Barbara Rush (January 4, 1927 - March 31, 2024) was an American Golden Globe Award-winning movie and television actress. In 1954, Rush won the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role in the 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film, It Came From Outer Space. Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the television series Peyton Place, and appeared in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other programs, including the soap opera All My Children, as well as starring in films including Bigger Than Life, The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Robin and the 7 Hoods and Hombre.

Filmography

• 7th Heaven — Ruth Camden
• Relativity — Helen Lukens
• 1996Widow's Kiss — Edith Fitzpatrick
• The Outer Limits — Barbara Matheson
• 1995Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey — Helen Fields (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Burke's Law — Marion Darrow
• 1990Web of Deceit — Judith Hale
• Paradise — Patricia Forrester
• Scene of the Crime — Bettina Reynolds
• Finder of Lost Loves — Marion Owens Norris
• Murder, She Wrote — Eva Taylor
• Masquerade
• Hotel — Nell Korsak
• Knight Rider — Elizabeth Knight
• Matt Houston — Lady Celeste Abercrombie
• 1982Summer Lovers — Jean Featherstone
• Flamingo Road — Eudora Flowers
• 1980Can't Stop the Music — Norma White
• 1980Flamingo Road — Eudora Weldon
• Magnum, P.I. — Ann Carrington, Phoebe Sullivan
• 1980The Night the Bridge Fell Down — Elaine Howard
• 1979Death Car on the Freeway — Rosemary
• The Seekers — Peggy Kent
• Fantasy Island — Professor Smith-Myles
• The Eddie Capra Mysteries
• 1977Portrait of Grandpa Doc — Bruce's Mother
• The Love Boat — Eleanor Gardiner, Eleanor Gardner
• The Bionic Woman
• Ellery Queen — Claire Mallory, Emma Zelman
• 1975The Last Day — Betty Spence
• 1973Crime Club — Denise London
• 1973Peege
• Police Story
• 1973Superdad — Sue McCready
• 1972Cutter — Linda
• Maude
• 1972Moon of the Wolf — Louise Rodanthe
• 1972The Eyes of Charles Sand — Katharine Winslow
• 1972The Man — Kay Eaton
• The Streets of San Francisco — Anna Slovatzka Marshall
• Cannon
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law — Louise Carpenter
• 1971Suddenly Single — Evelyn Baxter
• The New Dick Van Dyke Show — Margot Brighton
• McCloud
• Night Gallery — Agatha Howard
• Love, American Style — Carol
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Nadine Cabot, Dorothy Carpenter
• Medical Center — Claire, Pauline, Nora Caldwell
• 1969Strategy of Terror — Karen Lownes
• The Mod Squad — Mrs. Hamilton
• Custer
• 1967Hombre — Audra Favor
• Ironside — Mme. Jabez, Lorraine Simms
• Mannix — Celia Bell, Rebekah Bigelow
• Batman — Nora Clavicle
• Convoy — Alice Bell
• Laredo
• Peyton Place — Marsha Russell
• 1964Robin and the 7 Hoods — Marian
• 1964The Unknown — Leonora Edmond
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Ganoulian
• 1963Come Blow Your Horn — Connie
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Karen Lownes
• The Fugitive — Marie Lindsey Gerard
• The Outer Limits — Leonora Edmond
• Saints and Sinners — Lizzie Hogan
• The Eleventh Hour — Linda Kincaid
• Ben Casey — Eileen Pryor
• Dr. Kildare — Madge Bannion
• Password
• 1960Strangers When We Meet — Eve Coe
• 1960The Bramble Bush — Margaret 'Mar' McFie
• 1959The Young Philadelphians — Joan Dickinson
• 1959What Makes Sammy Run? — Kit Sargent
• 1958Harry Black and the Tiger — Christian Tanner
• 1958The Young Lions — Margaret Freemantle
• 1957No Down Payment — Betty Kreitzer
• 1957Oh, Men! Oh, Women! — Myra Hagerman
• Suspicion — Eleanor Thomason
• 1957The Troublemakers — Clara Gerrity
• 1956Bigger Than Life — Lou Avery
• 1956Flight to Hong Kong — Pamela Vincent
• Playhouse 90 — Liz
• 1956World in My Corner — Dorothy Mallison
• 1955Captain Lightfoot — Aga Doherty
• 1955Kiss of Fire — Princess Lucia
• 1954Magnificent Obsession — Joyce Phillips
• 1954Taza, Son of Cochise — Oona
• 1954The Black Shield of Falworth — Meg Falworth
• General Electric Theater — Alice Lockman
• 1953It Came from Outer Space — Ellen Fields
• 1953Prince of Pirates — Countess Nita Orde
• 1952Flaming Feather — Nora Logan
• 1951Quebec — Madelon
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
• 1951The First Legion — Terry Gilmartin
• 1951When Worlds Collide — Joyce Hendron
• Lux Video Theatre — Joyce Gavin, Cathy, Ruth, Charlotte
• 1950The Goldbergs — Debby Sherman

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2021Dean Martin: King of Cool — Self
• 1980Magic Night — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• The Danny Kaye Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self - Co-Host
• The Oscars — Self