Tall, sultry, green-eyed blonde Peggie Castle was actually spotted by a talent scout while she was lunching in a Beverly Hills restaurant. In her films she was usually somebody's "woman" rather than a girlfriend, and her career was confined to mostly "B"-grade action pictures, dramas or westerns: Harem Girl (1952), Wagons West (1952), Le voleur de Tanger (1951), Jesse James' Women (1954), among others. She did, however, have good roles in such films as L'ambitieuse (1951) with Bette Davis, L'affaire de la 99ème rue (1953) with John Payne, J'aurai ta peau (1953), The White Orchid (1954), Miracle in the Rain (1956) with Jane Wyman and in Les sept collines de Rome (1957) with Mario Lanza. After three seasons playing sexy femme lead Lily Merrill, the dance-hall hostess and romantic interest for steely-eyed Marshal Dan Troop in the TV western series Lawman (1958), she left show business in 1962. She later developed an alcohol problem and died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1973 at age 45.
