Lucinda Dooling obit

Lucinda Schiff, Actress and Wife of Hollywood Exec David Schiff, Dies at 61

She starred in the 1981 cult film 'Lovely But Deadly' and played the wife of hockey star Mike Eruzione in 'Miracle on Ice.'

 

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Lucinda Schiff, a former actress and the wife of David Schiff, the founder and a partner in the Hollywood management and production company MGMT. Entertainment, has died. She was 61.

She died Dec. 30 at home in the Pacific Palisades after a 15-year battle with recurring brain tumors, her husband told The Hollywood Reporter.

Working under her stage name Lucinda Dooling, she starred as a high school cheerleader who goes undercover to fight drug dealers and avenge the death of her brother in the 1981 cult film Lovely But Deadly.

In the 1981 ABC docudrama Miracle on Ice, the actress portrayed the wife of Mike Eruzione (played by Andrew Stevens), the captain of the upstart U.S. hockey team that stunned the Soviet Union and captured the gold medal at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.

She guest-starred as the visiting sister of Larry (Richard Kline) on a 1983 episode of Three’s Company and appeared on other TV series including Nero Wolfe and Hart to Hart and in the acclaimed 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds.

She made her onscreen debut in the 1979 Steven Spielberg film 1941.

Born and raised as Lucinda Valles in Puerto Rico, her father abandoned her, her three young sisters and their mother to fend for themselves. Her mother died when she was 15, and she was sent to live in New York.

After her acting career, she proved adept at interior design, and a story about her renovation of her family’s Palisades home, built in the mid-1920s, was featured in the Los Angeles Times.

In addition to her husband of 35 years, survivors include her daughter Kaylie (with a soon-to-be baby girl), sons Mickey and Henry and sisters Marisa, Aileen and Sheila.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in her name to Every Mother Counts, a nonprofit dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for mothers everywhere.

Actress (12 credits)

 1987 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series)

Customer

- Double Switch (1987) ... Customer

 1984 Surf II

Lindy Sue O'Finley

 1983 The Alchemist

Lenora Sinclair (as Lucinda Dooline)

 1983 The Thorn Birds (TV Mini Series)

Martha

- Part 4 (1983) ... Martha

 1983 Three's Company (TV Series)

Diane Dallas

- Larry's Sister (1983) ... Diane Dallas

 1982 The Rules of Marriage (TV Movie)

Rita Lombard

 1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series)

Ellen

- Hart of Diamonds (1982) ... Ellen

 1981 Lovely But Deadly

Mary Ann 'Lovely' Lovitt

 1981 Nero Wolfe (TV Series)

Ellen Miller

- The Murder in Question (1981) ... Ellen Miller

 1981 Miracle on Ice (TV Movie)

Donna

 1980 The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV Movie)

Robin

 1979 1941

Lucinda