Pamela Lincoln | |
Birth Name: | Pamela Gill |
Birth Date: | June 19, 1937 |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Death Place: | Branford, Connecticut, U.S. |
Occupation: | Actress |
Years Active: | 1959 - 1984 |
Children: | 2 |
Mother: | Verna Hillie |
Pamela Lincoln (born Pamela Gill; June 19, 1937 - November 21, 2019) was an American actress of television and film.
Her best-known movie role is the William Castle film The Tingler, where her screams save the life of Vincent Price, who is being attacked by the bizarre creature. Pamela had contract roles on two daytime soap operas. From 1974 to 1977, in Love of Life, she played the tragic Felicia Fleming Lamont, who was involved with the dashing Eduardo Aleata (played by John Aniston) while married to the older Charles Lamont,
From 1977 to 1979, in The Doctors, she played the scheming Doreen Aldrich, who notoriously kidnapped heroine Carolee Aldrich (her former sister-in-law) when she falsely believed that she was dying of leukemia and decided that she wanted Carolee's husband, Steve. In 1984, Pamela appeared on One Life to Live as Suzanne Allardyce, the widow of the president of a fictional South American country.
She was born in Los Angeles, California in June 1937[1] to actress Verna Hillie and writer Frank Gill Jr.[2] [3] She was married to actor Darryl Hickman in 1959, and had two children with him.[4] They divorced in 1982.[5] [6] Lincoln died in Branford, Connecticut, in November 2019 at the age of 82.[7]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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1959 | Father Knows Best | Janet Mason | 1 episode | |
1959 | One Step Beyond | Older Lisa Garrick | 1 episode | |
1959 | Zane Grey Theater | Kitty | 1 episode | |
1959 | The Tingler | Lucy Stevens | ||
1959 | Have Gun - Will Travel | Mary - Maid | 1 episode | |
1961 | Anatomy of a Psycho | Pat | ||
1974–1977 | Love of Life | Felicia Fleming Lamont | ||
1977–1979 | The Doctors | Doreen Aldrich | ||
1982 | Tootsie | Secretary | (final film role) | |
1984 | One Life to Live | Suzanne Allardyce | 3 episodes |