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 Gorgeous, brown-eyed, chestnut-maned Sherry Jackson began her promising career as a pig-tailed, pleasant-looking child actress. Born in Idaho on February 15, 1942, she was the only daughter of four children born to Maurita Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson, Sr. Her father died when she was 6, and the family relocated to Los Angeles. Her mother married television writer/director/actor Montgomery Pittman, who died of cancer in 1962. Sherry's mother provided her daughter drama, singing and dancing lessons as a child. The story goes that the little girl was discovered by a talent agent while she and her mother were waiting for a bus. She began her career at age 7 with small, un-billed bit parts in You're My Everything (1949), For Heaven's Sake (1950), Lorna Doone (1951), The Great Caruso (1951), and two of the "Ma and Pa Kettle" films series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950) and Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951), as Susie Kettle, one of the couple's numerous children.Sherry gained more attention as her parts increased in size, holding her own among the Hollywood's movie elite, including moppet star Bobby Driscoll in When I Grow Up (1951); John Garfield and Patricia Neal in The Breaking Point (1950); and rugged Steve Cochran in the "B" western The Lion and the Horse (1952). She earned good notices as John Wayne's daughter in Trouble Along the Way (1953), but her most impressive role during this time was as a Portuguese youngster who witnesses a vision in the religious offering The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952). At age 11, she made appearances on both "The Roy Rogers Show" and "The Gene Autry Show". She literally grew up on the small screen as Danny Thomas' daughter Terry Williams on the comedy series The Danny Thomas Show (1953) which co-starred Jean Hagen as her mother and Rusty Hamer as her pesky younger brother. A cast change occurred in 1956 when Hagen, who did not get along with Danny Thomas, opted to leave the show (Hagen's character was killed off between seasons) and a step-mother (played by Marjorie Lord) and step-sister (played by Angela Cartwright) helped increase the ratings. During the show's run, she was given a strong teen role in the film drama Come Next Spring (1956) as the daughter of Ann Sheridan and Steve Cochran.Named a "Deb Star" in 1959, Sherry played a number of beguiling victims or bewitching vixens on such 60's programs as "77 Sunset Strip," "Mr. Novak," "The Twilight Zone," "Hawaiian Eye," "Gunsmoke," "Perry Mason," "Gomer Pyle," "The Virginian," "My Three Sons," "Batman" and "The Wild, Wild West." On film, the vivacious beauty was pretty much relegated to minor cult worship in low-budgets or exploitation films -- Wild on the Beach (1965), Gunn (1967), The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968) and The Monitors (1969). One could usually spot Sherry somewhere as a biker babe, party chick, capricious rich girl or scantily-clad fem-fatale with character names such as "Comfort", "Shasta", "Lola" and "Mona" pretty much putting a stamp on her typecast.Her adult work remained a sexy standard throughout the 1970's as seen in the TV-movies Wild Women (1970), Hitchhike! (1974), The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974), Returning Home (1975), and Casino (1980). She also reprised her role as Terry Williams in the premiere episode (only) of the series Make Room for Granddaddy (1970) and appeared in the glamorous title role of Brenda Starr, Reporter (1979), an unsold TV pilot. As a guest star, she participated in such well-established series as "Love, American Style", "Get Christie Love", "The Rockford Files", "Matt Helm", "Barnaby Jones", "The Streets of San Francisco", "Starsky & Hutch", "The Incredible Hulk", "Fantasy Island", "Charlie's Angels", and "CHiPs".A few forgettable films came her way with Cotter (1973), Bare Knuckles (1977) and Stingray (1978), but she grew hard-pressed to find more challenging parts. By the early 1980s, a frustrated Sherry let her career slide away. She was last seen onscreen in an episode of "Strike Force" in 1982. Never married, she was involved in a fairly long-term relationship with business executive and horse breeder Fletcher R. Jones. That ended in 1972 when he died in a small plane crash.
