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Ina Balin

Ina Balin

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Ina Balin (November 12, 1937 – June 20, 1990) was an American actress on Broadway and in film. Born as Ina Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, she first appeared on television on The Perry Como Show. She also did summer stock, which led to roles on Broadway, and in 1959, she won the "Theatre World Award" for her performance in the Broadway comedy, A Majority of One, starring Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. That same year, she landed her first film role in The Black Orchid, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn. A year later, Balin was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress — Motion Picture for her performance opposite Paul Newman in From the Terrace. She also appeared in The Young Doctors. In 1961, she appeared as Pilar Graile in The Comancheros with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. Co-starring with Jerry Lewis in the 1964 hit comedy The Patsy, Balin also had a secondary, but important part in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told. She co-starred with Elvis Presley in his 1969 film Charro! Balin guest-starred on dozens of television shows, including Bonanza, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Battlestar Galactica, Get Smart, Ironside, Quincy, M.E. and Magnum, P.I. She appeared with Joseph Cotten, Fernando Lamas and Dean Jagger in the 1969 made-for-television movie The Lonely Profession. In 1970, Balin toured Vietnam with the USO on the first of many trips to the war-torn region. She co-starred in the 1971 film The Projectionist, which marked the screen debut of Rodney Dangerfield. In 1975, she aided in the evacuation of orphans during the fall of Saigon; eventually, she adopted three of these orphaned children. In 1980, she played herself in a made-for-television movie based on these experiences, The Children of An Lac. While working on The Children of An Lac, she became acquainted with Christy Marx, who at the time worked as a producer's liaison for various television programs. According to Marx, she used Balin's story as a basis for a character in the animated show Jem when she later became a writer. The character of Ba Nee is based on Balin's adopted daughter, Ba-Nhi. Ba Nee's obsession with and struggle to find her birth father are the focus of several episodes of Jem. She co-starred in the comedy The Comeback Trail with the lead actor and director from The Projectionist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ina Balin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal information

Birthday

1937-11-12

Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Movies and TV shows :

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12 O'Clock High

1964

7.3

TV
Act of Reprisal

Act of Reprisal

1964

0.0

Movie
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Adventures in Paradise

1959

5.7

TV
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Airwolf

1984

7.5

TV
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Alias Smith and Jones

1971

6.9

TV
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Barnaby Jones

1973

6.9

TV
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Battlestar Galactica

1978

7.1

TV
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Bonanza

1959

7.5

TV
Call to Danger

Call to Danger

1973

0.0

Movie
Charro!

Charro!

1969

5.5

Movie
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Code Red

1981

5.5

TV
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Cool Million

1972

5.0

TV
Danger in Paradise

Danger in Paradise

1977

0.0

Movie
From the Terrace

From the Terrace

1960

6.7

Movie
Galyon

Galyon

1980

4.0

Movie
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Get Smart

1965

7.9

TV
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Harry O

1974

4.6

TV
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Hart to Hart

1979

6.8

TV
Hostage Flight

Hostage Flight

1985

5.9

Movie
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Ironside

1967

6.9

TV
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Magnum, P.I.

1980

7.3

TV
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Mannix

1967

6.7

TV
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Murder, She Wrote

1984

7.5

TV
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New York Confidential

1959

0.0

TV
Panic on the 5:22

Panic on the 5:22

1974

5.3

Movie
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Quincy, M.E.

1976

7.5

TV
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Run for Your Life

1965

7.2

TV
Run Like a Thief

Run Like a Thief

1967

0.0

Movie
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Search

1972

6.9

TV
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Stoney Burke

1962

5.7

TV
That's Adequate

That's Adequate

1989

4.2

Movie
The Black Orchid

The Black Orchid

1959

6.2

Movie
The Children of An Lac

The Children of An Lac

1980

6.0

Movie
The Comancheros

The Comancheros

1961

6.7

Movie
The Comeback Trail

The Comeback Trail

1982

5.0

Movie
The Desperate Mission

The Desperate Mission

1969

4.5

Movie
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The Dick Van Dyke Show

1961

7.4

TV
The Don Is Dead

The Don Is Dead

1973

5.9

Movie
The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965

6.4

Movie
The Immigrants

The Immigrants

1978

2.0

Movie
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The Lieutenant

1963

6.0

TV
The Lonely Profession

The Lonely Profession

1969

0.0

Movie
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The Loner

1965

5.7

TV
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The Name of the Game

1968

6.8

TV
The Patsy

The Patsy

1964

6.2

Movie
The Projectionist

The Projectionist

1970

5.6

Movie
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The Six Million Dollar Man

1974

7.2

TV
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The Streets of San Francisco

1972

7.0

TV
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

7.4

TV
The Young Doctors

The Young Doctors

1961

5.6

Movie
There Were Times, Dear

There Were Times, Dear

1987

0.0

Movie
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Toma

1973

7.8

TV
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Tony Awards

1956

5.0

TV
Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter

Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter

1986

0.0

Movie
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Wonder Woman

1975

7.0

TV