Belinda J. Montgomery is a Canadian-born actress and painter currently living in California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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Life and career

Montgomery was born in Winnipeg

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

, Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, Canada

Canada

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. She is perhaps best known as Mrs. Katherine Howser, the matriarch in the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 medical comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...

 Doogie Howser, M.D.

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Doogie Howser, M.D. is an American television comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a 16-year-old doctor who also faces the problems of being a normal teenager. Created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, ABC aired the show from 1989 to 1993 for four seasons totaling 97 episodes.-Plot:Dr....

She had a starring role in the 1970s science-fiction series Man from Atlantis as Dr. Elizabeth Merrill and also had a recurring role as Caroline Crockett/Ballard in the 1980s cop series Miami Vice

Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...

.

Her other television credits include Ironside

Ironside (TV series)

Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...

("Little Dog Gone", 1970), Dynasty

Dynasty (TV series)

Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989. It was created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, and revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado...

, L.A. Law

L.A. Law

L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...

, JAG

JAG (TV series)

JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...

, and Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...

, among other series.

Before pursuing an acting career, Montgomery was a watercolor painter. She sold her first art piece at the age of ten. She continues to paint along with acting. Many of her art pieces are featured on her official website.

Film and television credits

• Barney Boomer
  Barney Boomer
  Barney Boomer was a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television for part of the 1967-1968 programming season. Vancouver actor John Clayton portrayed the title character.-Production:...
  
  (1967) - Susan
• CBS Playhouse (1969) - Eula
• The Virginian
  The Virginian (TV series)
  The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...
  
  (1969) - Peg Halstead
• Hey, Cinderella!
  Hey, Cinderella!
  Hey, Cinderella! is an adaptation of Cinderella, featuring Muppets. Kermit the Frog hosts the film. The music score was composed by Joe Raposo.The one-hour special was first shown on the CBC on March 16, 1969, and on ABC on April 10, 1970....
  
  (1970) - Cinderella
• Ritual of Evil (1970) - Loey Wiley
• Paris 7000 (1970)
• Ironside
  Ironside (TV series)
  Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...
  
  (1970) - Marla Cardwell
• Matt Lincoln
  Matt Lincoln
  Matt Lincoln was a television medical drama which was aired by ABC as part of its 1970-71 lineup.Matt Lincoln starred Vince Edwards as Dr. Matt Lincoln, a psychiatrist who had founded a telephone hotline for troubled teenagers...
  
  (1970) - Nina
• D.A.: Conspiracy To Kill (1971) - Luanne Gibson
• Alias Smith and Jones
  Alias Smith and Jones
  Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of Western cousin outlaws trying to reform...
  
  (1971) - Penny Roach
• Lock, Stock and Barrel (1971) - Roselle Bridgeman
• The Todd Killings (1971) - Roberta
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
  Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
  Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and former law professor Jerry McNeely, that starred actor Arthur Hill. The series was broadcast on ABC from 1971 to 1974...
  
  (1971)
• The Bravos (1972) - Heller Chase
• The Sixth Sense
  The Sixth Sense (TV series)
  The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television series featuring Gary Collins and Catherine Ferrar. Based on the 1971 television movie Sweet, Sweet Rachel, the series was broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company from January 1972 through December 1972.-Synopsis:Collins is...
  
  (1972) - Tina Norris
• Women In Chains (1972) - Melinda Carr
• The F.B.I. (1971–1972) - Margo Bengston
• Assignment Vienna
  Assignment Vienna
  Assignment Vienna is a drama television series aired in the United States by ABC as an element in its 1972-73 wheel series The Men.Assignment Vienna told the story of Jake Webster , an American expatriate in Vienna who was the operator of Jake's Bar & Grill, an American-style establishment near the...
  
  (1972) - Julie Hayes
• Cannon (1972) - Anne
• Mannix
  Mannix
  Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors...
  
  (1972) - Susan Graham
• The Rookies
  The Rookies
  The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...
  
  (1972) - Laurie
• The Devil's Daughter (1973) - Diane Shaw
• Crime Club (1973) - Anne Dryden
• Barnaby Jones
  Barnaby Jones
  Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. A spin-off from Cannon, the show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement...
  
  (1973) - Amy Partridge
• Letters from Three Lovers
  Letters from Three Lovers
  Letters from Three Lovers is a 1973 made-for-tv drama film directed by John Erman. An ABC Movie of the Week and a sequel to The Letters , the film is co-produced by Aaron Spelling, written by Ann Marcus and stars Martin Sheen, Belinda Montgomery, Robert Sterling, June Allyson, Ken Berry and Juliet...
  
