Julie Gregg
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Julie Gregg is an American television, film and stage actress. She generally played supporting or guest, but not lead, roles. She is best known for her portrayal of Sandra Corleone
in The Godfather
. Very little information is available on her personal life.
. She guest starred in many television shows in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, in both dramatic and comic roles. For example, she twice appeared on Bewitched
, in two different guest roles. The first was in "Double Split," episode no. 62 in season 2, 1966, and the second in 1967 during season 3, episode no. 99, "The Crone of Cawdor." In the latter show, she played Terry Warbell, a magic crone
, who stole the youth of people when she kissed them, including Darrin Stevens.
She had a reoccurring role in Banyon
, an NBC detective series that aired from 1972-73. Banyon was a period drama starring Robert Forster set in Los Angeles in the late 1930s. Gregg played Banyon's girlfriend, Abby Graham, a nightclub singer who was constantly trying to encourage him to "settle down" and marry her, but to no avail during the brief run of this series.
Among her guest roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s were two separate episodes of Mission: Impossible
, where she again played different characters. In 1969, in season 4, episode 91 Amnesiac, she played Monique, an Impossible Missions Force operative. That was the season when the show had no permanent female operative because Barbara Bain
, who played Cinnamon Carter in seasons 1-3, had resigned and Lesley Ann Warren
, who played Dana Lambert in season 5, had not yet signed on. Then in 1970 in season 5, she played Anna Kerkoska, a premier's daughter who needed rescuing, in episode no. 112, Decoy. Anna fell in love with Jim Phelps, who did indeed rescue her by driving her across the border in a specially outfitted, low to the ground, automobile that could drive under the border gate. Also in 1970, she guest starred in a season 2 episode of Hawaii Five-O
, The One with the Gun, as the wife of the man shot after a crooked card game.
Gregg was cast in a starring role in the short-lived drama series, Mobile One, on ABC
in 1975. She played Maggie Spencer, a television news assignment editor, in 11 episodes with co-star Jackie Cooper
. The show was cancelled in December after those 11 episodes.
Her last television role was as Sally in the "Thanksgiving" episode on Showtime's Brothers
in 1987.
, but the scene was subsequently cut. It does appear in The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television. 1969 she played a role in the second season of the Hawaii Five-O
series as Marla Acuna in "Savage Sunday".
Her only musical film role was as Antonia, Don Quixote's niece, in Man of La Mancha
in 1972. In that movie, she was featured in the song I'm Only Thinking of Him. Her last film role was in the thriller Dead On in 1993.
and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
. She also portrayed Julie LaVerne in Show Boat
on tour in 1981.
Her only appearance on Broadway was as school teacher Laurie Mannon in John Kander
and Fred Ebb
's 1968 musical production of The Happy Time
. She replaced Linda Bennett in that role just before the New York opening. Her opening day performance was well received by the critics, who noted her "enchanting voice, looks, and personality."
Gregg received a Tony Award
nomination for her performances in The Happy Time
, in the category Featured, i.e., supporting, Actress (Musical). Her co-star in the musical, Robert Goulet
won the Tony that year for best actor in a musical. She did win a Theatre World Award
for the 1967-68 season for her debut performance.
Sandra Corleone
Sandra Corleone is a fictional character appearing in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, the Godfather film trilogy, and the Godfather video game...
in The Godfather
The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...
. Very little information is available on her personal life.
Roles on television
Gregg's first television role was in 1964 as a nurse in McHale's NavyMcHale's Navy
McHale's Navy is an American television sitcom series which ran for 138 half-hour episodes from October 11,1962, to August 31, 1966, on the ABC network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated in a one-hour drama called Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962...
. She guest starred in many television shows in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, in both dramatic and comic roles. For example, she twice appeared on Bewitched
Bewitched
Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
, in two different guest roles. The first was in "Double Split," episode no. 62 in season 2, 1966, and the second in 1967 during season 3, episode no. 99, "The Crone of Cawdor." In the latter show, she played Terry Warbell, a magic crone
Crone
The crone is a stock character in folklore and fairy tale, an old woman who is usually disagreeable, malicious, or sinister in manner, often with magical or supernatural associations that can make her either helpful or obstructing. She is marginalized by her exclusion from the reproductive cycle,...
, who stole the youth of people when she kissed them, including Darrin Stevens.
She had a reoccurring role in Banyon
Banyon
Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of its 1972-73 television schedule, though a standalone two-hour television movie was broadcast first in March 1971. The series was a Quinn Martin Production Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC...
