Young Actors/Actresses That Disappeared After the 1960's

Sharon Tate just disappeared in the late 60's.

R1 Wow

Some would say Sharon Tate (sadly) became even more famous after she "disappeared", r1.

Being murdered doesn’t constitute “disappeared”.

Does Christopher Jones ring a bell?

No, but Reni Santoni does

Elizabeth Hartman

A lot of them from the 50s and 60s quit and got married and had a family and didn’t look back.

Tommy Kirk

Jon Provost

Christopher Jones

Sue Lyon

Samantha Eggar worked steadily into the mid aughts. Maybe not in A-list projects, but she certainly didn't disappear.

OP Perhaps if you appealed to Muriel, she would delete this thread for you.

Samantha eggar was even in cronenberg’s the brood in 1978 so she really doesn’t belong here.

Sue Lyon was in some weird Spanish movies in the 70s. Murder in a Blue World was a Clockwork Orange ripoff where she played a psycho nurse and Angela which was one of Gloria Grahame’s last roles. Sue suffered from bipolar disorder and was put on lithium. It’s rumored that she slept with the producer of Lolita when she was 14. She was really bitter about Lolita saying it ruined her life. I read that she was friends with Michele Philips who also auditioned for the role of Lolita. She had a daughter with a black football player, Nona Harrison. She spoke about her struggles dealing with her mother, who kicked her out when she was a teen. They remained estranged until Sue’s death recently.

R15 Sounds like a POS

SueLyon was absolutely brilliant in Lolitia. To think a 14-year-old could bring such nuance, and intelligence to her role is simply amazing. Too bad she couldn't handle the promotional part, and by her own admission jeopardized a career

Sarah Miles, the lead in Ryan's Daughter.

Sarah Miles worked fairly steadily for another 20+ years after Ryan's Daughter. She was a lead in films such as The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, and had prominent supporting roles in films like Hope & Glory, Steaming, The Big Sleep, Venom and White Mischief.

Britt Ekland.....anytime 1960's ingenues are discussed her name comes up but she was never heard from again past that decade.

Debbie Watson

Sandra Dee

Dolores Hart

Dorothy Provine

Most of the people I could name didn't really disappear, like Joby Baker - they went on to character roles. Carroll Baker didn't disappear completely but her stardom sure dimmed after the 60s. Connie Francis was the star of the first movie I ever saw, Where The Boys Meet The Girls. As an actress, anyway, she was done by the 70s.

Monte Markham (70s, really). Richard Beymer (until Twin Peaks).

Tippi Walker, Susan Oliver, Kasey Rogers.

Pat Suzuki

Miss Pamela Tiffin, who, with Ann-Margret and Carol Lynley, formed a trio of young lovelies in "The Pleasure Seekers" (1964), seemed to me to be a strictly 1960s starlet. It turns out she was making films in Italy, the last one in 1974.

My mom had a Pat Suzuki record that we played all the time when I was a kid. PS sang Rockabye Your Baby on it, and I think Me And My Shadow.

[quote]Britt Ekland.....anytime 1960's ingenues are discussed her name comes up but she was never heard from again past that decade.

You clearly weren't around in the 70s.

A lot of these were minimally talented starlets coasting on looks and connections. Britt Ekland? Seriously?

Tammy Grimes

So, r32?

Terence Stamp disappeared and then came back v. commercial, much later on.

I echo R34's sentiments. So?

Tammy didn't disappear, r33. She was still a name on Broadway.

What fuckin' piece of ass Britt Ekland was. Jerked off to her constantly. Unfortunately she hit the wall real bad

Inger Stevens

Leonard Whiting (Romeo And Juliet). Peter McEnery (from Victim, 1961, and The Moon Spinners, 1964).

It was the same with pop music - masses of people disappeared after the number changed to 70.

[quote]Gone, baby, gone!

Gee, r39, I wonder why.

