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Ina Balin
Actor
Died June 20, 1990 (52 years)
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Ina Balin (November 12, 1937 – June 20, 1990) was an American actress on Broadway and in film.
Born as Ina Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, she first appeared on television on The Perry Como Show. She also did summer stock, which led to roles on Broadway, and in 1959, she won the "Theatre World Award" for her performance in the Broadway comedy, A Majority of One, starring Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. That same year, she landed her first film role in The Black Orchid, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn.
A year later, Balin was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress — Motion Picture for her performance opposite Paul Newman in From the Terrace. She also appeared in The Young Doctors.
In 1961, she appeared as Pilar Graile in The Comancheros with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. Co-starring with Jerry Lewis in the 1964 hit comedy The Patsy, Balin also had a secondary, but important part in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told. She co-starred with Elvis Presley in his 1969 film Charro!
Balin guest-starred on dozens of television shows, including Bonanza, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Battlestar Galactica, Get Smart, Ironside, Quincy, M.E. and Magnum, P.I. She appeared with Joseph Cotten, Fernando Lamas and Dean Jagger in the 1969 made-for-television movie The Lonely Profession.
In 1970, Balin toured Vietnam with the USO on the first of many trips to the war-torn region. She co-starred in the 1971 film The Projectionist, which marked the screen debut of Rodney Dangerfield. In 1975, she aided in the evacuation of orphans during the fall of Saigon; eventually, she adopted three of these orphaned children. In 1980, she played herself in a made-for-television movie based on these experiences, The Children of An Lac.
While working on The Children of An Lac, she became acquainted with Christy Marx, who at the time worked as a producer's liaison for various television programs. According to Marx, she used Balin's story as a basis for a character in the animated show Jem when she later became a writer. The character of Ba Nee is based on Balin's adopted daughter, Ba-Nhi. Ba Nee's obsession with and struggle to find her birth father are the focus of several episodes of Jem. She co-starred in the comedy The Comeback Trail with the lead actor and director from The Projectionist.
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Filmography
| 2016 | Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown · as actor |
| 1989 | That's Adequate · as Sister Mary Enquirer |
| 1986 | Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter · as Regine |
| 1985 | Hostage Flight · as Rita |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Stella Gambini |
| 1984 | Airwolf (TV Series) · as Ingrid Kendall |
| 1982 | The Comeback Trail · as Julie Thomas |
| 1981 | Code Red (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1980 | Galyon · as Unknown |
| 1980 | The Children of an Lac · as Ina Balin |
| 1980 | Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1978 | Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) · as Siress Tinia |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1975 | The Invisible Man (1975) (TV Series) · as Katrina Storoff |
| 1975 | Wonder Woman (TV Series) · as Dr. Koren |
| 1974 | The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) · as Cheryl Osborne |
| 1973 | The Don Is Dead · as Nella |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Francesca Scarlotti |
| 1973 | Police Story (TV Series) · as Martha Coleman |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1970 | The Projectionist · as The Girl |
| 1969 | |
| 1969 | The Desperate Mission · as Otilla Ruiz |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Thalia |
| 1968 | It Takes a Thief (TV Series) · as Dina |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1967 | Mannix (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told · as Martha of Bethany |
| 1965 | Get Smart (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Katina Elyti |
| 1964 | The Patsy · as Ellen Betz |
| 1964 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) · as Litchka |
| 1963 | The Lieutenant (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1961 | The Comancheros · as Pilar Graile |
| 1961 | The Young Doctors · as Cathy Hunt |
| 1961 | The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series) · as Valerie Ware |
| 1960 | From the Terrace · as Natalie Benziger |
| 1959 | |
| 1958 | The Black Orchid · as Mary Valente |
| 1956 | As The World Turns (TV Series) · as Rosalind Hatchley |