Mary Linda Rapelye obit

Soap Vet Mary Linda Rapelye Dead at 76

 

She was not on the list.

Mary Linda Rapelye, 76, died of cancer on April 5, according to her obituary in the Boothbay Register.

Rapelye caught the acting bug at the age of 5 and started working at the Starlight Theatre in her hometown of Kansas City. There, she performed in several plays.

Soap fans will recognize her as One Life to Live's Faith Kipling (1979-1980) and As the World Turns' legal eagle Maggie Crawford (1980-1985).

Rapelye was also a regular on the series Medical Center, appeared on Star Trek in two separate roles, Irina and Rayna, and Ironside. Her movie roles included In Cold Blood and Marooned.

She played Irina Galliulin in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "The Way to Eden". She filmed her scenes between Friday 22 November 1968 and Friday 29 November 1968 at Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10. She was also called in for a music recording session on Wednesday 20 November 1968, and a makeup and costume test on Thursday 21 November 1968 at Stage 9.

Rapelye received a BA in theater arts from the University of Kansas. After returning from a theatrical tour in Europe, she was cast in the role of Susan Kidwell in In Cold Blood (1967, with Jeff Corey, John McLiam, and Nick Dimitri). Two years later, Rapelye appeared as the daughter of Gregory Peck's character in Marooned, which also featured Nancy Kovack, Mariette Hartley, and Bill Couch, Sr..

Besides Star Trek, Rapelye guest-starred in a 1969 episode of NBC's Ironside with fellow Original Series guest star Alfred Ryder. From 1969 through 1970, she was a regular on the soap opera Medical Center, co-starring James Daly and Barbara Baldavin.

Following a ten-year absence, from television Rapelye returned to television in 1980 with a role in CBS' Blind Ambition. Among her co-stars in this program were fellow Star Trek alumnae Ralph Byers, K Callan, James Greene, Graham Jarvis, Alan Oppenheimer, Lawrence Pressman, Logan Ramsey, Peter Mark Richman, William Schallert, James Sloyan, and William Windom.

Soon afterwards, she won the role of Faith Kipling on One Life to Live, from 1979 to 1980 working with Anthony Call. After just only one year, she left to star on another soap opera, As the World Turns, where she spent five years playing attorney Margaret "Maggie" Crawford Andropolous from November 1980 until September 1985, having been expelled and written out of the series. Among her co-stars on this series were Michael Forest and Kathryn Hays. Afterward, she once again left television behind and decided not to act for a time.

In 2006, she then returned to the world of Star Trek, playing Ambassador Rayna Morgan in the fan production Star Trek: New Voyages. She starred in the episode "To Serve All My Days", alongside her "The Way to Eden" co-star Walter Koenig and Trek performers John Carrigan, James Cawley, Jeffery Quinn, and Larry Nemecek. D.C. Fontana, Ethan H. Calk, and Jack Treviño wrote this episode.

Rapelye ran her own business, White Cottage Bed & Breakfast, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. In addition, she occasionally taught acting classes in the same town.

 

Actress

Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal (2009)

The Proposal

6.8

Executive Secretary

2009

 

George Takei, James Cawley, and John M. Kelley in Star Trek Phase II (2004)

Star Trek Phase II

6.8

TV Series

Ambassador Rayna Morgan

2006

1 episode

 

As the World Turns (1956)

As the World Turns

6.3

TV Series

Maggie Crawford

Maggie Crawford Andropoulos

Maggie Cory

1981–1985

24 episodes

 

Kristen Alderson, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Erika Slezak, Trevor St. John, and John-Paul Lavoisier in One Life to Live (1968)

One Life to Live

6.9

TV Series

Faith Kipling

1979–1980

16 episodes

 

Blind Ambition (1979)

Blind Ambition

6.7

TV Mini Series

Senater Baker's Wife

1979

4 episodes

 

James Daly in Medical Center (1969)

Medical Center

7.1

TV Series

Miss Noelle

1969

2 episodes

 

Gregory Peck, Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Mariette Hartley, David Janssen, and Nancy Kovack in Marooned (1969)

Marooned

5.9

Priscilla Keith (uncredited)

1969

 

Star Trek (1966)

Star Trek

8.4

TV Series

Irina (as Mary-Linda Rapelye)

1969

1 episode

 

Raymond Burr and Barbara Sigel in Ironside (1967)

Ironside

6.9

TV Series

Ann (as Mary-Linda Rapelye)

1969

1 episode

 

Robert Blake and Scott Wilson in In Cold Blood (1967)

In Cold Blood

7.9

Susan Kidwell (as Mary-Linda Rapelye)

1967

 

Self

Late Night Saturday with Tim Kavanagh (2006)

Late Night Saturday with Tim Kavanagh

TV Series

Self

2006

1 episode

 

Archive Footage

William Shatner in How William Shatner Changed the World (2005)

How William Shatner Changed the World

7.3

TV Movie

Irina (archive footage)

2005