Angela Aames

Beautiful, buxom blond Angela Aames made her mark in Hollywood during the late 1970s and 1980s while appearing in a string of silly T & A comedies and exploitation movies. Additionally, she appeared on numerous TV shows in sexy bit parts that sadly amounted to little more than window dressing.

Born on February 27, 1956 and raised as Lois Marie Tlustos in Pierre, South Dakota, she eventually settled in Los Angeles, California in the mid to late 1970's after a brief stop in Sacramento to pursue an acting career and adopted the name Angela Aames.

While she aspired to be a comedienne, her ample curves made her most suitable to play the series of voluptuous party girls and sex kittens that eventually would comprise her resume.

Angela's early resumes indicate that her thespian training included stints at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and Harvey Lembeck's Comedy Workshop, and early stage appearances in such theatrical fare as "Of Mice and Men", "The Lion in Winter", "A Midsummer Nights Dream", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Tartuffe", "The Pleasure of his Company", "Dark of the Moon" and "The Women". She also appeared in the 20-minute educational short called "Malice in Bigotland" as well as an industrial short for G.T.E. that dealt with sexual harassment. 

Her television work included bit parts in shows like Barnaby Jones (1973), Angie (1979), Out of the Blue (1979), Mork & Mindy (1978), Hill Street Blues (1981), Cheers (1982),

Automan (1983) and Alice (1976), in addition to her recurring appearances on B.J. and the Bear (1978), The Fall Guy (1981) and Night Court (1984). Angela's beauty and figure were two of her greatest assets in Hollywood, and nearly everly appearance on the small screen featured Angela in a tight outfit with a generous amount of cleavage on display. In her Cheers episode, called "Sam's Women"(1982), Angela plays her "dumb blonde" role with such skill that her spelling of her name, "Brandee-with two E's", is the show's funniest and most memorable line.

In 1983, she appeared on Cinemax's Likely Stories, Vol. 4 (1983), playing an 80-foot tall, bikini-clad giantess.

Her earliest film role appears to have been Fairy Tales (1978), in which she plays a sexier "Little Bo Peep" than you've probably seen before. Angela briefly appeared nude in this film, and clips of her nude scene later appeared in made-for-video compilations like The Best of Sex and iolence (1982) and Famous T & A (1982).

Taking one look at her, Angela was simply made to play the part of Linda "Boom Boom" Bangs in H.O.T.S. (1979), which saw her skydiving topless into a swimming pool, among other exploits that made effective use of her ample frontal anatomy. Her resume also lists an otherwise unknown film from this period, called "The Crazy".

Angela also made appearances in a number of made-for-TV movies in 1980-81, including "Moviola" (aka This Year's Blonde (1980)), Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase (1981),

The Comeback Kid (1980) and The Perfect Woman (1981).

The early 1980s saw her topless again in ...All the Marbles (1981). She also appeared, briefly, in Boxoffice (1982), as a pregnant Hollywood starlet at a posh dinner party. In 1983, Angela had a non-speaking walk-through part in

Scarface (1983).

In 1984, she had arguably her most memorable moment on-screen, in the now-cult classic Tom Hanks vehicle,

Bachelor Party (1984). During the film's opening credits, Aames appears in Adrian Zmed's photography studio as a mother having baby pictures taken of her infant child. With a red "come get me" top cut practically to her navel, she made indelible impressions on legions of adoring male fans while posing for Zmed's leering camera.

Her later film roles, in the mid to late 1980s, included Jim Wynorski's The Lost Empire (1984), Basic Training (1985) and Chopping Mall (1986). The Lost Empire (1984), in

particular, allowed Angela to take more of a leading role,

demonstrating her fine flair for comedy in addition to her tough cookie act and action skills.

She also appeared in a 1988 film about bodybuilding called Flex (1988), also starring Harry Grant and Tom Platz. 

In 1988, she had secured a starring role in the weekly sit-com, The Dom DeLuise Show (1987), in which she portrayed an aerobics instructor who frequented the beauty and barber shop around which the show revolved. During the show's pilot episode, she made a spectacular entrance, clad in a skin-tight leotard, during which Dom DeLuise commented, to the audience, "I just love watching her jog!"

Though her roles were invariably small, they were memorable, both for her stunning beauty and ample physical charms and her great sense of comic timing. Almost always cast in the role of a "sexpot", Angela's characters were usually described as "buxom" or "busty"and invariably offered up a generous amount of sex appeal. About her sexy roles, Angela had a positive attitude. She said, "I don't think playing a sexy person is exploiting me. Certainly a woman would rather play a desirable, sexy lady than an ugly lady, right? So my theory is that most women would rather play a sexpot than an ugly girl."

In addition to her numerous TV and film appearances, Angela occasionally modeled. Notably, she was a "Mint 400 Girl" in 1982. The "Mint 400 Girls" were glamorous race beauty queens integrally involved in the publicity for the prestigious Mint 400 Las Vegas off-road race.

She was also the "Gennie Shifter" girl in the Street Rodder magazine ads in 1982, appearaing in a series of photos with photographer Tom Phipps' Ford Roadster.

She has been featured in a number of publications over the years, including Adam Magazine, Playboy, Partner, Variety, Celebrity Sleuth, Femme Fatales and the National Enquirer.

In 1983, Angela was to appear as a panelist on the updated version of the 1950's game show, Mike Stokey's Pantomime Quiz, but the show never went into production despite advertisements being being printed and published.

Angela died unexpectedly on November 27, 1988. The postmortem report listed her cause of death as heart disease, most likely due to a virus. She was 32 years old. She is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Pierre, South Dakota, where she was born.

There were actresses who had better roles and who achieved more in their careers, but the fact that, despite her rather lightweight film roles, Angela's fans fondly remember her nearly twenty years after she left us speaks volumes about her cinematic legacy.