Pamela Susan Shoop

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Pamela Susan Shoop (born June 7, 1948 in Hollywood , California , USA ) is an American film and stage actress .

family

Shoop came from a military family . Her father, Major General Clarence A. Shoop was vice president of Hughes Aircraft Company and test pilot Howard Hughes . He was also the Commander in Chief of the California Air National Guard until his death in 1968 . During World War II , General Shoop commanded the first wave of air raids to reach Normandy via Omaha Beach .

Pamela's mother is the film actress Julie Bishop , who died in 2001 and who had a successful film career between the 1920s and 1950s.

Life

Pamela Shoop began acting as a teenager and established herself in the early 1970s. She appeared in many episodes of the television series by Glen A. Larson . She was the first Knight Rider girl in the series of the same name , whose heart Michael Knight aka David Hasselhoff conquered. Other well-known Larson series were A Colt for All Cases and Magnum, PI Parallel to her work in front of the film camera, Shoop also worked in theater productions: Picnic alongside Robert Horton and in “Dinner and Drinks” alongside William Katt .

On November 15, 1987, she married Father Terrance Sweeney , an excommunicated Jesuit priest . Together with him, Shoop published a book in which the two denounced what they saw as the shocking conditions in the Roman Catholic Church.

Filmography (selection)

TV Shows

Feature films

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personal data
SURNAME Shoop, Pamela Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollywood , California , USA