Ina Balin

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1937-11-12

Deathday 1990-06-20 (52 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York, USA

Also Known As Ίνα Μπάλιν , Ίνα Ρόζενμπεργκ, Ina Rosenberg

Ina Balin

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Ina Balin (November 12, 1937 – June 20, 1990) was an American actress on Broadway and in film. Born as Ina Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, she first appeared on television on The Perry Como Show. She also did summer stock, which led to roles on Broadway, and in 1959, she won the "Theatre World Award" for her performance in the Broadway comedy, A Majority of One, starring Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. That same year, she landed her first film role in The Black Orchid, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn. A year later, Balin was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress — Motion Picture for her performance opposite Paul Newman in From the Terrace. She also appeared in The Young Doctors. In 1961, she appeared as Pilar Graile in The Comancheros with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. Co-starring with Jerry Lewis in the 1964 hit comedy The Patsy, Balin also had a secondary, but important part in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told. She co-starred with Elvis Presley in his 1969 film Charro! Balin guest-starred on dozens of television shows, including Bonanza, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Battlestar Galactica, Get Smart, Ironside, Quincy, M.E. and Magnum, P.I. She appeared with Joseph Cotten, Fernando Lamas and Dean Jagger in the 1969 made-for-television movie The Lonely Profession. In 1970, Balin toured Vietnam with the USO on the first of many trips to the war-torn region. She co-starred in the 1971 film The Projectionist, which marked the screen debut of Rodney Dangerfield. In 1975, she aided in the evacuation of orphans during the fall of Saigon; eventually, she adopted three of these orphaned children. In 1980, she played herself in a made-for-television movie based on these experiences, The Children of An Lac. While working on The Children of An Lac, she became acquainted with Christy Marx, who at the time worked as a producer's liaison for various television programs. According to Marx, she used Balin's story as a basis for a character in the animated show Jem when she later became a writer. The character of Ba Nee is based on Balin's adopted daughter, Ba-Nhi. Ba Nee's obsession with and struggle to find her birth father are the focus of several episodes of Jem. She co-starred in the comedy The Comeback Trail with the lead actor and director from The Projectionist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ina Balin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

1989
That's Adequate

as Sister Mary Enquirer

1985
1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Stella Gambini

1984
Airwolf

as Ingrid Kendall

1982
The Comeback Trail

as Julie Thomas

1980
1980
Galyon

as Janet Davis

1978
The Immigrants

as Maria Cassala

1978
Battlestar Galactica

as Siress Tinia

1977
Danger in Paradise

as Marla Fears

1976
Quincy, M.E.

as Stella Ross

1976
Quincy, M.E.

as Dr. Maria Pinaera

1975
Wonder Woman

as Dr. Koren

1974
Panic on the 5:22

as Countess Hedy Maria Tovarese

1974
The Six Million Dollar Man

as Cheryl Osborne

1973
1973
1973
Barnaby Jones

as Laura Beecher

1972
Cool Million

as Nagway

1972
1970
The Projectionist

as The Girl

1969
The Desperate Mission

as Otilla Ruiz

1969
The Lonely Profession

as Karen Menardos

1969
Charro!

as Tracey Winters

1968
1967
Run Like a Thief

as Mona Shannon

1967
1967
Mannix

as Andrea

1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Martha of Bethany

1965
Get Smart

as Ann Ferris

1965
Run for Your Life

as Lisa Sorrow

1964
The Patsy

as Ellen Betz

1964
1963
The Lieutenant

as Jan Everest

1961
The Comancheros

as Pilar Graile

1961
The Young Doctors

as Cathy Hunt

1961
The Dick Van Dyke Show

as Valerie Ware

1960
From the Terrace

as Natalie Benziger

1959
The Black Orchid

as Mary Valente

1959
Adventures in Paradise

as Princess Sakindra

1959
Bonanza

as Sarah Reynolds

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

Writer

Producer

1980
The Children of An Lac

as Associate Producer