
Erin Gray
Department: Acting
Biography
The very beautiful and talented model, actress, and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the highly watched TV show "Silver Spoons" (1982), and "Colonel Wilma Deering" on the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). Many women admired her commanding role as Col Deering, while many men admired her beautiful looks and sexy figure. Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, convinced her what she wanted to do in life. Moving to New York, she became one of the town's most sought-after models, in elite company with Farrah Fawcett, Veronica Hamel and Susan Blakely. TV viewers encountered her commercials for Breck, Max Factor, Clairol, Camay Soap and RC Cola, and a classic spot--for English Leather cologne--in which she provocatively declared, "My men wear English Leather--or they wear nothing at all!" Between modeling assignments, she studied acting with well-known coach Warren Robertson and, when movie-TV offers came in, she was ready. Universal was impressed by her performances on such series as "Police Story" (1973) and "Gibbsville" (1976) and signed her to a seven-year contract. Under that pact, the studio co-starred her as a tough-minded newspaper reporter in Irwin Shaw's Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV). Her performance scored with both critics and audiences, and led directly to the role in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). As a result, she has become a regular commuter between Hollywood and New York, the hub of the magazine and fashion world.
Known For

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979

Crowfoot
1995

Hunter Prey
2010

Six Pack
1982

Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
2007

Official Denial
1993

I Married Who?
2012

Clover Bend
2002

Addicted to His Love
1988

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
1988

Laker Girls
1990

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
1993

Social Misfits
2001

The Ultimate Impostor
1979

Winter Kills
1979

Code of Vengeance
1985

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder
2022

Touched by a Killer
2001

A Perfect Christmas
2016

Nesting
2012

Dreams Awake
2011

Ghouls
2008

ManFast
2003

A Dangerous Place
1994

Coach of the Year
1980

Christmas in Palm Springs
2014

T-Force
1994

Nuclear Hurricane
2007

The Last Producer
2000

Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
1994

Loaded
2008

My Christmas Inn
2018

Breaking Home Ties
1987

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
2013

A Christmas Princess
2019

Finding Grace
2020

Evening in Byzantium
1978

Born Beautiful
1982

Four Days At Dragon*Con
2011

Caught in the Headlights
2005

Serial Intentions
2001

Siren
2006

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls
1979

My True Self
2008

The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
1985

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Murder, She Wrote
1984

B. J. and the Bear
1979

Evening Shade
1990

L.A. Law
1986

Silver Spoons
1982

Simon & Simon
1981

The Torkelsons
1991

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979

Hotel
1982

Profiler
1996

Silk Stalkings
1991

Jake and the Fatman
1987

Hunter
1984

The Wedding Bells
2007

The Fall Guy
1981

Battle of the Network Stars
1976

Vega$
1978

The New Lassie
1989

The Hitchhiker
1983

Dark Justice
1991

Malibu U
1967

I Love the '70s: Volume 2
2006

Renegade
1992

Baywatch
1989

Mystery Science Theater 3000
2017

The Rockford Files
1974

Burke's Law
1994

Pandora
2019

The Love Boat
1977

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Guild
2007