  (1973) - Angela 'Angie' Mason
• The New Land (1974)
• Petrocelli
  Petrocelli
  Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976.-Plot:Tony Petrocelli was an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who grew up in South Boston and gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a...
  
  (1974) - Barbara
• Marcus Welby, M.D.
  Marcus Welby, M.D.
  Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell...
  
  (1969–1975) - Mary Ann Graham
• The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
  
  (1973–1975) - Karen Pearson & Susan Howard
• The Other Side of the Mountain (1975) - Audra Jo Nicholson
• Medical Center
  Medical Center (TV series)
  Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976.-Synopsis:The show starred James Daly as Dr. Paul Lochner and Chad Everett as Dr. Joe Gannon, surgeons working in an otherwise unnamed university hospital in Los Angeles. The show focused both on the lives of the doctors...
  
  (1969–1975) - Currie, Joyce, Janet, Melanie Toland, and Eunice
• City of Angels (1976)
• Breaking Point (1976) - Diana McBain
• Insight (1976) - Roseanne
• Gibbsville (1976)
• Westside Medical (1977)
• Nashville 99 (1977) - Summer
• Kingston: Confidential
  Kingston: Confidential
  Kingston: Confidential is an American mystery crime drama that aired on NBC for 13 episodes during the spring of 1977, following the success of a 1976 made-for-TV movie entitled Kingston.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1977)
• Most Wanted
  Most Wanted (TV series)
  Most Wanted is an American crime drama series shown on ABC from October 16, 1976 until August 20, 1977. It starred Robert Stack, Jo Ann Harris, Shelly Novack, and Hari Rhodes...
  
  (1977)
• The Hostage Heart (1977) - Fiona
• Quincy, M.E.
  Quincy, M.E.
  Quincy, M.E., also called Quincy, is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC...
  
  (1977) - Bonnie Demarco
• The Other Side of the Mountain Part II (1978) - Audra Jo Nicholson
• Lou Grant
  Lou Grant (TV series)
  Lou Grant is an American television drama series starring Ed Asner in the titular role as a newspaper editor. Unusual in American television, this drama series was a spinoff from a sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Aired from 1977 to 1982, Lou Grant won 13 Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Drama...
  
  (1978) - Carol
• Man from Atlantis (1977–1978) - Dr. Elizabeth Merrill
• Blackout(1978) - Annie Gallo
• Sword of Justice
  Sword of Justice (TV series)
  Sword Of Justice is an American action-adventure television series that aired on NBC for one season during 1978 and 1979. The series was considered a mix of The Saint, It Takes a Thief, and The Rockford Files.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1978) - Julie Lang
• Murder In Music City (1979) - Peggy Ann West
• How the West Was Won
  How the West Was Won (TV series)
  How the West Was Won is an American western television series that featured an all star cast that included: James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, G. W. Bailey, Trisha Noble, William Shatner, Jack Elam, Woody Strode, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Kiley, Lloyd Bridges,...
  
  (1979) - Florrie
• Stone Cold Dead (1979) - Sandy MacAuley
• Marciano (1979) - Barbara Marciano
• Eischied (1979)
• Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.-Original series:...
  
  (1980)
• Turnover Smith (1980) - Kelly
• Trouble In High Timber County (1980) - Carrie Yeager
• Trapper John, M.D.
  Trapper John, M.D.
  Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable surgeon who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986....
  
  (1980) - Darby
• Concrete Cowboys (1981) - Janine
• The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1981)
• Dynasty
  Dynasty (TV series)
  Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989. It was created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, and revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado...
  
  (1982) - Jennifer
• CHiPs
  CHiPs
  CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...
  
  (1982) - Elaine Price
• Bare Essence
  Bare Essence
  Bare Essence is an American television soap opera which aired on the NBC network during the 1982-1983 season.Bare Essence starred popular daytime soap actress Genie Francis and dealt with the intrigues of the perfume industry...
  
  (1982) - Melody
• The Love Boat
  The Love Boat
  The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
  
  (1981–1982) - Karen & Valerie Singer
• Uncommon Valor (1983) - Joan
• Tell Me That You Love Me (1983) - Lenora
• Whiz Kids
  Whiz Kids (TV series)
  Whiz Kids is an American action/adventure television series which aired on CBS for one season during the 1983-1984 television season. The show follows the adventures of a group of four teenagers — Richie, Alice, Hamilton and Jeremy — who are amateur computer experts and detectives...
  
  (1983) - Judy Hubbard
• Blue Thunder
  Blue Thunder (TV series)
  Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC TV series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter.The series used the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in...
  
