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{{Short description|Indian actress}}
{{About||the Vice-President of the United States|Kamala Harris}}

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{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kamala Devi
| image = Robert Culp Kamala Devi I Spy 1966.JPG
| caption = Devi with [[Robert Culp]] in ''I Spy'', 1966.
| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1933|10|8}}
| death_date =
| birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]<ref name="TCM"/>
| occupation = [[Actress]]
| party =
| religion =
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Chuck Connors]]|1963|1972|end=divorced}}<br/>{{marriage|Wallace Guberman|1978|1983|end=divorced}}<br/>{{marriage|Maurie Beaumont|2005|2008|end=died}}
| yearsactive = 1958–1968
}}

'''Kamala Devi''' (born 8 October 1933) is an [[actress]] of [[Indian people|Indian]] and [[Great Britain|British]] parentage, best known for her roles in the 1960s opposite her then-husband, [[Chuck Connors]].<ref name="TCM">{{cite web | last = Nixon| first = Rob | author-link = | title = Geronimo| work = Turner Classic Movies Spotlight| publisher =Turner Classic Movies | year = 2009| url = http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=60005| doi = | accessdate =2009-09-25 }}</ref> She was born in Bombay (the current Mumbai) in British India.<ref name=busc06>{{cite book |last1=Buscombe |first1=Edward |title='Injuns!': Native Americans in the Movies |date=2006 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=9781861895783 |url=https://archive.org/details/injunsnativeamer0000busc|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/injunsnativeamer0000busc/page/76 76] |quote=kamala devi. }}</ref>
Her mother, Elizabeth,<ref name="alb63">{{cite news |title=Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 30, 1963 · Page 12|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/156206648/ |accessdate=2 January 2018 |work=Albuquerque Journal|date=March 30, 1963|page=12|language=en}}</ref>
was of English-Welsh descent, and her father, Chandumal Amesur, was an Indian head-and-neck surgeon.<ref name=tvguide68>{{cite book |title=TV Guide |date=1968 |publisher=Triangle Publications |pages=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIQxAQAAIAAJ |accessdate=2 January 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1963, she married Connors, and they were divorced in 1972.<ref name=aaker97>{{cite book |last1=Aaker |first1=Everett |title=Television Western Players of the Fifties: A Biographical Encyclopedia of All Regular Cast Members in Western Series, 1949-1959 |date=1997 |publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786402847 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X95kAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=2 January 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

Devi became a US citizen on December 2, 1966.<ref name=rifman>{{cite web |title=Chuck Connors - Kamala Devi|url=https://www.riflemanconnors.com/press_photos/chuck_connors-kamala_devi.htm |website=www.riflemanconnors.com |accessdate=2 January 2018}}</ref>

In 2005, she married Maurie Beaumont, her third husband, who died in 2008.<ref name=mbobit>{{cite news|last1=Anonymous |title=Maurie S. Beaumont |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=maurie-s-beaumont&pid=106121297 |accessdate=25 December 2017 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=22–23 March 2008}}</ref>

==Filmography and television series==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class = "unworkable" | Notes
|-
| 1958
| ''[[Harry Black (film)|Harry Black]]''
| Nurse Somola
|
|-
| 1960
| ''[[Tales of the Vikings]]''
| Dara
|
|-
| 1961
| ''[[Aas Ka Panchhi]]''
|
|
|-
| 1962
| ''[[Geronimo (1962 film)|Geronimo]]''
| Teela
| with Chuck Connors<ref name="TCM"/>
|-
|rowspan=4|1964
| ''[[The Rogues (TV series)|The Rogues]]''
| Glana Lupescu
|
|-
| ''[[The Brass Bottle (1964 film)|The Brass Bottle]]''
| Tezra
|
|-
| ''[[Arrest and Trial]]''
| Sandra
|
|-
| ''[[My Three Sons]]''
| Siranee
|
|-
| 1965
| ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]''
| Deirdre Purbhani
|
|-
| 1965–1966
| ''[[Branded (TV series)|Branded]]''
| Laurette Lansing
| 3 episodes, with Chuck Connors
|-
| 1966
| ''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]''
| Felicitas
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1967
| ''[[Cowboy in Africa]]''
| M'Koru
| with Chuck Connors
|-
| ''[[The Rat Patrol]]''
| Sallah
|
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0222453|Kamala Devi}}
*[https://www.riflemanconnors.com/press_photos/chuck_connors-kamala_devi.htm Clippings about Kamala Devi and Chuck Connors]

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[[Category:Indian film actresses]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian people of British descent]]
[[Category:Actresses from Mumbai]]
[[Category:1934 births]]
[[Category:Indian emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:American actresses of Indian descent]]

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>SomeBodyAnyBody05: Importing Wikidata short description: "Indian actress" (Shortdesc helper)