| 1975 | Barbary Coast | Mary Louise | Season 1 Episode 11: "The Day Cable Was Hanged" |
| 1975 | The Blue Knight | Reba | Season 1 Episode 3: "Odds Against Tomorrow" |
| 1976 | Jigsaw John | Mavis Bellamy | Season 1 Episode 1: "Promise to Kill" |
| 1976 | McNaughton's Daughter | Andrea Farelli | Miniseries (Episode 1: "Love Is a Four-Letter Word") |
| 1976 | Baretta | Det. Ann Harley | Season 3 Episode 8: "Dear Tony" |
| 1977 | Dead of Night | Alexis | TV Movie |
| 1980 | Barnaby Jones | Vivian Harper | Season 8 Episode 20: "The Silent Accuser" |
| 1982 | The Long Summer of George Adams | Venida | TV Movie |
| 1986 | Mike Hammer | Toni Cordell | Season 3 Episode 4: "Mike's Baby" |
| 1988 | Hotel | Maggie | Season 5 Episode 12: "Double Take" |
| 1991 | Jake and the Fatman | Wanda Lee / Vera Lake | 3 episodes |
| 1992 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo | Nora Turner | TV Movie |
| 1995 | Streets of Laredo | Beulah | Miniseries (2 episodes) |
| 1995 | Deadly Family Secrets | Hilda Potter | TV Movie |
| 1999 | Profiler | Barbara Henkley | Season 3 Episode 15: "Spree of Love" |
| 1999 | The Practice | Sister Christine | Season 3 Episode 19: "Closet Justice" |
| 2002 | The Pennsylvania Miners' Story | Sue Unger | TV Movie |