Elen Willard

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Elen Willard is a retired American character actress. She worked exclusively in various American network dramatic television series from 1960 to 1966. Her very first aired performance was a supporting role in a 1960 episode of the short-lived CBS detective series, Markham, which starred Ray Milland. Successively, over a six-year period, Willard portrayed twenty-four characters in twenty different dramatic television series consisting of various featured guest star and supporting performances, including most notably Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, Outlaws, Perry Mason, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Combat!, Gunsmoke, Whispering Smith, and Have Gun - Will Travel. In her Ben Casey episode, "A Dark Night for Billy Harris", Willard plays the wife of the title character (a young Bruce Dern), who has fallen victim to a seriously disturbed, trigger-happy cop, played by the pre-Kojak Telly Savalas. Willard's most recognized performance, and comprising only just a mere collective five minutes of screen...

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