#BARBARA RUSH SERIES#
In 2007, she played the recurring role of Grandma Ruth Camden on the series 7th Heaven. She has continued to make guest appearances on television. In 1989, Rush toured on stage in the national company of Steel Magnolias as the character M'Lynn. In 1998, she was featured in an episode titled "Balance of Nature" on the television series The Outer Limits. She was a cast member on the early 1980s soap opera Flamingo Road as Eudora Weldon. In 1976, Rush played the role of Ann Sommers/Chris Stewart, the mother of female sci-fi action character Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman.Īfter appearing in the 1980 disco-themed Can't Stop the Music, Rush returned to television work.
#BARBARA RUSH TV#
She portrayed the devious Nora Clavicle in the TV series Batman. In the 1967 Western drama Hombre, she played a rich, younger, condescending wife of a thief - and ends up taken hostage and tied to a stake. Rush also was cast in an occasional villainess role, as in the Rat Pack's gangster musical Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). She often played a willful woman of means or a polished, high-society doyenne. 1967, she guest-starred on the series Custer. In 1965, she appeared in a two-part episode of The Fugitive titled "Landscape with Running Figures" as Marie Gérard, wife of police detective Lt. In 1962–1963, she appeared three times as Lizzie Hogan on Saints and Sinners. In 1962, she guest-starred as Linda Kinkcaid in the episode "Make Me a Place" on The Eleventh Hour starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. She later became a regular performer in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other shows including Peyton Place and the soap opera All My Children. She began working on television in the 1950s. In 1970, she earned the Sarah Siddons Award for dramatic achievement in Chicago theatre for her leading role in Forty Carats and brought her one-woman play A Woman of Independent Means to Broadway in 1984.
#BARBARA RUSH PROFESSIONAL#
Rush began her career on stage, and it has always been a part of her professional life. She was the love interest of reluctant soldier Dean Martin in the war story The Young Lions and of ambitious lawyer Paul Newman in The Young Philadelphians. Rush starred as the wife of James Mason in the acclaimed 1956 drama Bigger Than Life, in which a school teacher's use of an experimental drug results in his threatening harm to his family. In 1954, she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space. In 1952, she starred in Flaming Feather with Sterling Hayden and Victor Jory. In 1951, she co-starred in the classic George Pal sci-fi film When Worlds Collide. She made her screen debut in 1950's The Goldbergs. Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She started her careers at the university's theatre program there. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948.
She grew up in Santa Barbara, California. Her father, Roy, was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company.
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