Darlene Tompkins(1940-2019)
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Chicago-born Darlene Tompkins came from a "show biz family", with
relatives who worked in vaudeville and in plays (Tompkins'
three-years-younger aunt is actress
Beverly Washburn). A beauty contest
victory opened some Hollywood doors for Tompkins, who began appearing
in commercials, co-starred in
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
(at age 18) and appeared in TV series and additional features,
including Elvis Presley's
Blue Hawaii (1961). Marriage and
motherhood derailed her screen career, but she managed to return in the
1970s to work as an extra, a stand-in and stunt-woman, occasionally
stunt-doubling on
Charlie's Angels (1976) (for
Cheryl Ladd, and in other TV series and
movies.
