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Lona Fay Spain (October 6, 1932 – May 8, 1983) was an American actress in motion pictures and television.
In 1955, Spain was one of 15 actresses who were named WAMPAS Baby Stars. She first came to prominence with movie audiences in the late 1950s. In 1957, she appeared as Carol Smith with John Smith as Tommy Kelly in the dramatic film The Crooked Circle in which a young boxer is pressured to throw a fight. In 1958, she was cast as Darlin' Jill in the film version of God's Little Acre, based on Erskine Caldwell's novel. The film marked the screen debut of Tina Louise and also starred Robert Ryan, Jack Lord, Buddy Hackett, Aldo Ray, and Vic Morrow.
Spain followed this success by playing Maureen Flannery in the film Al Capone (1959), and appeared in such films as The Beat Generation (1959), The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960), Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961), Black Gold (1962), Thunder Island (1963), Flight to Fury (1964), The Gentle Rain (1966), Welcome to Hard Times (1967), and The Todd Killings (1971).
Her final appearance as a film actress came in 1974, when she portrayed the wife of mobster Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) in The Godfather Part II (1974).
She appeared as a contestant in an episode of the Groucho Marx game show You Bet Your Life (episode #56-02, October 4, 1956, Secret Word 'Hand'). By the middle and late 1950s and 1960s, Spain appeared in Bonanza (Sue Ellen Terry in "The Sisters" in the first season chapter 14), Gunsmoke (in 1957 as the title character "Mavis McCloud" (S3E7) & in 1961 as "Bessie" a gang member and killer in "A Man A Day" (S7E14), Cheyenne, Rawhide, Whirlybirds, Hogan's Heroes, Perry Mason (Charlotte Lynch in "The Case of the Fiery Fingers"), Tombstone Territory (episode "Pick up the Gun"), The Millionaire, M Squad, Adventures in Paradise, The Texan, Riverboat, The Rat Patrol, Gomer Pyle, USMC, Gunsmoke (episode "Mavis McCloud" (1957) and episode "A Man a Day" (1961)), Playhouse 90, 77 Sunset Strip, Have Gun - Will Travel (episode "High Wire," 1957), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (episode "The Last Dark Step" (1959) and "The Cuckoo Clock" (1960)), Maverick (episodes "The Naked Gallows" with Jack Kelly (1957), "The Goose-Drownder" (1959), and "The Cactus Switch" with Roger Moore (1961)), Pony Express, The Restless Gun, The Fugitive, Bat Masterson and as Angela in Steve McQueen's (Season 2, Episode 18 (1959), as well as the "gold-digging" Amy Williams opposite Royal Dano in Season 2, Episode 3 which aired on 9/18/1959).... starred in 1961 on tales of Wells Fargo in an episode called 'The angry sky' season 6 of tales of Wells Fargo
Spain also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. In the 1950s and 1960s she continued to be seen frequently on television series such as Rawhide episodes, "Incident of the Valley in Shadow" (1959) and "Incident in the Middle of Nowhere" (1961) and "Incident of the Lost Woman" (1962), as well as Stoney Burke, Hogan's Heroes and The Fugitive.
In 1966, she played Calamity Jane in the episode "A Calamity Called Jane" of the syndicated series, Death Valley Days.
| Louise Blake |
| Helen |
| Carol Smith |
| Darlin' Jill |
| Maureen Flannery |
| Francee Culloran |
| Lil Lewis / Lilith |
| Queen Antinea of Atlantis |
| Julie |
| Helen Dodge |
| Destiny Cooper |
| Nancy Masters |
| Jessie |
| Pauline |
| Mrs. Mack |
| Mrs. Marcia Roth |
| 1955 | Big Town | Episode: "Mental Health" | |
| 1956 | The NBC Comedy Hour | Episode: Season 1, Episode 17 | |
| Matinee Theatre | Episode: "Backfire" | ||
| Cheyenne | Susan Doonevan | Episode: "The Long Winter" | |
| Conflict | Nancy Meadows | Episode: "The Magic Brew" | |
| Dragnet | Episode: "The Big Beer" | ||
| Playhouse 90 | Crystal Vail | Episode: "The Big Slide" | |
| 1957 | Wire Service | Peggy | Episode: "Chicago Exclusive" |
| Matinee Theatre | Episode: "On the Trail of the Klingsfeld" | ||
| The Brothers | Tracey | Episode: "The Crush" | |
| The Web | Sadie | Episode: "Dead Silence" | |
| Gunsmoke | Mavis McCloud | Episode: "Mavis McCloud" | |
| Have Gun – Will Travel | Rena | Episode: "High Wire" | |
| Sugarfoot | Susie Tatum | Episode: "Quicksilver" | |
| Maverick | Ruth Overton | Episode: "The Naked Gallows" | |
| 1958 | The Restless Gun | Helen Rockwood | Episode: "A Pressing Engagement" |
| The Court of Last Resort | Episode: "The Court of Last Resort" | ||
| Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Trina Greco | Episode: "A Grave Undertaking" | |
| The Millionaire | Aileen Evans | Episode: "The Tony Drummond Story" | |
| Perry Mason | Charlotte Lynch | Episode: "The Case of the Fiery Fingers" | |
| Tombstone Territory | Lisa Carew | Episode: "Pick up the Gun" | |
| Whirlybirds | Episode: "Blind Victory" | ||
