Carol Lynley
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Carol Lynley is an American actress and former child model
Child modeling
A child model refers to a child who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art, such as photography, painting and sculpture.-Practice:...

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Life and career

Lynley was born Carole Ann Jones in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, the daughter of Frances (née Felch), a waitress, and Cyril Jones. Her father was Irish and her mother, a native of New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...

, was of English, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Native American ancestry. She began her career as a child model under the name "Carolyn Lee", and when she started acting (after appearing on the April 22, 1957 cover of Life
Life (magazine)
Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....

magazine at 15), she discovered that another actress had already registered the name, so she modified it to the homophone "Carol Lynley".

Early on, Lynley distinguished herself in both the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 stage and Hollywood screen versions of the controversial drama Blue Denim
Blue Denim
Blue Denim was a successful Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy, the author of the novels All Fall Down and Midnight Cowboy . It starred Carol Lynley, Warren Berlinger and newcomer Burt Brinckerhoff in the lead male role...

(1959), in which the teenaged characters played by Lynley and co-star Brandon De Wilde
Brandon De Wilde
Andre Brandon deWilde was an American theatre and film actor. He was born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn. Debuting on Broadway at the age of 7, De Wilde became a national phenomenon by the time he completed his 492 performances for The Member of the Wedding and was considered a child...

 had to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. In 1959, Lynley was nominated for the Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

 for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female".

Lynley may be best-known for her film roles in Return to Peyton Place
Return to Peyton Place (film)
Return to Peyton Place is a 1961 drama film produced by Jerry Wald and directed by José Ferrer. The screenplay by Ronald Alexander is based on the 1959 novel Return to Peyton Place by Grace Metalious...

, Under the Yum Yum Tree
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Under the Yum Yum Tree is a 1963 comedy movie that stars Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Paul Lynde, Dean Jones and Edie Adams.This sex comedy was one of the successful small comic movies that Lemmon despised making . It first ran on Broadway in 1960-1961.-Plot:Jack Lemmon stars as the playboy landlord...

, Bunny Lake is Missing
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Bunny Lake Is Missing is a 1965 British psychological thriller film directed and produced by Otto Preminger, who filmed it in black and white widescreen format in London. It was based on the novel of the same name by Merriam Modell. The score is by Paul Glass and the opening theme is often heard as...

, The Cardinal
The Cardinal
The Cardinal is a 1963 film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....

, Harlow
Harlow (film)
Harlow is a biographical film about the life of film star Jean Harlow. It stars Carroll Baker in the title role. It was released in 1965 by Paramount Pictures, shortly after another film with the same title and subject...

, and the original The Poseidon Adventure, in which she performed the Oscar-winning song "The Morning After", but her singing voice was actually that of studio singer Rene Armand.

Lynley appeared in the pilot television movie
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...

s for Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974-1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly ones law...

and Fantasy Island
Fantasy Island
Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.-Original series:...

. Her many other series appearances included The Big Valley
The Big Valley
The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman...

, Mannix
Mannix
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors...

, It Takes a Thief, Night Gallery
Night Gallery
Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although...

, The Invaders
The Invaders
The Invaders, a Quinn Martin Production , is an ABC science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968...

, Kojak
Kojak
Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...

, Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...

and Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...

. Lynley appeared in the fourth season The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...

two-part episode, "The Prince of Darkness Affair
The Helicopter Spies
The Helicopter Spies is a 1968 film based on the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. The film was based on the two-part episode of the series 'The Prince of Darkness Affair' which aired in October 1967 during the show's truncated fourth season....

".

She posed nude for the March 1965 edition of Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

magazine.

In 2006, she appeared in a 30-minute film, Vic, directed and co-written by Sage Stallone
Sage Stallone
Sage Moonblood Stallone is an American actor, director, producer and writer.-Early life:Stallone is the son of Sasha Czack and actor Sylvester Stallone. He is the brother of Seargeoh Stallone, and half-brother of Sistine, Sophia and Scarlet Stallone. His uncle is actor/singer Frank Stallone and...

