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Joan Staley
Actor
Born May 20, 1940Died November 24, 2019 (79 years)
Lovely Joan Staley was born Joan McConchie on May 20, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and started taking violin lessons by the time she was three years old. Living in Los Angeles, her prodigious talent was obvious. She soon joined a baby orchestra in Los Angeles and, within a few years, became a Junior Symphony performer at age six. She also made her unbilled specialty debut on film as a child violinist in The Emperor Waltz (1948), starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine.
Her father's business had the family traveling throughout Europe growing up but she later relocated to California and briefly enrolled at Chapman College in the Los Angeles area. Becoming a stunning, statuesque beauty, she re-directed herself back to a career in show business, singing backup on records for Sam Phillips and working as a secretary to make ends meet while appearing in local L.A. stage productions.
In 1958, she was approached by a photographer and eventually posed for Playboy magazine, becoming November's centerfold. The attention warranted her an MGM contract and cheesecake bit parts came her way with such movies as Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). She appeared front-and-center à la Raquel Welch as a scantily-clad prehistoric turn-on in Valley of the Dragons (1961), but nothing much came of it.
Following her perky love interests in the mediocre western Gunpoint (1966), starring Audie Murphy, and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), a Don Knotts comedy film, and guest appearances on such TV shows as "Rango," "Pistols and Petticoats, "Mission: Impossible," "Ironside" and "Adam-12," Joan's career went on hiatus after a horse-riding accident.
Briefly married to Chuck Staley, her second husband is former Universal exec Dale Sheets. Twins were born to them, a boy and girl, on March 24, 1971. Since then, with the exception of a brief appearance on an episode of "Dallas" in 1982, Joan remained with family life and other outside pursuits. She died on November 24, 2019.
- IMDb mini biography by: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net
Her father's business had the family traveling throughout Europe growing up but she later relocated to California and briefly enrolled at Chapman College in the Los Angeles area. Becoming a stunning, statuesque beauty, she re-directed herself back to a career in show business, singing backup on records for Sam Phillips and working as a secretary to make ends meet while appearing in local L.A. stage productions.
In 1958, she was approached by a photographer and eventually posed for Playboy magazine, becoming November's centerfold. The attention warranted her an MGM contract and cheesecake bit parts came her way with such movies as Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). She appeared front-and-center à la Raquel Welch as a scantily-clad prehistoric turn-on in Valley of the Dragons (1961), but nothing much came of it.
Following her perky love interests in the mediocre western Gunpoint (1966), starring Audie Murphy, and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), a Don Knotts comedy film, and guest appearances on such TV shows as "Rango," "Pistols and Petticoats, "Mission: Impossible," "Ironside" and "Adam-12," Joan's career went on hiatus after a horse-riding accident.
Briefly married to Chuck Staley, her second husband is former Universal exec Dale Sheets. Twins were born to them, a boy and girl, on March 24, 1971. Since then, with the exception of a brief appearance on an episode of "Dallas" in 1982, Joan remained with family life and other outside pursuits. She died on November 24, 2019.
- IMDb mini biography by: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net
Joan Staley Filmography
| 1978 | Dallas (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1969 | Mission Impossible Versus the Mob · as Ginny |
| 1968 | Adam-12 (TV Series) · as Jenny |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Millie O'neil |
| 1967 | Rango (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Pistols 'n' Petticoats (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible (TV Series) · as Ginny |
| 1966 | The Jean Arthur Show (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Gunpoint · as Uvalde / Bonnie Mitchell |
| 1966 | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken · as Alma Parker |
| 1966 | Batman (1966) (TV Series) · as Okie Annie |
| 1965 | Laredo (TV Series) |
| 1964 | Roustabout · as Marge |
| 1964 | Kisses for My President · as Blonde (uncredited) |
| 1964 | Broadside (TV Series) · as Roberta Love |
| 1964 | Kissin' Cousins · as Jonesy (uncredited) |
| 1964 | The Munsters (TV Series) |
| 1963 | Wives and Lovers · as Blonde At Party |
| 1963 | A New Kind of Love · as Danish Stewardess |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Marla |
| 1963 | Johnny Cool · as Suzy Blakely |
| 1963 | The New Phil Silvers Show (TV Series) · as Darlene |
| 1963 | Burke's Law (TV Series) · as Laura |
| 1962 | McHale's Navy (TV Series) · as Sally Murdock |
| 1962 | Stoney Burke (TV Series) |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Maggie |
| 1962 | Cape Fear · as Waitress |
| 1961 | Valley of the Dragons · as Deena |
| 1961 | Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) · as Claire |
| 1961 | Breakfast at Tiffany's · as Blonde In Low-Cut Cream Dress (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Frontier Circus (TV Series) · as Anna-Marie |
| 1961 | The New Breed (TV Series) · as Sophie |
| 1961 | The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series) · as Valerie Blake |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Ann Farmer |
| 1961 | 87th Precinct (TV Series) |
| 1961 | The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series) · as Private Nurse |
| 1961 | The Ladies Man · as Working Girl |
| 1961 | Gun Fight · as Nora Blaine |
| 1961 | The Asphalt Jungle (TV Series) · as Alice |
| 1961 | Dondi · as Sally |
| 1961 | All in a Night's Work · as Blonde |
| 1960 | Midnight Lace · as Malcolm's Date At Opera |
| 1960 | The Tab Hunter Show (TV Series) · as Blonde |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Gloria |
| 1960 | Ocean's Eleven · as Helen (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Bells Are Ringing · as Blonde In Susanswerphone Ad |
| 1959 | Shotgun Slade (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1959 | The Detectives (1959) (TV Series) · as Stewardess |
| 1959 | Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Bourbon Street Beat (TV Series) · as Blonde Interviewed By Kenny |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Saloon Girl |
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| 1959 | The Lawless Years (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Marcia Stone |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) |
| 1957 | The Real McCoys (TV Series) · as Jeannie |
| 1957 | Maverick (TV Series) · as Saloon Girl On Stairs |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Judith Ford |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Polly Ann Hill |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Clarissa |
| 1952 | The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (TV Series) · as Joan |
| 1950 | The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) · as Interior Decorator |
| 1948 | The Emperor Waltz · as Child Violinist |
| 2014 | Darcey Bussell's Looking for Audrey · as Self - Actress |
| 1957 | The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) · as Self - Hollywood Deb Star |