# actors/actress who have disappeared from the face of earth ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941 "2006-09-08T17:02:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wildfire\_MM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@Wildfire\_MM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildfire_MM)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/1 "2006-09-08T17:02:36Z")
he actress that comes to my mind is Suzanna Love. She was never a big star but she was perhaps considered to be some kind of video-queen back in the 1980’s. She played in several horror movies (the boogeyman, Olivia, Devonsville terror) directed by Ulli Lommel, and was also married with him. I find nothing about her after 1991 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/2 "2006-09-08T17:15:20Z")
Raymond Allen. Played the Aunt Esther’s hapless drunken husband Woody in “Sanford and Son.” Bill McLean. A recognizable face who was in tons of bit roles, playing small, mousey, comical characters. (I mostly remember him as Les Nessmans long-lost barber father in an ep of “WKRP.”) Maren Jensen. “Battlestar Galactica” babe. Bambi Woods. Widely reported to have have ODed in 1986. Not confirmed or corroborated. Amos Reese. Frequent authority figure in the 1950s “Amos ‘n’ Andy” series. I think he probably died in 1979 (California Death Index). But there’s absolutely no biographical info on him anywhere. Ernest ‘Skillet’ Mayhand. Another “Sanford and Son” alumnus. He and Leroy Daniels (supposedly, the real-life inspiration of Red Foley’s song "Chattanooga Shoe-Shine Boy) performed as “Leroy and Skillet.” Daniels died some years ago. Who knows about Mayhand? If I think of more, I’ll add. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/3 "2006-09-08T17:18:28Z")
… Well, he is in the IMDB, but he’s not best known as an actor: [Harold Holt](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2033459/) (And he also azppears as a character in [The Last Bastion](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087590/) and [Vietnam](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0140770/)) But perhaps that kind of disapparance is a bit more than you were thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/4 "2006-09-08T17:40:04Z")
Joe Pesci hasn’t done thing since 1998, although according to the IMDB, he hs something commig out this year. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/5 "2006-09-08T17:52:30Z")
Chris Tucker- no movies since Rush Hour 3. Amy Locane kinda disappered after Blue Sky, School Ties & Airheads. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/6 "2006-09-08T18:01:30Z")
[Charmian Carr.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0139642/bio) Had one TV movie and one real movie back in 65/66. No one remembers the TV movie, but she will be forever remembered as Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/7 "2006-09-08T18:07:36Z")
Also Nell Potts (Paul Newman’s daughter) one great movie role (Effect of Gamma Rays…) then nothing. Judith O’Dea has been pretty much MIA since Night of the Living Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/8 "2006-09-08T18:12:44Z")
Bettie, Bettie, where can you be? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/9 "2006-09-08T18:20:41Z")
Jan Smithers, gol dangit. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/10 "2006-09-08T18:21:59Z")
Steven Rogers. Played “Doc” in the first season of “Combat,” then he was in a couple of ski and sand movies. Then. . . . nothing. Melonie Haller. Played an associate Sweathog on the last season of “Welcome Back, Kotter.” That was it, although she apparently married some photographer or artist. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/11 "2006-09-08T18:22:20Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] Maren Jensen. “Battlestar Galactica” babe. [/QUOTE] And her blonde Galactica counterpart Laurette Spang. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/12 "2006-09-08T18:59:08Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Judith O’Dea has been pretty much MIA since Night of the Living Dead. [/QUOTE] I saw a neat documentary called [Something to Scream About](http://imdb.com/title/tt0328456/) that featured an interview with Judith O’Dea. She is now a bright, middle-aged, businesslike lady, but she obviously has fond memories of her brief turn as a “scream queen.” She has a [website](http://www.odeacommunications.com/) and a [blog](http://www.judyodea.blogspot.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/13 "2006-09-08T19:53:28Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] Joe Pesci hasn’t done thing since 1998, although according to the IMDB, he hs something commig out this year. [/QUOTE] Yeah, his prostate. bDOOM _kssh_ I was curious about Jane Badler and discovered that _V_ [might come back.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366112/) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/14 "2006-09-08T20:07:33Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Bettie, Bettie, where can you be? [/QUOTE] I ain’t seen the likes of you in Hustler Magazine! A BR5-49 reference, and about Bettie Page no less. Well played. Have you seen the recent photos (from the last year or so) of Bettie at a Playboy Mansion party? There was one of her with Hef, and another of her in between Pamela Anderson (who looks awed) and Anna Nicole Smith (who looks dazed). She has aged, but still has that radiant smile. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/15 "2006-09-08T21:22:50Z")
The ultimate trivia answer, [Klinton Spillsbury](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818812/). Exactly one credit, a starring role, and never heard from again. In this case, they did pull the mask from the ol’ Lone Ranger. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/16 "2006-09-08T21:25:44Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Chris Tucker- no movies since Rush Hour 3. [/QUOTE] There…was a third one? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/17 "2006-09-08T21:27:42Z")
Oops I meant since Rush Hour 2, probably nothing until Rush Hour 3 materializes :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/18 "2006-09-08T21:35:13Z")
The kid from the original **Willy Wonka**. That was his only film role, now he’s a veterinarian in upstate New York. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/19 "2006-09-08T22:31:24Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] A BR5-49 reference, and about Bettie Page no less. Well played. Have you seen the recent photos (from the last year or so) of Bettie at a Playboy Mansion party? There was one of her with Hef, and another of her in between Pamela Anderson (who looks awed) and Anna Nicole Smith (who looks dazed). She has aged, but still has that radiant smile. [/QUOTE] I thought that might bring a BR5-49 fan out of the woodwork. 🆒 And no, I haven’t seen any recent photos of Bettie. Last I heard, she was living in Florida and refusing photographs because she wanted people to remember her the way she was. I gather that has changed? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/20 "2006-09-08T22:32:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Maren Jensen. “Battlestar Galactica” babe Yanno, for whatever reasons, this woman popped into my head the other day and made me wonder, “Whatever happened to Maren Jensen?” Yes, I knew her actual name. Can’t remember what her characters name was. I have no idea why I suddenly thought of her after 25+ years. She will probably die of an overdose/car accident/nuclear explosion now because this would be how things work. Whatever happened to Lauren Tewes and Captain Stubing? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941.md?page=2)