Barbra Fuller

Who is Barbra Fuller?

Barbara Fuller is a motion picture and television actress from Nahant, Massachusetts. She appeared frequently in B-movies and television series in the 1950s. During that time she was married for a short time to western motion picture star, Lash LaRue. Although they never had any children they did have a godson, child star and later author and theologian J.P. Sloane who is the son of radio and television’s Jimmie Jackson and Anita Coleman.

Fuller played Claudia in One Man's Family, a radio show. She did her first radio work in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 9. By age 18 she had appeared in twenty-five radio soap operas.

Fuller changed her hair color frequently for film roles. Its hue varied from platinum to brunette in her four movies released by Republic Pictures in 1950. She returned to blonde as Laurel Vernon in Lonely Heart Bandits. Fuller appeared with John Eldridge and Dorothy Patrick in this crime drama. Her first screen credit is for The Red Menace. This was followed by roles in Crosswinds and Flame of Youth. In the latter she was the leading lady, acting opposite Ray McDonald and Tony Barret. In The Red Menace she plays Mollie O'Flahery, a character who is used by the Communist Party as bait. City of Bad Men is a western adventure in which Fuller plays a minor character. Afterward she was mostly involved in television work.