What Happened To?
by jazerbini | created - 13 Nov 2016 | updated - 01 Jan 2022 | PublicExplaining: Why did you make few movies? Why did they give up their careers? This list is a tribute to these almost unknown actors. Are actors and actresses who disappeared. They appeared in a few movies. I read that some have unfortunately died. Very sad. THEY ARE UNFORGETTABLE!!!
1. Joanna Bacalso
Actress | Snow Dogs
Joanna Bacalso was born in Cebu, Philippines. She is an actress, known for Snow Dogs (2002), Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) and Bedazzled (2000). She has been married to Matthew Garel since 1998. They have one child.
Please, Joanna, come back !!!
2. Ricky Schroder
Actor | Black Cloud
He was born Richard Bartlett Schroder, Jr., in Staten Island, New York on April 13th, 1970. His mother, Diane Schroder was an employee at AT&T, which is also the same company that employed his father, Richard Bartlett Schroder, Sr.
Eventually working his way up to management from being a telephone ...
3. Dolores Hart
Actress | Where the Boys Are
Dolores Hart was born on October 20, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Where the Boys Are (1960), Francis of Assisi (1961) and Come Fly with Me (1963).
4. Linda Kim
Actress | Men in Black II
Linda Kim is known for Men in Black II (2002), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) and Dude, Where's My Car? (2000).
5. Talisa Soto
Actress | Mortal Kombat
Born to a Puerto Rican family in Brooklyn, Talisa was raised there and in Massachusetts. She started modeling at age 15 and has appeared on the covers of "Vogue," "Mademoiselle," "Glamour," and "Self," as well as in a "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue. She has been making film appearances since ...
6. Claudine Longet
Actress | The Party
Claudine Georgette Longet was born in Paris, France on January 29, 1942. Although known as an actress and singer, her career still is overshadowed by being known as a former wife of Andy Williams as well as shooting boyfriend, ski legend Spider Sabich in 1976. After a number of roles in episodes of...
7. Don Burnett
Actor | Untamed Youth
Not unlike Don Burnett's father Albert John Burnett who served in World War I in the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Forces, Don also became involved with military, the American forces, when he graduated from the Army Officer Candidate Division on November 8, 1952, Class No. 52, Commissioned at ...
8. Mary Ann Jarou
Actress | General Hospital
Mary Ann Jarou was born on September 1, 1977 in Flint, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for General Hospital (1963), ER (1994) and How I Met Your Mother (2005). She has been married to Jeff Thomas since March 12, 2016.
9. Bridget Fonda
Actress | A Simple Plan
Bridget Jane Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California, to Susan Brewer and actor Peter Fonda. She is the granddaughter of Henry Fonda and niece of Jane Fonda, both famous actors. Bridget made her film debut at age five as an extra in Easy Rider (1969), but first became interested in acting after ...
10. Enzo Staiola
Actor | Ladri di biciclette
Enzo Staiola was born on November 15, 1939 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and A Tale of Five Women (1951).
11. Victoria Principal
Actress | Vigilante Force
Principal is the elder daughter of Ree (née Veal) and Victor Rocco Principal. Her paternal grandparents were Italian, while her mother's family was from Gordon, Georgia, and South Carolina. Her father, a United States Air Force sergeant, was often transferred to different duty stations, so the ...
12. Ziva Rodann
Actress | The Story of Ruth
Ziva Rodann was born on March 2, 1933 in Haifa, Palestine [now Haifa, Israel]. She is an actress, known for The Story of Ruth (1960), The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960) and Macumba Love (1960).
13. Brigid Bazlen
Actress | How the West Was Won
Brigid Bazlen was born on June 9, 1944 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for How the West Was Won (1962), King of Kings (1961) and The Honeymoon Machine (1961). She was married to Marlin Greene and Jean-Paul Vignon. She died on May 25, 1989 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
14. Elizabeth Threatt
Actress | The Big Sky
American actress who made an impression in her only film. The daughter of an English father and a Cherokee mother, Threatt grew up in South Carolina. At 19, she went to New York and began a successful modeling career. In 1952, director Howard Hawks saw her photograph and cast her as the Blackfoot ...
15. Belinda Bauer
Actress | RoboCop 2
Belinda Bauer was born Belinda Jane Taubman on June 13, 1950 in Australia. Her family managed Taubman Paints, the country's largest paint manufacturing company. She competed as Belinda Taubman in several beauty contests in Sydney, New South Wales. Starting her career as a ballet dancer and later ...
