Lynda Day George
Lynda Day George is an American actress whose career stretched from the 1960s to the 1980s. Born Lynda Louise Day on December 11, 1944, in San Marcos, Texas, she started as a model with the Eileen Ford agency and appeared in Broadway productions, where mentor Anne Bancroft helped her grow as an actor.
She moved to Los Angeles and built a steady TV career with guest roles on many 1960s series, including Route 66, Flipper, The Green Hornet, Mannix, The Fugitive, The Invaders, It Takes a Thief, The Virginian, Bonanza, and more. Her first major TV role was Amelia Cole in The Silent Force (1970–1971). She also appeared in a Cannon pilot in 1971.
In 1971 she joined Mission: Impossible as Casey, earning Golden Globe and Emmy nominations in the early 1970s. She missed ten episodes during her maternity leave and was temporarily replaced by Barbara Anderson.
Day George met actor Christopher George while they were both models. They acted together in the 1966 film The Gentle Rain and later married on May 15, 1970, after she divorced her first husband, Joseph Pantano. They worked together on several TV films over the next decade, including The House on Greenapple Road (1970), Mayday at 40,000 Feet! (1976), and Cruise Into Terror (1978), and appeared together in episodes of The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible, McCloud, The Love Boat, and Vega$. She also played a villain, Fausta Grables, on Wonder Woman in 1976.
Throughout the 1970s she continued to act in other series, such as The Immortal, Police Story, Kung Fu, Marcus Welby, M.D., and Barnaby Jones, and she and Christopher even appeared together on Celebrity Bowling in 1975. Their film collaborations include Day of the Animals (1977), Pieces (1982), Mortuary (1983), and Beyond Evil (1980) with John Saxon. Christopher George died of a heart attack on November 28, 1983, at age 52.
After his death, Day George acted more sporadically, with appearances on Fantasy Island, Murder, She Wrote, Hardcastle and McCormick, and Blacke's Magic, and she also worked on various religious TV programs. Her last major TV role was reprising Casey (now Lisa Casey) in the 1989 Mission: Impossible revival.
In 2021 she said she was ready to return to acting, but as of 2023 no new roles had been announced. She has two children: a son, Nicky, from her first marriage, and a daughter, Krisinda Casey, with Christopher George. She was married to Christopher George from 1970 until his death in 1983, and later married Doug Cronin in 1990; Cronin died in 2010.
Day George has spoken of a memoir, Lynda Day George: A Hollywood Memoir, and while her biographer died in 2021, she remains hopeful that the book will be published with a new co-author.
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