Jeanne Bates was a radio, film and TV actress. She had the lead role, and supplied the signature scream, on the radio mystery series Whodunit. Her film debut in 1943 was in a Boston Blackie mystery, The Chance of a Lifetime. She played Bela Lugosi's first victim in The Return of the Vampire (1943), Diana Palmer in The Phantom (1943), and she had a minor role in Death of a Salesman (1951), appeared in 1977 as Mrs. X in Eraserhead. Her last roles were small parts in Die Hard 2 (1990) and Mulholland Drive (2001). TV included Buckskin, Riverboat, Peter Gunn, Sheriff of Cochise, Sky King, Whirlybirds, and The Lone Ranger.