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Lola Albright | TV and film actress, 92

Lola Albright, 92, an alluring actress who was perhaps best known for her role as a sultry nightclub singer in the noirish television detective series Peter Gunn , died Thursday in Los Angeles. Her death was first reported by the Akron Beacon-Journal in her Ohio hometown. The cause was not disclosed.

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Lola Albright, 92, an alluring actress who was perhaps best known for her role as a sultry nightclub singer in the noirish television detective series

Peter Gunn

, died Thursday in Los Angeles. Her death was first reported by the Akron Beacon-Journal in her Ohio hometown. The cause was not disclosed.

Ms. Albright made her screen debut in the late 1940s and appeared in numerous westerns and other B movies before being cast in Peter Gunn, an adult drama that aired from 1958 to 1961 and has become a cult classic.

The series, created by director Blake Edwards, starred Craig Stevens in the title role as a debonair detective, with Ms. Albright playing his often-stood-up girlfriend, Edie Hart. She crooned a song in each episode at a shabby-chic jazz club called Mother's.

Ms. Albright was nominated for an Emmy Award for Peter Gunn, which had a theme song that won two Grammy Awards for its composer, Henry Mancini.

Ms. Albright had dozens of film and TV credits in the 1950s and 1960s, and released two albums as a singer, both with music conducted by Mancini. - Washington Post