Anjanette Comer
Acting

Anjanette Comer

Born 7 August 1939 · Dawson, Texas, USA · Died 28 May 2026

Anjanette Comer (August 7, 1939 — May 28, 2026) was an American actress. Born in Dawson, Texas to Rufus Franklin and Nola (Dell) Comer, her first major television credit was a guest appearance in a 1963 episode of Gunsmoke, followed by roles in several other dramatic series of the 1960s, such as Dr. Kildare and Bonanza. She made her feature film debut as the female lead in the 1964 comedy Quick, Before It Melts followed by a memorable role in the 1965 satire The Loved One, playing a seductive mortician who offers Robert Morse a choice for his uncle's funeral arrangements of "Inhumement, entombment, inurnment, immurement? Some people just lately have preferred ensarcophagusment." Though Comer was cast opposite Michael Caine for Funeral In Berlin and even appeared in publicity stills, she was replaced because of illness. Fortunately, she had another leading role as a love interest to Marlon Brando and John Saxon in the Western adventure The Appaloosa (1966). The film, shot on location in Mexico, presented Anjanette as a Mexican peasant girl, a role she repeated in the 1968 Anthony Quinn vehicle Guns for San Sebastian. In between she starred with Robert Wagner and Jill St. John in the golf-themed 1967 film Banning.

Known for

Columbo
Bonanza
Guns for San Sebastian
The Baby
The Underneath
The Appaloosa
Jake and the Fatman
Dead of Night
The Loved One
The Night of a Thousand Cats
A Bird of the Air
Netherworld
A Bird of the Air
The Pennsylvania Miners' Story
The Underneath
Deadly Family Secrets
Netherworld
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
The Long Summer of George Adams
Dead of Night
Fire Sale
Death Stalk
Lepke
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Terror on the 40th Floor
Night Games
Shadow of Fear
The Baby
The Night of a Thousand Cats
Five Desperate Women
The Firechasers
Banyon
The Deadly Hunt
Rabbit, Run
The Young Lawyers
In Enemy Country
Guns for San Sebastian
Banning
The Appaloosa
The Loved One
Quick, Before It Melts
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