Bio:
Gorgeous, brown-eyed, chestnut-maned Sherry Jackson began her promising career as a pig-tailed, pleasant-looking child actress. Born in Idaho on February 15, 1942, she was the only daughter of four children born to Maurita Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson, Sr. Her father died when she was 6, and the family relocated to Los Angeles. Her mother married television writer/director/actor Montgomery Pittman, who died of cancer in 1962. Sherry's mother provided her daughter drama, singing and dancing lessons as a child. The story goes that the little girl was discovered by a talent agent while she and her mother were waiting for a bus. She began her career at age 7 with small, un-billed bit parts in You're My Everything (1949), For Heaven's Sake (1950), Lorna Doone (1951), The Great Caruso (1951), and two of the "Ma and Pa Kettle" films series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950) and Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951), as Susie Kettle, one of the couple's numerous children.Sherry gained more attention as her parts increased in size, holding her own among the Hollywood's movie elite, including moppet star Bobby Driscoll in When I Grow Up (1951); John Garfield and Patricia Neal in The Breaking Point (1950); and rugged Steve Cochran in the "B" western The Lion and the Horse (1952). She earned good notices as John Wayne's daughter in Trouble Along the Way (1953), but her most impressive role during this time was as a Portuguese youngster who witnesses a vision in the religious offering The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952). At age 11, she made appearances on both "The Roy Rogers Show" and "The Gene Autry Show". She literally grew up on the small screen as Danny Thomas' daughter Terry Williams on the comedy series The Danny Thomas Show (1953) which co-starred Jean Hagen as her mother and Rusty Hamer as her pesky younger brother. A cast change occurred in 1956 when Hagen, who did not get along with Danny Thomas, opted to leave the show (Hagen's character was killed off between seasons) and a step-mother (played by Marjorie Lord) and step-sister (played by Angela Cartwright) helped increase the ratings. During the show's run, she was given a strong teen role in the film drama Come Next Spring (1956) as the daughter of Ann Sheridan and Steve Cochran.Named a "Deb Star" in 1959, Sherry played a number of beguiling victims or bewitching vixens on such 60's programs as "77 Sunset Strip," "Mr. Novak," "The Twilight Zone," "Hawaiian Eye," "Gunsmoke," "Perry Mason," "Gomer Pyle," "The Virginian," "My Three Sons," "Batman" and "The Wild, Wild West." On film, the vivacious beauty was pretty much relegated to minor cult worship in low-budgets or exploitation films -- Wild on the Beach (1965), Gunn (1967), The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968) and The Monitors (1969). One could usually spot Sherry somewhere as a biker babe, party chick, capricious rich girl or scantily-clad fem-fatale with character names such as "Comfort", "Shasta", "Lola" and "Mona" pretty much putting a stamp on her typecast.Her adult work remained a sexy standard throughout the 1970's as seen in the TV-movies Wild Women (1970), Hitchhike! (1974), The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974), Returning Home (1975), and Casino (1980). She also reprised her role as Terry Williams in the premiere episode (only) of the series Make Room for Granddaddy (1970) and appeared in the glamorous title role of Brenda Starr, Reporter (1979), an unsold TV pilot. As a guest star, she participated in such well-established series as "Love, American Style", "Get Christie Love", "The Rockford Files", "Matt Helm", "Barnaby Jones", "The Streets of San Francisco", "Starsky & Hutch", "The Incredible Hulk", "Fantasy Island", "Charlie's Angels", and "CHiPs".A few forgettable films came her way with Cotter (1973), Bare Knuckles (1977) and Stingray (1978), but she grew hard-pressed to find more challenging parts. By the early 1980s, a frustrated Sherry let her career slide away. She was last seen onscreen in an episode of "Strike Force" in 1982. Never married, she was involved in a fairly long-term relationship with business executive and horse breeder Fletcher R. Jones. That ended in 1972 when he died in a small plane crash.