16. Carlos Lauchu
Actor | Stargate
Carlos was born in Panama and moved to Saline, Michigan when he was 8 years old. After graduating high school on the Honor Roll, he attended an elite Michigan State University Program for the highly gifted as a Pre-Med student. Carlos was Captain of the Martial Arts team for two years. He has high ...
17. Cynthia Shope
Actress | High Crimes
Cynthia Shope is known for High Crimes (2002) and Terminal Velocity (1994).
18. Mia Sara
Actress | Timecop
Mia Sara is an American actress. She is best known for Legend (1985) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
She also had minor roles in A Stranger Among Us (1992) and Timecop (1994).
In 1996, she married Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery, with whom she performed in Bullet to Beijing (1995). In June ...
19. Eddie Castrodad
Actor | Torch Song Trilogy
Eddie Castrodad was born on November 16, 1970. He is an actor, known for Torch Song Trilogy (1988), Dads (1986) and The Cosby Show (1984).
20. Gary Grimes
Actor | Summer of '42
Gary Grimes was born on June 2, 1955 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Summer of '42 (1971), Gus (1976) and The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972).
21. Kathy Larson
Actress | Fried Green Tomatoes
Kathy Larson is known for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Kalifornia (1993) and A Family Torn Apart (1993).
22. Betty Brewer
Actress | Rangers of Fortune
Betty Brewer was born on November 23, 1923 in Joplin, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Rangers of Fortune (1940), Juke Girl (1942) and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942). She died on December 2, 2006 in Oakland, California, USA.
23. Ryanne Duzich
Actress | Friday Night Lights
Ryanne Duzich was born on November 1, 1983 in Galveston, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Friday Night Lights (2004) and Kill Theory (2009). She has been married to Thomas L. Culberson since December 13, 2014.
24. Peter Ostrum
Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Peter Ostrum was born on November 1, 1957 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Sicko (2007) and Remembering Gene Wilder (2023). He has been married to Loretta Lepkowski since 1987. They have two children.
25. Jaye Davidson
Actor | The Crying Game
Jaye was born in Riverside, California in 1968, the son of a Ghanaian father and English mother. The family left for England when Jaye was two and a half. Jaye left school at 16 and had been alternately unemployed and doing odd jobs (running for a production company, working in a factory) ever ...
27. Gloria Dickson
Actress | They Won't Forget
Gloria Dickson was born Thais Alalia Dickerson on August 13, 1917, in Pocotello, Idaho. After her father died, her mother took Gloria and her sister to California. During high school she started acting in local theater productions. When she was nineteen a Warner Brothers talent scout saw one of her...
28. Bertil Guve
Actor | Fanny och Alexander
Bertil Guve was born on 9 September, 1970 in Sweden. The young actor is best remembered for his sensible and magic performance in Ingmar Bergman's award winning film "Fanny and Alexander", where Guve acts as Alexander. He also appeared in the miniseries (an extended version of the film and two TV ...
29. Margaret Sheridan
Actress | The Thing from Another World
Margaret Sheridan was born on October 29, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Thing from Another World (1951), I, the Jury (1953) and The Diamond Wizard (1954). She was married to Paul Wellington Wildman and William F. Pattison. She died on May 1, 1982 in Orange,...
30. Kami Cotler
Actress | The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Kami Cotler was born on June 17, 1965 in Long Beach, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), The Waltons (1972) and A Walton Easter (1997). She is married to Kim Howard. They have two children.
31. Helen Gahagan
Actress | She
This beautiful Broadway singer and actress appeared in only one film, portraying the forever-young ice goddess ("she who must be obeyed"), the title character in RKO's 1935 adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's tale, She (1935), opposite Randolph Scott. In the latter 1940s, having entered politics, she ...
32. Josie Maran
Actress | Van Helsing
Born and raised in northern California, Josie Maran aspired to become a model at a young age. Her father is of Russian Jewish descent, and her mother has Dutch, French, and German ancestry. At the age of 12, while attending a barbecue, a woman asked her to be in a San Francisco fashion show. A ...
33. Rachel Roth
Actress | Titus
Rachel Roth was born on May 14, 1982 in North Canton, Ohio, USA. She is an actress, known for Titus (2000), Almost Romeo (2005) and Winning London (2001).
34. Hunter McCracken
Actor | The Tree of Life
Hunter McCracken joined a limited and interesting group of non-professional actors whose first acting gig came on the hands of the great Terrence Malick and his masterpieces, along with Linda Manz in the acclaimed Days of Heaven (1978) and Q'orianka Kilcher in The New World (2005). All of them have...
