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Profile of Deborah Walley
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12th August 1943 |
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Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Deborah Walley (born August 12, 1943; died May 10, 2001) was an American actress.
Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at fourteen she was playing summer-stock theatre. She studied acting at New York City's American Academy of Dramatic Arts . She began working on stage in the city and made her Hollywood film debut in the 1961's Gidget Goes Hawaiian, a role for which she is most remembered. From then until 1974 she appeared in fifteen feature length films and after retiring to a home in Arizona she continued to make occasional guest appearances on television. While living there, she co-founded two children's theater companies and became involved with native-American culture and folklore, writing and creating plays about their lives.
Deborah Walley passed away from cancer in 2001 in Sedona, Arizona.
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