B: December 3, 1949 in Toronto, Ontario
D: December 24, 2017 in Frankford, Ontario
Actress Heather Menzies-Urich was best known for her role as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 musical film The Sound of Music and as Jessica 6 in the TV series Logan’s Run. Her family moved to the United States when she was eleven. She graduated from Hollywood High School and went on to the Falcon Studio’s University of the Arts in Hollywood. Her husband, actor Robert Urich, died in 2002. After his death, Menzies-Urich established the Robert Urich Foundation to raise funds for cancer research. Diagnosed with brain cancer, Heather Menzies-Urich was 68 when she died. Also see: Christopher Plummer |
Features & TV Movies: The Sound of Music (1965) Man in the Middle (TV-1972) Endangered Species (1982)
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TV Series – Guest appearances: To Rome with Love (1970) Gavilan (1982) American Dreamer (1990) |