| M Squad | Ruth Reardon | Episode: "Accusation" | |
| Playhouse 90 | Annamay Paul | Episode: "A Town Has Turned to Dust" | |
| Whirlybirds | Episode: "The Midnight Show" | ||
| The Texan | Ann Dowd | Episode: "The Easterner" | |
| Pursuit | Andrea | Episode: "The Dark Cloud" | |
| 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Leslie Lenox | Season 4 Episode 18: "The Last Dark Step" |
| The Ten Commandments | Television film | ||
| Bat Masterson | Julie Poe | Episode: "The Tumbleweed Wagon" | |
| 77 Sunset Strip | Audrey Franklin | Episode: "Abra-Cadaver" | |
| The Restless Gun | Serena | Episode: "A Very Special Investigator" | |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Anna Carrick | Episode: "Ballad to Die For" | |
| Wanted Dead or Alive | Amy Williams | Episode: "The Matchmaker" | |
| Adventures in Paradise | Amy | Episode: "Paradise Lost" | |
| Rawhide | Winoka | Episode: "Incident of the Valley in Shadow" | |
| Bonanza | Sue Ellen Terry | Episode: "The Sisters" | |
| Maverick | Stella Legendre | Episode: "The Goose-Drownder" | |
| 1960 | Wanted Dead or Alive | Angela | Episode: "Angela" |
| The Detectives | Marcy Collins | Episode: "House Call" | |
| Markham | Lucille Barrett | Episode: "Deadly Promise" | |
| Laramie | Gloria Patterson | Episode: "Duel at Alta Mesa" | |
| The Alaskans | Janice Collier | Episode: "Peril at Caribou Crossing" | |
| Hawaiian Eye | Honey Shaw | Episode: "Birthday Boy" | |
| The Alaskans | Ellen Hawley | Episode: "The Bride Wore Black" | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Madeleine Hall | Season 5 Episode 27: "The Cuckoo Clock" | |
| Moment of Fear | Episode: "Fire by Night" | ||
| Naked City | Felice Reynolds | Episode: "A Succession of Heartbeats" | |
| Michael Shayne | Marge Jerome | Episode: "Call for Michael Shayne" | |
| Maverick | Angelica Garland | Episode: "Bolt from the Blue" | |
| The Deputy | Sally Tornado | Episode: "Sally Tornado" | |
| Laramie | Fran Ericson | Episode: "No Second Chance" | |
| Riverboat | Laurie Rawlings | Episode: "Duel on the River" | |
| Route 66 | Paula Shay | Episode: "A Fury Slinging Flame" | |
| 1961 | Maverick | Lana Cane | Episode: "The Cactus Switch" |
| Gunslinger | Martha | Episode: "The Buried People" | |
| Adventures in Paradise | Julie | Episode: "Captain Butcher" | |
| The Untouchables | Julie Duvall | Episode: "Testimony of Evil" | |
| Rawhide | Barbara Fraser | S3:E22, "Incident in the Middle of Nowhere" | |
| Gunsmoke | Bessie | Episode: "A Man a Day" | |
| 1962 | Cain's Hundred | Enid Lazzo | Episode: "Murder by Proxy: Earl Klegg" |
| Ben Casey | Lisa Delman | Episode: "Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase" | |
| Dr. Kildare | Sally Winters | Episode: "The Roaring Boy-O" | |
| Hawaiian Eye | Barbara Mason | Episode: "Payoff" | |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | Marie Jarnier | Episode: "The Angry Sky" | |
| Rawhide | Lissa Hobson | Episode: "Incident of the Lost Woman" | |
| 1963 | Laramie | Gladys | Episode: "Vengeance" |
| Going My Way | Helen Bancroft | Episode: "The Slasher" | |
| Stoney Burke | Libby Ferris | Episode: "Cat's Eyes" | |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Alicia | Episode: "The Hanging Man" | |
| 1964 | Channing | Phyllis | Episode: "Swing for the Moon" |
| Daniel Boone | Kathleen O'Hannrahan | Episode: "The Sisters O'Hannrahan" | |
| Dr. Kildare | Emily Buchanan | Episode: "Catch a Crooked Mouse" | |
| 1965 | The Fugitive | Nora Keel | Episode: "Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue" |
| 1966 | A Man Called Shenandoah | Millie Turner | Episode: "The Accused" |
| I Spy | Vanessa | Episode: "It's All Done with Mirrors" | |
| The Rat Patrol | Fay Morgan | Episode: "The Gun Runner Raid" | |
| Death Valley Days | Calamity Jane | Episode: "A Calamity Called Jane" | |
| 1967 | Iron Horse | Marian Elwood | Episode: "Six Hours to Sky High" |
| Mannix | Gladys | Episode: "A Catalogue of Sins" | |
| Gunsmoke | Willy | Episode: "Wonder" | |
| 1968 | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Lila St. Clair | Episode: "Gomer and the Queen of Burlesque" |
| Hogan's Heroes | Myra | Episode: "How to Catch a Papa Bear" | |
| 1969 | My Friend Tony | Episode: "Kidnap" | |
| Hogan's Heroes | Carla | Episode: "At Last - Schultz Knows Something" | |
| 1971 | The Man and the City | Lois Niles | Episode: "I Should Have Let Him Die" |
| Medical Center | Linda | Episode: "The Nowhere Child" | |
| 1972 | Mannix | Mrs. Welch | Episode: "Cry Silence" |
| Night Gallery | Molly Mitchell | Episode: "Rare Objects" | |
| 1974 | Ironside | Alice Schmidt | Episode: "Class of '40" |
| Police Woman | Mame Dorn | Episode: "Flowers of Evil" | |
| 1975 | Caribe | Connie James | Episode: "Assault on the Calavera" |
| Police Woman | Nadine Hummel | Episode: "The Hit" |
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