Biography

Born and raised in New York, Storey moved with her then-husband Richard Conte to Los Angeles in the 1950s, where she worked on stage, television, and screen. After her divorce, she earned a master's degree in social welfare from UCLA and co-founded the Center for Human Problems in the Los Angeles area. Eventually she entered private practice, working with many people from the entertainment industry. Her son, Mark Conte, is a film editor.
- IMDb mini biography by: anthony-adam@tamu.edu

Ruth Storey was born in New York City in 1913. The wife of actor Richard Conte, she was largely a character actress whose career ran from 1953 to 1981, encompassing only six pictures. She was a latecomer to films with her debut in The Blue Gardenia (1953), being 40 years old at the time. The best film Ruth appeared in was In Cold Blood (1967) as Bonnie Clutter, the mother of the Clutter family that was murdered by two drifters in Holcomb, Kansas. After that picture Ruth retired from films and became a psychoanalyst. She resurfaced briefly when she had a walk-on part in Rich and Famous (1981). She died of cancer on August 23, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. She was 84 years old.
- IMDb mini biography by: Denny Jackson

Became a psychotherapist after retiring from acting in the 1960s.

She and husband Richard Conte adopted a son, Mark Conte, who later became an award-winning film/TV editor.