# Katherine Justice

Katherine Justice (born October 28, 1942) is an American actress with many television guest star roles in the 1960s on through the 1980s and a few major film roles.
She had a leading role as a criminal conspirator in the made-for-TV movie, Prescription Murder (1968), which later became the popular television mystery series Columbo.
She played the recurring role of Sheila Hogan in Falcon Crest starting in 1982. She portrayed Rita Jones in the syndicated drama Dangerous Women (1991).

## Early life and education

Justice was born and grew up in Ohio. She briefly was the 1960 Miss Ohio Universe, but wasn't able to compete in the Miss Universe competition when it was discovered she was 17, under the minimum 18 year age limit. Justice graduated from Carnegie Tech Drama School in 1964.

## Career

After graduating, Justice went to the Front Street Theater in Memphis for the summer of 1964. From there she performed at Washington's Arena Stage starring as Lola in Damn Yankees, and in other plays like He Who Gets Slapped, Heartbreak House and Hard Travelin'. Then for the summer of 1965, she toured with a summer stock company doing Nobody Loves an Albatross.
Justice's first television role was on The Big Valley in 1966. Before she even left the TV studio, she got a major part in the movie The Way West starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark. Before the release of that movie, she was the mistress and accomplice (third billing) in the made-for-TV movie Prescription: Murder starring Peter Falk as Columbo and Gene Barry as the murderer. Her next movie role was the second female lead in 5 Card Stud with Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum starring. Dailies of her convinced Paramount Pictures to sign her for a five-year contract to make five pictures.
On March 14, 1967, she was a guest star on the science fiction television series The Invaders portraying a past love in the season one episode, "The Innocents". She guest starred again in 1968 in the season two episode "The Possessed".
She guest starred in the TV Western series Gunsmoke four times, including the 1971 three part episode, "The Bullet", and as a dance hall girl pretending to be a dying gunfighter's dead daughter in the 1970 episode, "Luke" (S16E8). She guest starred on Cannon as Meg, S1:E19 - "Blood on the Vine", airing January 18, 1972. She guest starred three times on Mannix as Maggie S3:E8 - "Memory: Zero", airing November 22, 1969, as Ellen, S4:E13 - "Duet for Three", airing December 19, 1970, and as Holly, S8:E19 - "Quartet for Blunt Instrument", airing February 22, 1975.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1967 | The Way West | Amanda Mack |
| 1968 | 5 Card Stud | Nora Evers |
| 1972 | The Stepmother | Margo Delgado |
| 1972 | Limbo | Sharon Dornbeck |
| 1973 | Frasier, the Sensuous Lion | Allison Stewart |
| 1981 | Separate Ways | Sheila |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1966 | The Big Valley | Melanie | Season 1 Episode 27: "The River Monarch" |
| 1966 | Preview Tonight | Rachel | Season 1 Episode 4: "Roaring Camp" |
| 1967 | Iron Horse | Kate Preston | Season 1 Episode 20: "The Bridge at Forty-Mile" |
| 1967 | Run for Your Life | Princess Ingrid | Season 3 Episode 2: "The Inhuman Predicament" |
| 1967 | Judd for the Defense | Wendy Lukas | Season 1 Episode 8: "Death from a Flower Girl" |
| 1967–1968 | The Invaders | Helen / Janet Garner | 2 episodes |
| 1967–1972 | The F.B.I. | Uli Rim / Laurel Wyant / Liz Carvellis / Ellen Conway | 4 episodes |
| 1968 | Prescription: Murder | Joan Hudson | TV Movie |
| 1968 | The Virginian | Ruby French | Season 7 Episode 8: "Ride to Misadventure" |
