HILLARY BROOKE BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Hillary Brooke was born on September 8th, 1914 in Astoria, New York with the birth name Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson.
 
Throughout her career as an actress, she portrayed herself as an intelligent woman and never really showed much sex appeal, therefore she was never really cast as the 'sexy' lady and vary rarely would her character win the love of the man at the end of the storyline.  Although, she was American, she was able to imitate such a good British Accent, that it became a part of almost every role she took.
 
Some of her more known roles were in, “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1946) starring Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Marjorie Reynolds, Joseph Schildkraut, Reginald Owen and Douglass Dumbrille, “The Fuller Brush Man” (1948) starring Red Skelton, Janet Blair and Adele Jergens, “The Abbott and Costello Show” (1952), “Jane Eyre” (1943) starring Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor, John Sutton, Peggy Ann Garner and Agnes Moorehead, "Africa Screams" (1949) starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, “The Philadelphia Story” (1940) starring James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, “Lady in the Dark” (1944) starring Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Jon Hall, Mischa Auer and Barry Sullivan, “Ministry of Fear” (1944) starring Ray Milland and Marjorie Reynolds, “The Enchanted Cottage” (1945) starring Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick and Spring Byington and “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1956) starring James Stewart, Doris Day and Alan Mowbray.
 
Other television credits included roles on, “Perry Mason”, “I Love Lucy”, "Mr. and Mrs. North" and “My Little Margie”.  She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the television industry.
 
Hillary Brooke married twice throughout her lifetime.  Her first husband was Jack Voglin whom she wed in 1941 and they were together until 1948.  She then married Raymond A. Klune in 1960 and the couple stayed together until he passed away in 1988.  She had two children with her second husband, a son Donald and a stepdaughter, Carol.  She never re-married again.  On May 25th, 1999, Brooke passed away in Bonsall, California after suffering a blood clot in her lungs.

 
Filmography

1960 Michael Shayne  
1959-1960 Richard Diamond, Private Detective  
1959 G.E. True Theater
1959 Lawman
1959 Father Knows Best 
1959 Yancy Derringer
1957 December Bride
1957 Perry Mason
1957 Spoilers of the Forest  
1956-1957 Private Secretary
1956 West Point
1956 Studio 57
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1955-1956 The Star and the Story
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse
1956 I Love Lucy
1955 Bengazi
1955 The Millionaire
1955 The Ford Television Theatre
1952-1955 My Little Margie
1955 Fireside Theatre
1955 The Public Defender  
1955 The Whistler
1954 Cavalcade of America 
1954 Big Town
1954 The Mickey Rooney Show
1954 The Christophers  
1954 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1954 Mr. and Mrs. North 
1954 Heat Wave 
1954 Dragon's Gold
1954 Passport to Danger
1953 Mexican Manhunt 
1952-1953 Racket Squad  
1953 The Maze 
1952-1953 The Abbott and Costello Show
1952-1953 Four Star Playhouse  
1953 Invaders from Mars 
1953 The Lady Wants Mink 
1953 Never Wave at a WAC 
1952 Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd 
1952 Confidence Girl 
1952 Dangerous Assignment
1951 The Bigelow Theatre
1951 Gruen Guild Theater 
1951 Lost Continent 
1951 Skipalong Rosenbloom 
1951 Insurance Investigator
1950 Vendetta
1950 The Admiral Was a Lady 
1950 Lucky Losers
1950 Beauty on Parade 
1950 Unmasked
1949 Bodyhold 
1949 Alimony 
1949 Africa Screams
1948 Big Town Scandal
1948 The Fuller Brush Man
1948 Let's Live Again
1947 Big Town After Dark
1947 Big Town
1947 I Cover Big Town
1946 The Strange Woman 
1946 Strange Journey
1946 Monsieur Beaucaire 
1946 Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946 Strange Impersonation 
1946 The Gentleman Misbehaves
1946 Road to Utopia
1946 Up Goes Maisie 
1945 The Woman in Green
1945 The Crime Doctor's Courage
1945 The Enchanted Cottage 
1944 Practically Yours
1944 Ministry of Fear
1944 And the Angels Sing 
1944 Lady in the Dark 
1944 Standing Room Only 
1943 Jane Eyre
1943 Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1943 The Crystal Ball 
1943 Happy Go Lucky
1942 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 
1942 Counter-Espionage 
1942 Wake Island 
1942 Calling Dr. Gillespie 
1942 Ship Ahoy
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
1942 Sleepytime Gal 
1942 Mr. and Mrs. North 
1941 Two-Faced Woman
1941 Married Bachelor 
1941 Unfinished Business
1941 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941 The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury 
1941 Willie and the Mouse
1941 Country Fair
1941 The Lone Rider Rides On
1941 Maisie Was a Lady
1940 The Philadelphia Story
1940 New Moon 
1940 Florian
1940 Two Girls on Broadway
1939 Eternally Yours
1937 New Faces of 1937