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Nita Talbot
Nita Talbot (born Anita Sokol, August 8, 1930, New York City; also Ginger Grey) is an American retired actress, Emmy-nominated as Russian spy Marya on Hogan's Heroes, active 1949–1997, last surviving Hogan's Heroes cast-connected actor.
Pamela Tiffin
Pamela Tiffin (Pamela Tiffin Wonso, 1942–2020), American actress of the 1960s known for Summer and Smoke, Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three with James Cagney, Harper with Paul Newman, and Italian comedies including Straziami ma di baci saziami; retired 1974.
Pat Woodell
Pat Woodell (Patricia Joy Woodell, 1944–2015), American actress and singer, original Bobbie Jo Bradley on CBS's Petticoat Junction (1963–1965), later star of 1970s exploitation films like The Big Doll House; distinct from other Woodells.
Patrice Wymore
Patrice Wymore, born Patricia Ann Wymore, was an American actress and dancer at Warner Bros. in the 1950s and the third wife of Errol Flynn.
Patrick Wayne
Patrick Wayne (born Patrick John Morrison, July 15, 1939) is an American actor, second son of John Wayne; over 40 films including Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, later chairman of the John Wayne Cancer Institute.
Phyllis Thaxter
Phyllis Thaxter (Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter, 1919–2012), American actress from Portland, Maine, known for 1940s–50s wife roles and as Martha Kent in Superman (1978), opposite Glenn Ford.
Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch (Jo-Raquel Tejada, 1940-2023), American actress and 1960s-70s sex symbol of One Million Years B.C. and Fantastic Voyage; Golden Globe winner for The Three Musketeers, Broadway star, and HairUWear wig entrepreneur.
Ray Walston
Ray Walston (Herman Walston, 1914–2001), American stage, film, and TV actor; Tony winner as the Devil in Damn Yankees, Uncle Martin on My Favorite Martian, two-time Emmy winner as Judge Henry Bone on Picket Fences.
Richard Widmark
Richard Weedt Widmark (1914–2008), American actor; Oscar-nominated film debut as villain Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death (1947); noir star who became a Western and drama lead.
Rip Torn
Rip Torn, born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. (1931–2019), was an American actor who won an Emmy as Artie on The Larry Sanders Show and played Agent Zed in Men in Black.
Robert Taylor (American actor)
Robert Taylor (Spangler Arlington Brugh, 1911–1969), American MGM leading man of Magnificent Obsession, Camille, Quo Vadis, and Ivanhoe; distinct from the Australian actor Robert Taylor (born 1963) of Longmire.
Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn (1932–2016), American actor known as Napoleon Solo in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–68) and Lee in The Magnificent Seven; Oscar-nominated for The Young Philadelphians, Emmy winner, anti-Vietnam War activist, and author of Only Victims.
Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner (born 1930, Detroit) is an American actor of 1950s Fox films and TV hits It Takes a Thief, Switch, and Hart to Hart, later Number Two in Austin Powers and Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on NCIS; widower of Natalie Wood, husband of Jill St. John.
Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)
Robert Hudson Walker (1918–1951), American MGM actor and first husband of Jennifer Jones; best known as Bruno Antony in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951); died at 32 from alcohol-sedative interaction.
Ronne Troup
Ronne Troup (Ronne Hare Troup, born 1945) is an American actress and teacher, daughter of Bobby Troup and stepdaughter of Julie London, best known as Polly Williams Douglas on My Three Sons (1963-1972) and as Barbara on Knots Landing.
Roy Thinnes
Roy Thinnes (born April 6, 1938, Chicago) is an American actor, best known as architect David Vincent in ABC's The Invaders (1967-68) and as Jeremiah Smith on The X-Files; also General Hospital, Falcon Crest, Dark Shadows.
Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn, born Russell Irving Tamblyn in 1934, is an American actor best known as Riff in West Side Story (1961) and Dr. Jacoby in Twin Peaks.
Sigrid Valdis
Sigrid Valdis (Patricia Annette Olson, 1935–2007), American actress who played Hilda, Colonel Klink's secretary on Hogan's Heroes, and married its star Bob Crane in 1970.
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy (1900–1967), American actor of classic Hollywood; 74 films 1930–1967, two consecutive Best Actor Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town, nine nominations, nine films with Katharine Hepburn, AFI's ninth-greatest male screen legend.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor of Westerns and action films, Oscar-nominated for The Mark (1961), star of The Comancheros and TV's Cimarron Strip.
Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright (Muriel Teresa Wright, 1918-2005), American actress; only performer Oscar-nominated for her first three films, winning for Mrs. Miniver; known for Shadow of a Doubt and The Best Years of Our Lives.
Tom Tryon
Tom Tryon (Thomas Lester Tryon, 1926-1991), American actor turned novelist; starred in The Cardinal and Texas John Slaughter, then wrote the horror best sellers The Other (1971) and Harvest Home (1973).
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld (Susan Ker Weld, born 1943) is an American retired actress of films and TV from 1956 to the 1990s, known for Pretty Poison, Play It as It Lays, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Thief, and Once Upon a Time in America.
Van Williams
Van Williams (Van Zandt Jarvis Williams, 1934-2016), American actor, star of ABC's The Green Hornet (1966-67) as Britt Reid opposite Bruce Lee's Kato; earlier Bourbon Street Beat and Surfside 6; later a reserve sheriff's deputy and telecom businessman.
Vera-Ellen
Vera-Ellen (Vera Ellen Rohe, 1921 or 1926–1981), American dancer-actress of 14 musicals 1945–1957; partner of Kelly, Astaire, Kaye, O'Connor; Judy Haynes in White Christmas; died of cancer at 60.
Victoria Vetri
Victoria Vetri (Angela Dorian, Victoria Rathgeb), American model and actress born 1944; Playboy Miss September 1967 and Playmate of the Year 1968; played Terry in Rosemary's Baby and starred in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance (Vivian Roberta Jones, 1909-1979), American actress and singer, Emmy-winning Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy (1951-58) and Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show; Broadway veteran, 2012 Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee, distinct from JD Vance.
William Talman (actor)
William Talman (1915–1968), American actor, played DA Hamilton Burger on Perry Mason (1957–1966) and the killer in The Hitch-Hiker (1953); he made the first Hollywood actor anti-smoking PSA before dying of lung cancer.
William Windom (actor)
William Windom (1923–2012), American character actor; Emmy winner for My World and Welcome to It (1970); Commodore Decker in Star Trek's Doomsday Machine; Dr. Seth Hazlitt on Murder, She Wrote.