Karen Carlson (born January 15, 1945) is an American actress.Carlson
was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Carlson, and educated at C.E. Byrd High School and at the University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma
and represented the university and state of Arkansas in the 1964 Miss
America Pageant, finishing first runner up to Vonda Kay Van
Dyke.Carlson started her career in Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller variety
shows, Laugh In, and The Hollywood Palace. She also appeared in
television series and films, including The Candidate (1972) with
Robert Redford and The Octagon (1980) with Chuck Norris. On
television, Carlson played Nancy Scotfield in ten episodes of the soap
opera Dallas (1986) and Sarah Hallisey in twelve episodes of In the
Heat of the Night. She was also a series regular in American Dream
with Stephen Macht, The Yellow Rose with her first husband, David
Soul, and Cybill Shepherd,:1202 and Two Marriages with Michael
Murphy.:1121Carlson was cast as Sarah Ewing in the 1970 episode "The
Mezcla Man", one of the last segments of the syndicated Western series
Death Valley Days, hosted by Dale Robertson. Jesse Pearson played Jess
Ivy, a young man who wants to propose marriage to Sarah, but hesitates
because of his lack of financial footing. He decides to look for
hidden gold.
was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Carlson, and educated at C.E. Byrd High School and at the University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma
and represented the university and state of Arkansas in the 1964 Miss
America Pageant, finishing first runner up to Vonda Kay Van
Dyke.Carlson started her career in Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller variety
shows, Laugh In, and The Hollywood Palace. She also appeared in
television series and films, including The Candidate (1972) with
Robert Redford and The Octagon (1980) with Chuck Norris. On
television, Carlson played Nancy Scotfield in ten episodes of the soap
opera Dallas (1986) and Sarah Hallisey in twelve episodes of In the
Heat of the Night. She was also a series regular in American Dream
with Stephen Macht, The Yellow Rose with her first husband, David
Soul, and Cybill Shepherd,:1202 and Two Marriages with Michael
Murphy.:1121Carlson was cast as Sarah Ewing in the 1970 episode "The
Mezcla Man", one of the last segments of the syndicated Western series
Death Valley Days, hosted by Dale Robertson. Jesse Pearson played Jess
Ivy, a young man who wants to propose marriage to Sarah, but hesitates
because of his lack of financial footing. He decides to look for
hidden gold.
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