Barbara Feldon
Barbara Feldon was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States on March 12th, 1933 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 91, Barbara Feldon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Barbara Feldon (born March 12, 1933) is an American character actress who works mainly in theatre (Citations needed, but article refers to no theater performances) but she is best known for her appearances on television.
Agent 99 on the 1960s sitcom Get Smart was her most well-known role.
She also worked as a model.
Early life
Barbara Anne Hall was born in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, seven miles from Pittsburgh and a portion of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. She graduated from Bethel Park High School and attended the Pittsburgh Playhouse. She graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts in drama. She was initiated into Kappa Kappa Gamma's Delta Xi Chapter. She received the grand prize on the 1961 edition of The 64,000 Question in the category of William Shakespeare.
Personal life
Feldon has been actor since she married Lucien Verdoux-Feldon in 1958. They divorced in 1967. She began a 12-year friendship with Burt Nodella, a Los Angeles resident, in 1968. She does not have any children. After separating her marriage, she returned to New York City, where she lived as of 2020.
Career
Feldon studied acting at the HB Studio. Feldon's break came in the form of a hit and much-parodied television commercial for "Top Brass," a Revlon hair pomade for men. Lounging languidly on a furry rug, she obscenely posed for the camera, referring to male viewers as "tigers" in the film.
This resulted in minor roles in television series. She appeared on Twelve O'Clock High (season one, episode 24: "End of the Line"), Lorne Greene's Griff, Flipper (season one, episodes 12 and 13: the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (In "The Never-Never Affair" aired in spring 1965, the Never-Never Affair) appeared. In 1964, she appeared alongside Simon Oakland in CBS's short-lived drama Mr. Broadway's "Want to Find a Spy."
In the television drama East Side/West Side, one of many notable guest stars was George C. Scott (season one, episode 19). It was created by Talent Associates, which was also creating Get Smart with Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, two well-known writers.
Feldon was called "Agent 99" in this latest film. Don Adams, a comedian who played Maxwell Smart, Secret Agent 86, appeared opposite her actress Don Adams. She appeared on the show from 1965 to 1970, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1968 and 1969.
The portrayal of a strong woman in a trying profession was unusual for the time. "A lot of women said 99 was a role model for them because she was organized and always had the correct answer," Feldon said. Feldon had to relinquence her position as 99 because the sponsor of Get Smart was a deodorant soap, and she had done a deodorant commercial for Revlon. Feldon was also noticeably taller than Adams, her male co-star, yet another rarity for the time.
Feldon appeared on The Dean Martin Show five times, performing and dancing and appearing in comedy skits from 1968 to 1972. She appeared on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. She appeared in many 1970s television series, including The Carol Burnett Show (season 3, episode 17 (1970)), The Name of the Game and McMillan & Wife, after her leading television appearance.
Her TV movies include Let's Switch!
(1975) with Barbara Eden and the cult-classic drama A Vacation in Hell (1979) with Mauscilla Barnes and Mauscilla Barnes. Patti Bear was a female protagonist in the 1973 animated television series The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas, she portrayed the character.Fitzwilly (1967), Smile (1975), and No Deposit, No Return (1976) were among Feldon's feature films. Last Request, a comedy starring T.R., is her last film to date. Danny Aiello, and Joe Piscopo are among Knights, Danny Aiello, and Joe Piscopo.
She was Bob Eubanks' first co-coach of the annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena in 1978.
Feldon resurrecting her role as "Agent 99" in the made-for-television film Get Smart Again! (1989) and 1995, a short-lived revival of Get Smart. She wrote and spoke at the DVD launch of the original Get Smart series in 2006, but she did not appear in the 2008 film version starring Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart. Diane "Spy Girl" Caldwell, a former TV spy star on a 1993 episode (season one, episode 20) of Mad About You, Feldon appeared as a former TV spy.
In the 1991 Cheers episode "Sam Time Next Year," Lauren Hudson, Sam Malone's year-long Valentine's Day love affair, was on display (S9, EP 19).
Feldon's distinctive voice has been heard in numerous television and radio commercials, as well as film and TV documentaries. She has appeared in off-Broadway productions occasionally, but she has said she is "no longer interested in performing." Feldon is a natural storyteller and is still writing. She had two editorial articles in Metropolitan Magazine in 2015, both of which were published. In 2003, she wrote Living Alone and Loving It.