Lane Bradbury

Janette Lane Bradbury is an American actress and writer.

Lane Bradbury
Born	Janette Lane Bradbury Buckhead, Morgan County, Georgia, U.S.
Years active	1958-present
Spouse	Lou Antonio ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1980)​
Children	2

Biography

Lane Bradbury was born in Buckhead, Georgia. She studied ballet as a young girl. In the 1950s, she moved to New York City and was admitted to the Actors Studio.^[1]

Career

Bradbury made her Broadway debut in J.B., performing with Raymond Massey and Christopher Plummer.^[1] She starred in Tennessee Williams' play Night of the Iguana with veteran actress Bette Davis. Bradbury was the first actress to play Dainty June^[1][2] in the original Broadway production of Gypsy.^[3][4][5][6]

In the late 1960s, she moved with her husband Lou Antonio to Los Angeles, where she began a long career in television. In 1965, Bradbury and Antonio co-starred in an episode of Gunsmoke ("Outlaw's Woman"). She was in 1963's season three opener of The Fugitive titled "Wings of an Angel", playing Janet Kegler, a woman taken hostage.^[7] She was most active in the 1970s, making guest appearances on shows such as The Rockford Files; The Mod Squad; Medical Center; Mannix; The Partridge Family; Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law; The Waltons and Kung Fu.^[7][8] She was popular in repeat-appearances as Merry Florene on Gunsmoke.^[9] She also appeared in season 12 episode 9 of Unsolved Mysteries in 2001 credited under the name Janette Bradbury. ^[10]

Her film credits include The Ultimate Warrior^[11] and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.^[12] She appeared in the popular television movies Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring^[13] and To Dance with the White Dog.^[14]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958	Kraft Television Theatre	Piney	adaptation of The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1963	The Doctors and the Nurses	Rita Silveri	episode: "Choice Among Wrongs"
1964	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Julia	"Out on the Outskirts of Town" by William Inge
1964	Mr. Novak	Ellen Westfall	episode: "Love Among the Grown-Ups"
1965	The Fugitive	Janet Kegler	episode: "Wings of an Angel"
1965-69	Gunsmoke	Allie Sommers, Lucky, Merry Florene	6 episodes
1967	Iron Horse	Rachel Sparrow	episode: "Volcano Wagon"
1969	Judd, for the Defense	Penny Hale	episode: "Between the Dark and the Daylight"
1969	Death Valley Days	Ella Stewart	episode: "A Key for the Fort"
1969	Then Came Bronson	Bella Mendoza	episode: "Where Will the Trumpets Be?"
1970	Dial Hot Line	Pam Carruthers	TV movie
1970	Medical Center	Maggie Seller	episode: "Between Dark and Daylight"
1970	Bracken's World	Miriam Halsey	episode: "Murder Off-Camera"
1970	The Mod Squad	Cindy Jeffers	episode: "See the Eagles Dying"
1970	The Partridge Family	Janet	episode: "Love at First Slight"
1970	The Interns	Irene	episode: "Act of God"
1971	Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring	Susie Miller	ABC Movie of the Week
1971	The Young Lawyers	Charlene Neiley	episode: "Down at the House of Truth, Visiting"
1971	Storefront Lawyers	unavailable	episode: "The Dark World of Harry Anders"
1972	Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law	Carol Ann MacMurdy	episode: "Run Carol Run"
1972	McCloud	Carol Harrington	episode: "Give My Regrets to Broadway"
1972	Mannix	Karin Gundersen	episode: "Scapegoat"
1972	Insight	Melanie	episode: "The Death of Superman"
1972	Another Part of the Forest	Laurette	TV adaptation of the play by Lillian Hellman
1972	The F.B.I.	Laura Ann Millpark	episode: "The Loner"
1972	Banyon	Bunny	episode: "A Date with Death"
1972	Alias Smith and Jones	Ellen Anderson	episode: "The Day the Amnesty Came Through"
1972	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Cassie Howard	episode: "Endtheme"
1973	Kung Fu	Annie Buchanan	episode: "An Eye for an Eye"
1974	Banacek	Sally James	episode: "Horse of a Slightly Different Color"
1974	The Streets of San Francisco	Rosie Johnson	episode: "The Hard Breed"
1974	Doc Elliot	Emily Robbins	Episode: "Things That Might Have Been"
1975	Police Story	Sharon	episode: "Vice: 24 Hours"
1976	McMillan & Wife	Jennifer Carter	episode: "Greed"
1976	The Rockford Files	Houston Preli	episode: "Where's Houston?"
1976	Serpico	Carol	episode: "The Deadly Game"
1976	Gemini Man	Amy Nichols	episode: "Night Train to Dallas"
1977	Westside Medical	Sister Mary Dolores	"My Physician, My Friend" (Part 1 & 2)
1977	Just a Little Inconvenience	B-Girl	TV movie
1978	A Real American Hero	Debbie Pride	TV movie
1979	The Chinese Typewriter	Louise-Jill	TV movie
1979	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do	Ruth Doyle	TV movie
1979	The Waltons	Ronie Cotter	episode: "The Diploma"
1980	Where the Ladies Go	Tasha	TV movie
1981	Walking Tall	Kate Reeder	episode: "Company Town"
1981	Strike Force	Julie	episode: "The Predator"
1986	One Terrific Guy	unavailable	TV movie
1991	Wife, Mother, Murderer	Aunt Frieda	TV movie
1992	I'll Fly Away	Mrs. Anderson	episode: "Cool Winter Blues"
1993	Queen	unavailable	episode #1.3
1993	Stolen Babies	Meg Wilber	TV movie
1993	To Dance with the White Dog	Mildred Cook	TV movie
1994	A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story	Lily Clayburn	TV movie
1994	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Mrs. Williams	TV miniseries, uncredited
1992-95	In the Heat of the Night	Myrna Hughes	3 episodes
1996	Savannah	Brian's secretary	3 episodes
1999	Party of Five	Secretary	episode: "Wrestling Demons"
2000	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Norma	episode: "The Landlady"
2018	Deception	Priscilla	episode: "Code Act"
2018-19	Billions	Grigor's Mom	2 episodes

Personal life

In 1965, Bradbury married actor and director Lou Antonio^[15] and they had two daughters. The couple divorced in 1980. Their daughter Elkin Antoniou is a writer, director, and award-winning documentarian.^[16]

She is the founder and artistic director of the Valkyrie Theater of Dance, Drama, and Film, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to introduce at-risk teens to the theatrical arts.^[1]