Kim Darby

Kim Darby
Born	July 8, 1947 (1947-07-08) (age 64) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1962-present
Spouse	James Stacy, 1968-1969 James Westmoreland, 1970

Kim Darby (born July 8, 1947) is an American actress perhaps best known for co-starring with John Wayne and country singer/actor Glen Campbell in the 1969 western True Grit.

Early life and film career

Darby was born Deborah Zerby in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of professional dancers Inga and Jon Zerby. Her father insisted on calling her "Derby" Zerby because he believed it was a great stagename.

Darby began acting at age fifteen and has appeared in many films and television shows. Her first appearance was as a dancer in the 1963 film Bye Bye Birdie. Among her best known roles are True Grit (1969) playing a fourteen-year-old when she was twenty-one years old; Gunsmoke (1967 episodes "The Lure" and "Vengeance"); The One and Only (1978); Better Off Dead (1985); and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).

TV roles

Her television roles included an appearance in the 1960s NBC series The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, Ironside and in the first season of Star Trek as the title character in "Miri". She appeared in the episode "'Tis Better Have Loved and Lost" in the 1965 NBC sitcom The John Forsythe Show. She was cast as "Angel" in the classic two-part Gunsmoke episode "Vengeance." She appeared in the 1967 episode "Faire Ladies of France" of the NBC western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan. She appeared in the 1972 movie The People, which also starred William Shatner, reuniting them from their Star Trek appearance. She also played the unhinged Virginia Caulderwood in the first miniseries ever, Rich Man, Poor Man with Nick Nolte, Peter Strauss and Susan Blakely in 1976.

Darby also had the central role of Sally Farnham in the 1973 made-for-TV horror film Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Kim Darby has made numerous guest appearances, including in such TV shows as Crazy Like a Fox, The Love Boat, Riptide, and Becker. In the late 1980s she began to teach acting in the Los Angeles area and has been an instructor in the Extension Program at the University of California since 1992. Darby also appeared as a female convict in a 1999 episode of The X-Files, "Sein und Zeit" who falsely confesses to the murder of her son who disappeared under mysterious circumstances related to a current occurrence being investigated by Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. She continues to make guest appearances on television and to make occasional films.

Personal life

She has been married five times, three times to well-known people in Hollywood. Her first marriage was to actor James Stacy (1968–1969). They had one child, Heather. Her second marriage was to actor James Westmoreland (also known as Rad Fulton) (February to March 1970). Her fourth marriage was the longest, and was to producer William (Bill) Tennant. She was romantically involved with actors John David Carson and Pete Duel. She currently lives in Studio City, California.

Filmography

• Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
• Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
• "Hang Down Your Head and Laugh" (1966), episode of Run for Your Life
• "Joshua's Kingdom" (1966), episode of The Fugitive
• "Miri" (1966), episode of Star Trek
• Ironside (1967), television pilot film for the series of the same name
• The Karate Killers (1967)
• True Grit (1969)
• Generation (1969)
• The Strawberry Statement (1970)
• Norwood (1970)
• The Grissom Gang (1971)
• The Streets of San Francisco (1972), made-for-TV pilot for the TV series
• "Dark Vengeance" (1973), episode of the TV series Circle of Fear
• Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973, TV)
• The One and Only (1978)
• Better Off Dead (1985)
• Teen Wolf Too (1987)
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
• News Break (2000)
• Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)
• You Are So Going to Hell! (2004)
• Dead Letters (2007)

External links

• Kim Darby at the Internet Movie Database
• Kim Darby at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Home Page
• Feature by the Scriptwriters Network

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Date of birth	July 8, 1947
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