Tall, sultry, green-eyed blonde Peggie Castle was spotted by a
talent scout while she was lunching in a Beverly Hills restaurant. In
her films she was usually somebody's woman rather than a girlfriend,
and her career was confined to mostly "B"-grade action pictures, dramas
or westerns: Harem Girl (1952),
Wagons West (1952),
Die Diebe von Marschan (1951),
Jesse James' Women (1954),
among others. She did, however, have good roles in such films as
Die Ehrgeizige (1951) with
Bette Davis,
Taxi 539 antwortet nicht (1953) with
John Payne,
Der Richter bin ich (1953),
The White Orchid (1954),
Miracle in the Rain (1956)
with Jane Wyman and in
Arrivederci Roma (1957) with
Mario Lanza. After three seasons
playing sexy femme lead Lily Merrill, the dance hall hostess and
romantic interest for steely-eyed Marshal Dan Troop in the TV western
series Lawman (1958), she left show
business in 1962. She later developed an alcohol problem and died of
cirrhosis of the liver in 1973 at age 45.