35. Tania Mallet
Actress | Goldfinger
Tania Mallet was born in Blackpool, England. Her English-born mother, Olga Mironoff, was of Russian descent, and had been a beautiful chorus girl. Her father was a successful English car salesman, Henry Mallet. Her parents divorced and Olga remarried, to George Dawson, with whom she had three sons....
36. Clay O'Brien
Actor | The Cowboys
Born Clay O'Brien Cooper on May 6, 1961, and best-known as the pint- sized "Hardy Fimps" in the western coming-of-age film, The Cowboys (1972); Clay O'Brien became a favorite with John Wayne, who appreciated a real cowboy when he met one. Remaining pint-sized for several years, Clay could be found ...
37. Maria Falconetti
Actress | La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Renée Jeanne or Maria Falconetti, born in Pantin (not in Sermano, Corsica, as many film dictionaries wrongly attest) on July 21, 1892 and died in Buenos Aires on December 12, 1946, is a French actress of theater and cinema. Joining the troupe of the Odeon theater in 1916, she made her debut in "...
38. Dominique Dunne
Actress | Poltergeist
Dominique Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne and Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer. Actor Griffin Dunne is her brother. After her parents' divorce, she moved first to New York, and then to Beverly Hills. Upon graduation from high ...
39. Alicia Rhett
Actress | Gone with the Wind
Alicia Rhett was born on February 1, 1915 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Gone with the Wind (1939). She died on January 3, 2014 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
40. Jeremy Blackman
Actor | Magnolia
Jeremy Blackman will always be remembered as the pressured and suffering Stanley from P.T. Anderson masterpiece Magnolia (1999), where the kid echoes sad expressions moments from the silent classic Dreyer film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). He showcases pain, fragility, a turmoil of emotion ...
41. Kimberly Block
Actress | Baby the Rain Must Fall
Kimberly Block was born on October 14, 1957 in Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965).
42. Melody Kay
Actress | Die unendliche Geschichte III: Rettung aus Phantasien
Melody Kay was born in Detroit and raised in New York City. She traveled between N.Y.C. and Los Angeles California working on Broadway, film and television productions throughout her childhood, teenage and young adult years. She has thoroughly enjoyed the last 17 years as a stay at home mom but ...
43. Georgia Ann Cline
Actress | Children of a Lesser God
Georgia Ann Cline was born on December 11, 1965. She is an actress, known for Children of a Lesser God (1986).
44. Jonathan Ashmore
Actor | A Kid for Two Farthings
Jonathan Ashmore was born on the 16th April 1948 to actors Peter Ashmore and Rosalie Crutchley in London. He earned a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1971 from the Imperial College London, and an MSc in Physiology in 1974 from University College London. He was Lecturer in Physiology at the University...
45. Jenna Lind
Actress | Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Jenna Lind is known for Spartacus (2010), :30 Seconds (2009) and Crush (2009).
46. Donald MacDonald
Producer | Caddyshack
Donald MacDonald was an actor and producer, known for Caddyshack (1980), Jaws 2 (1978) and Die Laughing (1980). He died on June 17, 2014 in California, USA.
47. Matthew Garber
Actor | Mary Poppins
Matthew Garber was a British child actor. Both of his parents were theatrical actors, but neither was particularly famous.
In 1963, Garber came to the attention of actor Roy Dotrice (father of Karen Dotrice) who was seeking potential child actors. Roy recommended Garber to the casting department of ...
48. Jovanna Vitiello
Actress | 8MM
Jovanna Vitiello is an Italian & Puerto-Rican actress and model. She was born and raised in South Paterson N.J., by a very hard working Italian immigrant father and hard working self-taught Puerto-Rican/Filipino mother who grew up in the South Bronx. Jovanna found her love of acting when she ...
49. Debbie Turner
Actress | The Sound of Music
Debbie was born on September 5, 1956, in suburban Arcadia of Los Angeles. From the age of only 6 months old Debbie was in numerous commercials and television shows. She also did some print modelling. She grew up in a showbiz family and her parents were both naturalized citizens from Manitoba, ...
50. Kym Karath
Actress | The Sound of Music
Kym Karath began her acting career at the age of 3, appearing in Spencer's Mountain (1963) with Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara, The Thrill of It All (1963) with Doris Day and James Garner, and Good Neighbor Sam (1964) with Jack Lemmon, before winning the role of "Gretl", the youngest Von Trapp ...
