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Jackie DeShannon
ActorBorn August 21, 1941 (83 years)
Jackie DeShannon is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards, as both singer and composer. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period. She is best known as the singer of "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" and, as the composer of "When You Walk in the Room" and "Bette Davis Eyes," which were hits for The Searchers and Kim Carnes, respectively. Since 2009, DeShannon has been an entertainment broadcast correspondent reporting Beatles band members' news for the radio program Breakfast with the Beatles.
Filmography
| 1969 | Playboy After Dark (TV Series) · as Singer |
| 1968 | The Jim Nabors Hour (TV Series) |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Leora |
| 1967 | C'mon, Let's Live a Little · as Judy Grant |
| 1966 | Intimacy · as Carrie Lane |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West (TV Series) · as Torrey Elder |
| 1964 | Surf Party · as Junior Griffith |
| 1962 | Jackie Gleason and his American Scene Magazine (TV Series) · as Guest Vocalist |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Mag Connor |
| 1960 | My Three Sons (TV Series) |