Patty Duke
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Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an American actress of stage
, film, and television. First becoming famous as a child star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
at age 16, and later starring in her eponymous sitcom
for three years, she progressed to more mature roles upon playing Neely O'Hara
in the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls
. She was later elected president of the Screen Actors Guild
from 1985 to 1988.
Duke was diagnosed with bipolar disorder
in 1982; since then she has devoted much of her time to advocating and educating the public on mental health
issues.
In 1996, Patty Duke was ranked #40 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
and her maternal grandmother was German
.
Duke and her older brother Raymond experienced a childhood of hard times. Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother suffered from clinical depression
and was prone to violence. When Duke was 6, her mother threw her father out; when she was 8, her mother turned Duke's care over to John and Ethel Ross, who became her managers. The Rosses recognized her talent and promoted her as a child actress.
The Rosses' methods were often unscrupulous and exploitive; they consistently billed Duke as two years younger than she was, and padded her resume with some false credits. It was Ethel Ross who gave the sweeping name-change order, "Anna Marie is dead, you are Patty now," hoping the change in her first name would allow her to duplicate the success of child actress Patty McCormack
. This act would have painful repercussions for Duke in the decades to come.
The Brighter Day
, in the late 1950s. She also appeared in print ads and in television commercials. At the age of twelve, Duke appeared on The $64,000 Question and won $32,000. Three years later, it was revealed that the game show was rigged
and she was called to testify before a congressional panel.
Duke's first major starring role was playing Helen Keller
(with Anne Bancroft
as Annie Sullivan) in the Broadway
play The Miracle Worker
, which ran for nearly two years (October, 1959 – July, 1961). Midway through the production-run, her name was placed above the title on the marquee. The play was subsequently made into a 1962 film
, for which Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
. At 16, Duke was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category.
In 1961, Duke returned to television in her teenage years, starring with Laurence Olivier
and George C. Scott
in a TV production of The Power and the Glory
.
Two years later, in 1963, Duke was given her own series titled The Patty Duke Show
, in which she played both main characters: Patty Lane, an American teenager occasionally getting into minor trouble in school and at home, and her 'prim and proper' "identical cousin" from Scotland, Cathy Lane. The show featured co-stars William Schallert
as Patty Lane's father, Jean Byron
as her mother, Paul O'Keefe
as her brother and Eddie Applegate
as her boyfriend, Richard, as well as featuring such high-profile guest stars as Sammy Davis, Jr.
, Peter Lawford
, Paul Lynde
, and Sal Mineo
. The series lasted for three seasons and earned Duke an Emmy Award
nomination.
Despite the success of her career, Duke was deeply unhappy during her teenage years. Efforts were taken by the Rosses to portray her as a normal teenager, but Duke later indicated in her memoirs that she was their virtual prisoner and had little control over her own life and earnings. The Rosses kept control over Duke and her mother by allowing them only a small amount of money to survive on. The Rosses also began providing Duke with alcohol and prescription drugs when she was 13, which, along with her undiagnosed bipolar disorder, contributed to substance abuse problems she experienced throughout her young adult life. As an adult, Duke accused both John and Ethel Ross of sexual abuse
. Upon turning 18, Duke legally became free of the Rosses, only to find that they had squandered most of her earnings.
In 1967, with The Patty Duke Show cancelled, Duke attempted to leave her childhood success behind and begin her adult acting career by playing Neely O'Hara
in Valley of the Dolls
. The film was a box office success, but audiences and critics had a difficult time accepting all-American-teenager Duke as an alcoholic, drug-addicted singing star. While the film has since become a camp
classic—thanks in large part to Duke's over-the-top performance--it almost ruined her career at the time.
Duke starred in Me, Natalie
, a 1969 film in which she played an "ugly duckling" Brooklyn teenager struggling to make a life for herself in the Bohemian
world in Greenwich Village
. One of her co-stars was a young actor making his screen debut, Al Pacino
. The film was a failure at the box office, but Duke won the Golden Globe for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)
for the role.
Duke returned to television in 1970, starring in a made-for-TV movie, My Sweet Charlie
. Her sensitive portrayal of a pregnant teenager on the run won Duke her first Emmy Award
, but her acceptance speech was rambling, angry, and disjointed, and led many in the industry to believe she was using drugs. In fact, Duke was in the throes of a manic phase as part of her then-undiagnosed bipolar disorder
, which would remain undiagnosed until 1982.
Duke worked primarily in television from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. She received her second Emmy for the TV miniseries
Captains and the Kings
in 1977, and her third in 1980 for a TV version of her 1979 stage revival of The Miracle Worker, this time playing Annie Sullivan to Melissa Gilbert
's Helen Keller. Her turns in the made-for-TV movies The Women's Room (1980) and George Washington (1984) both garnered her Emmy nominations. In 1985, she played the first female President of the United States in the short-lived TV series Hail to the Chief
. In 1987, she returned to series television in another short-lived comedy, Karen's Song
.
While between series in 1986, Duke starred in the made-for-TV movie A Time to Triumph, the true story of Concetta Hassan, a middle-aged woman struggling to support her family after her construction worker husband suffers an on-the-job injury, eventually becoming a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. On-set, Duke became good friends with Army drill sergeant Michael Pearce, who was a technical advisor for the production; the couple married on March 15, 1986.
