Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl was born Sheila Ann Kuehl in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her father, Arthur, was an airplane construction worker at Douglas Aircraft. He was Catholic and her mother, Lillian, was Jewish. As a child actress she performed under the stage name Sheila James.
Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl's only acting roles beyond 1970 were in two "Dobie Gillis" reunion projects: a 1977 sitcom pilot produced by James Komack, "Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?", and a 1988 television movie sequel, "Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis". In both productions, Dobie had married Zelda and the two were running the Gillis family grocery store and raising a teenage son named Georgie Gillis.