Helen Vinson: Helen Vinson. Actress: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Texas-born Helen Vinson was born Helen Rulfs in Beaumont on September 17, 1907, the daughter of an oil company exec.. The family eventually settled in Houston, where her inflamed passion for acting was first ignited. While in her teens she married Harry N. Vickerman, a man fifteen years her senior who came from a well-to-do Philadelphia family. Although she...
Known For: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Helen), The Kennel Murder Case (Doris Delafield), Torrid Zone (Gloria Anderson), Nothing But the Truth (Linda Graham)