Carol Lynley obit

‘Poseidon Adventure’ actress Carol Lynley dies at 77

She was not on the list.


Carol Lynley, a stage and screen actress who starred in the “The Poseidon Adventure” and appeared in numerous other film and television series, has died. She was 77.

Lynley’s daughter Jill Selsman said Friday her mother died in her sleep Tuesday in Los Angeles.

The actress had a lengthy Hollywood career, earning a Golden Globe nomination as a newcomer for the 1959 film “Blue Denim” about a teenager seeking an abortion. It was a role she originated on Broadway.

Lynley appeared in more than 100 films and television series, but her best-known role was as pop singer Nonnie Parry in 1972′s “The Poseidon Adventure.” Her character performs the song “The Morning After,” although the vocals were dubbed. The song went on to win an Academy Award.

She also starred in 1961′s “Return to Peyton Place,” playing an author whose book revealing her New Hampshire hometown’s secrets causes her and her family trouble.

She had numerous guest appearances on television series including “Fantasy Island,” ″The Love Boat” and “Hawaii Five-O.”

“She loved working in film and much as she loved going to the movies,” Selsman said in an email. She said her mother took her to all sorts of films when she was a growing up.

Selsman, who has her own video production company, described her mother as “bon vivant” and as someone who “loved to dance, going to the ballet, seeing anything on Broadway.”

Lynley, who was born in New York, started out as a child model and was profiled by Life magazine and appeared on its cover when she was 15 years old and starring in the Broadway production “The Potting Shed.”

Her filmography:

Film

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1958      The Light in the Forest   Shenandoe        

