# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/21 "2006-09-08T23:29:24Z")
Carrie Henn (Newt from Alien 2). Apparently enjoying post-college life right now… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/22 "2006-09-08T23:36:23Z")
I haven’t seen Mary Miles Minter in anything since _Trail of the Lonesome Pine_. Wonder what she’s been up to? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/23 "2006-09-08T23:57:05Z")
William “Officer Obie” Obanhein. Got very good notices playing himself in **Alice’s Restaurant** , but immediately went back to his day job arresting people for litterin’. ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/24 "2006-09-09T00:19:38Z")
[Sarah Holcomb.](http://imdb.com/name/nm0390106/) Appeared in four movies in a two year period, including both _Animal House_ and _Caddyshack_, where she played Maggie, Danny’s girlfriend. _Caddyshack_ was her last role, according to IMDb. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/25 "2006-09-09T00:24:17Z")
[Ms. Christopher Norris](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635782/bio), saucy brown-eyed blonde best remembered as Nurse Ripples on _Trapper John, MD._ Last surfaced on a TV show called _Diagnosis Murder_ in 1998. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/26 "2006-09-09T00:42:47Z")
Possibly the only woman to believably play the “nerdy girl who’s really hot” in a movie (in both _Revenge of the Nerds_ and _Real Genius_), [Michelle Mayrink](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001534/) stopped acting in 1988 to move to Canada, raise a family, and practice Zen Buddhism full time. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/27 "2006-09-09T01:25:04Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] Steven Rogers. Played “Doc” in the first season of “Combat,” then he was in a couple of ski and sand movies. [/quote] I’m pretty sure he’s working in New York as leader of a small group of highly skilled–some might even say superhuman–government operatives, and dating a cute but absurdly petite oriental chick. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/28 "2006-09-09T01:32:00Z")
Diane Franklin - I absolutely loved her in Better Off Dead and Last American Virgin. I see on IMDB she’s done some sporadic TV work since her last major film role in 1989, I thought she should have been a huge huge huge star. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/29 "2006-09-09T01:44:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Diane Franklin - I absolutely loved her in Better Off Dead and Last American Virgin. I see on IMDB she’s done some sporadic TV work since her last major film role in 1989, I thought she should have been a huge huge huge star. Good news: She’s still [looks great](http://www.dianefranklin.com/) and she’s back [working](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464163/) again. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/30 "2006-09-09T01:46:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Steven Rogers. Played “Doc” in the first season of “Combat,” then he was in a couple of ski and sand movies. > [@](#): > > I’m pretty sure he’s working in New York as leader of a small group of highly skilled–some might even say superhuman–government operatives, and dating a cute but absurdly petite oriental chick. Glad to hear he’s doing well. But you have to admit, it’s like he dropped out of sight for fifty years. ---
**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 9, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/31 "2006-09-09T02:43:35Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] 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? [/QUOTE] Here’s the image I was referring to, modern-day Bettie flanked by Pamela and Anna. Totally work-safe as a direct link, but I don’t know what’s on the rest of the site: [http://www.punkglobe.com/images/bettiepam.jpg](http://www.punkglobe.com/images/bettiepam.jpg) ---
**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 9, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/32 "2006-09-09T03:08:45Z")
Kristin Holby. Played Dan Ackroyd’s snotty girlfriend in “Trading Places.” Two movie roles, and. . . nada. BTW, I don’t consider people who simply left the business for one reason or another "dropping off the face of the earth. The names I’ve listed are people whose credits end after a certain point, and there’s no biographical info on them after that. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/33 "2006-09-09T04:38:40Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] 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? [/QUOTE] See _Black American Writers Past and Present: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary_, by Theressa Gunnels Rush, Carol Fairbanks Myers, and Esther Spring Arata. Two volumes. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/34 "2006-09-09T04:41:10Z")
Please. It’s _after midnight_ on a freaking _weekend._ Spare us the bibliography. 😉 ---
**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 9, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/35 "2006-09-09T04:44:03Z")
Gary Smith. He was the black actor (Hitler and Abe Lincoln) in “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.” Whereabouts unknown. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/36 "2006-09-09T04:47:06Z")
P.S. Ernest Mayhand is now 90 years old, and lives in Los Angeles. ---
**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 9, 2006, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/37 "2006-09-09T04:52:07Z")
Cool. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/38 "2006-09-09T04:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Also Nell Potts (Paul Newman’s daughter) one great movie role (Effect of Gamma Rays…) then nothing. [/QUOTE] She’s pictured with “Pa” Newman, doing their own version of _American Gothic_, on numerous Newman’s Own products. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/39 "2006-09-09T05:31:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Maren Jensen. “Battlestar Galactica” babe [QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] 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. [/QUOTE] Her character’s name was Athena. Maren Jensen was one of my early adolescent crushes and the only reason I watched the original “Battlestar Galactica.” Unfortunately, she seemed to appear less on the show as the season went on so I often found myself slogging through episode after episode of this cheesy **Star Wars** -wannabe without getting my weekly Maren fix. :mad: Anyway, years later I’m reading a snarky review of Reagan-era America called [“The Clothes Have No Emperor”](http://www.amazon.com/Clothes-Have-Emperor-Chronicle-American/dp/0671673394/sr=1-1/qid=1157779206/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7547480-3254207?ie=UTF8&s=books) by Paul Slansky and see a Maren Jensen listed in the Acknowledgments section. I’m not 100% sure it was the same one but how many other women named Maren Jensen could there be? As for what happened to Jensen, according to [IMDB biography](http://imdb.com/name/nm0421596/bio), she stopped acting in the early 80’s after being diagnosed with Epstein-Barr. She also dated Don Henley for a time. I also remember reading at another site that she married and moved to the Midwest. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941/40 "2006-09-09T05:44:00Z")
I usually write the actresses off as Marrying Well and the guys as Real Estate Agents. It’s surprising (or NOT surprising, depending on how much you respect my ESP-fu) how often I’m right. there are some people who realize that acting is a sucky job and there are better jobs out there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actress-who-have-disappeared-from-the-face-of-earth/371941.md?page=3)