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Diane McBain

Actress

Born - 18 May 1941, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died - 21 December 2022

Apple-cheeked, fair-haired American actress who was signed by Warner Brothers while still at senior high school after being spotted in a play. The studio converted her into one of their porcelain blondes in soap sagas of the early 1960s. Her career continued on and off after her Warner contract was ended, and in 1982 she hit the headlines as the victim of a vicious sexual assault, subsequently becoming a rape counsellor: Ice Palace (1960), Parrish (1961), Young and Eager/Claudelle Inglish (1961), Black Gold (1962), The Caretakers (1963), Mary Mary (1963), A Distant Trumpet (1964), Spinout (1966), Thunder Alley (1967), The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968), Five the Hard Way (1969), I Sailed to Tahiti With an All-Girl Crew (1969), The Delta Factor (1970), The Wild Season (1971), Escape from the Falcon (1972), Wicked, Wicked (1973), The Deathhead Virgin (1974), Legend of the Wild (1981), The Red Fury (1984), Puppet Master 5 (1994), The Christmas Path (1998), The Broken Hearts Club (2000) and Besotted (2001), her last. She died from cancer of the liver.