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Melody Patterson (1949 - 2015) ميلودي باترسون
An American actress and singer, born in Inglewood, California, United States. She stood on the stage of the Downey Community Theater at the age of four, and before she was ten...Read more years old, she was a model, actress, and ice skater. She studied at the Hollywood Professional School and later attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York City. She was forced to hide her real age of 16 years old until she won her role in the series F Troop (1965-1967), and when they learned her real age, they did not panik because of her professional maturity. Her stardom began in that series, and she won the title of Deep Star as a promising star in 1966. After the end of her role in the series F Troop, she worked in television, radio, and theater. Then she worked in mode shows and commercials. Her career as a spelfilm and television actress was very short, but her love for acting and theater kept her involved in the
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Melody Patterson dies at 66; played Wrangler Jane in western sitcom ‘F Troop’
Actress Melody Patterson, who played the feisty cowgirl Wrangler Jane in the comic western sitcom “F Troop” in the mid-1960s, has died at a nursing home in Hollister, Mo. She was 66.
Patterson had multiple medical problems and died of natural causes Aug. 21, said Jason Bradley, owner of Cremations of the Ozarks in Hollister, a small town near Branson.
Her role in “F Troop,” which made its debut in 1965 and ran for two seasons on ABC, was her first as a professional actress. Patterson was the last of numerous actresses to audition for the part; she won it, she said, because of how well she worked with her love interest, played by Ken Berry.
“It was a magical chemistry between two people,” she said in a 2001 interview with the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey.
One problem: Patterson was not quite 16 when she auditioned. She lied about her age, telling producers she would “be 18 on her next birthday and w
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Melody Patterson
American actress (1949–2015)
Melody Patterson | |
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Then 16-year-old Patterson on the set of F Troop (1966) | |
| Born | (1949-04-16)April 16, 1949 Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| Died | August 20, 2015(2015-08-20) (aged 66) Hollister, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1965–1989 |
| Spouses | James MacArthur (m. 1970; div. 1975)Robert Seaton (m. 1976; div. 1998)Vern Miller (m. 1998) |
Melody Patricia Patterson (April 16, 1949[1] – August 20, 2015) was an American actress known for her role as Wrangler Jane in the 1960s television series F Troop and for her role as Ellie in the horror film Blood and Lace (1971).
Early life
[edit]Melody Patterson was born on April 16, 1949, in Inglewood, California. She was the daughter of machinist Pat Pa