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Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Johnny Hunter in the film A Summer Place. He was a popular sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s.
Donahue and Sierra Lee Patterson in a 1962 episode. After the show was cancelled, Troy Donahue moved over to the cast of Hawaiian Eye to replace Anthony Eisley. Donahue played hotel social director Philip Barton. Also, a book was released, Surfside 6 by Jay Flynn (US, Dell 8388, October 1962). Margaret Sierra died in 1963 of a congenital heart ...
In 1883, U.S. Army Cavalry 2 nd Lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York (on the Hudson River), is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of the Arizona Territory in the early 1880s, where he meets 1 st Lieutenant Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
It was Wilson who rechristened the Illinois stud “Rock Hudson,” as he did the other matinee idols he represented: Tab Hunter, Troy Donahue, Guy Madison, etc. Wilson “taught them how to be ...
My Blood Runs Cold is a 1965 American neo noir dark thriller film starring Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton and Barry Sullivan. It was directed by William Conrad. It was the second of three thrillers Conrad made for Warner Bros. A young woman falls in love with a man who may be insane. [2]
Troy Donahue co-starred in The Crowded Sky, another Warner Brothers film released about ten months after A Summer Place. In a restaurant scene between Donahue's character and co-star Efrem Zimbalist Jr., the popular "Theme from A Summer Place" is heard on the restaurant sound system.
Troy Donahue was announced for the male lead relatively early. [5] Eventually Natalie Wood dropped out and Suzanne Pleshette was signed in September 1961. [6] The film was known during production as Lovers Must Learn. [7] Donahue and Pleshette fell in love while filming, and eventually wed, though the marriage lasted less than a year. [8]
Donahue serves as the commander of the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. At the time of the Afghanistan withdrawal, he was a major general commanding the 82nd Airborne Division.