Melodie Johnson

Melodie Johnson

Actor

Los Angeles, California, USA
October 23, 1943

Biography

Melodie Johnson Howe (born October 23, 1943) is an American actress and author. She became interested in writing at a young age and wrote several short plays that went unpublished. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles in creative writing. Yet in 1965, she embarked on an acting career in Hollywood. She appears in episodes generic several television series, including The Virginian, It Takes a Thief, Bewitched and Mannix. She also landed small roles in film, especially in Coogan's Bluff (1968) Don Siegel, alongside Clint Eastwood, and bootleggers Wars (1970) Richard Quine, with Patrick McGoohan and Richard Widmark. It ended his acting career in the early 1980. Under her married name, Melodie Johnson Howe, she published a few years apart Shadow The Mother (1989) and Beauty Dies (1994), two thrillers putting Directed by Claire and Maggie Conrad Hill, two female detectives who maintain professional relationships similar to those prevailing between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, the heroes of Rex Stout. In 2011, she published Shooting Hollywood (2011), a collection of stories that tell the adventures of Diana Poole, former actress in her forties looking to resume his career and still is forced to solve criminal cases which continue to divert his art. In 2013 seems City of Mirrors, the first book devoted to this new heroine.   

Photo

Melodie Johnson 1

Representative Works

Coogan's Bluff
Coogan's Bluff
6.3
/ English
Powderkeg
Powderkeg
8.5
/ English
The Moonshine War
The Moonshine War
5.7
/ English
Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Run
4.2
/ English
Gaily, Gaily
Gaily, Gaily
4.3
/ English
I Love a Mystery
I Love a Mystery
6.3
/ English
Enigma
Enigma
7.0
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Coogan's Bluff
1968Nominee

Best Performance

Coogan's Bluff

Powderkeg
1971Winner

Best Performance

Powderkeg

The Moonshine War
1970Nominee

Best Performance

The Moonshine War

Career Highlights

Fame Is the Name of the Game
1966Highlight

Best Performance

Fame Is the Name of the Game

Rabbit, Run
1970Highlight

Best Performance

Rabbit, Run