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Joan Staley
Acting

Joan Staley
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1940-05-20,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Lovely Joan Staley was born Joan McConchie on May 20, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and started taking violin lessons by the time she was three years old. Living in Los Angeles, her prodigious talent was obvious. She soon joined a baby orchestra in Los Angeles and, within a few years, became a Junior Symphony performer at age six. She also made her unbilled specialty debut on film as a child violinist in The Emperor Waltz (1948), starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine. Her father's business had the family traveling throughout Europe growing up but she later relocated to California and briefly enrolled at Chapman College in the Los Angeles area. Becoming a stunning, statuesque beauty, she re-directed herself back to a career in show business, singing backup on records for Sam Phillips and working as a secretary to make ends meet while appearing in local L.A. stage productions. In 1958, she was approached by a photographer and eventually posed for Playboy magazine, becoming November's centerfold. The attention warranted her an MGM contract and cheesecake bit parts came her way with such movies as Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). She appeared front-and-center à la Raquel Welch as a scantily-clad prehistoric turn-on in Valley of the Dragons (1961), but nothing much came of it. Following her perky love interests in the mediocre western Gunpoint (1966), starring Audie Murphy, and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), a Don Knotts comedy film, and guest appearances on such TV shows as "Rango," "Pistols and Petticoats, "Mission: Impossible," "Ironside" and "Adam-12," Joan's career went on hiatus after a horse-riding accident. Briefly married to Chuck Staley, her second husband is former Universal exec Dale Sheets. Twins were born to them, a boy and girl, on March 24, 1971. Since then, with the exception of a brief appearance on an episode of "Dallas" in 1982, Joan remained with family life and other outside pursuits. She died on November 24, 2019. - IMDb mini biography by: Gary Brumburgh / [email protected]

Filmography

6

Roustabout
1964-11-11

7.5

Cape Fear
1962-04-12

Breakfast at Tiffany's

7.6

Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961-10-06

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

6.752

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
1966-01-20

5.3

Johnny Cool
1963-10-02

A New Kind of Love

6.2

A New Kind of Love
1963-10-10

Valley of the Dragons

5.75

Valley of the Dragons
1961-10-31

6.16

Gunpoint
1966-04-25

5.333

Gun Fight
1961-04-30

6.372

Ocean's Eleven
1960-08-10

A Golightly Gathering

0

A Golightly Gathering
2009-01-13

Who Killed Julie Greer?

0

Who Killed Julie Greer?
1961-09-26

Kisses for My President

7.625

Kisses for My President
1964-08-21

Kissin' Cousins

4.7

Kissin' Cousins
1964-03-06

4.125

Dondi
1961-03-26

6.3

The Ladies Man
1961-06-21

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob

9.667

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob
1969-05-05

77 Sunset Strip

7.1

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

6.25

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

Kraft Suspense Theatre

6.5

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963-10-10

7.3

Batman
1966-01-12

7.9

The Munsters
1964-09-24

7.706

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

5.6

Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07

7.1

Adam-12
1968-09-21

6.855

Ironside
1967-03-28

6.4

Laredo
1965-09-16

Bringing Up Buddy

9

Bringing Up Buddy
1960-10-10

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

7.6

Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966-09-17

7.8

87th Precinct
1961-09-25

The Lawless Years

7

The Lawless Years
1959-04-16

6.514

The Virginian
1962-09-19

7.667

The New Breed
1961-10-03

0

Rango
1967-01-13

6.75

Stoney Burke
1962-10-01

0

The Broad Side
2001-03-05

The Lively Ones

0

The Lively Ones
1962-07-26

The Jean Arthur Show

7.5

The Jean Arthur Show
1966-09-12

0

Not for Hire
1959-10-23

7.1

Adam-12
1968-09-21

6.25

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

6.25

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

7.521

Bonanza
1959-09-12

7.706

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.706

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.706

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

Mission: Impossible

7.554

Mission: Impossible
1966-09-17

The Dick Van Dyke Show

7.6

The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961-10-03

7

Broadside
1964-09-20

7.521

Bonanza
1959-09-12