Pamela Susan Shoop

Pamela Susan Shoop is an American character actress in films and on television. She often appeared on television series created by Glen A. Larson. She is known for her role in Halloween II as Nurse Karen Bailey.

Early years Shoop is the daughter of actress Julie Bishop and test pilot Clarence A. Shoop (who was an executive at Hughes Aircraft Company and commander of the California Air National Guard). As a Major General in World War II, he flew the first photographic reconnaissance mission over Omaha Beach on D-Day.

She studied acting at University of Southern California and at Villa Mercede in Florence, Italy, graduating in the class of 1967. Her father died during the rehearsals, but her mother Julie Bishop, and the play's director and star Robert Cummings, urged her to stay with the week-long production. Her screen debut came in the short film Frog Story. She appeared in the pilot episode of Knight Rider Shoop married Terrance Sweeney, a former Jesuit priest, in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. Together, they wrote What God Hath Joined .

Shoop works with charitable groups, including Good Tidings, the National Charity League, and Achievement Rewards for College Scientists.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1969 Changes Student Hippie Sculptress (voice, uncredited) 1972 Frog Story (Short) Frog girl 1977 Empire of the Ants Coreen Bradford (as Pamela Shoop) 1978 The One Man Jury Wendy Sommerset (as Pamela Shoop) 1981 Halloween II Nurse Karen Bailey 2006 Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (Video Documentary) Herself 2013 The Night She Came Home!! (Video Documentary) Herself

Television Year Title Role Notes 1970 The Interns (TV Series) Janet Keller Episode: "Mondays Can Be Fatal" (1.10) 1972 Night Gallery (TV Series) Mrs. Foster Episode: "The Sins of the Fathers/You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore" (as Pamela Shoop) 1972 The F.B.I. (TV Series) Muriel Davis Episode: "The Corruptor" (7.23) 1972 The Rookies (TV Series) Patty Lewis Episode: "The Bear That Didn't Get Up" (1.7) (as Pamela Shoop) 1972 Mannix (TV Series) Jan Lachlan Episode: "To Kill a Memory" (6.7) (as Pamela Shoop) 1972 The Mod Squad (TV Series) Carol Bridgewater Episode: "Crime Club" (5.11) (as Pamela Shoop) 1973-1974 Return to Peyton Place (TV Series) Alison MacKenzie Tate #2 1976 Switch (TV Series) Sue Zirk Episode: "Before the Holocaust" (1.19) (as Pamela Shoop) 1976 Gemini Man (TV Miniseries) Barby Episode: "Sam Casey, Sam Casey" (1.3) 1976 Emergency! (TV Series) Marcia Emerson Episode: "That Time of Year" (6.4) (as Pamela Shoop) 1976 Wonder Woman (TV Series) Magda Episode: "The Feminum Mystique: Part 1" (1.5) (as Pamela Shoop) 1976 Wonder Woman (TV Series) Magda Episode: "The Feminum Mystique: Part 2" (1.6) (as Pamela Shoop) 1977 Keeper of the Wild (TV Series) Holly James Episode: (1.1) 1977 Code R (TV Series) Debbie Payton Episode: "Beauty and the Beach" (1.10) 1977 79 Park Avenue (TV Miniseries) Angie Harding 1978 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) Carol Abrams Episode: "Terror in Times Square" (1.6) (as Pamela Shoop) 1978 Kaz (TV Series) Laura Colcourt Episode: "A Fine Romance" (1.9) 1979 Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) IFB Interviewer Episode: "The Man With Nine Lives" (1.15) 1979 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (TV Movie) Betty Denton 1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) Tangie Episode: "Vegas in Space" (1.3) 1979 Vega$ (TV Series) Maryann Silverton Episode: "Runaway" (2.4) 1979 B. J. and the Bear (TV Series) Alison Spencer Episode: "Silent Night, Unholy Night" (2.12) 1979 CHiPs ( TV Series) Alice Piermont Episode: "Christmas Watch" (3.15) 1980 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) Tangie Episode: "A Blast for Buck" (1.14) (uncredited) (archive footage) 1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) Jennifer Fair Episode: "School for Assassins" (12.12) 1980 Vega$ (TV Series) Maryann Silverton Episode: "The Private Eye Connection" (2.11) 1980 Galactica 1980 (TV Series) Dorothy Carlyle Episode: "Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 1" (1.1) 1980 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) Alice Cook Episode: "Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii" (1.1) 1980 B. J. and the Bear (TV Series) Dolly Reed Episode: "The Fast and the Furious: Part 1" (3.3) 1980 B. J. and the Bear (TV Series) Dolly Reed Episode: "The Fast and the Furious: Part 2" (3.4) 1981 Fitz and Bones (TV Series) Episode: "To Kill a Ghost" (1.3) 1981 Fantasy Island (TV Series) Mira Dutton Episode: "Lillian Russell/The Lagoon" (5.8) 1981 CHiPs (TV Series) Chickee Episode: "Mitchell & Woods" (5.12) 1981 The Fall Guy (TV Series) Rhonda Starr Episode: "The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda" (1.2) (as Pamela Shoop) 1982 Knight Rider (TV Series) Maggie Episode: "Knight of the Phoenix" (1.1) 1982 The Fall Guy (TV Series) Marnie Greer Episode: "Bail and Bond" (2.1) 1982 T. J. Hooker (TV Series) Sheila Benson Episode: "A Cry for Help" (2.9) 1983 Fame (TV Series) Nancy Episode: "Relationships" (2.13) 1983 Tales of the Gold Monkey (TV Series) Sister Teresa / Brigid Harrington Episode "Force of Habit" (1.16) 1983 The Rousters (TV Movie) Trish Callahan 1983 The Rousters (TV Series) Trish Callahan Episode: "The Rousters" (1.1) 1984 Masquerade (TV Series) Episode: "Oil" (1.7) (as Pamela Shoop) 1984 Whiz Kids (TV Series) Marcie Episode: "The Sufi Project" (1.15) 1985 I Had Three Wives (TV Series) Vicki Episode: "Bedtime Stories" (1.3) 1985 Knight Rider (TV Series) Marta Simmons Episode: "Knight of the Juggernaut" (4.1) 1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King Carla Quite Episode: "Fast Food for Thought" (3.12) 1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) Katie McCallum Episode: "Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 1" (3.1) 1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) Katie McCallum Episode: "Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 2" (3.2) 1987 The Law and Harry McGraw (TV Series) Episode: "Mr. Chapman, I Presume?" (1.3) 1987 Simon & Simon (TV Series) Jenny Burgess Episode: "Deep Water Death" (6.13) 1988 The Highwayman (TV Series) Dr. Chadway Episode: "Send in the Clones" (1.5) 1988 Simon & Simon (TV Series) Beth Eastwick Episode: "Beauty and Deceased" (8.1) 1991 Dragnet (TV Series) Sue Cunningham Episode: "Armored Truck 211s" (1.20) 1992 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) Dorothy Porter Episode: "Badge of Honor" (8.21) 1992 Dangerous Curves (TV Series) Stella Episode: "Old Acquaintance" (2.5) 1996 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) Dr. Jennifer Harmon Episode: "Dark Vision" (4.1)

Books +Books Year Author Book Publisher Notes April 13, 1993 Pamela Susan Shoop (as Pamela Shoop Sweeney) Terrance Sweeney (as Terrance A. Sweeney) What God Hath Joined: the Real Life Love Story that Shook the Catholic Church Ballantine Books Hardcover / Paperback