Angie Dickinson Biography
Angie Dickison (Angeline Dickinson) is an American actress. She started her career on television, featuring in many anthology series during the 1950s. Later, she had her debut role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
In her six-decade career, Dickinson has appeared in more than 50 films, including China Gate (1957), Ocean’s 11 (1960), The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), Jessica (1962), Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The Killers (1964), The Art of Love (1965), The Chase (1966), Point Blank (1967), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), The Outside Man (1972) and Big Bad Mama (1974).
From 1974 to 1978, Dickinson featured as Sergeant Leann “Pepper” Anderson in the NBC crime series Police Woman. In this series, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress on Television Series Drama. She also won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in Drama Series nominations.
As the main actress, Angie was featured in Brian De Palma’s erotic crime thriller Dressed to Kill (1980), for which she received a Saturn Award for Best Actress.
In the later phase of her career, Dickinson featured in several television movies and miniseries. At this same time, she also played supporting roles in films such as Big Bad Love (2001), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994), Sabrina (1995), Pay It Forward (2000).
Angie Dickison Age
How old is Angie Dickison? Angie is 92 years old as of September 2022. She was born on September 30, 1931, in Kulm, North Dakota, United States. In addition, she celebrates her birthday on September 30th every year.
Angie Dickison Family
Dickinson, was the second born of four daughters born to Fredericka (née Hehr) and Leo Henry Brown. She was born Angeline Brown but later called “Angie” by family and friends.
She is of German descent and she was raised Roman Catholic. Her father, Henry, was a small-town newspaper publisher and editor working with the Kulm Messenger and the Edgeley Mail.
She fell in love with movies at an early age, as her father was also the projectionist at the town’s only movie theater until it burned down.
Angie Dickison Education
In 1942, when she was ten years old, the Brown family moved to Burbank, California, where Angie attended Bellarmine-Jefferson High School, graduating in 1947, at 15 years of age.
In the preceding year, Angie won the Sixth Annual Bill of Rights essay contest. She then joined Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, and later Glendale Community College, becoming a business graduate by 1954. Getting mentorship and aspirations from her publisher’s father, she had intended to be a writer.
When he was still a student, 1950–52, she worked as a secretary at Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank (now Bob Hope Airport) and in a parts factory. She changed her name to Angie Dickinson in 1952 when she married football player Gene Dickinson.
Angie Dickison Marriages | Husband | Relationships
From 1952 to 1960, Angie was married to Gene Dickinson, a former football player, from
During her first marriage, Dickinson became close allies with John Kenneth Galbraith and Catherine Galbraith. Her frequent visits to them and her tours when Galbraith was U.S. Ambassador to India are amply recounted in his memoirs Ambassador’s Journal and A Life in Our Times.
She had affairs with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and reportedly John F. Kennedy. Angie has denied the affair with Kennedy.
She kept her married name, Dickinson, after her first divorce. She married Burt Bacharach in 1965. They remained a married couple for 15 years, though late in their marriage they had a period of separation during which they dated other people.
For several years in the 1990s, Dickinson dated television interviewer Larry King.
In a 2006 interview with NPR, Angie mentioned that she was a Democrat. She supported John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1960.
Angie Dickison Deceased Daughter
Her daughter with Bacharach, Lea Nikki, known as Nikki, was born a year after they were married. Born three months prematurely, Nikki suffered from chronic health problems, including visual impairment, and was later diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Her husband, Bacharach composed the song “Nikki” for their fragile young daughter, and Dickinson rejected many roles to focus on caring for her.
She and Bacharach eventually placed her at the Wilson Center, a psychiatric residential treatment facility for adolescents in Faribault, Minnesota, where she remained for nine years. Later on, Lea Nikki studied geology at California Lutheran University. However, her poor eyesight prevented her from pursuing it as a career.
On January 4, 2007, Nikki took her life by suffocation in her apartment in the Ventura County suburb of Thousand Oaks. She was 40. In a joint statement, Dickinson and Bacharach said,
She quietly and peacefully committed suicide to escape the ill scars to her brain brought on by Asperger’s. …She had special love for kitties, earthquakes, glacial calving, meteor showers, science, blue skies and sunsets, and Tahiti. Angie was one of the most beautiful creatures ever created on this earth, and she is now in the white light, at peace.
Angie Dickison Career
Early Career
Dickinson tried a beauty pageant in 1953 and placed second. The exposure brought her to the attention of a television industry producer, who asked her to consider a career in acting.
Dickison studied the craft and a few years later was approached by NBC to guest-star on a number of variety shows, including The Colgate Comedy Hour. She later met Frank Sinatra, who became a lifelong friend and featured as Sinatra’s wife in the film Ocean’s 11 (1960).
On New Year’s Eve 1954, Angie made her television acting debut in an episode of Death Valley Days.
This made her get roles in productions such as Matinee Theatre (eight episodes), Buffalo Bill, Jr., City Detective, It’s a Great Life (two episodes), Gray Ghost, General Electric Theater, Broken Arrow, The People’s Choice (twice), Meet McGraw (twice), Northwest Passage, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Tombstone Territory, Cheyenne, and The Restless Gun.
In 1956, Dickinson appeared in an episode of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. The next year she had another minor role in Richard Boone’s series Have Gun – Will Travel in the episode “A Matter of Ethics”.
In 1958, she appeared as Laura Meadows in the episode “The Deserters” of an ABC/Warner Bros. Western series, Colt .45, with Wayde Preston.
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Dickinson went on to make memorable characters in Mike Hammer, Wagon Train, and Men into Space. In 1965, she featured in a recurring role as Carol Tredman on NBC’s Dr. Kildare.
Angie cast at her evil best as an unfaithful wife and bank robber in the 1958 “Wild Blue Yonder” episode of Rod Cameron’s television series State Trooper. She featured in two Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes, “Captive Audience” with James Mason on October 18, 1962, and “Thanatos Palace Hotel” on February 1, 1965.
Her film career debuted with a small, uncredited role in Lucky Me (1954) starring Doris Day, followed by The Return of Jack Slade (1955), Man with the Gun (1955), and Hidden Guns (1956).
She featured for the first time in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness, followed by the Sam Fuller cult film China Gate (1957), which depicted an early view of the Vietnam War.
She rejected the Marilyn Monroe/Jayne Mansfield style of platinum blonde sex symbolism as she felt it would narrow her acting options. Dickinson originally allowed studios to lighten her naturally brunette hair to only honey-blonde.
She made early appearances in her career mainly in B-movies or Westerns, including Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957), in which she co-starred with James Garner. In the crime drama Cry Terror, Angie had a supporting role opposite James Mason and Rod Steiger as a femme fatale.
Angie Dickison’s Net Worth
Dickison has an estimated net worth of $30 million which she has earned through her successful acting career in TV and films.
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