Shelby Grant

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Shelby Grant , actually Brenda Thompson , (born October 19, 1936 in Orlando , Oklahoma , † June 25, 2011 in Westlake Village , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Shelby Grant was born Brenda Thompson to Lawrence Thompson Halbert and his wife Mae. She grew up in Wagoner and made at the Wagoner High School her high school Accounts. She attended Northeastern State College , now Northeastern State University, in Tahlequah , Oklahoma. There she studied linguistics and acting .

After graduating from college, Grant worked in a few commercials for KTUL and Channel 8 in Tulsa before moving to California in 1962 with the aim of pursuing an acting career. There she taught at Hollywood High School in the subject Special Education ; Among other things, she gave language lessons to deaf and dumb children and worked with children with language deficits. Grant was discovered during this time by an acting and talent scout for television and adopted the stage name Shelby Grant .

She made her television debut in 1963 in an episode of the US television series Bonanza . She was then signed to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation . She initially played small roles as a party guest in the comedy film If my bedroom could speak (1963), as a young American girl Marian in the film romance Three Girls in Madrid (1964) and as a nurse in the science fiction film The Fantastic Journey (1966) . In the agent comedy Derek Flint sends his corpse (1966) she had a leading role as Leslie on the side of James Coburn ; she embodied one of the four international female beauties. Her last movie was the horror film The Witchmaker (1969).

Grant had episode roles in the US television series Amos Burke (1964), Batman (1966), High Chaparral (1968) and Dr. med. Marcus Welby (1970). She played several times in the Medical Center hospital series with Chad Everett . In 1974 Grant ended her career as an actress.

Private

Grant was married to the American film and television actor Chad Everett (1936–2012). Grant and Everett married on May 22, 1966 in Tucson , Arizona , where Everett was filming the western Hot Colts in Hard Fists (1967) at the time. The marriage resulted in two daughters. During their marriage, she was named Shelby Grant Everett.

After finishing her work as an actress, Grant did volunteer work in various social projects and for various charities. Among other things, she supported members of the US Army in need . As part of The Gift of Life organization , Grant and her husband Chad Everett got involved in heart transplants for children with heart disease. You and Everett supported more than 20 heart surgeries on children from your own resources.

Grant died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 74 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tom Lisanti: Louis Paul: Shelby Grant in Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973 , pp. 135-137. In contrast, 1940 is given as the year of birth.
  2. ^ A b c d e Shelby Grant Everett (1936-2011) Obituary in: Ventura County Star, June 28, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c d Actress from Wagoner led life of fame, philanthropy obituary in: Tulsa World ; Retrieved July 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Grant, Shelby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Brenda (real name); Grant Everett, Shelby (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Orlando , Oklahoma, United States
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2011
Place of death Westlake Village , California, United States