Linda Foster (actress)
Linda Foster | |
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 Foster (left) with Dick Kallman in Hank, 1965 | |
| Born | June 12, 1944 Lancaster, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Film and television actress |
| Years active | 1963–1983 |
| Spouse(s) | |
Linda Foster (born June 12, 1944)[1] is an English-American film and television actress. She is known for playing the role of "Doris Royal" in the American sitcom television series Hank.[1]
Life and career[]
Foster was born in Lancaster, Lancashire, the daughter of Nicholas, a marine engineer and Hilda, who ran a dance studio.[1] At the age of six, she learned ballet and modern dance.[1] Foster and her family later moved to Toronto, Ontario, in 1957.[1] She then later settled in Los Angeles, California.[1] Foster graduated high school in Van Nuys, California, in which she later studied to become a secretary.[1] She began her film and television career in 1963, appearing in the sitcom television series My Three Sons, playing the role of the popular high school student "Amber" in the episode "The Ever-Popular Robbie Douglas".[1]
Later in her career, Foster won the role of "Doris Royal".[1] She won the role as she was discovered in a supermarket called Hughes Supermarket, in which she was helped by a vegetable man worker in Van Nuys, California.[1][2] Being spotted by a booking agent, who was shopping.[1] The booking agent gave a contract to her.[1] Foster joined the cast of the new NBC sitcom television series Hank, in which she was offered a regular role from Warner Bros., starring with Dick Kallman,[1] who played the role of "Hank Dearborn". Her role was as Hank's girlfriend "Doris Royal",[3] daughter of the registrar.[1]
After the series ended in 1966, Foster guest-starred in television programs, including, Gunsmoke, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., F Troop, Bonanza, Tom, Dick, and Mary, McHale's Navy, The Virginian and Rango.[1] In her film career, she appeared in Honeymoon Hotel, The Ambushers, Marriage on the Rocks, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! and Young Fury.[1] While appearing on the anthology television series Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, she had a contract with Universal Pictures, keeping her busy on the television series with separate roles on two episodes.[1] Foster retired in 1983, last appearing in the soap opera television series Dynasty as a journalist in the episode "Tender Comrades".[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Lisanti, Tom (2008). Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-five Profiles. McFarland. pp. 79–82. ISBN 9780786431724 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Linda Foster of "Hank" Discovered in Supermarket". Concord Transcript. Concord, California. January 7, 1966. p. 32. Retrieved November 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Linda Foster Is Hank's Girl". The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, Tennessee. June 20, 1965. p. 104. Retrieved November 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- People from Lancaster, Lancashire
- Actresses from Lancashire
- English emigrants to Canada
- English emigrants to the United States
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- English film actresses
- English television actresses
- 20th-century American actresses
- 20th-century English actresses
- 20th-century American ballet dancers
- 20th-century British ballet dancers
- 21st-century American actresses