1959      Holiday for Lovers            Betsy Dean         

1959      Blue Denim         Janet Willard     

1959      Hound-Dog Man               Dony Wallace    

1961      Return to Peyton Place Allison  

1961      The Last Sunset                 Melissa 'Missy' Breckenridge      

1963      The Stripper       Miriam Caswell

1963      Under the Yum Yum Tree              Robin Austin      

1963      The Cardinal       Mona / Regina Fermoyle              

1964      Shock Treatment              Cynthia Lee Albright       

1964      The Pleasure Seekers     Maggie Williams              

1965      Harlow Jean Harlow       

1965      Bunny Lake Is Missing     Ann Lake             

1967      The Shuttered Room      Susannah Whately Kelton / Sarah             

1967      Danger Route     Jocelyn

1968      Shadow on the Land       Abigail 'Abby' Tyler          TV movie

1968      The Smugglers   Jo Hudson           TV movie

1969      The Maltese Bippy           Robin Sherwood              

1969      Once You Kiss a Stranger               Diana    

1970      Norwood             Yvonne Phillips

1970      Weekend of Terror          Sister Meredith                 TV movie

1971      Crosscurrent      Kathy Cooper     TV movie

1972      The Night Stalker              Gail Foster           TV movie

1972      Beware! The Blob             Leslie    

1972      The Poseidon Adventure              Nonnie Parry     

1973      Cotter   Leah     

1974      The Elevator       Irene Turner       TV movie

1975      Death Stalk         Cathy Webster TV movie

1975      The Four Deuces               Wendy Rittenhouse       

1976      Flood!   Abbie Adams      TV movie

1977      The Washington Affair   Barbara Nicholson          

1977      Bad Georgia Road            Molly Golden    

1977      Having Babies II                 Sally Magee        TV movie

1978      Cops and Robin                 Dr. Alice Alcott TV movie

1978      The Beasts Are on the Streets     Dr. Claire McCauley         TV movie

1978      The Cat and the Canary Annabelle West               

1979      H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come              Nikki     

1980      Willow B: Women in Prison          Claire Hastings   TV movie

1981      Best of Friends Marge Adams    TV movie

1981      Judgment Day    Harriet Egan       TV movie

1983      Vigilante              Assistant D.A. Mary Fletcher       

1983      Balboa Erin Blakely        

1987      Dark Tower         Tilly Ambrose    

1988      Blackout               Esther Boyle      

1990      Spirits    Sister Jillian        

1991      Howling VI: The Freaks   Miss Eddington

1996      Neon Signs          Faith     

1999      Drowning on Dry Land    Marge  

2003      A Light in the Forest        Gramma Irene  

2006      Vic          Carrie Lee            short film

Television

Year       Title       Roles     Episode

1956      Goodyear Television Playhouse                 "Grow Up"

1956      The Alcoa Hour Setsu     "The Big Wave"

1956      The Kaiser Aluminum Hour                           "Cracker Money"

1956      General Electric Theatre                Schoolgirl            "The Hat With the Roses", uncredited

1957      Alfred Hitchcock Presents             Janice    "The Young One"

1957      DuPont Show of the Month         Judy Graves        Junior Miss (TV film)

1958      Pursuit Elaine Hermann                "The Vengeance"

1958      Shirley Temple's Storybook          Rapunzel              "Rapunzel"

1958      General Electric Theatre                Mary Elizabeth Asher      "The Young and Scared"

1959      General Electric Theatre                Barbara Clark     "Deed of Mercy"

1959      General Electric Theatre                Phyllis   "The Last Dance"

1962      The Alfred Hitchcock Hour            Sister Pamela Wiley         "Final Vow"

1962      Alcoa Premiere Sandy Carter      "Whatever Happened to Miss Illinois?"

1962      The Virginian      Judith Morrow "The Man from the Sea"

1963      The Dick Powell Show     Elise       "The Rage of Silence"

1963-1973          The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson             Herself 7 episodes

1965      Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre                Irene Ayers         "The Fliers"

1966      Run for Your Life               April Martin        "In Search of April"

1966      Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre                Miranda Woodland         "Runaway Boy"

1967      The Man from U.N.C.L.E.              Annie Justin        "The Prince of Darkness", (parts 1 and 2)

1967      The Invaders      Elyse Reynolds "The Believers"

1967      The F.B.I.             Lynn Hallett        "False Witness"

1968      Journey to the Unknown              Eve         "Eve"

1968      The Big Valley    Dilly Shanks        "Hell Hath No Fury"

1969      It Takes a Thief Michelle               "Boom at the Top"

1969–1970          The Immortal     Sylvia Cartwright              TV series, episodes: "Pilot" (1969) and "Sylvia" (1970)

1970      The Bold Ones: The New Doctors               Judith Walters   "Giants Never Kneel"

1970      The Most Deadly Game Brooke "Who Killed Kindness?"

1971      Mannix                 Dorothy Kinman               "Voice in the Dark"

1972      Night Gallery      Jenny Tarraday "The Waiting Room/Last Rites for a Dead Druid"

1972      The Sixth Sense                 Gail Sumner        "The House That Cried Murder"

1972-1978          The Mike Douglas Show                Herself 2 episodes

1973      Great Mysteries                Elizabeth Ann Zachary    "Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl"

1974      The Magician     Janet Keegan     "The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit" (parts 1 and 2)

1974      The Evil Touch   Cora       TV series, episodes: "Death by Drowning" and "Dear Cora I'm Going to Kill You"

1975      Thriller Suzy Martin        "If It's a Man, Hang Up"

1976      Quincy M.E.        Lynn Dressler     "Who's Who in Neverland"

1976      Police Woman   Nina Daniels       "Trial by Prejudice"

1977      Kojak     Polly Ames          "Kiss It All Goodbye"

1977–1984          Fantasy Island    various characters            TV series, 11 episodes

1978      Hawaii Five-O    Karen Baker/Valerie Bates            "Angel in Blue"

1978      Sword of Justice                Cyndy Rupert     "The Skywayman"

1979      The Love Boat    Carol Gilmore    "Dream Ship/Best of Friends/Aftermath"

1980      The Littlest Hobo              June Wilson        "Mystery at the Zoo"

1980      Charlie's Angels                 Lisa Gallo             "Island Angels"

1981      Hart to Hart        Ann Marie Drake              "Hartland Express"

1983      The Fall Guy        Ivy Morris            "Pleasure Isle"

1983      Hotel     Zane Elliott         "Faith, Hope and Charity"

1984      Tales of the Unexpected               Elizabeth              "The Gift of Beauty"

1984      Finder of Lost Loves        Karen Davis         "Forgotten Melodies"

1985      Fox Mystery Theater/A.K.A. Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense     Sylvia Daly           "In Possession"

1987      Night Heat          Grace Barnett    "Grace"

1989      Another World Judge Martha Dunlay      2 episodes

1990      Monsters             Dr. Elizabeth Porter         "Stressed Environment"