  (1984) - Doctor Nell Lindsay
• Lottery!
  Lottery!
  Lottery! is an American drama series premiered on ABC on September 9, 1983. The series aired for one season of 17 episodes and starred Ben Murphy as Patrick Sean Flaherty, and Marshall Colt as Eric Rush...
  
  (1984)
• Magnum, P.I.
  Magnum, P.I.
  Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network....
  
  (1984) - Fran 'Frannie' Huddle
• Silent Madness (1984) - Dr. Joan Gilmore
• T.J. Hooker (1984) - Dr. Sandy Roberts & Laura Dietrich
• Murder, She Wrote
  Murder, She Wrote
  Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...
  
  (1985) - Pamela Crane
• Riptide
  Riptide (TV series)
  Riptide is a TV detective series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray. Riptide was created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions. The main theme was composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter...
  
  (1985) - Rainey
• Street Hawk
  Street Hawk
  Street Hawk is an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series was a Limekiln and Templar Production in association with Universal Television. Its central characters were created by Paul M. Belous and Robert "Bob" Wolterstorff, and its core format was developed...
  
  (1985) - Stefanie Craig
• The Hitchhiker (1985) - Carla Magnuson
• Finder of Lost Loves
  Finder of Lost Loves
  Finder of Lost Loves is an American drama series aired by the ABC network during the 1984-1985 season.-Synopsis:After Cary Maxwell's wife Kate dies, he decides to set up a private detective agency specializing in reuniting clients with a former loved one...
  
  (1985) - Lisa Hennessey
• Crazy Like a Fox
  Crazy Like a Fox (TV series)
  Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.-Overview:...
  
  (1985–1986) - Kelly Aspen
• Dalton: Code of Vengeance II (1986) - Libby
• Stark: Mirror Image (1986) - Claire Graves
• Simon & Simon (1982–1986) - Laura Steubens Dennison, Sherry Dayton, Joyce Dolan, and Dorrie Wilson
• Adam: His Song Continues (1986) - Myra Schimdbauer
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  (1986–1987) - Sylvie Gallagher
• Danger Bay
  Danger Bay
  Danger Bay is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television starting October 18, 1984 and the Disney Channel starting October 7, 1985...
  
  (1987) - Dr. Pam Summer
• Stone Fox (1987) - Doc Smith
• Aaron's Way
  Aaron's Way
  Aaron's Way is a 1988 American family drama series that aired on NBC. The series starred Merlin Olsen as Aaron Miller, the husband and father of an Amish family that moves to California. The series followed the attempts of family members to adapt to California culture while retaining their...
  
  (1988) - Sarah Miller
• Miami Vice
  Miami Vice
  Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...
  
  (1984–1989) - Caroline Crockett & Caroline Ballard
• In the Heat of the Night
  In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
  In the Heat of the Night is a television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995...
  
  (1989) - Nora Womack
• Casey's Gift: For Love of A Child (1990) - Terry Ctilwell
• Doogie Howser, M.D.
  Doogie Howser, M.D.
  Doogie Howser, M.D. is an American television comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a 16-year-old doctor who also faces the problems of being a normal teenager. Created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, ABC aired the show from 1989 to 1993 for four seasons totaling 97 episodes.-Plot:Dr....
  
  (1989–1993) - Katharine Howser
• L.A. Law
  L.A. Law
  L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...
  
  (1993) - Jessica Wilton
• Burke's Law
  Burke's Law
  Burke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud...
  
  (1995) - Kelly Peterson
• Life Happens (1996) - Molly Stewart
• Promised Land
  Promised Land (1996 TV series)
  Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It was a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel.-Plot:...
  
  (1996) - Lisa Smith
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  Mr. & Mrs. Smith (TV series)
  Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a short-lived American crime drama series that aired on CBS. Starring Scott Bakula and Maria Bello, the series aired from September 1996 to December 1996. Mr. & Mrs. Smith was set and filmed in Seattle, Washington. The series was produced by Page Two Productions and Bakula...
  
  (1996) - Amy Pitzer
• Dirty Little Secret (1998) - Gina
• Phantom Town (1999) - Mom
• Hope Island (1999) - Jo Summers
• The Scarecrow (2000) - Polly
• Camouflage (2001) - Diane
• JAG
  JAG (TV series)
  JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
  
  (2002) - Captain Fryer (Harm's Aviation Expert)
• Ghost Whisperer
  Ghost Whisperer
  Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...
  
  (2005) - Ursula Hilliard
• Tron: Legacy (2010) - Grandma Flynn

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