Duke became the second woman (actress Kathleen Nolan
was the first) to be elected as President of the Screen Actors Guild
in 1985, and would hold the post until 1988.
In 1990, Duke's autobiography, Call Me Anna, was adapted for television; she played herself from her mid-30s onward.
Though Duke's primary medium from the late-70s to the mid-2000s was television, she continued to take small roles in movies. Her 1982 portrayal of a lesbian fashion designer in the Canadian film By Design
garnered her a Genie Award
nomination for Best Foreign Actress. Duke would later portray the mother of Meg Ryan's character in the 1992 film adaptation of the play Prelude to a Kiss
.
Her appearances in 3 episodes of Touched By An Angel
resulted in a nomination in 1999 for an Emmy Award.
. She returned to New York in 2005, but not for any role; she instead attended a memorial for Anne Bancroft
, who had died from uterine cancer
.
On November 2, 2004, Duke announced that she would undergo single cardiac bypass surgery
in Idaho. The surgery was successful.
On October 4, 2007, Duke appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show
, talking about her bipolar disorder to a guest, advising the guest to seek out a support group.
In early 2009, Duke reprised her role(s) as Patty Lane and Cathy Lane in PSAs
about retiring for The Social Security Administration.
On March 24, 2009, she replaced Carol Kane
as Madame Morrible in the San Francisco production of the musical Wicked
. She left the production on February 7, 2010.
On July 20, 2009, Duke was given a tribute in her honor at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco titled "Sparkle, Patty, Sparkle!" During the evening, Duke met and posed for pictures with over one thousand fans and was interviewed on stage by comic Bruce Vilanch
. In addition to showing clips from her long career, Duke's 1967 film Valley of the Dolls was screened at the end of the evening. The event sold out the 1400 seat theater.
In 2010, Duke recorded a series of PSAs for the Social Security Administration to help promote applying online for Medicare
, including one with George Takei
.
In May 2011, Duke directed the stage version of The Miracle Worker
at Interplayers Theatre in Spokane, Washington
.
In June 2011, TVLine announced Duke will be joining the cast in Lifetime’s drama The Protector playing the role of Beverly, the mother of Ally Walker’s titular homicide detective.
She played the mother of a murdered deep-sea diver on the Oct. 10, 2011, episode of Hawaii Five-0.
. Also during 1968, she had appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
, and after George Jessel's
comic appearance, she was introduced and sang an old Irish song, "Danny Boy
". She also sang songs on such shows as Shindig!
, Kraft Music Hall, The Mike Douglas Show
, and The Merv Griffin Show
. She sang in the 1965 feature film Billie
and sang on the soundtrack of the 1966 feature film, The Daydreamer, in which she voiced the character of Thumbelina
. She has recorded a string of six LP's in her musical career.
) in 1982. Her treatment, which included lithium
as a medication and therapy, stabilized Duke's life and put her on the road to recovery. She became the first celebrity to go public with her bipolar disorder diagnosis, and has contributed to de-stigmatizing bipolar disorder. Duke has since become an activist for numerous mental health causes. She has lobbied the United States Congress
and joined forces with the National Institute of Mental Health
and National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in order to increase awareness, funding, and research for people with mental illness.
Patty Duke's character in the 2011 series The Protector is shown struggling with accepting her bipolar disorder, mimicking her real life condition.
promoting the Social Security
Website. In several, she appears as Patty & Cathy using split-screen effects. In others, she appears with George Takei
wearing a Star Trek
costume.
On August 17, 2004, Duke received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
for her contribution to the motion picture industry.
In December 2007, Duke was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of North Florida for her work in advancing awareness of mental health issues.
On March 6, 2010, Duke was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
, and like many bipolar sufferers, she self-medicated; she drank heavily, became anorexic, and overdosed on pills a number of times. The couple separated in 1969 and were divorced on March 3, 1970.
In early 1970, at the age of 23, Duke had an affair with 17-year old Desi Arnaz, Jr.
. The couple's relationship became tabloid fodder, due in part to the vocal and public opposition of Arnaz's mother, Lucille Ball
. By late spring, Duke and Arnaz had broken off their relationship, and she began dating actor John Astin
, who was sixteen years her senior. Around the same time, Duke developed an intimate relationship with rock promoter Michael Tell. In June 1970, in the midst of a manic phase, Duke learned she was pregnant. Unsure whether Arnaz or Astin was the father of her unborn child, Duke married Michael Tell on June 26, 1970 in order to "give (her child) a name". Their marriage lasted thirteen days before ending in an annulment on July 9, 1970; Duke claimed the marriage was never consummated. Her son, actor Sean Astin
, was born on February 25, 1971. Though Duke said in her 1987 autobiography that John Astin was Sean's biological father, she later stated that she had always believed that Desi Arnaz, Jr. was Sean's actual biological father. It turned out that neither statement was correct; in 1994, Sean Astin underwent biological testing to determine his paternity, and the results showed that Astin's father is actually Michael Tell.
Duke and John Astin were married in August 1972. Astin adopted Sean, and the couple had another son, actor Mackenzie
, in 1973. Duke and Astin worked together extensively during their marriage, and she took his name professionally, becoming "Patty Duke Astin". The couple divorced in 1985.
Duke married her fourth husband, drill sergeant Michael Pearce, in 1986. The couple moved to Hayden, Idaho
, and adopted a son, Kevin, who was born in 1988. Pearce became a firefighter. Since her marriage to Pearce, Duke occasionally uses the name "Anna Duke-Pearce" in her writings and other professional work.
