Kasey Rogers
Known For
Acting
Born
1925-12-15 in Morehouse, Missouri, USA
Died
2006-07-06
Biography
Kasey Rogers (born Josie Imogene Rogers; December 15, 1925 – July 6, 2006) was an American actress, memoirist and writer, best known for playing the second Louise Tate in the popular U.S. television sitcom Bewitched. Rogers was born Josie Imogene Rogers. She moved with her family to California at the age of two. As a child, her prowess at the game of baseball led her friends to nickname her Casey (after the famous poem "Casey at the Bat"). While under contract to Paramount, she used the stage name Laura Elliot. In 1955, she began working with a press agent in Hollywood, Walter Winslow Lewis III (aka "Bud"). It was Bud who suggested that she use the nickname with her maiden name and changed the "C" to a "K". They later married and had four children. Rogers began work under the names Laura Elliott and Laura Elliot for Paramount Pictures. She appeared in movies such as Special Agent, Samson and Delilah, Silver City, Paid in Full, Two Lost Worlds, and, in perhaps her best-known film role, Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, playing Miriam, the scheming, adulterous wife of Guy Haines (Farley Granger). In the mid-1950s, Rogers began working on television. She guest-starred on various series, such as Sergeant Preston, Stage 7, The Restless Gun, The Lone Ranger, Bat Masterson, Maverick, Yancy Derringer, Perry Mason, as Francie Keene in the Wanted: Dead or Alive episode "Railroaded", and many other programs. In 1964 she landed a starring role on Peyton Place, portraying the character Julie Anderson, the mother of Betty Anderson (Barbara Parkins). She left the series in 1966 to replace Irene Vernon in the role of Louise Tate on Bewitched. In 1972, she performed as Louise Tate for the final time in the episode "Serena's Youth Pill". She then retired from acting, appearing in only a few guest television spots and making appearances on the Bewitched edition of E! True Hollywood Story.
Most Known For
Perry Mason
as Loretta Harper
Perry Mason
as Lois Langley
Mission: Impossible
as Bunny Cameron
Bewitched
as Louise Tate
Adam-12
as Mrs. Jones
Maverick
Maverick
as Dolly
Cheyenne
77 Sunset Strip
Thriller
as Anthea Jason
The Lucy Show
as Miss Cavanaugh
The Lucy Show
as Miss Carroll
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Francie Keene
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Ruby Todd
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Kate
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Bat Masterson
as Kitty Meadows
Bat Masterson
as Dixie Mayhew
Bat Masterson
as Francie Wallace
