Lynn Loring, who appeared as a younger actress on Seek for Tomorrow, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and The F.B.I. earlier than changing into one of many highest-ranking feminine executives in Hollywood on the time, has died. She was 80.
Loring died Dec. 23 at Windfall Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Heart after a collection of persistent sicknesses, her son, Chris Thinnes, advised The Hollywood Reporter. Her household selected to not make public her loss of life till now.
Loring additionally acted in a number of films, together with Elia Kazan’s Splendor within the Grass (1961), Stress Level (1962) and, alongside then-husband Roy Thinnes, Journey to the Far Facet of the Solar (1969).
When she was 7, Loring joined the brand new CBS cleaning soap opera Seek for Tomorrow in September 1951 for the primary of its 35 seasons. She would painting Patti Barron, daughter of Mary Stuart’s Joanne Gardner, for a decade till she graduated from the Calhoun Faculty for Ladies and entered Barnard School when she was 14.
She starred on the 1962-63 CBS/Desilu sitcom Honest Trade, which revolved round American and English households who commerce daughters for a 12 months (Loring’s Patty Walker strikes to London, whereas her counterpart, performed by Judy Carne, involves New York). It began out as a one-hour comedy, was canceled after which renewed as a half-hour present — all in the identical season.
From left: Judy Carne, Eddie Foy Jr. and Lynn Loring, castmates on ‘Honest Trade.’
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Loring portrayed the lady beatnik Edwina “Eddie” Kegel, a romantic curiosity of male beatnik Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver), on two episodes of CBS’ The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in 1962 and was the daughter of Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s Inspector Lewis Erskine on the primary season (1965-66) of ABC’s The F.B.I.
After leaving appearing in 1975 to lift her household, Loring returned to point out enterprise 4 years later as a casting director on the NBC telefilm The Final Trip of the Dalton Gang and on the community’s big-budget flop, Supertrain.
She then joined Aaron Spelling Productions, first as a producer on telefilms together with 1979’s The Return of Mod Squad and 1981’s The Greatest Little Lady within the World — a movie about anorexia — then as a vice chairman of improvement and expertise, movement footage and tv.
Within the latter capability, she produced Mr. Mother (1983), starring Michael Keaton. The comedy was an enormous success, grossing greater than $120 million on a $5.5 million price range.
Loring exited in 1985 to develop into a improvement govt at MGM-UA Tv, and he or she got here up with the thought to show the Oscar finest image winner Within the Warmth of the Night time right into a TV collection, in keeping with Carroll O’Connor, who starred as Chief Invoice Gillespie on the present.
“She mentioned to Fred Silverman at some point, ‘I feel Within the Warmth of the Night time would make a great collection, I want to see you produce it for us, and I would really like you to get Carroll O’Connor to play the chief,” the actor recalled in 1999.
Loring was named president of the division — second in command to MGM/UA Tv Productions chairman and CEO David Gerber — in 1989, changing into one of many highest-ranking feminine execs in Hollywood on the time.
“I don’t take a look at it as one thing I’ve achieved for all womanhood,” she advised the Los Angeles Instances in 1990. “However in my place, I’ve an obligation to face up and be counted. I’m not seeking to be a spokesperson for girls, however I discover what I say issues, and that excites me.”
Lynn Eileen Zimring was born in Manhattan on July 14, 1943. Her father, Charles Zimring, was a New York shipyard proprietor, and her mom, Barbara Loring, a publicist.
She began modeling when she was 3 and was nonetheless only a child when she starred on commercials for RCA Victor as a form of junior Betty Furness. Whereas engaged on New York-based Seek for Tomorrow, she had a second gig because the daughter of the title character on the 1953-54 ABC sitcom The Jean Carroll Present.
Lynn Loring with Mary Stuart on ‘Seek for Tomorrow’
After Search, Loring was an in-demand visitor star, displaying up on such reveals as Wagon Practice, The Eleventh Hour, Gunsmoke, The Defenders, Daniel Boone, Perry Mason, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Huge Valley, Burke’s Legislation, The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mod Squad and Police Girl.
She left MGM/UA within the mid-Nineties and have become an unbiased producer.
Loring married Thinnes in 1967 and appeared with him on his ABC sci-fi collection The Invaders and in a few telefilms earlier than they divorced in 1984. She then wed late legal professional Michael Bergman in 1988.
Survivors additionally embody her daughter, Casey-Leigh.