Duke has three granddaughters by her son Sean: Actress Alexandra Astin (who played Elanor Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
, opposite her father, who played Samwise Gamgee
), Elizabeth Astin, and Isabella Astin.
Albums
Singles
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, film, and television. First becoming famous as a child star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
at age 16, and later starring in her eponymous sitcom
The Patty Duke Show
The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke...
for three years, she progressed to more mature roles upon playing Neely O'Hara
Neely O'Hara
Neely O'Hara is a fictional character in the Jacqueline Susann penned novel and movie Valley of the Dolls. She was played by actress Patty Duke in the first movie; and then in the 1981 remake by Lisa Hartman.-Overview:...
in the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls (film)
The soundtrack was released in 1967. Dionne Warwick sang the title track; however, her version is not on the soundtrack. Warwick was signed to Scepter Records at the time and could not contractually appear...
. She was later elected president of the Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
from 1985 to 1988.
Duke was diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder, historically known as manic–depressive disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or...
in 1982; since then she has devoted much of her time to advocating and educating the public on mental health
Mental health
Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
issues.
In 1996, Patty Duke was ranked #40 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Early life
Duke was born Anna Marie Duke in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, the daughter of Frances (née McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a handyman and cab driver. Her father was Irish AmericanIrish American
Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,278,332 Americans—estimated at 11.9% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau...
and her maternal grandmother was German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Duke and her older brother Raymond experienced a childhood of hard times. Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother suffered from clinical depression
Clinical depression
Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and by loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities...
and was prone to violence. When Duke was 6, her mother threw her father out; when she was 8, her mother turned Duke's care over to John and Ethel Ross, who became her managers. The Rosses recognized her talent and promoted her as a child actress.
The Rosses' methods were often unscrupulous and exploitive; they consistently billed Duke as two years younger than she was, and padded her resume with some false credits. It was Ethel Ross who gave the sweeping name-change order, "Anna Marie is dead, you are Patty now," hoping the change in her first name would allow her to duplicate the success of child actress Patty McCormack
Patty McCormack
Patty McCormack is an American actress with a career in theater, films and television.She achieved success as a child actress, and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Bad Seed...
. This act would have painful repercussions for Duke in the decades to come.
1950s - 1990s
One of Duke's first acting jobs was on the soap operaSoap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
The Brighter Day
The Brighter Day
The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from January 4, 1954 to September 28, 1962. Originally created for NBC radio by Irna Phillips in 1948, the radio and television versions ran simultaneously from 1954-1956...
, in the late 1950s. She also appeared in print ads and in television commercials. At the age of twelve, Duke appeared on The $64,000 Question and won $32,000. Three years later, it was revealed that the game show was rigged
Quiz show scandals
The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the outcome of a supposedly fair competition....
and she was called to testify before a congressional panel.
Duke's first major starring role was playing Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
(with Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, which she had studied under Lee Strasberg....
as Annie Sullivan) in the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
play The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker (play)
The Miracle Worker is a three-act play by William Gibson adapted from his 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name. It is based on Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life.-Plot:...
, which ran for nearly two years (October, 1959 – July, 1961). Midway through the production-run, her name was placed above the title on the marquee. The play was subsequently made into a 1962 film
The Miracle Worker (1962 film)
The Miracle Worker is a 1962 American biographical film directed by Arthur Penn. The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his 1959 play of the same title, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90...
, for which Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
. At 16, Duke was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category.
In 1961, Duke returned to television in her teenage years, starring with Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...
and George C. Scott
George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr...
in a TV production of The Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often added to the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, now and forever , amen." This novel has also been published in the US under the name The...
.
Two years later, in 1963, Duke was given her own series titled The Patty Duke Show
The Patty Duke Show
The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke...
, in which she played both main characters: Patty Lane, an American teenager occasionally getting into minor trouble in school and at home, and her 'prim and proper' "identical cousin" from Scotland, Cathy Lane. The show featured co-stars William Schallert
William Schallert
William Joseph Schallert is an American actor who has appeared in many films and in such television series as The Smurfs, The Rat Patrol, Gunsmoke, The Patty Duke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Waltons, Bonanza, Leave It to Beaver, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Love, American Style, Get...
as Patty Lane's father, Jean Byron
Jean Byron
Jean Byron was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show.-Early life and career:...
as her mother, Paul O'Keefe
Paul O'Keefe
Paul O'Keefe is an American actor best known for his work on The Patty Duke Show and in the film The Daydreamer. Born in Boston, he began his schooling at the Immaculate Conception School and at the New England Conservatory of Music. He appeared on television with such stars as Sid Caesar, Sarah...
as her brother and Eddie Applegate
Eddie Applegate
Eddie Applegate is an American television actor, best-known for his work in the 1960s, most notably in the role of Richard Harrison, the boyfriend of Patty Lane on The Patty Duke Show.-Early life and career:...
as her boyfriend, Richard, as well as featuring such high-profile guest stars as Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. was an American entertainer and was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities....
, Peter Lawford
Peter Lawford
Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen , better known as Peter Lawford, was an English-American actor.He was a member of the "Rat Pack", and brother-in-law to US President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting...
