Erin Gray
Acting
Born: January 7, 1950 (age 76) · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Highest Rated
Biography
An actress, model 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
A Perfect Christmas
Patricia Faber
Finding Grace
Judge Ariel Harper
I Married Who?
Ethel Swift
Hunter Prey
Clea
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Col. Wilma Deering
Winter Kills
Beautiful Woman Three
Caught in the Headlights
Mrs. Jones
Touched by a Killer
Liza Collins
A Christmas Princess
Queen Alice
Serial Intentions
Virginia Madden
Official Denial
Annie Corliss
The Last Producer
Dee Freeman
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Pamela Bozanich
Laker Girls
Julie Lawrence
Christmas in Palm Springs
Mayor Tomlin
Nuclear Hurricane
Jane
A Dangerous Place
Audrey
Siren
Sharon Cox
Six Pack
Lilah
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
1985
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder
Brianna
My Christmas Inn
Molly Anderson
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Captain Terry O'Malley
Loaded
Susan Price
Addicted to His Love
Jenny Barrett
Ghouls
Liz
T-Force
Mayor Pendleton
Clover Bend
Beth Clayton
ManFast
Gloria Day
Born Beautiful
Betsy Forrest
Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
Laura Sands
Coach of the Year
Paula DeFalco
Breaking Home Ties
Carol
Code of Vengeance
Nadine Flowers
Dreams Awake
Hope Emrys
The Ultimate Impostor
Beatrice 'Bucky' Tate
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls
Colonel Wilma Deering
Social Misfits
Sharon Cox
Crowfoot
Nora
Nesting
Mrs. Deegan
My True Self
Mrs. Ellen Fields
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
L.A. Law
Rochelle Peters · 1 eps
The Rockford Files
Margaret 'Alta' Hatch · 1 eps
Baywatch
Monica Johnson · 3 eps
Hotel
1 eps
Simon & Simon
1 eps
Renegade
1 eps
Silk Stalkings
1 eps
Hunter
Kate Lawson · 1 eps
Profiler
Congresswoman Karen Archer · 3 eps
The Fall Guy
2 eps
Jake and the Fatman
1 eps
The Hitchhiker
Leslie · 1 eps
The Guild
Madeleine Twain · 5 eps
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Wilma Deering · 37 eps
Vega$
1 eps
Silver Spoons
Kate Summers Stratton · 116 eps
Evening Shade
1 eps
Burke's Law
Brenda Palmer · 1 eps
B. J. and the Bear
1 eps
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Martha Masters · 1 eps
Pandora
Captain Beth Grant · 1 eps
The Torkelsons
Jennifer · 1 eps
Battle of the Network Stars
3 eps
Dark Justice
1 eps
The New Lassie
1 eps
The Wedding Bells
Candy Heller · 1 eps
Evening in Byzantium
Gail McKinnon · 2 eps
