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Sep 2, 2001 · Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor and singer. He was a popular sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s. His father was Merle Johnson, the manager of the motion-picture department of General Motors. His mother, Edith Johnson, was a retired stage actress. Donahue attended a New York military academy, where he met Francis Ford Coppola. When Donahue was 18, he moved to New York and got a job as a messenger in a film ...
Actor. Married in 1966; divorced in 1968. The status as a teen idol of this blond, blue-eyed heartthrob leading man of the 1960s lasted longer than the memory of many of his films. Troy Donahue is perhaps best recalled for his film role as Sandra Dee's beau in "A Summer Place" (1959) and for his starring roles as Sandy Winfield, one of...
Sep 3, 2001 · Actor Troy Donahue, a blond, blue-eyed heartthrob of the 1950s and '60s who starred in teen romances like "A Summer Place" and "Parrish," died Sunday at the age of 65. Donahue died in Santa Monica ...
Sep 3, 2001 · Troy Donahue, a blond-haired, blue-eyed actor who achieved teen heartthrob status in the 1950s and 60s, died Sunday in a California hospital.
Troy Donahue is perhaps best recalled for his film role as Sandra Dee's beau in "A Summer Place" (1959) and for his starring roles as Sandy Winfield, one of the three sexy young detectives, on ...
Sep 3, 2001 · Actor Troy Donahue, the handsome heartthrob of teen films in the late 1950s and early '60s, died Sunday at a Santa Monica hospital of a heart attack he suffered last week.
Sep 2, 2001 · Troy Donahue Dead at 65. The 1950's movie heartthrob dies of a heart attack Sunday morning. LOS ANGELES -- Troy Donahue, a heartthrob actor who climbed to stardom in the 1950s with his role in "A ...