Tivia:
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6324 Hollywood Blvd. on February 8, 1960 (one week before her 18th birthday).Best known for her roles as Terry Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) and as the android Andrea in What Are Little Girls Made Of? (1966).Worked with Chuck Connors on three different occasions: in Trouble Along the Way (1953); in a 1958 episode of The Rifleman (1958); and in a 1966 episode of Branded (1965).In 1967 she began a five-year relationship with business executive and racehorse breeder Fletcher Jones, which ended on November 7, 1972, when Jones was killed in a plane crash eight miles east of Santa Ynez Airport in Santa Barbara County, CA.In 1961, Jackson and actress Diane McBain shared an apartment together. At the time, McBain's character on the ABC television series Surfside 6 (1960) was romantically involved with co-star Troy Donahue, who, in real life, was then romantically involved with Jackson.Her mother provided drama, singing and dancing lessons for Sherry and her two brothers, Curtis L. Jackson and Gary L. Jackson, "from the time they were very little".Five months after boyfriend Fletcher Jones' death, she filed suit against his estate, asking for more than $1 million, with her attorneys stating that Jones promised to provide her with at least $25,000 a year for the rest of her life. The litigation proved to be unsuccessful.In an interesting connection, she was a guest star on the Maverick (1957) episode, Red Dog (1961), which formerly starred James Garner, and, in 1975, guest starred on Garner's The Rockford Files (1974) series, in the episode The Real Easy Red Dog (1975).Profiled in the 2016 book, "X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?", by Kathy Garver and Fred Ascher.Shared a birthday with her television brother, Rusty Hamer, five years apart. Later on Rusty ran into all sorts of personal and financial problems where his sad and sorry life spiraled down into deep depression where eventually alcohol abuse caused him to be increasingly violent and delusional, and suffering from chronic back pain, he shot himself to death in his trailer on January 18, 1990. He was only 42.In The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968), she is slapped eight times by Diane McBain. |
| Name: |
Sherry Jackson |
Type: |
Actress,Soundtrack (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
Platform: |
IMDB |
| Category: |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Soundtrack |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Soundtrack |
| Model rank: |
724 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 04:17:05 |
| Height: |
5' 4' (1.63 m) |
| Biography: |
Gorgeous, brown-eyed, chestnut-maned Sherry Jackson began her promising career as a pig-tailed, pleasant-looking child actress. Born in Idaho on February 15, 1942, she was the only daughter of four children born to Maurita Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis |
| Trivia: |
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6324 Hollywood Blvd. on February 8, 1960 (one week before her 18th birthday).Best known for her roles as Terry Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) and as the android Andrea in What Are Little Girls Made Of? (1966).Worked with Chuck Connors on three different occasions: in Trouble Along the Way (1953); in a 1958 episode of The Rifleman (1958); and in a 1966 episode of Branded (1965).In 1967 she began a five-year relationship with business executive and racehorse breeder Fletcher Jones, which ended on November 7, 1972, when Jones was killed in a plane crash eight miles east of Santa Ynez Airport in Santa Barbara County, CA.In 1961, Jackson and actress Diane McBain shared an apartment together. At the time, McBain's character on the ABC television series Surfside 6 (1960) was romantically involved with co-star Troy Donahue, who, in real life, was then romantically involved with Jackson.Her mother provided drama, singing and dancing lessons for Sherry and her two brothers, Curtis L. Jackson and Gary L. Jackson, "from the time they were very little".Five months after boyfriend Fletcher Jones' death, she filed suit against his estate, asking for more than $1 million, with her attorneys stating that Jones promised to provide her with at least $25,000 a year for the rest of her life. The litigation proved to be unsuccessful.In an interesting connection, she was a guest star on the Maverick (1957) episode, Red Dog (1961), which formerly starred James Garner, and, in 1975, guest starred on Garner's The Rockford Files (1974) series, in the episode The Real Easy Red Dog (1975).Profiled in the 2016 book, "X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?", by Kathy Garver and Fred Ascher.Shared a birthday with her television brother, Rusty Hamer, five years apart. Later on Rusty ran into all sorts of personal and financial problems where his sad and sorry life spiraled down into deep depression where eventually alcohol abuse caused him to be increasingly violent and delusional, and suffering from chronic back pain, he shot himself to death in his trailer on January 18, 1990. He was only 42.In The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968), she is slapped eight times by Diane McBain. |
| Trademarks: |
Natural chestnut hair |
| Quotes: |
[on why she left the sitcom The Danny Thomas Show (1953)] The major perk was Jean Hagen. I adored her. We had a great time. She and I were best buddies; she was my only friend from the "Make Room for Daddy" cast. What made me specifically want to leave the show? I had a five-year contract, Jean had a three-year contract. Jean was thoroughly fed up with the series and made it clear that she didn't want to come back. When she left I was devastated. I didn't want to continue, either. I wanted to break my contract. They wouldn't let me leave, but gave me less to do; that's why I'm in fewer shows from ages 14-16.
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[on The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)] I hated that movie--what a piece of junk. It took less than a month--we shot it in one of Arizona's less than desirable locales . . . not a safe place to be. You couldn't go out at night because all the locals packed guns. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Soundtrack |
| Others works: |
(1979) Unsold pilot: Appeared in a pilot for a series to be called "Brenda Starr". |
| Parents: |
Montgomery Pittman
Maurita Kathleen Gilbert
Curtis Loys Jackson Sr. |
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