Christine White (actress)

Christine Lamson White (May 4, 1926 – April 14, 2013)[1][2] was an American actress and screenwriter (see Bibliography below), most noted for her role in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", a 1963 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone.

[7] By the 1950s, White had left her home in New York City and relocated to Los Angeles,[1] where she began to appear in television shows.

[3][8] In 1961, White was cast as Kitty in The Twilight Zone episode "Prime Mover", and later that same year she began performing as a regular character, Abigail Adams, in the situation comedy Ichabod and Me, which CBS broadcast for only one season.

Serving as the main supporting character in that episode, she portrays Julia Wilson, the wife of a terrified airplane passenger played by William Shatner.

Author Gore Vidal noted in his memoir Palimpsest that White, "almost invariably got the (television) parts that my friend Joanne Woodward wanted."

Christine White guest-stars with Richard Boone in a 1958 episode of Have Gun – Will Travel .