, the son of Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed...

.

Filmography

Film and television
Year Title Role Notes
1956 Goodyear Television Playhouse
Goodyear Television Playhouse
The Goodyear Television Playhouse produced live television dramas from 1951 to 1957 during the "Golden Age of Television".Sponsored by Goodyear, the hour-long anthology series was telecast Sundays at 9pm on NBC...

TV series, episode: "Grow Up"
1956 Setsu TV series, episode: "The Big Wave"
1956 TV series, episode: "Cracker Money"
1956 General Electric Theatre Schoolgirl TV series, episode: "The Hat With the Roses", uncredited
1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...

Janice TV series, episode: "The Young One"
1957 Judy Graves TV series, episode: "Junior Miss"
1958 Shenandoe
1958 Pursuit
Pursuit (TV series)
Pursuit is the title of a 30 minute American television anthology drama series which aired on the CBS from 1955—1956.Among the presentations were Kiss Me Again,Stranger starring Jeffrey Hunter, and Margaret O'Brien, Epitaph For a Golden Girl starring Michael Rennie, Rip Torn, and Sally Forrest,...

Elaine Hermann TV series, episode: "The Vengeance"
1958 Shirley Temple's Storybook
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was...

Rapunzel
Rapunzel
"Rapunzel" is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales. The Grimm Brothers' story is an adaptation of the fairy tale Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force originally published in 1698...

TV series, episode: "Rapunzel"
1958 General Electric Theatre Mary Elizabeth Asher TV series, episode: "The Young and Scared"
1959 Holiday for Lovers
Holiday for Lovers
Holiday for Lovers is a 1959 comedy film directed by Henry Levin. Based on a 1957 play by Ronald Alexander, the film stars Clifton Webb, Jane Wyman, Jill St. John and Carol Lynley.-Plot:...

Betsy Dean
1959 Blue Denim
Blue Denim
Blue Denim was a successful Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy, the author of the novels All Fall Down and Midnight Cowboy . It starred Carol Lynley, Warren Berlinger and newcomer Burt Brinckerhoff in the lead male role...

Janet Willard
1959 Hound-Dog Man Dony Wallace
1959 General Electric Theatre Barbara Clark TV series, episode: "Deed of Mercy
1959 General Electric Theatre Phyllis TV series, episode: "The Last Dance
1961 Return to Peyton Place
Return to Peyton Place
Return to Peyton Place is a 1959 novel by Grace Metalious, a sequel to her best-selling 1956 novel Peyton Place.-Plot summary:After the phenomenal success of her first novel, Metalious hastily penned a sequel centering on the life and loves of bestselling author Allison MacKenzie, who ironically...

Allison
1961 Melissa 'Missy' Breckenridge
1962 Sister Pamela Wiley TV series, episode: "Final Vow"
1962 Alcoa Premiere Sandy Carter TV series, episode: "Whatever Happened to Miss Illinois?"
1962 Judith Morrow TV series, episode: "The Man from the Sea"
1963 Elise TV series, episode: "The Rage of Silence"
1963 Miriam Caswell
1963 Under the Yum Yum Tree
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Under the Yum Yum Tree is a 1963 comedy movie that stars Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Paul Lynde, Dean Jones and Edie Adams.This sex comedy was one of the successful small comic movies that Lemmon despised making . It first ran on Broadway in 1960-1961.-Plot:Jack Lemmon stars as the playboy landlord...

Robin Austin
1963 Mona/Regina Fermoyle
1964 Shock Treatment Cynthia Lee Albright
1964 Maggie Williams
1965 Harlow
Harlow (film)
Harlow is a biographical film about the life of film star Jean Harlow. It stars Carroll Baker in the title role. It was released in 1965 by Paramount Pictures, shortly after another film with the same title and subject...

Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde" , Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time by the American Film Institute...