, Paul Lynde
Paul Lynde
Paul Edward Lynde was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Harry MacAfee, the befuddled father in Bye Bye Birdie...
, and Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo
Salvatore "Sal" Mineo, Jr. , was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his performance as John "Plato" Crawford opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause...
. The series lasted for three seasons and earned Duke an Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
nomination.
Despite the success of her career, Duke was deeply unhappy during her teenage years. Efforts were taken by the Rosses to portray her as a normal teenager, but Duke later indicated in her memoirs that she was their virtual prisoner and had little control over her own life and earnings. The Rosses kept control over Duke and her mother by allowing them only a small amount of money to survive on. The Rosses also began providing Duke with alcohol and prescription drugs when she was 13, which, along with her undiagnosed bipolar disorder, contributed to substance abuse problems she experienced throughout her young adult life. As an adult, Duke accused both John and Ethel Ross of sexual abuse
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or molester...
. Upon turning 18, Duke legally became free of the Rosses, only to find that they had squandered most of her earnings.
In 1967, with The Patty Duke Show cancelled, Duke attempted to leave her childhood success behind and begin her adult acting career by playing Neely O'Hara
Neely O'Hara
Neely O'Hara is a fictional character in the Jacqueline Susann penned novel and movie Valley of the Dolls. She was played by actress Patty Duke in the first movie; and then in the 1981 remake by Lisa Hartman.-Overview:...
in Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls (film)
The soundtrack was released in 1967. Dionne Warwick sang the title track; however, her version is not on the soundtrack. Warwick was signed to Scepter Records at the time and could not contractually appear...
. The film was a box office success, but audiences and critics had a difficult time accepting all-American-teenager Duke as an alcoholic, drug-addicted singing star. While the film has since become a camp
Camp (style)
Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its taste and ironic value. The concept is closely related to kitsch, and things with camp appeal may also be described as being "cheesy"...
classic—thanks in large part to Duke's over-the-top performance--it almost ruined her career at the time.
Duke starred in Me, Natalie
Me, Natalie
Me, Natalie is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe. The screenplay by A. Martin Zweiback is based on an original story by Academy Award-winner Stanley Shapiro, who previously wrote Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, and That Touch of Mink for Doris Day...
, a 1969 film in which she played an "ugly duckling" Brooklyn teenager struggling to make a life for herself in the Bohemian
Bohemian
A Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...
world in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...
. One of her co-stars was a young actor making his screen debut, Al Pacino
Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...
. The film was a failure at the box office, but Duke won the Golden Globe for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950...
for the role.
Duke returned to television in 1970, starring in a made-for-TV movie, My Sweet Charlie
My Sweet Charlie
My Sweet Charlie is an American television movie directed by Lamont Johnson. The teleplay by Richard Levinson and William Link is based on the novel of the same name by David Westheimer. Produced by Universal Television and broadcast by NBC on January 20, 1970, it later had a brief theatrical...
. Her sensitive portrayal of a pregnant teenager on the run won Duke her first Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
, but her acceptance speech was rambling, angry, and disjointed, and led many in the industry to believe she was using drugs. In fact, Duke was in the throes of a manic phase as part of her then-undiagnosed bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder, historically known as manic–depressive disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or...
, which would remain undiagnosed until 1982.
Duke worked primarily in television from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. She received her second Emmy for the TV miniseries
Miniseries
A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
Captains and the Kings
Captains and the Kings
Captains and the Kings is a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who arrives penniless as a teenager in the United States of America...
in 1977, and her third in 1980 for a TV version of her 1979 stage revival of The Miracle Worker, this time playing Annie Sullivan to Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Ellen Gilbert is an American actress, writer, and producer, primarily in movies and television. Gilbert is best known as a child actress who co-starred as Charles Ingalls's second daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, on the dramatic television series Little House on the Prairie...
's Helen Keller. Her turns in the made-for-TV movies The Women's Room (1980) and George Washington (1984) both garnered her Emmy nominations. In 1985, she played the first female President of the United States in the short-lived TV series Hail to the Chief
Hail to the Chief (TV series)
Hail to the Chief is an American sitcom about the first woman President of the United States, portrayed by Academy Award-winning actress Patty Duke...
. In 1987, she returned to series television in another short-lived comedy, Karen's Song
Karen's Song
Karen's Song is an American situation comedy television series starring Patty Duke. The series premiered July 18, 1987 on Fox.-Plot:Forty-year-old divorcee Karen Matthews cautiously begins dating 28-year-old Steven Foreman...
.
While between series in 1986, Duke starred in the made-for-TV movie A Time to Triumph, the true story of Concetta Hassan, a middle-aged woman struggling to support her family after her construction worker husband suffers an on-the-job injury, eventually becoming a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. On-set, Duke became good friends with Army drill sergeant Michael Pearce, who was a technical advisor for the production; the couple married on March 15, 1986.
Duke became the second woman (actress Kathleen Nolan
Kathleen Nolan
Kathleen Nolan is an American actress. She is sometimes confused with actress Jeanette Nolan. From 1957 to 1962, she played the role of Kate McCoy, a housewife in her late twenties, in the Walter Brennan series The Real McCoys....
was the first) to be elected as President of the Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
in 1985, and would hold the post until 1988.
In 1990, Duke's autobiography, Call Me Anna, was adapted for television; she played herself from her mid-30s onward.