, an NBC detective series that aired from 1972-73. Banyon was a period drama starring Robert Forster set in Los Angeles in the late 1930s. Gregg played Banyon's girlfriend, Abby Graham, a nightclub singer who was constantly trying to encourage him to "settle down" and marry her, but to no avail during the brief run of this series.
Among her guest roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s were two separate episodes of Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...
, where she again played different characters. In 1969, in season 4, episode 91 Amnesiac, she played Monique, an Impossible Missions Force operative. That was the season when the show had no permanent female operative because Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain
Millicent Fogel , known professionally as Barbara Bain, is an American actress.-Early life:Bain was born in Chicago. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in sociology. She moved to New York City, where she was a dancer and high fashion model. Bain studied with...
, who played Cinnamon Carter in seasons 1-3, had resigned and Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren is an American actress and singer. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Emmy Awards and five times for Golden Globe, winning one....
, who played Dana Lambert in season 5, had not yet signed on. Then in 1970 in season 5, she played Anna Kerkoska, a premier's daughter who needed rescuing, in episode no. 112, Decoy. Anna fell in love with Jim Phelps, who did indeed rescue her by driving her across the border in a specially outfitted, low to the ground, automobile that could drive under the border gate. Also in 1970, she guest starred in a season 2 episode of Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...
, The One with the Gun, as the wife of the man shot after a crooked card game.
Gregg was cast in a starring role in the short-lived drama series, Mobile One, on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
in 1975. She played Maggie Spencer, a television news assignment editor, in 11 episodes with co-star Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination...
. The show was cancelled in December after those 11 episodes.
Her last television role was as Sally in the "Thanksgiving" episode on Showtime's Brothers
Brothers (TV series)
Brothers is an American television sitcom that originally aired on the cable network Showtime from July 13, 1984 to July 25, 1989, totaling 115 episodes. It was produced by Gary Nardino Productions, in association with two separate divisions of Paramount; first by the Paramount Video division and...
in 1987.
Roles in film
Gregg's first film role was also in 1964, in From Hell to Borneo, which was shot on location in the Philippines. She received second billing in that movie to George Montgomery. She played the role of Sandra Corleone in The Godfather, and reprised her role in The Godfather Part IIThe Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also depicting the...
, but the scene was subsequently cut. It does appear in The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television. 1969 she played a role in the second season of the Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...
series as Marla Acuna in "Savage Sunday".
Her only musical film role was as Antonia, Don Quixote's niece, in Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha (film)
Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion...
in 1972. In that movie, she was featured in the song I'm Only Thinking of Him. Her last film role was in the thriller Dead On in 1993.
Roles on stage
Gregg was also a stage actress and singer, a veteran of national tours of FannyFanny (musical)
Fanny is a musical with a book by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan and music and lyrics by Harold Rome. A tale of love, secrets, and passion set in and around the old French port of Marseille, it is based on Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of plays entitled Marius, Fanny and César.The musical premiered on...
and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name....
. She also portrayed Julie LaVerne in Show Boat
Show Boat
Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was originally produced in New York in 1927 and in London in 1928, and was based on the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. The plot chronicles the lives of those living and working...
on tour in 1981.
Her only appearance on Broadway was as school teacher Laurie Mannon in John Kander
John Kander
John Harold Kander is the American composer of a number of musicals as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb.-Life and career:Kander was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Bernice and Harold S. Kander...
and Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
's 1968 musical production of The Happy Time
The Happy Time (musical)
The Happy Time is a musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by N. Richard Nash loosely based on a 1950 hit Broadway play, The Happy Time by Samuel A. Taylor, which was in turn based on stories by Robert Fontaine...
. She replaced Linda Bennett in that role just before the New York opening. Her opening day performance was well received by the critics, who noted her "enchanting voice, looks, and personality."
Gregg received a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
nomination for her performances in The Happy Time
The Happy Time
The Happy Time is a 1952 movie directed by the award-winning director Richard Fleischer, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Robert Fontaine, which Samuel A. Taylor turned it into a hit play. A boy, played by Bobby Driscoll, comes of age in a close-knit French-Canadian family. The film...
, in the category Featured, i.e., supporting, Actress (Musical). Her co-star in the musical, Robert Goulet
Robert Goulet
Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian American entertainer as a singer and actor. He played the role of Lancelot in the Broadway musical Camelot of 1960.-Early life:...
won the Tony that year for best actor in a musical. She did win a Theatre World Award
Theatre World Award
The Theatre World Award, first awarded for the 1945-46 season, is an American honor presented annually to actors and actresses in recognition of an outstanding New York City stage debut performance, either on Broadway or off-Broadway.-History:...
for the 1967-68 season for her debut performance.