1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Bunny Lake Is Missing is a 1965 British psychological thriller film directed and produced by Otto Preminger, who filmed it in black and white widescreen format in London. It was based on the novel of the same name by Merriam Modell. The score is by Paul Glass and the opening theme is often heard as...

Ann Lake
1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an anthology television series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967...

Irene Ayers TV series, episode: "The Fliers"
1966 Run for Your Life
Run for Your Life (TV series)
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.-Synopsis:Gazzara plays lawyer...

April Martin TV series, episode: "In Search of April"
1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Miranda Woodland TV series, episode: "Runaway Boy"
1967 Susannah Whately Kelton/Sarah
1967 Annie Justin TV series, episode: "The Prince of Darkness", (parts 1 and 2)
1967 Danger Route
Danger Route
Danger Route is a 1967 British spy film directed by Seth Holt for Amicus Productions and starring Richard Johnson as Jonas Wilde, Carol Lynley and Barbara Bouchet. It was based on Andrew York's 1966 novel The Eliminator that was the working title of the film...

Jocelyn
1967 Elyse Reynolds TV series, episode: "The Believers"
1967 Lynn Hallett TV series, episode: "False Witness"
1968 Journey to the Unknown
Journey to the Unknown
Journey To The Unknown was a British TV anthology series made in 1968, by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. It has a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme. It featured both British and American actors...

Eve TV series, episode: "Eve"
1968 Dilly Shanks TV series, episode: "Hell Hath No Fury"
1968 Shadow on the Land Abigail 'Abby' Tyler TV movie
1968 Jo Hudson TV movie
1969 It Takes a Thief Michelle TV series, episode: "Boom at the Top"
1969 Robin Sherwood
1969 Once You Kiss a Stranger Diana
1969–1970 Sylvia Cartwright TV series, episodes: "Pilot" (1969) and "Sylvia" (1970)
1970 Judith Walters TV series, episode: "Giants Never Kneel"
1970 Brooke TV series, episode: "Who Killed Kindness?"
1970 Norwood
Norwood (film)
Norwood is a 1970 film that reunites True Grit co-stars Glen Campbell and Kim Darby, also featuring Joe Namath. It was based on the book of the same title, written by Charles Portis , but updated from the original 1950s setting to 1970.The film marked the final screen appearance of actor Jack...

Yvonne Phillips
1971 Weekend of Terror Sister Meredith
1971 Mannix
Mannix
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors...

Dorothy Kinman TV series, episode: "Voices in the Dark"
1971 Crosscurrent Kathy Cooper TV movie
1972 Gail Foster TV movie
1972 Night Gallery
Night Gallery
Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although...

Jenny Tarraday TV series, episode: "The Waiting Room/Last Rites for a Dead Druid"
1972 Gail Sumner TV series, episode: "The House That Cried Murder"
1972 Beware! The Blob
Beware! The Blob
Beware! The Blob is a 1972 sequel to horror science-fiction film The Blob. The film was directed by Larry Hagman. The screenplay was penned by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods III, based on a story by Jack H. Harris and Richard Clair...

Leslie
1972 Nonnie Parry
1973 Cotter Leah
1973 Great Mysteries Elizabeth Ann Zachary TV series, episode: "Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl"
1974 Janet Keegan TV series, episode: "The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit" (parts 1 and 2)
1974 Irene Turner TV movie
1974 Cora TV series, episodes: "Dream by Dreaming" and "Dear Cora I'm Going to Kill You"
1975 Death Stalk Cathy Webster TV movie
1975 Thriller
Thriller (UK TV series)
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast...

Suzy Martin TV series, episode: "If It's a Man, Hang Up"
1976 Wendy Rittenhouse
1976 Quincy M.E. Lynn Dressler TV series, episode: "Who's Who in Neverland"
1976 Police Woman
Police Woman (TV series)
Police Woman is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.-Synopsis:...