Though Duke's primary medium from the late-70s to the mid-2000s was television, she continued to take small roles in movies. Her 1982 portrayal of a lesbian fashion designer in the Canadian film By Design
By Design
By Design is a Canadian film directed by Claude Jutra and was released in 1982. It stars Sara Botsford and Patty Duke Astin.-Synopsis:Angie , and Helen , are in love and they live and work together - they design women's clothes and run their own fashion business in Vancouver. Helen wants to be a...
garnered her a Genie Award
Genie Award
Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949-1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards...
nomination for Best Foreign Actress. Duke would later portray the mother of Meg Ryan's character in the 1992 film adaptation of the play Prelude to a Kiss
Prelude to a Kiss (film)
Prelude to a Kiss is a 1992 American romantic fantasy film directed by Norman René and starring Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan and Sydney Walker. The screenplay by Craig Lucas is based on his 1988 play of the same title.-Plot synopsis:...
.
Her appearances in 3 episodes of Touched By An Angel
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della...
resulted in a nomination in 1999 for an Emmy Award.
2000s
Duke gradually reduced her work schedule throughout the first decade of 2000, but took occasional TV and film roles. She returned to the New York stage in 2002, playing Aunt Eller in a revival of Oklahoma!Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...
. She returned to New York in 2005, but not for any role; she instead attended a memorial for Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, which she had studied under Lee Strasberg....
, who had died from uterine cancer
Uterine cancer
The term uterine cancer may refer to any of several different types of cancer which occur in the uterus, namely:*Uterine sarcomas: sarcomas of the myometrium, or muscular layer of the uterus, are most commonly leiomyosarcomas.*Endometrial cancer:...
.
On November 2, 2004, Duke announced that she would undergo single cardiac bypass surgery
Coronary artery bypass surgery
Coronary artery bypass surgery, also coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery is a surgical procedure performed to relieve angina and reduce the risk of death from coronary artery disease...
in Idaho. The surgery was successful.
On October 4, 2007, Duke appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, talking about her bipolar disorder to a guest, advising the guest to seek out a support group.
In early 2009, Duke reprised her role(s) as Patty Lane and Cathy Lane in PSAs
Public service announcement
A public service announcement or public service ad is a type of advertisement featured on television, radio, print or other media...
about retiring for The Social Security Administration.
On March 24, 2009, she replaced Carol Kane
Carol Kane
Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane is an American actress. Kane has worked on the stage, on the screen and in television. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman. She received two Emmy Awards for her work...
as Madame Morrible in the San Francisco production of the musical Wicked
Wicked (musical)
Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...
. She left the production on February 7, 2010.
On July 20, 2009, Duke was given a tribute in her honor at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco titled "Sparkle, Patty, Sparkle!" During the evening, Duke met and posed for pictures with over one thousand fans and was interviewed on stage by comic Bruce Vilanch
Bruce Vilanch
Bruce Vilanch is an American comedy writer, songwriter and actor. He is a six-time Emmy Award-winner Vilanch is best known to the public for his four-year stint on Hollywood Squares, as a celebrity participant; in the entertainment industry he is best known as head writer for the show...
. In addition to showing clips from her long career, Duke's 1967 film Valley of the Dolls was screened at the end of the evening. The event sold out the 1400 seat theater.
In 2010, Duke recorded a series of PSAs for the Social Security Administration to help promote applying online for Medicare
Medicare (United States)
Medicare is a social insurance program administered by the United States government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over; to those who are under 65 and are permanently physically disabled or who have a congenital physical disability; or to those who meet other...
, including one with George Takei
George Takei
George Hosato Takei Altman is an American actor, author, social activist and former civil politician. He is best known for his role in the television series Star Trek and its film spinoffs, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the...
.
In May 2011, Duke directed the stage version of The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker (play)
The Miracle Worker is a three-act play by William Gibson adapted from his 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name. It is based on Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life.-Plot:...
at Interplayers Theatre in Spokane, Washington
Spokane, Washington
Spokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region...
.
In June 2011, TVLine announced Duke will be joining the cast in Lifetime’s drama The Protector playing the role of Beverly, the mother of Ally Walker’s titular homicide detective.
She played the mother of a murdered deep-sea diver on the Oct. 10, 2011, episode of Hawaii Five-0.
Singing
Duke had a successful singing career, including two Top 40 hits in 1965, "Don't Just Stand There" (#8) and "Say Something Funny" (#22). Another recording was "Dona Dona" in 1968, which she performed as the second song on The Ed Sullivan ShowThe Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
. Also during 1968, she had appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night....
, and after George Jessel's
George Jessel (actor)
George Albert Jessel was an American illustrated song "model," actor, singer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning movie producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that transcended his limited roles in movies...
comic appearance, she was introduced and sang an old Irish song, "Danny Boy
Danny Boy
-Background:The words to "Danny Boy" were written by English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in 1910. Although the lyrics were originally written for a different tune, Weatherly modified them to fit the "Londonderry Air" in 1913, after his sister-in-law in the U.S. sent him a copy. Ernestine...
". She also sang songs on such shows as Shindig!
Shindig!
Shindig! was an American musical variety series which aired on ABC from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time who also created the show along with his wife Sharon Sheeley and production executive Art Stolnitz....
, Kraft Music Hall, The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that aired in syndication from 1961 to 1982, distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations.The program featured light banter with...
