Career

In a seven-decade career, from the 1930s to 2001, she amassed well over 100 credits. Strickland began as a radio actress during the old time radio era and her various radio roles included Libby on Call the Police (1948-1949) and Cathy Evans, girlfriend of private eye Brad Runyon (J Scott Smart), in Dashiell Hammett"s The Fat Manitoba (1947–1951). She appeared (sometimes on a recurring basis) on such programs as Adam-12, Dragnet, with Jack Webb, Gunsmoke, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, Make Room for Daddy aka The Danny Thomas Show, The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible, Alias Smith & Jones, Happy Days, Carter Country, Bonanza, The Golden Girls, The Facts of Life, The Jeffersons, Emergency, 7th Heaven, Ellen, Wings, Alf, Dragnet, Father Dowling Mysteries, Full House, Ned and Stacey, Perry Mason and Knight Rider.

Her television movies include Tower of Terror, and Inherit the Wind.

In 1966, Strickland played the widow Laticia Daigle in the episode "The Lady and the Sourdough" of the syndicated western series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor. Johnson then meets Mission Daigle, a baker, and soon develops other plans.

That same year, she appeared as Martha Hall, wife of chicken farmer Alfred Hall (Strother Martin) in the comedy episode "The Four Dollar Law Suit". In the story line, Hall sues an insurance company for underpayment of $4 after Hall"s chicken coop burns to the ground.

J. Pat O"Malley portrays attorney Wilson.

Strickland was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She died of Alzheimer"s disease at the age of 87 in 2006.