Most folk bear in mind Julie London finest as Dixie McCall, the perpetually calm, peacemaking heading of nursing on the Nineteen Seventies medical drama Emergency! However the diminutive magnificence with the film siren appears to be like loved a sturdy profession in music, movie and TV lengthy earlier than Nurse McCall set foot within the halls of Rampart Emergency Hospital. And you could have seen her on extra of your favourite dramas and selection reveals than you understand, particularly Westerns. She’s nice with a stethoscope and a Smith & Wesson!
Born Julie Peck on Sept. 26, 1926, to vaudevillian dad and mom in Santa Rosa, Calif., London was found by actor Alan Ladd‘s expertise agent spouse, Sue Carol, whereas working as an elevator operator in downtown Los Angeles. Her elegant, bedroom-eyed magnificence led the then teenage London to movie roles, notably in Westerns resembling 1947’s The Crimson Home with Edward G. Robinson and Rory Calhoun, 1951’s The Fats Man with Rock Hudson and Jayne Meadows, and 1958’s Man of the West with Gary Cooper and Hawaii 5-0‘s Jack Lord and Saddle the Wind with Robert Taylor and John Cassavetes.