51. Heather Menzies-Urich
Actress | The Sound of Music
Beautiful, sunny, and engaging blonde actress Heather Menzies was born on December 3, 1949 in Toronto, Canada. Her family moved to the United States when Heather was eleven. She graduated from Hollywood High School and subsequently attended the Falcon Studio's University of the Arts in Hollywood. ...
52. Jacqueline White
Actress | The Narrow Margin
Warm, charming leading lady of 1940s films, Jacqueline White was under contract to both MGM (which wasted her in mostly unbilled bits) and then RKO, where she appeared in two classics--Crossfire (1947) and The Narrow Margin (1952). RKO used her as a second lead in A pictures and leading roles in Bs.
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53. Michele Daves
Michele Daves was born on October 7, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress. She has been married to Jonathan Davis since November 10, 1990. They have two children.
54. Gary Young
55. Michael Young
56. Luiza Maranhão
Actress | Ganga Zumba
Luiza Maranhão was born on September 20, 1940 in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Ganga Zumba (1963), Girl of Ipanema (1967) and The Turning Wind (1962).
57. Ricky Young
59. Susan Young
60. Michelle Stacy
Actress | The Rescuers
Michelle Stacy was a cute, prolific & popular child actress of the 70s who acted in films & TV shows for 6 years. She's perhaps best known as the voice of Penny in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers (1977). She also had memorable small parts in the science fiction pictures Logan's Run (1976) ...
61. Rachel Lindsay Greenbush
Actress | Little House on the Prairie
Lindsay Greenbush was born Rachel Lindsay Bush, the elder sister of identical twin sister Sidney Robyn Bush (born three minutes later) on May 25th May, 1970 in Hollywood, California. Their father, Billy Bush, is an actor who starred in films such as "Five Easy Pieces" (1970), "Alice Doesn't Live ...
63. Sidney Greenbush
Actress | Little House on the Prairie
Sidney Greenbush was born Sidney Robyn Danae Bush (born three minutes later), is the identical twin sister of Rachel Lindsay Rene Bush on May 25, 1970 in Hollywood, California. Their father, Billy Bush, is an actor who starred in films such as "Five Easy Pieces" (1970), "Alice Doesn't Live Here ...
64. Jennifer Lien
Actress | Star Trek: Voyager
Jennifer Anne Lien was born on August 24, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She has an older sister and an older brother. Jennifer knew that she wanted to act from a young age. Encouraged by her English and drama teachers, she began performing in a summer theater and festivals at the age of 13. She ...
65. Delle Bolton
Actress | Jeremiah Johnson
Delle Bolton was born on November 13, 1947 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and Monk (2002). She was married to David Colloff. She died on June 19, 2022 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
66. Norma Brooks
Actress | Sea Hunt
Norma Brooks was born on September 24, 1936 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Sea Hunt (1958), Blazing the Overland Trail (1956) and The Bob Cummings Show (1955). She died on February 6, 2005 in Reno, Nevada, USA.
67. Robert Francis
Actor | The Caine Mutiny
Relatively new to Hollywood, handsome Robert Francis was a rising young actor and deemed California's "Golden Boy" on the verge of 1950's cinematic stardom, when on July 31 , 1955, he, along with two others, perished in a private plane crash just after takeoff in Burbank, California.
Robert Charles ...
68. Christopher Olsen
Actor | The Man Who Knew Too Much
Christopher Olsen was born on September 19, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Bigger Than Life (1956) and The Tarnished Angels (1957). He has been married to Patricia Taulbee since December 6, 1980. They have one child.
69. T.J. Lowther
Actor | A Perfect World
T.J. Lowther was born on May 17, 1986 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He is an actor, known for A Perfect World (1993), A Home of Our Own (1993) and Grey's Anatomy (2005).
70. Colleen Miller
Actress | The Las Vegas Story
The story goes that 19-year-old Colleen Miller was fishing in the California mountains when a resort photographer recruited her to pose with a prize trout; a movie scout saw the picture in print, and Colleen wound up with a small role in The Las Vegas Story (1952). A more noticeable role in Man ...
71. Sara Lane
Actress | I Saw What You Did
Sara Lane's relatively brief fling with show biz began in 1966 when she was cast as the orphaned Wyoming frontier girl Elizabeth Grainger in the long-running NBC western series The Virginian (1962). Opposite her co-stars James Drury and Doug McClure, she went on to feature in some 105 episodes ...
