Angie Dickinson
Metal Ram - Hsin Wei Year
The 60-year Cycle of the Chinese Zodiac
Born: 30 September 1931
Birthplace: Kulm, North Dakota
Best Known As: Star of Police Woman
Name at birth: Angeline Brown
Dickinson specialized in smart, sexy, tough-minded women, and is most famous as Sgt. 'Pepper' Anderson in the TV series Police Woman (1974-78). Her best-known movie role may be one of her earliest: as the plucky Feathers in Rio Bravo (1959) with John Wayne and Dean Martin. Her other films include The Killers (1964, with Ronald Reagan in his last feature role), Thief (1971, not the 1981 James Caan film of the same name) and Pay It Forward (2000, with Helen Hunt). She played Frank Sinatra's estranged wife in the heist spoof Ocean's Eleven (1960) and had a cameo in the 2001 remake, which featured Julia Roberts in Dickinson's old role.
After her divorce from football player Gene Dickinson, she married composer Burt Bacharach in 1965; they divorced in 1980.
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