Born in New York City in 1928, Bethel Leslie was a prolific stage, film and TV actress, active on and off Broadway from 1944 to 1999, and in film and television from 1949 to 1999. She was also an occasional screenwriter for television. Beside the stage, she worked mainly in television, in numerous TV series such as "Perry Mason", "Rawhide", "Wagon Train" and "Gun Law".

Filmography

• 2000Uninvited — Mrs. Wentworth
• 1999Message in a Bottle — Marta Land
• 1998Saint Maybe — Mrs. Dulcimer
• In Cold Blood
• 1995Kansas — Mabel 'Nana' Farley
• 1992Terror on Track 9
• 1987Ironweed — Librarian
• 1987Long Day's Journey Into Night — Mary Tyrone
• The Equalizer — Woman on Street
• Falcon Crest — Writer
• 1981The Girl on the Edge of Town — Mrs. Morton
• 1979A Christmas for Boomer — Writer
• 1979Beyond Death's Door
• 1979Old Boyfriends — Mrs. Vantil
• 1978The Gift of Love — Agnes
• The White Shadow — Mrs. Lawrence
• Family — Writer
• Matt Helm — Writer
• 1975The Last Survivors — Inez Haynes
• Kung Fu — Rita Coblenz
• 1971Dr. Cook's Garden — Essie Bullitt
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law — Martha Crane
• 1970The Molly Maguires — Mrs. Kehoe
• The Name of the Game — Miss Haggblad
• Mannix
• The High Chaparral — Annie Simmons
• 1965A Rage to Live — Amy Hollister
• 1965The Ambassadors — Maria Gostrey
• The Loner
• The Wild Wild West
• Daniel Boone — Zerelda Fluellen
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• 1963Captain Newman, M.D. — Mrs. Helene Winston
• 1963The Animals — Narrator (voice)
• The Doctors — Dr. Maggie Powers
• The Fugitive — Marcie King
• The Richard Boone Show
• The Virginian — Lydia Turner, Writer
• Ben Casey
• Bus Stop
• Cain's Hundred — Frances Olney
• Kraft Mystery Theatre
• Straightaway
• Target: The Corruptors!
• The Investigators — Jessica Price
• Checkmate — Cynthia Jordan, Bess Sironde
• Hong Kong — Kate Martin
• Route 66 — Lori Barton
• 1960The Bat — Dale Ogden
• The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries — Dale
• Thriller — Gale Hattering, Ann Merriweather
• Adventures in Paradise — Carol Legrange, Barbara Lyons
• Bonanza — Ann Grant
• One Step Beyond — Betty Barrett
• Rawhide — Martha Hastings
• Riverboat — Cathy Norris, Juliet
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson — Ann Royce
• 1959The Rabbit Trap — Abby Colt
• Bat Masterson — Mildred Conrad
• Naked City — Amy Langan
• The Rifleman
• The Texan
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Carole Easter
• Have Gun, Will Travel
• M Squad — Doris Holt
• Maverick — Janet Kilmer
• Perry Mason — Janet Morris, Evelyn Girard, Sylvia Sutton
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective — Faith Dryden, Harriet Morrow
• Trackdown
• Wagon Train — Helen Martin
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Mabel
• Gunsmoke — Rose Ellen, Elsa Poe, Writer
• The Millionaire — Dorothy Ferris
• Climax! — Jessica Colby
• December Bride
• Letter to Loretta — Shirley Parker
• The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Mrs. Dulcimer
• Tales of Tomorrow
• The Girls — Cornelia Otis Skinner
• Lights Out
• Studio One — Martha, Marian Metcalf
• The Philco Television Playhouse

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self