Françoise Dorléac (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Cul-de-Sac)

The young actors of the 60s were largely the clean-cut, nicely coiffed, somewhat glamorous types who had the last of the studio contracts (mostly at Warner Bros.). Most of them went out of style quickly in the very late 60s and the 70s. A lot of it was due to The New Hollywood. Plus, the 70s in movies and TV didn't afford all that much employment for younger actors, the movies and TV shows were on the mature side, unlike the 80s and the teen/20s invasion.

Peter Duel

[quote]Françoise Dorléac (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Cul-de-Sac)

You know she died, right?

[quote]Plus, the 70s in movies and TV didn't afford all that much employment for younger actors, the movies and TV shows were on the mature side

now it's all for the young and imbecilic.

Pamela Franklin (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) - got her kit off and then disappeared

Britt Ekland only vanished for US audiences, she's worked pretty steadily in UK TV for years (mainly reality) and also on stage here.

R47 TV on a night in high school might be spent watching old-guy detectives like Cannon, Ironside, or Barnaby Jones. On my first date saw a John Wayne movie, for my second date I saw That's Entertainment.

Poncie Ponce

Deborah Walley

Pamela Austin

Apropros thread...

Rita Tushingham had a big career in the 60s but never got the big starring roles after that. Love her.

Mae West

Yvette Mimieux, passed away this past January, she was 80.

Yvette was of French and Mexican descent. Her last film was Lady Boss, in 1992.

Peter McEnery, who is now 82, was supposedly in a bad motorcycle crash during the height of his career, this might have affected him getting other acting jobs.

Vanessa Redgrave

Sandra Dee...

Did she do anything in the '80s?

Edgar didn't disappear

Bridget Bardot

^ Meant Eggar

Oliver Reed's career slowly vanished in the early 1970's.

Not without Shelley Winters dumping water all over his for his sexist comments on the Johnny Carson "Tonight Show"!

all over "him"

Cindy Pepper

Sean Garrison

Geoffrey Horne

Jeremy Brett.

He didn't really have work until Sherlock Holmes

Kim Darby. To me, this thread topic is always about Kim Darby?!

Catherine Burns

Jeremy Brett did a lot of stage work. I saw him opposite Lynn Redgrave as the leads (with top-billed Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert really in supporting roles) in "Aren't We All?" on Broadway by Frederick Lonsdale (who was pretty much the British Neil Simon of his time). Actually Neil Simon is starting to become another Frederick Lonsdale, with rapidly diminishing productions. Damn!

Elizabeth Taylor disappeared under a fuckton of lard

Keir Dullea

R60 Drank

Gary Lockwood

Donna Loren

Anjanette comer - by the 70s it seems the good offers had stopped. Same with DL fave Joanna Pettet. These were actresses who were interesting to watch and probably chose to focus on other things in their lives husbands, kids... Not everybody wants to be the biggest movie star maybe less so after they’ve had a taste of stardom.

Elizabeth Hartman had a gap of a few years between The Fixer in 1968 and The Beguiled in 1971 and then seemed to do very little after that.

Alexandra Hay seemed to be up and coming the 60s with small but memorable parts in Stanley Kramer’s GWCTD with Hepburn and Model Shop directed by Jacques Demy.

Sarah Miles of course doesn’t belong on this thread nor does Eggar they still had some big films ahead of them.

Was Barbara Parkins heard of much after the 60s?

Jay North

Philippe Forquet

[quote]Elizabeth Hartman had a gap of a few years between The Fixer in 1968 and The Beguiled in 1971 and then seemed to do very little after that.

She was mentally fragile and killed herself in 1987.

Pia Degermark

Poor Elizabeth Hartman. So gifted. Aside from actually getting cast in some good films she was also considered for Rosemary’s Baby and Sterile Cuckoo. Her performance in A Patch of Blue is brilliant.

But wasn’t she a poor man’s Sandy Dennis?

Christopher Jones

[quote] Oliver Reed's career slowly vanished in the early 1970's.