72. Vitina Marcus
Actress | The Lost World
Vitina was born Dolores Vitina Marcus in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, of Sicilian and Hungarian parentage to Frank Marcus and his wife Rose. In her teens, she studied ballet, learned to play the violin and worked briefly as a model for the Huntington Hartford Agency. At the age of 17, she began taking ...
73. Lisa Jakub
Actress | Mrs. Doubtfire
Lisa Jakub was born on December 27, 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Independence Day (1996) and George Lucas in Love (1999). She has been married to Jeremy since June 2005.
74. Heather DeLoach
Actress | A Little Princess
Heather DeLoach was born on February 1, 1983 in Orange County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for A Little Princess (1995), Balls of Fury (2007) and The Beautician and the Beast (1997). She has been married to Matthew Greiner since October 7, 2017. They have three children.
75. Benjamin Petry
Actor | 3:10 to Yuma
Benjamin Petry was born on August 28, 1995 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for 3:10 to Yuma (2007), The Lost Room (2006) and The Spirit (2008).
76. Pamela McMyler
Actress | Halloween II
Pamela McMyler was born on an Army base near Summerville, SC, where her father was a major. When she was 10, her father was transferred to France. She attended school there and became fluent in French. While living there, her mother took her to see Susan Hayward in the film I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)...
77. Claudine Barros
Actress | Dude, Where's My Car?
Claudine Barros was born in Brazil. She is known for Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Repo Men (2010) and Rio 2 (2014).
78. Jodi Ann Paterson
Actress | Dude, Where's My Car?
Strikingly gorgeous brunette stunner Jodi Ann Paterson was born on July 31, 1975 in Balikpapan, Indonesia. Her mother is Indonesian and her father is an American of mixed Swiss and English descent. Jodi's family moved to Oregon when she was two years old. She grew up in Springfield, Oregon. ...
79. Marina Ghane
Actress | El Dorado
Marina Ghane was born on March 24, 1946 in Tehran, Iran. She is an actress, known for El Dorado (1966), The Green Hornet (1966) and The Wild Wild West (1965). She was previously married to Erik Holland.
80. Madolyn Smith Osborne
Actress | 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Madolyn Smith Osborne was born on January 1, 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. She is an actress, known for 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), All of Me (1984) and Urban Cowboy (1980). She has been married to Mark Osborne since July 16, 1988. They have two children.
81. Brenda Venus
Actress | 48 Hrs.
Brenda Venus was born on November 10, 1947 in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA. She is an actress, known for 48 Hrs. (1982), Deathsport (1978) and The Eiger Sanction (1975).
82. Maria Isabel de Lizandra
Actress | Mulheres de Areia
Maria Isabel de Lizandra was born on June 5, 1946 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Secrets of Sand (1973), Se o Mar Contasse (1964) and As Minas de Prata (1966). She was married to Ênio Gonçalves. She died on March 14, 2019 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
83. Janet Landgard
Actress | The Swimmer
Janet Landgard was born on December 2, 1947 in Pasadena, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Swimmer (1968), Moonchild (1972) and Land Raiders (1969). She was married to Gary Wayne Daigle. She died on November 6, 2023 in the USA.
84. Richard Eyer
Actor | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Born in Santa Monica, California, in 1945, Richard Eyer was the kid with the clean-cut, all-American look who won a number of "personality contests" and other competitions before he made his film debut in the early 1950s. Mainstream audiences may remember Eyer best as the youngster who runs "afowl"...
85. Tracey Needham
Actress | The Division
As the only girl in a family of four children, Tracy Needham found that her height gave her a leg up whenever she would play football with the boys. I grew up being very competitive with guys", says Needham, who is 5'11". "I was always jumping into football games and wanted to be treated equally and...
86. Season Hubley
Actress | Escape from New York
Season Hubley was born on March 14, 1951 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Escape from New York (1981), Hardcore (1979) and Vice Squad (1982). She was previously married to David Hayball and Kurt Russell.
87. Sheryl Deauville
Actress | Irma la Douce
Sheryl Deauville is known for Irma la Douce (1963), Banning (1967) and Madigan (1968).
89. Race Gentry
Actor | The Bold and the Brave
Handsome second lead actor, briefly under contract to Universal-International in the mid-1950s. He was born John Papiro of Italian ancestry on 23 February 1934 to Guido and Frances M. Papiro in Los Angeles, California. Following a stint in the army, Papiro adopted the stage moniker Race Gentry (...
90. Steve Rowland
Actor | Crime in the Streets
Steve Rowland was born on September 3, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Crime in the Streets (1956), Battle of the Bulge (1965) and The Rifleman (1958).
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