Julie London

Julie London Headshot

Actress

Birth Date: September 26, 1926

Death Date: October 18, 2000

Birth Place: Santa Rosa, California

Spouses: Jack Webb, Bobby Troup

The daughter of a vaudeville song-and-dance team, Julie London had show business in her blood. But rather than adopting the eager-to-please energy of vaudeville, London became known for a chilly inaccessibility that made her stunning blonde-bombshell looks even more enticing.

The most enduring image of her long career occurs early in the classic rock and roll comedy "The Girl Can't Help It," when star Tom Ewell hallucinates London (playing his ex-girlfriend) coolly stalking him around his living room singing her signature hit single "Cry Me A River" with disdainful hauteur. London began her film career in the early 1940s, co-starring in pleasant but forgettable B-movies like "The Red House" and "Tap Roots."

During this period, she was married to a struggling young actor named Jack Webb; following their 1954 divorce, London married jazz musician Bobby Troup, best known for writing the standard "Route 66." In 1955, London began her singing career with her aforementioned smash hit, following it with several years' worth of similarly cool jazz-pop hits delivered in her trademark husky whisper of a voice and packaged in some eye-popping LP sleeves.

London wound down her film career in the early 1960s as her music career took precedence, but in 1972, Webb hired both London and Troup to play starring roles in the hit TV series "Emergency! ," which he produced. London retired from acting when "Emergency! " went off the air in 1978, having ceased her singing career several years previously. Julie London died October 18, 2000.

Credits

Emergency: Survival on Charter No. 220

Actor
Dixie McCall, R.N.
Movie
1978

Emergency: The Steel Inferno

Actor
Dixie McCall, R.N.
Movie
1977

TattletalesStream

Guest
Game Show
1974

Emergency!Stream

Actor
Nurse Dixie McCall
Series
1972

Emergency!

Actor
Dixie McCall
Movie
1972

Adam-12Stream

Guest Star
Series
1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InStream

Guest
Variety Show
1968

I SpyStream

Guest Star
Series
1965

The Big Valley

Guest Star
Series
1965

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Stream

Guest Star
Series
1964
100%

Alfred Hitchcock HourStream

Actor
Series
1962

The George Raft Story

Actor
Sheila Patton
Movie
1961

The Third Voice

Actor
Corey Scott
Movie
1960

LaramieStream

Guest Star
June Brown
Series
1959

The David Niven Show

Actor
Maggie Malone
Show
1959

RawhideStream

Guest Star
Series
1959

The Wonderful CountryStream

Actor
Helen Colton
Movie
1959

Night of the Quarter Moon

Actor
Ginny O'Sullivan Nelson
Movie
1959

L'Aventurier du Rio Grande

Actor
Movie
1959

A Question of Adultery

Actor
Mary Loring
Movie
1959

The Voice in the Mirror

Actor
Ellen Burton
Movie
1958

Saddle the WindStream

Actor
Joan Blake
Movie
1958

Man of the WestStream

Actor
Billie Ellis
Movie
1958
94%

Drango

Actor
Shelby Ransom
Movie
1957

Zane Grey Theater

Actor
Series
1956

The Girl Can't Help It

Self
Movie
1956
82%

The Great Man

Actor
Carol Larson
Movie
1956

Crime Against Joe

Actor
Frances "Slacks" Bennett
Movie
1956

The Fighting Chance

Actor
Janet Wales
Movie
1955

The Fat Man

Actor
Pat Boyd
Movie
1951

The Jack Benny ProgramStream

Guest
Series
1950

The Bob Hope Show

Actor
guest
Show
1950

What's My Line?Stream

Guest
Game Show
1950

Return of the Frontiersman

Actor
Janie Martin
Movie
1950

Task Force

Actor
Barbara McKinney
Movie
1949

Tap Roots

Actor
Aven Dabney
Movie
1948

The Red House

Actor
Tibby
Movie
1947

On Stage Everybody

Actor
Vivian Carlton
Movie
1945

Nabonga

Actor
Doreen Stockwell
Movie
1944