Joan Weldon Dies: Actress Terrorized By Giant Ants In Sci-Fi Classic ‘Them!’ Was 90

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Joan Weldon, stage actress and a Warner Bros. contract player in the 1950s who achieved lasting sci-fi fame in the creature feature giant ant classic Them!, died Feb. 11 at her home in Fort Lauderd…

starring Forrest Tucker, and in a 1964 revival ofshe would become the first performer to step onstage at what was then the State Theater of Lincoln Center . Weldon can be heard on the 1964 original cast recording of the production.

Weldon played Dr Pat Medford, an ant-specializing scientist assisting her similarly trained father Dr. Harold Medford . “When Man entered the Atomic Age,” the elder Medford concludes, neatly summing up the genre’s ethos, “he opened the door to a new world. What we may eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”Cheyenne, Perry Mason, Maverick

 

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A wonderful actress who will be much missed.

Great movie

RIP and my condolences to her family and loved ones.

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