Email. Suzanne Pleshette, actress: born New York 31 January 1937; married 1964 Troy Donahue (marriage dissolved 1964), 1968 Tom Gallagher (died 2000), 2001 Tom Poston (died 2007); died Los Angeles 19 January 2008.
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Actor Troy Donahue, a blond, blue-eyed heartthrob of the 1950s and '60s who starred in teen romances like A Summer Place and Parrish, died Sunday at the age of 65. Donahue died in Santa Monica after suffering a heart attack. His role as Sandra Dee's young lover in 1959's A Summer Place, made him a teen matinee star. Donahue went on to star in a series of teen romances, including Parrish (1961), Rome Adventure (1962) and Palm Springs Weekend (1963).
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Comments. TROY DONAHUE, who has died at Santa Monica, California aged 65, was a film actor who in the early 1960s ranked as a teen idol alongside Elvis Presley and Pat Boone.
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Born Merle Johnson Jr., the New York City native moved at age 19 to Hollywood, where he was discovered by Warner Bros. He was given his screen moniker by Henry Willson, the same film agent who named Rock Hudson.
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CTRL-C or CMD-C, then press Enter. Click/tap elsewhere to exit, or press ESC. Troy Donahue, the all-American teen pinup of the 1950s and '60s who shot to stardom opposite Sandra Dee in A Summer Place, died Sunday of complications from a heart attack. He was 65. He suffered the heart attack on Thursday and was taken to a Santa Monica hospital, but he never recovered.
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Donahue moved back to New York, though in 1972, in an attempt to revive his career, he returned to Hollywood, finding work in the CBS day-time soap Secret Storm and taking a couple of stage roles in Los Angeles. But with his career as a top star at an end, he increasingly found refuge in drink and drugs.
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At the height of his popularity, Donahue could never appear in public without attracting an entourage of over-excited adolescent girls: They'd ask me to light a cigarette and when I did, they screamed and fell down, he recalled.
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Suzanne Pleshette: Actress whose roles included being pecked to death in Hitchcock's 'The Birds'.
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Women were not his only problem. When Delmer Daves cast him as the romantic lead alongside Claudette Colbert in Parrish (1961), he became convinced that Daves had developed a crush on him: Delmer wrote 'Parrish' and then got Colbert and Connie Stevens to be in it with me, Donahue recalled.
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He had a bit part in 1974's Godfather, Part II, playing a character named Merle Johnson. But with his career in decline, Donahue began abusing drugs and alcohol, even spending a summer homeless in New York's Central Park.
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