, and The Merv Griffin Show
The Merv Griffin Show
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to September 26, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in...
. She sang in the 1965 feature film Billie
Billie (film)
Billie is a 1965 musical film directed by Don Weis. Based on the 1952 play Time Out For Ginger by Ronald Alexander, the film stars Patty Duke in the title role.-Plot:...
and sang on the soundtrack of the 1966 feature film, The Daydreamer, in which she voiced the character of Thumbelina
Thumbelina
"Thumbelina" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Traveling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. "Thumbelina" is about a tiny girl and...
. She has recorded a string of six LP's in her musical career.
Mental health advocacy
In 1987, Duke revealed in her autobiography that she was diagnosed with manic depression (now called bipolar disorderBipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder, historically known as manic–depressive disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or...
) in 1982. Her treatment, which included lithium
Lithium pharmacology
Lithium pharmacology refers to use of the lithium ion, Li+, as a drug. A number of chemical salts of lithium are used medically as a mood stabilizing drug, primarily in the treatment of bipolar disorder, where they have a role in the treatment of depression and particularly of mania, both acutely...
as a medication and therapy, stabilized Duke's life and put her on the road to recovery. She became the first celebrity to go public with her bipolar disorder diagnosis, and has contributed to de-stigmatizing bipolar disorder. Duke has since become an activist for numerous mental health causes. She has lobbied the United States Congress
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
and joined forces with the National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health...
and National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in order to increase awareness, funding, and research for people with mental illness.
Patty Duke's character in the 2011 series The Protector is shown struggling with accepting her bipolar disorder, mimicking her real life condition.
Public service announcements
As of early 2011, Duke appears in PSAsPublic service announcement
A public service announcement or public service ad is a type of advertisement featured on television, radio, print or other media...
promoting the Social Security
Social Security (United States)
In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program.The original Social Security Act and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs...
Website. In several, she appears as Patty & Cathy using split-screen effects. In others, she appears with George Takei
George Takei
George Hosato Takei Altman is an American actor, author, social activist and former civil politician. He is best known for his role in the television series Star Trek and its film spinoffs, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the...
wearing a Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
costume.
Other achievements
Duke is the author of two books: Her autobiography, Call Me Anna (ISBN 0-553-27205-5), and Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness (ISBN 0-553-56072-7).On August 17, 2004, Duke received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
for her contribution to the motion picture industry.
In December 2007, Duke was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of North Florida for her work in advancing awareness of mental health issues.
On March 6, 2010, Duke was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Personal life
In 1965, Duke married her first husband, director Harry Falk, who was thirteen years her senior. During their marriage, she was constantly having mood swings, a symptom of bipolar disorderBipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder, historically known as manic–depressive disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or...
, and like many bipolar sufferers, she self-medicated; she drank heavily, became anorexic, and overdosed on pills a number of times. The couple separated in 1969 and were divorced on March 3, 1970.
In early 1970, at the age of 23, Duke had an affair with 17-year old Desi Arnaz, Jr.
Desi Arnaz, Jr.
Desi Arnaz, Jr. , is an American actor and musician and the son of entertainers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.-Early life:...
. The couple's relationship became tabloid fodder, due in part to the vocal and public opposition of Arnaz's mother, Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy...
. By late spring, Duke and Arnaz had broken off their relationship, and she began dating actor John Astin
John Astin
John Allen Astin is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows, and is best known for the role of Gomez Addams on The Addams Family, and other similarly eccentric comedic characters.-Early years:...
, who was sixteen years her senior. Around the same time, Duke developed an intimate relationship with rock promoter Michael Tell. In June 1970, in the midst of a manic phase, Duke learned she was pregnant. Unsure whether Arnaz or Astin was the father of her unborn child, Duke married Michael Tell on June 26, 1970 in order to "give (her child) a name". Their marriage lasted thirteen days before ending in an annulment on July 9, 1970; Duke claimed the marriage was never consummated. Her son, actor Sean Astin
Sean Astin
Sean Astin is an American film actor, director, voice artist, and producer better known for his film roles as Mikey Walsh in The Goonies, the title character of Rudy, and Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In television, he appeared as Lynn McGill in the fifth season of 24...
, was born on February 25, 1971. Though Duke said in her 1987 autobiography that John Astin was Sean's biological father, she later stated that she had always believed that Desi Arnaz, Jr. was Sean's actual biological father. It turned out that neither statement was correct; in 1994, Sean Astin underwent biological testing to determine his paternity, and the results showed that Astin's father is actually Michael Tell.
Duke and John Astin were married in August 1972. Astin adopted Sean, and the couple had another son, actor Mackenzie
Mackenzie Astin
-Biography:Astin was born on May 12, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Patty Duke and actor John Astin. His older half-brother is actor Sean Astin. He attended Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School and University High School in Los Angeles, California...
, in 1973. Duke and Astin worked together extensively during their marriage, and she took his name professionally, becoming "Patty Duke Astin". The couple divorced in 1985.
Duke married her fourth husband, drill sergeant Michael Pearce, in 1986. The couple moved to Hayden, Idaho
Hayden, Idaho
Hayden is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. The population was 9,159 at the 2000 census.- History :Hayden was once called "Hayden village." In 1955, it was incorporated as Hayden City...
, and adopted a son, Kevin, who was born in 1988. Pearce became a firefighter. Since her marriage to Pearce, Duke occasionally uses the name "Anna Duke-Pearce" in her writings and other professional work.
