Deborah Raffin

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Deborah Iona Raffin (born March 13, 1953 in Los Angeles , California - November 21, 2012 ) was an American actress and producer.

Life

Deborah Raffin was born in 1953 as one of three children to actress Trudy Marshall and her husband, Phillip J. Raffin, a realtor. Her two siblings are Bill Raffin and Judy Holston. She attended Valley College in California.

Raffin began her acting career at the age of 20. In 1981 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role in Touched by Love . However, she received a nomination for a Golden Raspberry for this very role . Since her acting career did not seem particularly successful at the beginning, she tried her luck as a producer (e.g. for futures sports ). After Susan Dey, Raffin was slated for the role of Sandy in Grease . However, the producer Allan Carr met at a dinner in Helen Reddy's house the Australian singer Olivia Newton-John and these got the role.

Raffin gained general fame through her role in the television series A Heavenly Family , in which she played Julie Camden (later Camden-Hastings ) from 1996 to 2006 .

Raffin was married to the film producer Michael Viner since 1974 . The marriage was divorced in 2005.

She died of leukemia in November 2012 at the age of 59 .

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

  • 1973: forty carats (40 carats)
  • 1973: The circumnavigation (The Dove)
  • 1975: Once Is Not Enough
  • 1977: Witches' Sabbath (The Sentinel)
  • 1983: Easy Flyer (Dance of the Dwarfs)
  • 1985: Death Wish III - The Avenger of New York
  • 1988: Noble House (television multipart)
  • 1989: Night of the fox
  • 1991: Scanners II
  • 1992: The sands of time
  • 1993: Tomorrow morning, God willing ... (Morning Glory)
  • 1996: Home song
  • 1996-2006: A Heavenly Family (17 episodes as Reverend Eric Camden's sister Julie Camden-Hastings)

As a director

  • 1996: Family Blessings (TV movie)

As a film producer

  • 1988: In the Shadow of the Gods (Windmills of the Gods) (TV split)
  • 1996: Home Song (TV movie)
  • 1997: Oscar Wilde
  • 1997: Here You Have Your Child (Unwed Father) (TV movie)
  • 1998: Futuresport - Fight for your life! (TV movie)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deborah Raffin, actress and audiobook entrepreneur, dies at 59
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geostan.ca
  3. ↑ http://wayoutwest.org/archive/37-4.html
  4. ↑ http://movies.yahoo.com/person/deborah-raffin/

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personal data
SURNAME Raffin, Deborah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raffin, Deborah Iona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2012
Place of death Los Angeles , California