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Bobbie Bresee in Mausoleum (1983)

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Bobbie Bresee

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  • Born
    September 19, 1942 · Moscow, Idaho, USA
  • Birth name
    Barbara Ann Abbott
  • Height
    5′ 5″ (1.65 m)

Biography

    • Buxom and beautiful blonde actress Bobbie Bresee had a sadly short-lived reign as a scream queen in a handful of enjoyably trashy 80s low-budget horror pictures.

      Bobbie was born in 1942 in Moscow, Idaho. Her father was a U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant who was killed in Guadalcanal during the Shelling of Henderson Field when she was less than a month old. Her mother married another Marine, Walter Richard Bartosh in 1945, producing her half-sister Sharon Lee Bartosh, born in 1947. Walter adopted her and he and her mother remained married until Walther's passing in 2014. She attended the University of Idaho, was a music teacher and onetime "Playboy" Bunny prior to embarking on an acting career.

      Bresee gave a solid and impressive performance as a sweet and lovely young lady who becomes possessed by an evil sexually voracious demon in the fun fright feature Mausoleum (1983). (Bobbie was nominated for a Saturn Award as Best Actress for her fine acting in this film.) Bresee was quite funny as Smeg's mom in the crudely amusing Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) and had a memorably sexy bit as a luscious, but lethal temptress in the crummy Ghoulies (1984). Bobbie tackled a semi-autobiographical starring role as a faded aging B-movie starlet who transforms into a murderous humanoid insect monster after taking an experimental youthful serum in the delightfully dreadful Evil Spawn (1987). Bresee popped up in guest spots on the TV shows Charlie's Angels (1976), B.J. and the Bear (1978), The Love Boat (1977), Simon & Simon (1981), and The Fall Guy (1981). She had a recurring part on the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara (1984).

      In real life Bobbie Bresee is an extremely charming and well-educated woman who plays the piano.
      - IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders

Family

  • Spouse
      Frank Bresee(1978 - June 5, 2018) (his death)
  • Parents
      Robert Asa Abbott
      Helen Powell
  • Relatives
      Sharon Lee Bartosh(Half Sibling)

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  • Scream queen.

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  • Someone asked me, "Would you like to spend the rest of your life in horror?" That would be wonderful, I would in a minute. That is where I got my break and there is an allegiance and I would stick with it. Vincent Price did not do badly with it. I feel I have a bit of a following in the genre and I don't want to lose that. It is wonderful. I could get old and it would not matter; I could just get ugly and be a character.

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