Duke has three granddaughters by her son Sean: Actress Alexandra Astin (who played Elanor Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...
, opposite her father, who played Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee, later known as Samwise Gardner and commonly as Sam, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. Samwise is one of the chief characters in Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, in which he fills an archetypical role as the sidekick of the protagonist, Frodo...
), Elizabeth Astin, and Isabella Astin.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Country Music Holiday | Sis Brand | |
| 1958 | Emily Ann Faulkner, age 8 | ||
| 1959 | 4D Man 4D Man 4D Man is a 1959 American science fiction independent film, produced by Jack H. Harris from his own original screenplay and directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.-Plot:... |
Marjorie Sutherland | |
| 1959 | Happy Anniversary | Debbie Walters | |
| 1962 | Helen Keller Helen Keller Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.... |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the... Nominated–Golden Globe |
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| 1965 | Billie Billie (film) Billie is a 1965 musical film directed by Don Weis. Based on the 1952 play Time Out For Ginger by Ronald Alexander, the film stars Patty Duke in the title role.-Plot:... |
Billie Carol | |
| 1966 | Thumbelina | Voice | |
| 1967 | Think Twentieth | Herself | Short subject |
| 1967 | Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls (film) The soundtrack was released in 1967. Dionne Warwick sang the title track; however, her version is not on the soundtrack. Warwick was signed to Scepter Records at the time and could not contractually appear... |
Neely O'Hara Neely O'Hara Neely O'Hara is a fictional character in the Jacqueline Susann penned novel and movie Valley of the Dolls. She was played by actress Patty Duke in the first movie; and then in the 1981 remake by Lisa Hartman.-Overview:... |
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| 1969 | Me, Natalie Me, Natalie Me, Natalie is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe. The screenplay by A. Martin Zweiback is based on an original story by Academy Award-winner Stanley Shapiro, who previously wrote Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, and That Touch of Mink for Doris Day... |
Natalie Miller | Golden Globe for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1972 | You'll Like My Mother You'll Like My Mother You'll Like My Mother is a 1972 film based on the Naomi A. Hintze novel and directed by Lamont Johnson. It stars Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy and Richard Thomas, and was filmed in Duluth, Minnesota at the Glensheen Historic Estate... |
Francesca Kinsolving | |
| 1978 | Rita | ||
| 1982 | By Design By Design By Design is a Canadian film directed by Claude Jutra and was released in 1982. It stars Sara Botsford and Patty Duke Astin.-Synopsis:Angie , and Helen , are in love and they live and work together - they design women's clothes and run their own fashion business in Vancouver. Helen wants to be a... |
Helen | Nominated–Genie Award Genie Award Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949-1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards... for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress |
| 1986 | Willy/Milly | Doris Niceman | Alternative titles: I Was a Teenage Boy Something Special |
| 1992 | Prelude to a Kiss Prelude to a Kiss (film) Prelude to a Kiss is a 1992 American romantic fantasy film directed by Norman René and starring Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan and Sydney Walker. The screenplay by Craig Lucas is based on his 1988 play of the same title.-Plot synopsis:... |
Mrs. Boyle | |
| 1999 | Kimberly | Dr. Feinstenberger | Alternative title: Daddy Who? |
| 2005 | Bigger Than the Sky | Mrs. Keene/Earlene | |
| 2008 | Susan Metler |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963– 1966 |
Patty Lane/Cathy Lane | 104 episodes Nominated–Emmy Award Emmy Award An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various... ; Nominated–Golden Globe |
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| 1967 | Sue Ann MacRae | "Sue Ann" Season 5, Episode 16 | |
| 1970 | My Sweet Charlie My Sweet Charlie My Sweet Charlie is an American television movie directed by Lamont Johnson. The teleplay by Richard Levinson and William Link is based on the novel of the same name by David Westheimer. Produced by Universal Television and broadcast by NBC on January 20, 1970, it later had a brief theatrical... |
Marlene Chambers | TV movie Limited theatrical release after television premiere Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
| 1971 | If Tomorrow Comes | Eileen Phillips | TV movie |
| 1971 | She Waits | Laura Wilson | TV movie |
| 1972 | Deadly Harvest | Jenny | TV movie |
| 1974 | Nightmare | Jan | TV movie |
| 1976 | Captains and the Kings Captains and the Kings Captains and the Kings is a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who arrives penniless as a teenager in the United States of America... |
Bernadette Hennessey Armagh | Miniseries Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
| 1978 | Wendy | TV movie Nominated–Primetime Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special |
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| 1978 | Having Babies III Julie Farr, M.D. Julie Farr, M.D. was a short-lived American television show that aired on the ABC network in 1978. It followed three television movies called Having Babies which aired from 1976-78, and was not renewed after its initial run of episodes aired in March-April 1978... |
Leslee Wexler | Primetime series, 3rd installment Nominated–Primetime Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series |
| 1979 | Before and After | Carole Matthews | TV movie |
| 1979 | Annie Sullivan | TV movie Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
