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Shelby Grant
Actress + Center
Female
Born
Oct 19, 1936
Hometown
Orlando, Oklahoma
Died
Jun 25, 2011
Death Place
Westlake Village,...
Nationality
American
Alma Mater
Northeastern Stat...
Other Names
Brenda Thompson
Shelby Grant, born Brenda Thompson, was an American actress whose credits included Our Man Flint, Fantastic Voyage and Medical Center.
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CHILDHOOD
1936
Birth
Born on October 19, 1936.
TWENTIES
Thompson enrolled at Northeastern State College, now known as Northeastern State University, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where she studied drama and speech. She became Northeastern State's football queen in 1959.
1962
25 Years Old
Grant appeared in local television commercials for KTUL-TV, based in Tulsa, after college. In 1962, she moved from Oklahoma to southern California to pursue an acting career.
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1964
27 Years Old
Her film roles under contract with Fox included The Pleasure Seekers in 1964, the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, Our Man Flint in 1966 and The Witchmaker in 1969.
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1966
29 Years Old
Grant married her husband, actor Chad Everett, in a ceremony held on May 22, 1966, in Tucson, Arizona. Chad Everett had been on location in Tucson filming the 1967 movie, Return of the Gunfighter, at the time of their wedding.
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THIRTIES
1969
32 Years Old
Grant appeared in her husband's television series, Medical Center, where he portrayed Dr. Joe Gannon from 1969 to 1976. Grant largely left acting to focus on philanthropy during her later life. She and her husband sponsored more than twenty heart surgeries for children. Shelby Grant died of a brain aneurysm in Westlake Village, California, on June 25, 2011, at the age of 74.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2011
75 Years Old
Died on June 25, 2011.
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