TV series, episode: "Trial by Prejudice"
1976 Flood! Abbie Adams TV movie
1977 Barbara Nicholson
1977 Kojak
Kojak
Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...

Polly Ames TV series, episode: "Kiss It All Goodbye"
1977 Bad Georgia Road Molly Golden
1977 Having Babies II Sally Magee TV movie
1977–1984 Fantasy Island
Fantasy Island
Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.-Original series:...

various characters TV series, 11 episodes
1978 Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...

Karen Baker/Valerie Bates TV series, episode: "Angel in Blue"
1978 Cops and Robin Dr. Alice Alcott TV movie
1978 Richie Brockelman, Private Eye TV series, episode: "A Title on the Door and a Carpet on the Floor"
1978 Dr. Claire McCauley TV movie
1978 Sword of Justice
Sword of Justice
A Sword of Justice, or executioner's sword, was used by trained executioners for carrying out capital punishment in many cultures. Given their special 'ceremonial' purpose, they were usually very well-made of the highest quality metal and were extremely sharp...

Cyndy Rupert TV series, episode: "The Skywayman"
1978 Annabelle West
1979 Carol Gilmore TV series, episode: "Dream Ship/Best of Friends/Aftermath"
1979 H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come
H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come
H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come is a Canadian science fiction motion picture first released in May 1979.Although credited to H. G. Wells, the film takes only its title and some character names from The Shape of Things to Come, Wells' speculative novel from 1933. The plot bears no...

Nikki
1980 Willow B: Women in Prison Claire Hastings TV movie
1980 June Wilson TV series, episode: "Mystery at the Zoo"
1980 Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...

Lisa Gallo TV series, episode: "Island Angels"
1981 Best of Friends Marge Adams TV movie
1981 Hart to Hart
Hart to Hart
Hart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who also moonlighted as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg...

Ann Marie Drake TV series, episode: "Hartland Express"
1982 Baker's Dozen TV series, episode: "I Was Told You Were a Racetrack"
1983 Vigilante
Vigilante (film)
Vigilante is a 1983 film directed by William Lustig. It stars Robert Forster and Fred Williamson.-Plot:New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets...

Assistant D.A. Mary Fletcher
1983 Ivy Morris TV series, episode: "Pleasure Isle"
1983 Hotel
Hotel (TV series)
Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty....

Zane Elliott TV series, episode: "Faith, Hope and Charity"
1984 Tales of the Unexpected
Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)
Tales of the Unexpected is a British television series originally aired between 1979 and 1988, made by Anglia Television for ITV. Filming began in 1978.The series was an anthology of different tales...

Elizabeth TV series, episode: "The Gift of Beauty"
1984 Finder of Lost Loves
Finder of Lost Loves
Finder of Lost Loves is an American drama series aired by the ABC network during the 1984-1985 season.-Synopsis:After Cary Maxwell's wife Kate dies, he decides to set up a private detective agency specializing in reuniting clients with a former loved one...

Karen Davis TV series, episode: "Forgotten Melodies"
1985 Fox Mystery Theater Sylvia Daly TV series, episode: "In Possession"
1986 Balboa Erin Blakely
1987 Dark Tower Tilly Ambrose
1987 Night Heat
Night Heat
Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...

Grace Barnett TV series, episode: "Grace"
1988 Blackout Esther Boyle
1990 Monsters Dr. Elizabeth Porter TV series, episode: "Stressed Environment"
1990 Spirits Sister Jillian
1990 Another World
Another World (TV series)
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...

Judge Dunlay TV series
1991 Howling VI: The Freaks
Howling VI: The Freaks
Howling VI: The Freaks is a 1991 direct-to-video horror sequel to The Howling. It was directed by Hope Perello, from the screenplay by Kevin Rock....

Miss Eddington video
1996 Neon Signs Faith
1999 Drowning on Dry Land
1999 Flypaper Housewife in Kitchen uncredited
2003 Gramma Irene
2006 Vic Carrie Lee short subject

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