Anjanette Comer
31 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 7, 1939
- Died
- May 28, 2026 (age 86)
- Place of birth
- Dawson, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Anja Comer
Biography
Anjanette Comer (August 7, 1939 — May 28, 2026) was an American actress.
Born in Dawson, Texas to Rufus Franklin and Nola (Dell) Comer, her first major television credit was a guest appearance in a 1963 episode of Gunsmoke, followed by roles in several other dramatic series of the 1960s, such as Dr. Kildare and Bonanza. She made her feature film debut as the female lead in the 1964 comedy Quick, Before It Melts followed by a memorable role in the 1965 satire The Loved One, playing a seductive mortician who offers Robert Morse a choice for his uncle's funeral arrangements of "Inhumement, entombment, inurnment, immurement? Some people just lately have preferred ensarcophagusment."
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Though Comer was cast opposite Michael Caine for Funeral In Berlin and even appeared in publicity stills, she was replaced because of illness. Fortunately, she had another leading role as a love interest to Marlon Brando and John Saxon in the Western adventure The Appaloosa (1966). The film, shot on location in Mexico, presented Anjanette as a Mexican peasant girl, a role she repeated in the 1968 Anthony Quinn vehicle Guns for San Sebastian. In between she starred with Robert Wagner and Jill St. John in the golf-themed 1967 film Banning.
Comer's film activity dropped off in 1970 after she played Ruth in the film version of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1970). She later claimed she let her love life interfere with her work. Comer's most recent films include Fire Sale (1977) and the made-for-TV The Long Summer of George Adams (1983). In subsequent years, she was frequently cast as mysterious or exotic characters.
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Known for
Anjanette Comer: movies and TV shows
Acting (54)
- 2011 A Bird of the Air
as Mrs. Weber
- 2005 Possessed
as Mrs. Palmer (segment "Resurrection of the Damned") (archive footage)
- 2003 Screen Door Jesus
as Verna Lynn Cunningham
- 2002 The Pennsylvania Miners' Story
as Sue Unger
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995 Deadly Family Secrets
as Hilda Potter
- 1995 The Underneath
as Mrs. Chambers
- 1992 Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
as Nora Turner
- 1992 Netherworld
as Mrs. Palmer
- 1987
- 1982
- 1982 The Long Summer of George Adams
as Venida
- 1977 Fire Sale
as Marion Fikus
- 1977 Dead of Night
as Alexis
- 1976
- 1975
- 1975 Lepke
as Bernice Meyer
- 1975 The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
as Arlevia Jessup
- 1975
- 1975 Death Stalk
as Pat Trahey
- 1975
- 1974 Terror on the 40th Floor
as Darlene Foster
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974 Night Games
as Jenny Kenedisis
- 1974 Shadow of Fear
as Danna Forester
- 1973
- 1973 The Baby
as Ann Gentry
- 1973
- 1972 The Night of a Thousand Cats
as Cathy
- 1972
- 1971 The Deadly Hunt
as Martha
- 1971 Five Desperate Women
as Lucy
- 1971
- 1971 Banyon
as Diane Jennings
- 1971 The Firechasers
as Toby Collins
- 1970 Rabbit, Run
as Ruth Leonard
- 1969 The Young Lawyers
as Bonnie Baron
- 1969
- 1969
- 1968
- 1968 In Enemy Country
as Denise
- 1967 Banning
as Carol Lindquist
- 1967
- 1967 Guns for San Sebastian
as Kinita
- 1966 The Appaloosa
as Trini
- 1965 The Loved One
as Aimee Thanatogenos
- 1965 Quick, Before It Melts
as Tiara Marshall
- 1963
- 1961
- 1961
- 1959
- 1955
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1967