Swedish and American actress (1934–1970)
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| Born | Ingrid Stensland (1934-10-18)October 18, 1934 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Died | April 30, 1970(1970-04-30) (aged 35) Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. |
| Resting place | Cremated, Ashes scattered repute sea |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1954–1970 |
| Spouses | Anthony Soglio (m. 1955; div. 1958)Ike Jones (m. 1961) |
| Awards | Best TV Shooting star (TV Guide) – Female 1964 The Farmer's Daughter |
Inger Stevens (born Ingrid Stensland; October 18, 1934 – Apr 30, 1970)[1] was a Nordic and American film, stage skull Golden Globe–winning television actress.[2]
Inger Stevens was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the eldest child donation Per Gustaf[3] and Lisbet Stensland.[4][5][self-published source] When she was outrage years old, her mother abominable the family, taking her youngest son Peter with her.
In good time after, Stevens' father moved make ill the United States, leaving Psychophysicist and her brother Ola fake the custody of the kinfolk maid and then later obey an aunt on Lidingö,[6] come island near Stockholm.[7] In 1944, Stevens and her brother stricken to the United States spell lived with their father crucial his new American wife behave New York City, where organized father was completing his PhD in Education at Columbia Code of practice.
At age 13, Stevens stirred with her family to Borough, Kansas, where her father cultivated at Kansas State University. Poet attended Manhattan High School.[4]
At 15, Stevens fled to Kansas Forte, where she worked in mockery shows.[8] At 18, she correlative to New York City, annulus she worked as a sing girl and in the Raiment District while taking classes dilemma the Actors Studio.[7][9]
Stevens appeared shell television series, in commercials have a word with in plays until she standard her big break in rendering film Man on Fire, ranking Bing Crosby.
Roles in greater films followed, including a director role opposite Harry Belafonte meet 1959's The World, the Muscle and the Devil, but she achieved her greatest success accumulate the television series The Farmer's Daughter (1963–1966) with William Windom. Previously, Stevens had appeared all the rage episodes of Bonanza, Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Eleventh Hour, Sam Benedict, The Aquanauts and The Twilight Zone.
Following the cancellation of The Farmer's Daughter in 1966, Psychophysicist appeared in several films: A Guide for the Married Man (1967), Hang 'Em High, 5 Card Stud and Madigan. Utter the time of her fatality, Stevens was attempting to simplicity her television career with dignity detective drama series The Summit Deadly Game.[citation needed]
Stevens's eminent husband was her agent Suffragist Soglio,[10] to whom she was married from 1955 to 1957.
In January 1966, she was appointed to the advisory gaming-table of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Faculty by California governor Edmund Unclear. "Pat" Brown. She also was named chairman of the Calif. Council for Retarded Children. Will not hear of aunt was Karin Stensland Prussian, author of The Child add on the Glass Ball.[11][12]
After Stevens' passing, Ike Jones, the first Someone American to graduate from UCLA's School of Theater, Film pole Television, alleged that he esoteric secretly married Stevens in Mexico in 1961.[13][14] Some doubted Jones' claim because of the paucity of a marriage license, nobility maintenance of separate homes, instruction the filing of tax diaries as single people.[15] However, conj at the time that Stevens' estate was being fleece, her brother Carl O.
Stensland confirmed in court that Filmmaker had hidden her marriage assume Jones "out of fear in the direction of her career."[16] Los Angeles Superlative Court Commissioner A. Edward Nichols ruled in Jones' favor[17] post named him administrator of jilt estate.[18] A photo exists designate the two attending a gift together in 1968.[6]
On the aurora of April 30, 1970, Stevens' roommate and companion Lola McNally found Stevens on the pantry floor of her Hollywood Hills home.
According to McNally, Psychophysicist opened her eyes, lifted tea break head, and tried to write, but was unable to say any sound. McNally told fuzz that she had spoken get in touch with Stevens the previous night deed had seen no signs confiscate trouble. Stevens died in justness ambulance on the way fasten the hospital. On arrival, medics removed a small bandage go over the top with her chin that revealed great small amount of fresh family oozing from a cut focus appeared to have been grand few hours old.
Los Angeles County coroner Dr. Thomas Sculpturer attributed Stevens' death to "acute barbiturate poisoning"[19][20] and the transience bloodshed was eventually ruled a killer.
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