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| 1980 | The Babysitter | Liz Benedict | TV movie |
| 1980 | Lily | TV movie Nominated–Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special |
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| 1981 | Martha | TV movie Nominated–Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Children's Programming |
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| 1981 | Sarah McDavid | TV movie | |
| 1981 | Please Don't Hit Me, Mom | Barbara Reynolds | TV movie (appearing with her son, Sean Astin) |
| 1982 | It Takes Two | Molly Quinn | TV series |
| 1983 | September Gun | Sister Dolcina | TV movie |
| 1984 | Insight Insight (TV series) Insight was an Emmy-winning syndicated television series produced by Paulist Productions that aired 250 episodes from 1960 to 1983. The series presented half-hour dramas illuminating the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love... |
Unnamed | Series episode: The Hit Man Nominated–Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Religious Programming – Performers |
| 1984 | George Washington | Martha Washington Martha Washington Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States... |
Miniseries Nominated–Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special |
| 1985 | Hail to the Chief Hail to the Chief (TV series) Hail to the Chief is an American sitcom about the first woman President of the United States, portrayed by Academy Award-winning actress Patty Duke... |
President Julia Mansfield | TV series |
| 1986 | Concetta Hassan | TV docudrama | |
| 1987 | Fight for Life | Shirley Abrams | TV docudrama |
| 1987 | Karen's Song Karen's Song Karen's Song is an American situation comedy television series starring Patty Duke. The series premiered July 18, 1987 on Fox.-Plot:Forty-year-old divorcee Karen Matthews cautiously begins dating 28-year-old Steven Foreman... |
Karen Matthews | TV series |
| 1988 | Fatal Judgement | Anne Capute | TV movie |
| 1990 | Always Remember I Love You Always Remember I Love You Always Remember I Love You is a 1990 television film starring Patty Duke and Stephen Dorff. It tells the story of a teenage boy who, after finding out he was adopted, runs away from home to search for his biological family.-Plot:... |
Ruth Monroe | TV movie |
| 1990 | Call Me Anna | Herself | TV docudrama |
| 1991 | Jean Monroe | TV movie | |
| 1991 | Absolute Strangers Absolute Strangers Absolute Strangers is a 1991 made-for-television CBS docudrama featuring Happy Days star Henry Winkler returning to his first major TV role in eight years.... |
Judge Ray | TV docudrama |
| 1992 | Last Wish | Betty Rollin Betty Rollin Betty Rollin , has been an NBC News correspondent and author.Rollin's reports have won both the DuPont and Emmy awards. She now contributes reports for PBS's Religion and Ethics News Weekly.... |
TV docudrama |
| 1993 | Mary Brown | TV docudrama | |
| 1994 | Cries from the Heart Cries from the Heart Cries from the Heart is a 1994 television film directed by Michael Switzer and starring Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert, who had co-starred together in three prior films.- Plot :... |
Terry Wilson | TV movie |
| 1995 | When the Vows Break | Barbara Parker | TV docudrama Also titled: Courting Justice |
| 1996 | Harvest of Fire | Annie Beiler | TV movie |
| 1996 | Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah | Natalie | TV movie |
| 1997 | Sook Faulk | TV movie | |
| 1998 | Patty Lane/Cathy Lane MacAllister | TV movie | |
| 1998 | Faye Dolan | TV movie | |
| 1998– 2003 |
Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della... |
Jean | 3 episodes Nominated– Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (1999) |
| 1999 | Angel | TV movie | |
| 2000 | Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story | Anne Kincaid | TV docudrama |
| 2002 | Little John | Sylvia | TV movie |
| 2004 | Murder without Conviction | Mother Joseph | TV movie |
| 2004 | Judging Amy Judging Amy Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly... |
Valerie Bing | 1 episode |
| 2006 | Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door is a Hallmark Channel original television movie filmed primarily on location in Avalon, Catalina Island... |
Bridget Connelly | TV movie |
| 2009 | Love Finds a Home Love Finds a Home Love Finds a Home is a Christian drama film, the eighth and final installment based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It aired on Hallmark Channel on September 5, 2009. The film is based on the book Love Finds a Home by Janette Oke... |
Mary Watson | TV movie |
| 2010 | Unanswered Prayers | Irene | TV movie |
Discography
Numbers indicate Billboard chart peak positionsAlbums
- Don't Just Stand There (#90) – United Artists UAL 3452 (Mono)/UAS 6452 (Stereo) – 9/65
- Patty – United Artists UAL 3492/UAS 6492 – 1966
- Patty Duke's Greatest Hits – United Artists UAL 3535/UAS 6535 – 1966
- TV's Teen Star – Unart M 20005 (Mono)/S 21005 (Stereo) – 1967
- Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections – United Artists UAL 3623/UAS 6623 – 1967
- Sings Folk Songs – United Artists – Unreleased – 1968
Singles
- Don't Just Stand There (#8) / Everything But Love – United Artists 875 – 6/65
- Say Something Funny (#22) / Funny Little Butterflies (#77) – United Artists 915 – 9/65
- Whenever She Holds You (#64) / Nothing But Me – United Artists 978 – 2/66
- Little Things Mean A Lot / The World Is Watching Us – United Artists 50034 – 1966
- The Wall Came Tumbling Down / What Makes You Special – United Artists 50057 – 1966
- Why Don't They Understand / Danke Schoen – United Artists 50073 – 1966
- Come Live With Me / My Own Little Place – United Artists 50216 – 1967
- Dona, Dona / And We Were Strangers – United Artists 50299 – 1968
External links
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Movies - Celebrity Spokesperson Patty Duke Says "Retire Online, It’s So Easy!" (Social Security Public Service Announcements)