Do you people ever do any research before wasting space on here?

r85 - no

Mary Robin Redd

Sharon Hugueny

R79 What "big films" did Samantha Eggar have ahead of her after the 60s? She kept working, most notably in the TV series of Anna And The King (a flop in the early 70s) , but mostly she was in TV movies.

Jeremy Brett died of congestive heart failure in 1995, that could be one reason why you haven't seen him.

Brett was married to actress Anna Massey (daughter of actor Raymond Massey). Brett and Massey divorced during November 1962 after she claimed that he had left her for a man.

In 1976, Brett married Joan Sullivan Wilson, who died of cancer in July 1985. Brett was then in a romantic relationship with the actor Gary Bond, who died exactly one month after Brett. In the late 1970s, Brett was involved with American actor Paul Shenar.

In the latter part of 1986, Brett exhibited wild mood swings that alarmed his family and friends, who persuaded him to seek diagnosis and treatment for manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder.

Brett was prescribed lithium tablets to fight this condition. He suspected that he would never be cured, and would have to live with his malady, look for the signs of his disorder, and then deal with it.

R95 Well, 1995 is a quarter of a century after the 60s.

Keir Dullea Gone Tomorrow

Arnold Stang. Ring any bells?

Michael Parks

Delores Hart who joined a nunnery.

Christina Crawford...no acting credits after 1972.

Ewa Aulin

Lynette Winter

Elizabeth McGovern, who seemed to be in a lot of hot properties in the late 70s/early 80s disappeared it seemed for more than 30 years until "Downton Abbey".

Oh, sorry, if you just wanted from the 1960s...

[quote] Yvette Mimieux, passed away this past January, she was 80.

Mimieux married well with husbands 2 and 3, so it was easy for her to basically retire. Her second husband was well-known director, Stanley Donen. And her third husband was Southern California "corporate housing magnate," Howard Ruby, founder of Oakwood Worldwide. Just about everyone in Los Angeles knows someone who's lived at "Oakwood" .. lol. .. The couple's villa in Bel Air sold the year before her death for $35 million.

Carol Lynley mentioned above in 1964s The Pleasure Seekers was in Blue Denim, Hound Dog Man and Holiday for Lovers in the 50s and in the 60s she appeared in Return to Peyton Place, Harlow, Bunny Lake is Missing, The Cardinal, Shock Treatment, Under the Yum Yum Tree, The Shuttered Room, Once You Kiss a Stranger and in 1972s The Poseiden Adventure but after that her big screen appearances were few and she mostly did television.

Beverly Adams, who married Vidal Sassoon

Werefore art thou?

[quote] ... but after that her big screen appearances were few and she mostly did television.

Did any actress appear in "Fantasy Island" more times than Carol Lynley? She was in the pilot, and I think she showed up in every season, sometimes more than once!

Wayne Maunder was hot, he died in 2018 at 80 of heart disease.

Wayne's final film role was in 1982 in Porky’s. In August 2018, Luke Perry was cast to portray Maunder in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

I can’t believe James Stacy was married to Kim Darby, he was a very attractive man. Kim always gave off lesbian vibes.

James was previously married to Connie Stevens. IIRC, James became paralyzed in a motorcycle accident.

Kim Darby admitted her career declined after the 1970s partly because she became an amphetamine addict.

"I can’t believe James Stacy was married to Kim Darby, he was a very attractive man. Kim always gave off lesbian vibes."

He was a fucked-up pedo

Don't forget Elizabeth Baur!

James Stacy wasn't paralyzed. He lost his arm and leg (not sure which side) when a drunk driver sideswiped him when he was on his motorcycle.

What does Fabian look like these days? He was gorgeous for a long time.

Very sad life. His girlfriend was killed in the accident in which he lost his left arm and leg after which he was confined to a wheelchair. He became an alcoholic and attempted suicide by throwing himself off a cliff in Hawaii after which he spent 6 years in prison for molestation.

