
Anna Marie Duke (December 14, 1946 - March 29, 2016), known professionally as Patty Duke, was an American actress. Beginning her acting career in commercials and playing bit parts in television and movies, her breakthrough role was as Helen Keller in the Broadway version of "The Miracle Worker" (1959 - 1961). For the 1962 film adaptation, Duke reprised her role, which won the Academy Award for best supporting actress - at age 16, she was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar (a record later broken by Tatum O'Neal in 1973). Other early films included Billie (1965), Valley of the Dolls (1967), and Me, Natalie (1969). On television, Duke starred in the popular teen sitcom The Patty Duke Show (1963 - 1966), playing a dual role and garnering the first of ten Emmy nominations. She won Emmys for her roles in television film My Sweet Charlie (1970), miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976), and the 1979 TV movie version of The Miracle Worker (1979), this time portraying Annie Sullivan. She served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 - 1988. Off-screen, Duke's life was often tumultuous. Born in Elmhurst, New York, to Frances Margaret (McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a cab driver and handyman, her acting career began at age eight when she was turned over to her brother Ray Duke's managers, John and Ethel Ross, who changed her name and engaged in exploitative behavior. Duke was married four times: to director Harry Falk from 1965 - 1969; to writer Michael Tell in 1970 (with whom she became mother to actor Sean Astin); to actor John Astin from 1972 - 1985 (with who she became mother to actress Mackenzie Astin); and to drill sergeant Michael Pearce from 1986 until her death (with whom she had two stepdaughters and an adopted son Kevin). In 1982, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which was the subject of her second book, "A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depression Illness" (1992). Duke was also a political advocate for issues such as the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), AIDS awareness, and nuclear disarmament. She died on March 29, 2016, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine.

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Captains and the Kings

Family Law

うわさのツインズ リブとマディ

If Tomorrow Comes

A Matter of Justice

奇跡の人

Night Gallery

Always Remember I Love You

The Torkelsons

HAWAII FIVE-0

私はラブ・リーガル

そりゃないぜ!? フレイジャー

Best Kept Secrets

Judging Amy

Kraft Television Theatre

George Washington

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Perry Como Show

A Killer Among Friends

ゴールデングローブ賞

Touched by an Angel

Ghost Story

Hawaii Five-O

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

A Season for Miracles

The Streets of San Francisco

Inside 'the Swarm'

A Family Upside Down

Nightmare

アカデミー賞

Fire!

Police Story

The Dick Cavett Show

Hotel

エド・サリヴァン・ショー

DuPont Show of the Month

グリー

Amazing Love

Love Finds A Home

The Miracle Worker

Backstory

George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation

バージニアン

You'll Like My Mother

Journey to the Unknown

The Love Boat

Little John

My Sweet Charlie

The Merv Griffin Show

Shindig!

A Christmas Memory

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

Please Don't Hit Me, Mom

A Time to Triumph

Deadly Harvest

Valley of the Dolls

Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door

Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure

The Sixth Sense

The Patty Duke Show

Happy Anniversary

Family of strangers

Hanging by a Thread

She Waits

4D Man

The Goddess

Prelude to a Kiss

Fight for Life

The Babysitter

Ben Casey

Harvest of Fire

ナタリーの朝

Something So Right

Murder Without Conviction

The Mike Douglas Show

September Gun

Bigger Than the Sky

Willy/Milly

Killer on Board

Cries from the Heart

Two on a Bench

To Face Her Past

Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage

Meet Me in St. Louis

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

Country Music Holiday

Hail to the Chief

It Takes Two

J.J. Starbuck

The Swarm

Curse of the Black Widow

When He Didn't Come Home

Billie

Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive

The Daydreamer

悪魔の棲む家 完結編

Call Me Anna

Intimate Portrait

Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story

Kimberly

By Design

Entertainment Tonight

No Child of Mine

Having Babies III

Power of the Air

続・ローズマリーの赤ちゃん/悪魔の子が生まれて8年が経った…

The Women's Room

The Violation of Sarah McDavid

Unanswered Prayers

Before and After

When the Vows Break

One Woman's Courage

Hitch-Hikers

I Love Liberty

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

The Power and the Glory

Journey to the Unknown

Love Lessons

Birdbath

Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women

The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights

Last Wish

Absolute Strangers

The Girl on the Edge of Town

The Storyteller

Hard Day at Blue Nose

Wuthering Heights

Mom, the Wolfman and Me

Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'

Jacqueline Susann and the Valley of the Dolls

The Dish on Dolls

First Years

Women in White

Hanging by a Thread