
Biography
Fay Spain was an American actress in motion pictures and television.
She appeared as a contestant in a 1950 episode of the Groucho Marx game show You Bet Your Life (episode #56-02, October 4, 1956, Secret Word ‘Hand’). By the middle and late 1950s and 1960s, Spain appeared in Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Cheyenne, Rawhide, Whirlybirds, Perry Mason (Charlotte Lynch in “The Case of the Fiery Fingers”), Tombstone Territory (episode “Pick up the Gun”), The Millionaire, M Squad, Adventures in Paradise, The Texan, Riverboat, The Rat Patrol, Gomer Pyle, USMC, Gunsmoke (episode “Mavis McCloud” (1957) and episode “A Man a Day” (1961)), Playhouse 90, 77 Sunset Strip, Have Gun – Will Travel (episode “High Wire,” 1957), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (episode “The Last Dark Step” (1959) and “The Cuckoo Clock” (1960)), Maverick (episode “the Goose-Downer” (1959)), Pony Express, The Restless Gun, Maverick (“The Cactus Switch” with Roger Moore (1961)), The Fugitive, Bat Masterson and as Angela in Steve McQueen’s Wanted: Dead or Alive (Season 2, Episode 18 (1959)).
Spain also appeared on the NBC interview program Here’s Hollywood. In the 1950s and 1960s she continued to be seen frequently on television series such as Rawhide episodes, “Incident of the Valley in Shadow” (1959) and “Incident in the Middle of Nowhere” (1961) and “Incident of the Lost Woman” (1962), as well as Stoney Burke, Hogan’s Heroes, and The Fugitive.
In 1966, she was cast as Calamity Jane in the episode “A Calamity Called Jane” of the syndicated series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor. Rhodes Reason played Wild Bill Hickok in this episode
Overview
- Born: October 6, 1932
- Age: 50 years old
- Died: May 8, 1983
- Gender Orientation:
Cisgender Woman - Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual
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Characters
There is 1 character listed for this actor; none are dead.