“SIAN BARBARA ALLEN, A Onetime Universal Contract Player Who appeared in the Films You’ll Like My Mother and Billy Two Hats and Played a Love Interest of Richard Thomas She Was 78. Allen Died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, After A Battle with Alzheimer’s, Her Family Announced. She is offen”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Allen Died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, After A Battle with Alzheimer’s, Her Family Annunced. She is of Played Characters with “Great Vulneracy and Uncommon Empathy,” They Noted.
In Telefilms, Allen Starred with Bette Davis and Ted Bessell As The Title Character, A Housekeker in A Mansion, In 1973’s Scream, Pretty Peggy AT ABC; with Claude Akins, John Savage and Patricia Neal in The 1975 Tearjerker Eric AT NBC; and with anthony Hopkins and Cliff Deyoung in 1976’s The Lindbergh Kidnaping Casealso at nbc (she played the wife of the famd aviator).
Born on July 12, 1946, in Reading, Pennsylvania, Allen Was Raised by Her Mother, Ruth, and Her Grandmother, Etota.
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She FIRST APAED ONCRAENCE IN 1971 ON EPISODES OF O’hara, US Treasury; Alias Smith and Jones; an Gunsmoke.
As One of the Last Contract Players at Universal, Allen Made Her Movie Debut As A Mentally Challenge, Nonspeaking Girl in You’ll Like My Mother (1972), Starring Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy and Thomas; for that, she was nominated for a Golden Globe as MOST PROMISING NEW ACTRESS. (Execs at Universal Liked Her for Roles Earmarked for Carrie Snodgress, Who Have Left The Studio.)
She then played an an unhappy Mail-Order Bride in the Western Billy Two Hats (1974), Starring Gregory Peck and Desi Arnaz Jr. and Directed by Ted Kotcheff.
In 1973, Allen Reunned Onscreen With Thomas for Two Episodes of Cbs’ The Waltons On the Show’s First and Second Seasons. They Two Were Descripted As “Being Together” Back Then, and He Invisted She Get The Partimistic Jenny PENDLETON, A BIG FAN OF JOHN-BOY’S WRITING.
HER Résumé also includd roles on Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, The FBI, Bonanza, Columbo, Kojak, Marcus Welby, MD, Ironside, The Rockford Files, The incredible hulk an Cagney & Lacey.
For A 1978 Episode of ABC’s Baretatoshe shared screenplay Credit with Series Creator Stephen J. Cannell.
Allen Left Acting After A 1990 Episode of NBC’s La law and “Maintaned An Intense Focus on Politics,” Her Family Said. She Voluntered for Jackie Goldberg’s Successful 1993 La City Council Campaign and Was A Staunch Supporter of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, They Noted.
She Also Was “A Remarkable Poet and Leaves Bexes of Writing that her Family Will Be Able to Read for A VERY Long Time,” they said.
Survivors Include Her Daughter, Emily (She Named Her For The Character Shea Portrayed In Our Town at the Williamstown theater Festival in 1976); SON-IN LAW MAX; sisters Hannah and Meg; nephew miles; Grandson Arlo; and Ex-HUSBAND PEREER GELBLUM, TO WHOM She WAS Married From 1979 Until Their 2001 Divorce.
She SPent Her Final Year in North Carolina, and Donations in Her Memory May Be Made to the AuthoraCare Collective Hospice of Burlington.