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Nanette June Leslie, known as Nan Leslie or Nan Coppage (June 4, 1926 - July 30, 2000), was an American actress of film and television. Her longest running role was as Martha McGivern in thirty-seven episodes of the first season from 1957 to 1958 of the NBC western television series, ''The Californians''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nan Leslie )〕 The daughter of Frank M. Leslie and the former Alma H. Turner, Leslie was a native of Los Angeles, California, where she attended University High School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nan Leslie )〕 ==Western roles== Leslie was cast opposite Sean McClory, as Jack McGivern, in ''The Californians'', a fictional account of San Francisco during the California Gold Rush of the early 1850s. Richard Coogan starred in both seasons as Marshal Matthew Wayne. Other co-stars in the first season were Herbert Rudley as Sam Brennan and Adam Kennedy as newspaperman Dion Patrick. In the second season, Carole Mathews and Art Fleming, later the first host of the quiz program, ''Jeopardy!'', joined the cast of the black-and-white half-hour series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Californians'' )〕 Prior to ''The Californians'', Leslie was known for her roles in three 1947 films ''The Woman on the Beach'', with Robert Ryan and Joan Bennett, and two productions based on Zane Grey western novels with Tim Holt in the starring role: ''Under the Tonto Rim'' and ''Wild Horse Mesa''.〔 For a time she was engaged to marry Holt.〔 Her acting career began with uncredited roles in twelve films, the first as Prudence in ''Under Western Skies'' (1945).〔 Her first credited film role was as Jane Preston in the 1946 film ''Sunset Pass'' with co-star James Warren; the original ''Sunset Pass'', a 1933 picture directed by Henry Hathaway, starred Kathleen Burke as Jane Preston, a young woman who seeks to rescue her brother from a life of crime.〔 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Sunset Pass'' )〕 In March 1947, Leslie was among several actors and actresses attending the premieres in Kansas of ''Trail Street'', an RKO Pictures release, with Randolph Scott in the role of Marshal Bat Masterson in the town of Liberal, Kansas. Leslie, however, is not listed in the credits as a cast member of the film.〔 Her first television guest-starring role came in 1949 on ABC's ''The Lone Ranger''; by 1955, she had made eight guest-starring appearances on the landmark western series. From 1950 to 1955, she appeared in four episodes of CBS's ''The Gene Autry Show''. Leslie was cast in two episodes of the NBC western series, ''The Roy Rogers Show''; her first role being that of Bess Walton in "Jailbreak" (1951). Two years later, she was cast in the episode "Whirlwind Courtship" of the syndicated western anthology series, ''Death Valley Days'', hosted by Stanley Andrews. In 1953, she also appeared as Jane Sawyer in "Arizona Troubleshooters" of another western series, ''Hopalong Cassidy''. She was twice cast on the syndicated western series ''The Range Rider'', as Joyce Lanyon in "Ambush in Coyote Canyon" (1952) and as Sue McCandles in "Saga of Silver Town" (1953). In 1954, she played Alias Annie in another syndicated western series, ''Annie Oakley'', starring Gail Davis in a fictitious depiction of the markswoman Annie Oakley.〔 She had met Davis c. 1945 at the RKO studios, and the two remained lifelong friends until Davis' death in 1997.〔 From 1953 to 1955, Leslie was cast in five episodes each of two other syndicated western series, ''The Adventures of Kit Carson'' and ''The Cisco Kid''. In 1956, she appeared in three episodes of the ABC western series, ''The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin'', twice as Joan Lambert in "Wagon Train" and "Fort Adventure". Her third role in that series was as Claire Corbin in "Rin Tin Tin and the Second Chance."〔 Leslie's other western roles included the part of Peggy in "White Man's Magic" (1957) of the ABC western series, ''Broken Arrow'', as Nancy Barnett in "Three Graves" (1957) on ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater'', and as Beth McGarrett in "The Legend" (1959) of ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'', with Steve McQueen. She was cast twice in 1958 and 1959, respectively, on the Peter Graves NBC children's western series, ''Fury'', as Stella Lambert in "The Model Plane" and as Packy's mother in "The Pulling Contest". In 1959, she was also cast as Judy Travers in the episode "Treasure Trap" of another syndicated western series, ''Shotgun Slade'', starring Scott Brady, and as Margaret Cook in "Day of Battle" of the NBC western series, ''Wichita Town'', starring Joel McCrea.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nan Leslie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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