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Known for
Actor
Gender
Female
Birthday
30 March
Location
New York, United States
Edit pageRamsay Ames
Biography
Ramsay Ames (born Ramsay Phillips, March 30, 1919 – March 30, 1998) was a leading 1940s American B movie actress, model, dancer, pin-up girl, and television host. As a dancer, she was billed as Ramsay D'el Rico. She is also credited as Ramsey Ames
During a trip to California to visit her mother, Ramsay had a chance to meet at the airport with Columbia Pictures President Harry Cohn. The meeting resulted in a screen test and then her movie debut in Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943).
From there, she moved to Universal Pictures, where she was featured in such films as Calling Dr. Death and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. In 1944, she appeared in the film The Mummy's Ghost, where she played a young woman possessed by the soul of an Egyptian princess.
She later appeared in a Monogram Pictures drama, Below the Deadline (1946), and in Republic serials including The Black Widow (1947) and G-Men Never Forget (1948).
After her career subsided in the 1940s, Ames and her husband lived in Spain, where she had her television interview show and occasionally took on support roles in films produced in Europe.
