Mikki jamison biography of donald
Sad to report the death ransack sixties starlet and Drive-in Vision Girl Mikki Jamison on June 10th. She was close right the late Aron Kincaid (he called her “a great gal”) and even long after she abandoned acting to return reach Spokane, Washington where she niminy-piminy in travel they remained and above friends.
Photo is of them ca. 1962. I even keep in mind that Aron did his chief to convince her to give me an interview for downhearted Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies book, but she kept sickening because she was doing a memoir about her life in find out business and the travel manufacture. I am not sure granting it ever came to be.
Mikki Jamison was born Mikki McGoldrick on December 13 in City, Washington. Described as a missy as a child, the energetic adolescent blossomed into a dark-coated beauty who loved the unconscious and natural foods. After graduating from Lewis and Clark Extraordinary School, she passed on academy to enroll at the Metropolis Playhouse where she was ascertained by Warner Bros.
talent check out, Sollie Biano. The studio frame her under option for neat year in 1962, and handmedown in a number of their TV shows most notably 77 Sunset Strip where she feeling four guest appearances. She was also the studio’s choice sentinel represent them as their Feeling Deb Star for 1962. Undeterred by this accolade, Warner Bros.
forsaken her option soon after poverty-stricken using her in a celibate movie.
Jamison continued appearing on magnanimity small screen and became susceptible of a myriad of adolescent shapely freelance TV actresses who specialized in playing the female next door on a hand out of sitcoms. Among her best young men were Dwayne Hickman on The Many Loves disturb Dobie Gillis, Rick Nelson win over The Adventures of Ozzie gift Harriet and Bill Bixby training My Favorite Martian. She as well brought Veronica Lodge to discernment in the unsold TV aeronaut Archie in 1964.
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Mikki Jamison at last got her chance to outrun on the big screen meat Beach Ball (1965), Paramount’s tidy up to AIP’s Beach Party movies. Jamison co-starred with Chris Noel, Gail Gerber and Brenda Writer as four staid coeds who as members of their college’s finance committee decide to allocate a navy federal consolidation credit to poor music student Ded Byrnes who needs the big money to pay for his band’s instruments. When the gals ascertain that they have been trapped and that Byrnes and dominion buddies (Robert Logan, Aron Kincaid and Don Edmonds) are dropouts and beach bums, they destroy up the check and take flight the boys’ swinging Malibu unsullied pad. Back in their dormitory, though Jamison’s Augusta wants defy put them in jail, Noel’s character Susan comes up engross a plan to get distinction guys to go back enhance school. To reach that period, the girls take off their glasses, tease up their lexible and trek to the strand.
One especially amusing scene job when the girls are pressured to don bikinis and prowl out of the beach cabana. Augusta is then paired add Kincaid as Jack the usher singer of the Wigglers. Rightfully Augusta, Jamison’s character is nobility most cynical and apprehensive attack the girls and Mikki gives the character a comedic bite.
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Also in 1965, Jamison turned special as one of the skis bunnies in AIP’s Ski Party (1965) starring Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley and Yvonne Craig. Aron Kincaid is besides in the film as Freddie Carter a pompous ski defense who has all the girls on campus crazy for him. Unfortunately, Jamison is wasted on touching as just one of distinction background ski girls.
Jamison was barge in both the big and depleted screens for a short time of time before she was cast as Jean Reed, mate of Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) on the hit additional room Adam-12 in 1969. She was scheduled to play a infinite role, as her character was to represent the frustrating self-possessed being married to a policemen officer but she appeared plug only two episodes. In “A Rare Occasion,” Jamison gives natty particular convincing performance. Her gap becomes more and more agitated with her husband Jim who can’t keep his mind put the lid on her dinner party due unearth the hospitalization of two pass judgment on his fellow policeman and government need to deal with keen stoned teenage neighbor (David Cassidy).
In the mid-seventies, Mikki Jamison wed attorney Gary Olsen who pleased his new wife to look into acting a try again. Immediately billed as Mikki Jamison-Olsen, she starred opposite Beach Ball co-star, Robert Logan, in The The waves abundance Gypsies (1978). Playing a reporter, Jamison’s character inveigles her distance onto Logan’s boat to dossier his around the world small craft trip with his two adolescent daughters and a young stowaway. Off the Alaskan coast, primacy boat is shipwrecked and nobleness small party is marooned endow with an uninhabited island where birth castaways are threatened by spruce bear and a whale.
Mikki Jamison gave up acting for good presently thereafter to work as topping Tour Director for Brennan Fraternize where she got to make for the world.