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Fay Spain(1932-1983)

  • Actress
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Fay Spain
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Lain ja oikeuden voitto (1959)
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Fay Spain was was your typical B-movie drive-in bad girl - sometimes blonde, sometimes brunette, always bodacious. A tease, a taunt, and a temptress throughout most her career, Fay Spain was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1932, as Lona May Spain to R.C. Spain and Arminta Frances Cochran. She headed to New York where she initially found summer stock work and a bit of television exposure. One of her earliest TV appearances was not as an actress but as a contestant on You Bet Your Life (1950), starring Groucho Marx.

By 1956, this fetching starlet was winning episodic roles on the more popular shows of the day, including Perry Mason yllättää (1957), Cheyenne (1955) and Gunsmoke (1955). She was also gaining notice on the covers of magazines. This cheesecake attention led directly to her juvenile delinquent debut in Dragstrip Girl (1957) with John Ashley and Steven Terrell, where she immediately established herself as the party girl boys are willing to race cars and fight over. Other equally low-budget films followed, with Teenage Doll (1957), Pirun kehässä (1957), and The Abductors (1957).

She made an aggressive move into higher quality films with Erskine Caldwell's best-seller Luojan oma maatilkku (1958) as "Darlin' Jill", another amoral sexpot, and as Rod Steiger's moll in Lain ja oikeuden voitto (1959), but then it was right back to Grade Z level work with The Beat Generation (1959) co-starring Mamie Van Doren, Aatamin ja Eevan yksityiselämä (1960) in which she tempts Martin Milner with the old forbidden fruit routine, and a 1962 Italian spectacle as an evil queen trying to thwart the actions of Hercules. Although Fay made some efforts to return to TV work, her career was pretty much over by the mid-60s. One of her last roles was a bit part as a mafioso matriarch in Kummisetä osa II (1974). Fay Spain died of cancer at age 50 in 1983.
BornOctober 6, 1932
DiedMay 8, 1983(50)
BornOctober 6, 1932
DiedMay 8, 1983(50)
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  • Awards
    • 1 nomination

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Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Fay Spain, and Helen Westcott in Luojan oma maatilkku (1958)
Buddy Hackett and Fay Spain in Luojan oma maatilkku (1958)
Steve McQueen and Fay Spain in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
Steve McQueen and Fay Spain in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
Robert Culp and Fay Spain in Minä vakooja (1965)
Robert Fuller and Fay Spain in Laramie (1959)
Rhodes Reason and Fay Spain in Death Valley Days (1952)
John Ashley, Fay Spain, and Steven Terrell in Dragstrip Girl (1957)
John Ashley, Dorothy Bruce, Frank Gorshin, Tommy Ivo, Carla Merey, and Fay Spain in Dragstrip Girl (1957)
Frank Gorshin and Fay Spain in Dragstrip Girl (1957)
Frank Gorshin and Fay Spain in Dragstrip Girl (1957)
John Ashley and Fay Spain in Dragstrip Girl (1957)

Known for:

Al Pacino in Kummisetä osa II (1974)
Kummisetä osa II
9.0
  • Mrs. Marcia Roth
  • 1974
Tina Louise, Buddy Hackett, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, and Fay Spain in Luojan oma maatilkku (1958)
Luojan oma maatilkku
6.5
  • Darlin' Jill
  • 1958
Fay Spain and Steven Terrell in Dragstrip Girl (1957)
Dragstrip Girl
5.7
  • Louise Blake
  • 1957
Flight to Fury (1964)
Flight to Fury
5.4
  • Destiny Cooper
  • 1964

Credits

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Actress

  • Kummisetä (1977)
    Kummisetä
    9.5
    TV Mini Series
    • Marcia Roth (uncredited)
    • 1977
  • Angie Dickinson in Police Woman (1974)
    Police Woman
    6.6
    TV Series
    • Nadine Hummel
    • Mame Dorn
    • 1974–1975
  • Carl Franklin and Stacy Keach in Caribe (1975)
    Caribe
    6.8
    TV Series
    • Connie James
    • 1975
  • Al Pacino in Kummisetä osa II (1974)
    Kummisetä osa II
    9.0
    • Mrs. Marcia Roth
    • 1974
  • Raymond Burr and Barbara Sigel in Etsivä Ironside (1967)
    Etsivä Ironside
    6.9
    TV Series
    • Alice Schmidt
    • 1974
  • Rod Serling in Pimeä museo (1969)
    Pimeä museo
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Molly Mitchell
    • 1972
  • Mike Connors in Mannix (1967)
    Mannix
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Mrs. Welch
    • Gladys
    • 1967–1972
  • James Daly in Medical Center (1969)
    Medical Center
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Linda
    • 1971
  • Robert F. Lyons in Tyttömurhat (1971)
    Tyttömurhat
    6.1
    • Mrs. Mack
    • 1971
  • The Man and the City (1971)
    The Man and the City
    8.6
    TV Series
    • Lois Niles
    • 1971
  • The Naked Zoo (1970)
    The Naked Zoo
    4.0
    • Pauline
    • 1970
  • John Banner, Robert Clary, Bob Crane, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, Larry Hovis, and Werner Klemperer in Hogan's Heroes (1965)
    Hogan's Heroes
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Carla
    • Myra
    • 1968–1969
  • My Friend Tony (1969)
    My Friend Tony
    7.5
    TV Series
    • 1969
  • Jim Nabors and Frank Sutton in Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964)
    Gomer Pyle: USMC
    7.0
    TV Series
    • Lila St. Clair
    • 1968
  • James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, and Dennis Weaver in Gunsmoke (1955)
    Gunsmoke
    8.1
    TV Series
    • Willy
    • Bessie
    • Mavis McCloud
    • 1957–1967

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  • Height
    • 1.64 m
  • Born
    • October 6, 1932
    • Phoenix, Arizona, USA
  • Died
    • May 8, 1983
    • Los Angeles County, California, USA(cancer)
  • Spouses
      Philip Fulmer Westbrook Jr.May 11, 1968 - May 8, 1983 (her death)
  • Children
    • Jock Falvo
  • Parents
      Robert C. Spain
  • Relatives
    • Virginia Lee Spain Petersen(Sibling)

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    Made her very first screen test with actor James Garner.

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