Madlyn Rhue

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Madlyn Rhue (born October 3, 1935 in Washington, DC , † December 16, 2003 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ; actually: Madeleine Roche ) was an American actress .

biography

Madleine Roche was born in Washington, DC. Her mother was a businesswoman and raised her and her older sister alone. After several moves, including to Baltimore , the family moved to Los Angeles, where Roche graduated from high school and studied theater at Los Angeles City College. She later moved to college in New York City , where she became an actress.

Madlyn Rhue began her acting career with an appearance on the 1957 television series Whirlybirds . After that and until the end of her work in the film business, she was mainly seen in guest roles in various television series. She only rarely played in cinema productions, for example in the 1961 film 1000 Miles to Yokohama . She had bigger roles in the series Bracken's World , Executive Suite , Fame - The Path to Fame and Time of Longing .

She had suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1977 but continued to work as an actress. She made up excuses for her steadily deteriorating health and kept her illness a secret until the mid-1980s. However, after she was no longer signed for eleven months, she got a bigger role in The Glorious Two in 1987 , where she played a ballistics expert in a wheelchair. She then made her illness public through an advertisement in Variety magazine . She also participated, after some hesitation, in a 1988 advertising campaign for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The poster showing her in a wheelchair has the catch phrase "Even with MS, Madlyn Rhue Is On a Roll".

Her last appearance was in 1996 in an episode of the television series Murder is Her Hobby . In 1998 she moved to a senior citizens' home run by the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills, where she died in 2003 of complications from pneumonia .

From 1962 to 1970 she was married to actor Tony Young . The marriage remained childless.

Filmography (selection)

TV Shows

  • 1958: Whirlybirds (an episode)
  • 1958: The Court of Last Resort (an episode)
  • 1959: Cheyenne (Ellen Lassiter in Prisoner of Moon Mesa , an episode)
  • 1959: Special Agent 7 (an episode)
  • 1958/1959: Have Gun - Will Travel (two episodes)
  • 1959: The Third Man (an episode)
  • 1959: Black Saddle (an episode)
  • 1959: Department M ( M Squad , one episode)
  • 1959: Smoking Colts ( Gunsmoke , an episode)
  • 1959: At the foot of the blue mountains ( Laramie , an episode)
  • 1959–1960: New Orleans, Bourbon Street ( Bourbon Street Beat , two episodes)
  • 1960: Perry Mason (an episode)
  • 1960: In the Last Moment ( The Troubleshooters , an episode)
  • 1960: Outlaws (an episode)
  • 1960: Bonanza (an episode)
  • 1960: Chicago 1930 ( The Untouchables , two episodes)
  • 1960: General Electric Theater (an episode)
  • 1960: Pony Express (Ellen Fairchild in The Last Mile , an episode)
  • 1960: Sugarfoot (Nora Sutton in A Noose for Nora , an episode)
  • 1960: Checkmate (Irene Thorne in Target: Tycoon , an episode)
  • 1960: Gold in Alaska (Fay Loomis in Disaster at Gold Hill , an episode)
  • 1961: Adventures in Paradise (an episode)
  • 1963: Alfred Hitchcock shows ( The Alfred Hitchcock Hour , an episode)
  • 1963: A Thousand Miles of Dust ( Rawhide , an episode)
  • 1963/1971: The People of Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian , two episodes)
  • 1964/1966: On the run ( The Fugitive , two episodes)
  • 1964/1967: Solo for ONKEL ( The Man from UNCLE , two episodes)
  • 1965: Tennis Rackets and Cannons ( I Spy , an episode)
  • 1965: The man with no name ( A Man Called Shenandoah , a series)
  • 1965: Daniel Boone (Ester Moncour in The Hostages , an episode)
  • 1967: Starship Enterprise ( Star Trek , Lt. Marla McGivers in Space Seed , an episode)
  • 1967: The Wild Wild West ( The Wild Wild West , a series)
  • 1967–1974: The Boss ( Ironside , four episodes)
  • 1969–1970: Bracken's World (15 episodes)
  • 1969–1975: Mannix (three episodes)
  • 1970/1973: Hawaii Five-Zero ( Hawaii Five-O , two episodes)
  • 1972: Cobra, Take Over ( Mission: Impossible , an episode)
  • 1974/1976: Cannon (two episodes)
  • 1975/1977: The two with the shoot ( Switch , two episodes)
  • 1976: Starsky & Hutch (Belinda Williams in Losing Streak , an episode)
  • 1976–1977: Executive Suite (18 episodes)
  • 1979: Charlie's Angels ( Charlie's Angels , Georgia in Angels on the Street , a series)
  • 1979: Hard but warm ( Hart to Hart , Charlotte in Max in Flammen , episode 1x08)
  • 1982: Fantasy Island (Lillie Langtry in Legends / The Perfect Gentleman , an episode)
  • 1982-1984: Days of Our Lives ( Days of Our Lives )
  • 1982–1985: Fame - The Road to Fame ( Fame , eight episodes)
  • 1983: CHiPs ( CHiPs Patrol , three episodes)
  • 1987: The Magnificent Two ( Houston Knights , an episode)
  • 1989–1996: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , five episodes)

Television films

  • 1967: Stranger on the Run
  • 1972: The Manhunter (The Manhunter)
  • 1973: Poor Devil
  • 1974: The Sex Symbol
  • 1975: Fatal Diagnosis (Medical Story)
  • 1979: The Best Place to Be
  • 1991: A Mother's Justice

Movies

Web links

Commons : Madlyn Rhue  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dennis McLellan: Madlyn Rhue, 68; TV Actress Kept Working With Multiple Sclerosis. LA Times , December 18, 2010, accessed November 29, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Rhue, Madlyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roche, Madeleine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2003
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California , United States