Melinda Plowman

**Melinda Plowman** (born May 13, 1941), also called **Melinda Ann Casey** and **Melinda Casey**, is an American actress and associate director. She started acting aged 6 and was in many movies and television series in the 1960s. Her first lead role was in the 1966 horror movie _Billy the Kid Versus Dracula_. She joined the Directors Guild of America in the 1970s and was an associate director in the 1990s.

## Filmography (as an actress)

|Year|Title|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3|1949|_Little Women_|Girl|Uncredited|
|_Holiday Affair_|Girl||||
|_Ma and Pa Kettle_|Susie Kettle||||
|rowspan=3|1950|_Three Came Home_|English girl||
|_My Blue Heaven_|Pringle girl||||
|_Again Pioneers_|Rebecca Ashby|As Malinda Plowman|||
|rowspan=2|1951|_Home Town Story_|Katie Washburn||
|_Chicago Calling_|Nancy Cannon||||
|rowspan=2|1952|_Monkey Business_|Little girl||
|_Carrie_|Little girl||||
|1953|_Pack Train_|Judy|||
|1956|_Wiretapper_||||
|1957|_The Green-Eyed Blonde_|Betsy Abel|As Linda Plowman||
|1966|_Billy the Kid Versus Dracula_|Betty Bentley|||
|1976|_Street Girls_|Adelle|As Linda Reynolds||
|1982|_Wrong Is Right_|W.T.N. news staffer|As Melinda Ann Casey||

|Year|Title|Role|Episode||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3|1950|_Big Town_|Kathy||
|_The Gene Autry Show_|Betsy Simmons||||
|_The Cisco Kid_|Carol Cartright||||
|rowspan=3|1952|_The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet_|Girl, Linda, Melinda, Sean's girl, Sue Bailey|5 episodes|
|_Ford Television Theatre_|Little girl||||
|_Cavalcade of America_|Vi as a teenager||||
|rowspan=2|1953|_The Danny Thomas Show_|Mary Lou||
|_General Electric Theater_|Charlotte Dunn||||
|rowspan=2|1954|_Rocky Jones, Space Ranger_|Jonica||
|_Annie Oakley_|Jill Turner, Penny|2 episodes|||
|rowspan=3|1955|_The Adventures of Champion_|Sally Custer|Episode: "Salted Ground"|
|_The Adventures of Champion_|Lorna|Episode: "Canyon of Wanted Men"|||
|_Science Fiction Theatre_|Alice||||
|rowspan=2|1956|_The Mickey Mouse Club_|Peggy||
|_Diamond Mystery Theater_|Susan Davis|Episode: "The Man Across the Street"|||
|rowspan=2|1958|_The Donna Reed Show_|Babs|Episode: "Parting of the Ways"|
|_Wanted: Dead or Alive_|Patience Fairweather||||
|rowspan=3|1959|_The June Allyson Show_|Nancy|1 episode|
|_Bonanza_|Heather Lowell|1 episode|||
|_The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_|Central High Girl||||
|rowspan=2|1960|_My Three Sons_|Julie||
|_National Velvet_|Sally Grimes||||
|rowspan=2|1961|_The Americans_|Molly|1 episode|
|_Bachelor Father_|Agnes|1 episode|||
|rowspan=3|1962|_Wagon Train_|Penelope|Episode: "Path of the Serpent"|
|_Perry Mason_|Maureen Thomas|Episode: "The Case of the Polka-Dot Pony"|||
|_Going My Way_|Jane Everett||||
|rowspan=4|1963|_The Fugitive_|Ellen Tolan|Episode: "See Hollywood and Die"|
|_The Virginian_||Episode: "A Time Remembered"|||
|_My Favorite Martian_|Sally||||
|_Petticoat Junction_|Mary Jane Burris||||
|rowspan=2|1964|_The Outer Limits_|Viva Hayden|Episode: "Don't Open Till Doomsday"|
|_Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C._|Girl Marine||||
|1965|_Please Don't Eat the Daisies_|Terry, Secretary|2 episodes||
|rowspan=2|1966|_The Felony Squad_|Mylene Bruce, Suellen Taubs|2 episodes|
|_Bonanza_||Episode: "Four Sisters from Boston"|||
|1967|_Judd, for the Defense_|Girl|||
|rowspan=2|1969–1971|_Hot Wheels (TV series)_|Janet Martin|Voice|
|_Skyhawks_|Cynthia Hughes|Voice|||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Melinda Plowman
- **image**: Melinda Plowman still for "Chicago Calling" brightened (tighter crop).jpg
- **caption**: Plowman in 1951
- **birth name**: Melinda Ann Plowman
- **birth place**: Abilene, Texas, Abilene, Texas, U.S.
- **other names**: Melinda Ann Casey
Melinda Casey
- **occupation**: Actress, assistant director
- **spouse**: Philip Casey
Robert Ballew
- **children**: 2