Julie Payne (actress, born 1940) explained

Julie Payne (actress, born 1940) should not be confused with Julie Payne (actress, born 1946).

Julie Payne
Birth Name:Julie Anne Payne
Birth Date:10 July 1940[1]
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Death Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation:Actress
Years Active:1959–1967
Partner:Steve Luckman (1999-her death)
Children:1
Parents:John Payne
Anne Shirley

Julie Anne Payne (July 10, 1940 – June 7, 2019) was an American actress who appeared in television and films from 1959 to 1967.

Early life

A native of Los Angeles, Julie Anne Payne was the daughter of John Payne, film and television leading man of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and Anne Shirley, who started as a child actress in the late silent-early talkie period and became an ingenue and, later, leading lady of the late 1930s and early 1940s. They were married from 1937 to 1943; Julie was their only child together.

Career

Starting an eight-year television and film career, she made her debut at the age of 18 as the sole female in "The Pawn", the April 6, 1959 installment of her father's 1957–59 NBC Western series, The Restless Gun, and subsequently appeared in episodes of One Step Beyond ("Premonition", seen on March 10, 1959, one month before the broadcast of her Restless Gun performance), Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Graduating Class", December 27, 1959), The Tab Hunter Show ("I Love a Marine", October 30, 1960) and Dobie Gillis ("Goodbye, Mr. Pomfritt, Hello, Mr. Chips", June 13, 1961).

Her film appearances consisted of uncredited bits in the 1962 classic, The Manchurian Candidate, and Elvis Presley's 1965 musical, Girl Happy, as well as small credited supporting roles in 1964's Island of the Blue Dolphins and 1967's Don't Make Waves.

Her final two television performances were broadcast two days apart in 1965. On October 6 she was seen in "The Young Marauders",[2] the fourth episode of ABC's new color Western series, The Big Valley, playing the Southern-accented companion of the handsome head marauder, and, on October 8, in "The Night of Sudden Death",[3] the fourth episode of CBS' new black-and-white (in color, starting with the 1966–67 season) Western/spy/fantasy series, The Wild Wild West. Playing a fiery and seductive member of a mysterious troupe of traveling circus performers,[4] she was prominently featured amidst the supporting cast and left the small screen on a high note.

Following a two-year break from acting, her one remaining credit, Don't Make Waves, a comedic satire on southern California beach lifestyle, which starred Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, and Sharon Tate, spotlighted her in a brief bit as a beach beauty.

Personal life

Payne married actor Skip Ward in 1964 and they divorced the following year. In 1969, Payne met Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Towne; they married in 1977 and divorced in 1982. Their daughter, Katharine Towne (born 1978), began a career as an actress in 1998 and has appeared in numerous films and TV series. In 1999, Payne reconnected with her high school sweetheart, Steve Luckman, and they were together until her death.[5]

Payne died at the age of 78 in June 2019 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[6]

Credits confused with those of another actress

Shortly after Julie Payne retired from her acting career, another actress named Julie Payne, born in 1946,[7] who, in a 1976 interview,[8] gave her birthplace as Sweet Home, Oregon, but has also been erroneously listed as being born in 1940 in Terre Haute, Indiana, began her own acting career, with an appearance in the 1970 film The Strawberry Statement. Subsequent references have frequently combined the credits of the two actresses.

Another Julie Payne (1951–2016) was a producer and miscellaneous crew, who often worked with director Ridley Scott. She died on 15 June 2016, and was mentioned in the ending credits of Scott's (2017).[9]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1959Alfred Hitchcock Presents Connie, Gloria's Friend Season 5 Episode 14: "Graduating Class"
1962The Manchurian Candidate Party Guest Uncredited
1964Honeymoon Hotel Mrs. Harrison Uncredited
1964Island of the Blue Dolphins Lurai
1965Girl Happy Girl #1 Uncredited
1967Don't Make Waves Helen (final film role)

Notes and References

  1. http://birthdatabase.com/query.php Birth database based on government records
  2. Book: Lentz, Harris M. . Television Westerns Episode Guide: All United States Series, 1949-1996 . 1997 . McFarland & Company . 978-0-7864-0377-6 . en.
  3. http://alligatographe.blogspot.com/2010/01/wild-wild-west-night-of-sudden-death.html Screen captures from "The Night of Sudden Death", fourth episode (October 8, 1965) of CBS western/spy/fantasy series, The Wild Wild West
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720024943/http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2836/wwwmortsubite03.jpg Screen capture close-up of Julie Payne from "The Night of Sudden Death" episode of The Wild Wild West
  5. Web site: Julie Payne Obituary (2019) Los Angeles Times. Legacy.com.
  6. News: Julie Payne – Obituary. Los Angeles Times. June 19–23, 2019. Legacy.com.
  7. http://birthdatabase.com/query.php Birth database based on government records
  8. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LcEUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3uADAAAAIBAJ&pg=3010,6041646 "Comedienne coming home" (Eugene Register-Guard—July 25, 1976)
  9. 'Alien: Covenant' Honors A Longtime Ridley Scott Collaborator . Bustle . May 19, 2017 . September 1, 2021.