Charmian Carr

Jon Voight’s ex wife - the original Liesl - Lauri Peters.

Preshy Marker

I hadn't seen British beauty Alexandra Bastedo in anything since the '60s. So imagine my surprise when she turned up on AbFab as Penny Caspar-Morse.

Linda Cristal

Excuse me...ex-c-u-u-s-e me...

James Darren

Marianne McAndrew

James Darren R122 committed career suicide when he dumped The Chairman of the Board's daughter.

And here's to you Mrs. Robinson, Jilly loves you more than you should know, ho-ho-ho

James Darren was a series regular on mid-80s prime time show, T.J. Hooker.

Wish some of them had..

James Stacy molested an 11 year old girl.

That wasn’t James Darren. It was Tommy Sands, R124.

John Leyton

Patricia Owens (Island In The Sun, No Down Payment, The Fly, Sayonara, The Law And Jake Wade)

R115, before his life completely unraveled, James Stacy was unbelievably hot. He reminded me so much of another young actor who belongs in this thread, Michael Callen.

I think Stacy was the last person murdered on the old Perry Mason series.

Michael Callen just died.

MAMBO!

Joann Pflug

Well, r135, she did herself no favors by not changing her name.

This sis a longshot, but does anyone remember a Sixties actor named William Boyett. I just saw him in a small role on Perry Mason this morning, and he might have had a small role on Adam-12. Unbelievably built and hot.

R137, yes. He was a regular on Adam-12.

Trudy Ames - Ursula in BYE BYE BIRDIE. Always cast as the goofy girlfriend. Unflattering ponytail and thick bangs -

Lori Martin - the daughter in the original CAPE FEAR, then cast in the TV series NATIONAL VELVET as Velvet. Looked a tad like young Liz.

Cynthia Pepper - star of MARGIE, ran one season on ABC, about a teenager in the 20s

Susan Gordon - actually started as a child actress, very good as Danny Kaye's daughter in THE FIVE PENNIES, did a fair amount of TV - Ben Casey, My Three Sons, etc

Monty Markham has always been acting, maybe not in staring roles. He has 6 or 7 projects just for 2022. Joanna Pettet, from what I remember, was good friends with Sharon Tate. The murders so terrified her she left California.

Yvonne Craig

Hayley Mills

Jerry Mathers

R20 except for being a Bond girl in the 70s, dating Rod Stewart in the late 70s (and contributing to “tonight’s the night”) and Slim Jim Phantom in the 80s.

May Britt

Millie Perkins

R64 Some people here are seriously lacking in…well, just “lacking.” Oliver Reed worked until the day he died, literally. His scenes in 2000’s Gladiator had to be completed by doubles and creative editing.

R135 haha wasn’t she married to Chuck Woolery? I know nothing else about her / crept I’ve seen her on some Match Game reruns: is she a religious nut too?

I'm watching Mary Ann Mobley playing the flirt with Monte Markham right now on Mission:Impossible, r140.

Maggie Macnamara

Millie Perkins worked until 2006. She took some extended breaks but worked fairly steadily from the 80s until her retirement.

Mary Ann Mobley is so talkative on episodes of "Match Game" that host Gene Rayburn not so subtly has to tell her to give her answer to the question already, on a number of occasions.

By "disappeared" I assume OP means: seemed to disappear. I don't think he means the person never worked again, or it would be a short thread. And yeah, I can go on IMDB or Wikipedia too, and tell you someone kept working until the 2000s. Nonetheless, people who were celebrities and had starring roles, then ended up in small roles or unimportant projects, could be said to have disappeared as far as the general public is concerned.

Ina Balin

Yoko OH NO!

WHET to that fresh-freckled faced ingenue Linda Lavin?

Lisa Geritsen and Denise Nickerson

R156 Someone just put a thread up about her.

The boy from Mary Poppins

Joanna Pettet was married to Alex Cord, he was hot.

Joanna and Sharon Tate resembled each other.

Joanna Pettet, was born in England, did she move back there?

