Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

Leading lady

In 1959 Dickinson appeared in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo in which Angie Dickinson played a flirtatious gambler called "Feathers" who becomes attracted to the town Angie Dickinsonriff played by Dickinson's childhood idol John Wayne. In 1942 her family moved to Burbank California where Angie Dickinson attended Bellarmine-Jefferson High School graduating in 1947 at 15 years of age. This led to other roles in such productions as Matinee Theatre (eight episodes) Buffalo Bill Jr.

She is best known for her roles in the films Rio Bravo and Dressed to Kill and for starring on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.