| 1969 | Lancer | Julie Dennison | Season 2 Episode 10: "Legacy" |
| 1969–1972 | Gunsmoke | Lydia Fletcher / Doris Prebble / Beth Tilton / Clarabelle Callahan | 6 episodes |
| 1969–1975 | Mannix | Maggie Wells / Ellen Gray / Holly Warlock | 3 episodes |
| 1970 | The Psychiatrist | Persephone | Season 1 Episode 0: "God Bless the Children (Pilot)" |
| 1971 | Nanny and the Professor | Laurel Fielding | Season 2 Episode 14: "A Diller, a Dollar" |
| 1971 | Storefront Lawyers | Norma Andrews | Season 1 Episode 22: "This Money Kills Dreams" |
| 1971 | Bearcats! | Hilda | Season 1 Episode 4: "The Feathered Serpent" |
| 1972 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Morgan Ellis | Season 4 Episode 7: "The Wednesday Game" |
| 1972–1976 | Cannon | Meg Warren / Liza Carter / Julie Foster | 3 episodes |
| 1973–1977 | Barnaby Jones | Liza Mills / Shirley Jennings / Suzanne Montaigne / Libby Price | 4 episodes |
| 1974 | The New Perry Mason | Maggie Lawson | Season 1 Episode 15: "The Case of the Violent Valley" |
| 1974 | The Magician | Sandra Cassidy | Season 1 Episode 14: "The Illusion of the Queen's Gambit" |
| 1974 | Hawaii Five-O | Andrea Burdick | Season 6 Episode 21: "Nightmare in Blue" |
| 1974 | The Streets of San Francisco | Katherine Wallach | Season 2 Episode 20: "Inferno" |
| 1974 | Doc Elliot | Pamela Barrows | Season 1 Episode 8: "A Time to Live" |
| 1974 | The Fisher Family | Liv Anderson | Episode: "The Harder They Fall" |
| 1974 | The Manhunter | Esther Cotton | Season 1 Episode 5: "Trackdown" |
| 1975 | Harry O | Anne | Season 1 Episode 14: "The Last Heir"s |
| 1975 | Insight | Lorelei | Season 1 Episode 391: "The Pendulum" |
| 1975 | Dead Man on the Run | Libby Stockton | TV Movie |
| 1975 | Matt Helm | Paula | Season 1 Episode 1: "Dead Men Talk" |
| 1975–1978 | Police Woman | Mary Ann Webster / Karen Walters | 2 episodes |
| 1977 | Guiding Light | Hope Bauer Spaulding #6 | |
| 1977 | Tales of the Unexpected | Barbara | Season 1 Episode 4: "The Nomads" |
| 1977 | Most Wanted | Jennie Lawrence | Season 1 Episode 20: "The People Mover" |
| 1979 | Ryan's Hope | Dr. Faith Coleridge | 3 episodes |
| 1979 | Captain America II: Death Too Soon | Helen Moore | TV Movie |
| 1980 | The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | Toni Moore | Season 1 Episode 11: "Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here" |
| 1980 | Freebie and the Bean | Marsha | Season 1 Episode 1: "The Seduction of the Bean" |
| 1981 | Nero Wolfe | Angela Bell | Season 1 Episode 1: "The Golden Spiders" |
| 1981 | A Gun in the House | Andrea Freemont | TV Movie |
| 1981–1982 | Quincy M.E. | Holly Mahoney / Annie O'Connor | 2 episodes |
| 1982 | Bush Doctor | Samantha | TV Movie |
| 1982–1983 | Falcon Crest | Sheila Hogan | 9 episodes (Recurring role) |
| 1983 | Lottery! | Beverly Hanson | Season 1 Episode 7: "Kansas City: Protected Winner" |
| 1983–1984 | T.J. Hooker | Dr. Joan Wagner | 2 episodes |
| 1984 | Blue Thunder | Kate Cunningham | Season 1 Episode 4: "Revenge in the Sky" |
| 1985 | Simon & Simon | Donna Bertolli | Season 5 Episode 5: "The Skull of Nostradamus" |
| 1986 | Hunter | Shirley Humphreys | 2 episodes |
| 1989 | Alien Nation | Dr. Marcie Wright | Season 1 Episode 11: "The Red Room" |
| 1989–1993 | Days of Our Lives | Dr. Eleanor Smith | 10 episodes |
| 1991 | Dallas | Alice Kingdom | Season 14 Episode 22: "Conundrum, Part 1 and 2" |
| 1991 | The New Adam-12 | Mrs. Hutchinson | Season 2 Episode 16: "Playing with Fire" |
| 1991–1992 | Dangerous Women | Rita Jones | Series regular |
| 2015 | The Nevermore Chronicles | Madame Mocny | Season 1 Episode 6: "Lousy Psychic" |