Joanna Pettet was close friends with Alan Bates.

In 2003, actor Alan Bates bequeathed Pettet £95,000 (equivalent to £159,787 in 2021) upon his death. The two had been friends for many years and Pettet provided support and companionship during his final months after he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2002.

Pettet was quoted as saying: "It was a very touching gesture because he had done everything while he was in hospital to make sure I would be looked after following his death."

Some claimed Joanna was Alan's "secret mistress", Alan was gay.

Alan and Joanna on Broadway.

Mimsy Farmer

R160 Pettet posts on FB and lives in Temecula, California.

She made the local news last year due to a freak accident she suffered.

[quote]r38 What fuckin' piece of ass Britt Ekland was.

Where is her Phaedra? Her Lady Macbeth?

Karen Valentine

Elke Sommer

Most of the cast of Room 222

[quote]Most of the cast of Room 222

Lloyd Haynes died of lung cancer in 1987. He was 52.

Lloyd's Room 222 co-star, Denise Nicholas, was in attendance at Haynes' small private funeral in San Diego County. During his illness, Haynes was co-starring in the television soap opera General Hospital as Mayor Ken Morgan and was commuting from Coronado to Hollywood for filming, as he was working up until the time of his death.

Denise Nicholas had a quite a tumultuous private life, she was married to singer Bill Withers, Bill beat the shit out of her.

From Wiki: Nicholas married soul singer-songwriter Bill Withers on January 17, 1973. Their relationship had been volatile prior to their nuptials. In November 1972, Nicholas reportedly told authorities that Withers flew to Tucson, Arizona, where she was filming The Soul of Nigger Charley, and assaulted her in a motel room after she threatened to end their relationship, but she refused to press charges. She filed for divorce in April 1974, and their divorce was finalized in December 1974.

In February 1980, Nicholas's younger sister Michele Burgen, a 26-year-old editor for Ebony magazine, was shot to death. Her body was found in a locked rental car at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Nicholas and her older brother Otto searched the country for clues, but no suspect was ever taken to trial.

Denise' last acting gigs were on TV in My Wife and Kids (2001) as Ann Kyle and a film, Proud (2004) as Gordon's Mother.

Haya Harareet

Daliah Lavi

Troy Donahue

The guy who played Wally on Ozzie And Harriet (Skip Young).

Susan Kohner should have had a bigger career after Imitation of Life.

R171 She probably would have but she retired in 1964 when she married fashion designer John Weitz. Only a few years after Imitation of Life.

And gave birth to Chris and Paul Weitz who gave the world 'American Pie' among other projects.

R173 So they're the ones.

Pamela Tiffin was funny in that Billy Wilder film “One, Two, Three” with James Cagney and a certain hostess with the mostess.

Mark Lester

That Joanna Petter story is giving me Margot Kidder/Anne He he vibes.

R175 Perle Mesta?

Jill Haworth.

Millie Perkins.

Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow.

I've read the Keir Dullea joke several times now. (Didn't Noel Coward say it?)

Barbara Parkins

[Quote] (Didn't Noel Coward say it?)

Yes, R180 Dullea and Coward were both in Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing

R182 Yup, I knew that.

Jill Haworth died at 65 in NYC in January of 2011.

This made m throw up in my mouth, at 19 she dated Aaron Spelling, who was 42 at the time. ewwww

What was Jill Haworth's problem? Traumatised by the casting couch?

My dad was a catch and a stud!

R184 Over the age of consent in all 50 states.

[Quote] at 19 she dated Aaron Spelling, who was 42 at the time

You mean, I could have looked like Jill Haworth!?

R188 No, you probably would have still looked like Aaron.

Haworth got her career stalled in a way by a negative review of her Sally Bowles in Walter Kerr's review of "Cabaret"; he otherwise raved about the show. May others thought she was brilliant. She said she stayed in the show for over 2 years partly as a fuck you to Kerr.

Many others, that is