Troy Donahue

Actor

Male

Born Jan 27, 1936

Hometown New York City

Died Sep 2, 2001

Death Place U.S.

Other Names Johnson, Merle, Jr.

Troy Donahue was an American actor, who was active between the late 1950s and late 1990s.

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Connie Stevens

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Nov 30, 2012

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Troy Donahue Suzanne Pleshette Photo by Globe Photos

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Aug 10, 2006

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Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue in "a Summer Place" 1959 1950s Supplied by Smp/Globe Photos, Inc.

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Feb 21, 2005

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Troy Donahue and Joan Staley Photo: Larry Barbier Jr/Globe Photos Inc

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Jun 12, 2003

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Valerie Allen

Married 1966
Joey Heatherton
Dated 1965
Suzanne Pleshette
Married 1964
Lili Kardell

Dated 1961 - 1962
Diane McBain
Dated 1961
Sally Todd
Dated 1960 - 1961
Maggie Pierce

Dated 1959
Sherry Jackson
Dated

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Artinfo: Sotheby's Scores Its Biggest Night Ever With A Smashing $375 Million Auction
Huffington Post - Nov 14, 2012

NEW YORK -- Rich in world-class offerings of Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art, Sotheby's contemporary evening roared to the tune of $375,205,000, the highest total for any evening sale in its long history. It eclipsed the mark set in May 2008's $362-million contemporary art sale and also clobbered last November's $315.8-million evening. Courtesy Sotheby's Only eleven of the 69 lots failed to sell for a buy-in rate by lot of 16 percent and five percent by value. Seventeen wo...
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Kevin Sessums: 'The Paperboy' Delivers
Huffington Post - Sep 28, 2012

I went to a screening The Paperboy at the screening room at 500 Park Avenue last night. It's director Lee Daniels' down-and-dirty version of Pete Dexter's 1995 book. Both Dexter and Daniels are credited with the screenplay. I have three words for it. Lord. Have. Mercy. This boy ain't never seen nothing quite like it -- pulpy, perverse, pulsating with libido and bile and often a noxious combination of the two. It's as if a Douglas Sirk movie had been directed by John Waters...
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1959: Local Beauty Was A Cutee
Lemon Grove Patch - Apr 30, 2012

A look back at Lemon Grove, 53 years ago this week. Sit, Stay: Also shop, work, play. This issue of the Review featured 12 pages of ads and the exhortation, "It Pays to Shop at Home!" This message cited free parking, a variety of shops, competitive prices and "nice people who want your trade" as prime reasons to buy locally. Editor Max Goodwin noted, "We have more wealth tied up in our schools than in any other single possession in our community." The combination of retail prosperi...
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Today In History The Hour
Google News - Sep 03, 2011

Ten years ago: South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who'd performed the first successful human heart transplant in 1967, died in Paphos, Cyprus, at age 78. Actor Troy Donahue, a one-time teen movie idol, died in Santa Monica, Calif., at
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1936 Birth Born on January 27, 1936.

TWENTIES

1958 22 Years Old He starred in Monster on the Campus, Live Fast, Die Young, and The Tarnished Angels, all in 1958, and opposite fellow teen idol Sandra Dee in A Summer Place in 1959. … Read More

1964 28 Years Old The two co-starred Suzanne Pleshette, whom he married in 1964, but divorced later that same year. … Read More

THIRTIES

1966 30 Years Old 1 More Event

He was married again in 1966 to actress Valerie Allen, but they divorced in 1968. … Read More

1969 33 Years Old In 1969 he appeared in an episode of the long running TV western The Virginian.

1970 34 Years Old In 1970 he appeared in the daytime drama The Secret Storm. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2001 66 Years Old Donahue died of a heart attack at the age of 65 on September 2, 2001.

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