Patty Duke

Anna Marie Duke (December 14, 1946 - March 29, 2016), known professionally as Patty Duke, was an American actress. Beginning her acting career in commercials and playing bit parts in television and movies, her breakthrough role was as Helen Keller in the Broadway version of "The Miracle Worker" (1959 - 1961). For the 1962 film adaptation, Duke reprised her role, which won the Academy Award for best supporting actress - at age 16, she was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar (a record later broken by Tatum O'Neal in 1973). Other early films included Billie (1965), Valley of the Dolls (1967), and Me, Natalie (1969). On television, Duke starred in the popular teen sitcom The Patty Duke Show (1963 - 1966), playing a dual role and garnering the first of ten Emmy nominations. She won Emmys for her roles in television film My Sweet Charlie (1970), miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976), and the 1979 TV movie version of The Miracle Worker (1979), this time portraying Annie Sullivan. She served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 - 1988. Off-screen, Duke's life was often tumultuous. Born in Elmhurst, New York, to Frances Margaret (McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a cab driver and handyman, her acting career began at age eight when she was turned over to her brother Ray Duke's managers, John and Ethel Ross, who changed her name and engaged in exploitative behavior. Duke was married four times: to director Harry Falk from 1965 - 1969; to writer Michael Tell in 1970 (with whom she became mother to actor Sean Astin); to actor John Astin from 1972 - 1985 (with who she became mother to actress Mackenzie Astin); and to drill sergeant Michael Pearce from 1986 until her death (with whom she had two stepdaughters and an adopted son Kevin). In 1982, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which was the subject of her second book, "A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depression Illness" (1992). Duke was also a political advocate for issues such as the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), AIDS awareness, and nuclear disarmament. She died on March 29, 2016, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine.

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Patty Duke

Filmografia

Anna dei miracoli

La valle delle bambole

La divina

Doppia anima

Hitch-Hikers

L'amore trova casa

I Love Liberty

Il dubbio degli dei

Swarm - Lo sciame che uccide

Swiss Family Robinson

Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive

Billie

Divieto d'amore

Il colosso di fuoco

La stella di Natale

Amazing Love

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

Call Me Anna

Little John

Inside 'the Swarm'

A un passo dalla morte

The Power and the Glory

Giustizia per un figlio

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

Guardate cosa è successo al figlio di Rosemary

Journey to the Unknown

Me, Natalie

Disperatamente una donna

Il prezzo del silenzio

Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story

Two on a Bench

If Tomorrow Comes

Perry Mason: Un fotogramma dal cielo

Anna dei miracoli

My Sweet Charlie

Love Lessons

The Daydreamer

The Women's Room

A Family Upside Down

Amityville Horror - La fuga del diavolo

Chi ha ucciso mia figlia?

Lotta per la vita

Killer on Board

The Babysitter

Birdbath

Fatal Judgement

Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women

The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights

Harvest of Fire

The Violation of Sarah McDavid

Last Wish

By Design

Absolute Strangers

When the Vows Break

She Waits

Kimberly

Please Don't Hit Me, Mom

George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation

The Girl on the Edge of Town

The Storyteller

Cries from the Heart

A Natale tutto è possibile

Una vita strappata

Delitto in quarta dimensione

La maledizione della vedova nera

Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door

To Face Her Past

One Woman's Courage

September Gun

Una mamma per Jesse

Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage

Hard Day at Blue Nose

Meet Me in St. Louis

Before and After

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