Erin Gray
Acting
Born: January 7, 1950 (age 76) · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Highest Rated
Biography
The very beautiful and talented model, actress, and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the highly watched TV show "Silver Spoons" (1982), and "Colonel Wilma Deering" on the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). Many women admired her commanding role as Col Deering, while many men admired her beautiful looks and sexy figure. Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, convinced her what she wanted to do in life. Moving to New York, she became one of the town's most sought-after models, in elite company with Farrah Fawcett, Veronica Hamel and Susan Blakely. TV viewers encountered her commercials for Breck, Max Factor, Clairol, Camay Soap and RC Cola, and a classic spot--for English Leather cologne--in which she provocatively declared, "My men wear English Leather--or they wear nothing at all!" Between modeling assignments, she studied acting with well-known coach Warren Robertson and, when movie-TV offers came in, she was ready. Universal was impressed by her performances on such series as "Police Story" (1973) and "Gibbsville" (1976) and signed her to a seven-year contract. Under that pact, the studio co-starred her as a tough-minded newspaper reporter in Irwin Shaw's Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV). Her performance scored with both critics and audiences, and led directly to the role in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). As a result, she has become a regular commuter between Hollywood and New York, the hub of the magazine and fashion world.
Known for
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
1993
Baywatch
1989
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Magnum, P.I.
1980
The Love Boat
1977
The Fall Guy
1981
Renegade
1992
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
The Rockford Files
1974
Pandora
2019
The Guild
2007
My Christmas Inn
2018
Photos (4)
Movies (42)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Diana Kimble
Code of Vengeance
Nadine Flowers
Hunter Prey
Clea
Winter Kills
Beautiful Woman Three
Six Pack
Lilah
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Col. Wilma Deering
A Dangerous Place
Audrey
Ghouls
Liz
A Christmas Princess
Queen Alice
Christmas in Palm Springs
Mayor Tomlin
Serial Intentions
Virginia Madden
Finding Grace
Judge Ariel Harper
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
1985
The Last Producer
Dee Freeman
Laker Girls
Julie Lawrence
My Christmas Inn
Molly Anderson
I Married Who?
Ethel Swift
A Perfect Christmas
Patricia Faber
Touched by a Killer
Liza Collins
Clover Bend
Beth Clayton
The Ultimate Impostor
Beatrice 'Bucky' Tate
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder
Brianna
Nuclear Hurricane
Jane
Crowfoot
Nora
Addicted to His Love
Jenny Barrett
T-Force
Mayor Pendleton
Loaded
Susan Price
Siren
Sharon Cox
Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
Laura Sands
Caught in the Headlights
Mrs. Jones
Official Denial
Annie Corliss
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Pamela Bozanich
Social Misfits
Sharon Cox
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Captain Terry O'Malley
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls
Colonel Wilma Deering
Born Beautiful
Betsy Forrest
ManFast
Gloria Day
Breaking Home Ties
Carol
My True Self
Mrs. Ellen Fields
Coach of the Year
Paula DeFalco
Nesting
Mrs. Deegan
Dreams Awake
Hope Emrys
TV Shows (30)
The Love Boat
Maggie Cook · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Andrea Dean · 1 eps
Magnum, P.I.
Joy 'Digger' Doyle · 1 eps
Baywatch
Chief Monica Johnson · 3 eps
Simon & Simon
1 eps
The Rockford Files
Margaret 'Alta' Hatch · 1 eps
L.A. Law
Rochelle Peters · 1 eps
Jake and the Fatman
1 eps
Hotel
1 eps
Hunter
Kate Lawson · 1 eps
Profiler
Congresswoman Karen Archer · 3 eps
Renegade
1 eps
The Fall Guy
2 eps
Silk Stalkings
1 eps
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Wilma Deering · 37 eps
The Hitchhiker
Leslie · 1 eps
Vega$
1 eps
The Guild
Madeleine Twain · 5 eps
Silver Spoons
Kate Summers Stratton · 116 eps
Dark Justice
1 eps
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Martha Masters · 1 eps
Battle of the Network Stars
3 eps
Burke's Law
Brenda Palmer · 1 eps
B. J. and the Bear
1 eps
Evening Shade
1 eps
The Torkelsons
Jennifer · 1 eps
Pandora
Captain Beth Grant · 1 eps
The Wedding Bells
Candy Heller · 1 eps
The New Lassie
1 eps
Evening in Byzantium
Gail McKinnon · 2 eps
