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05 August
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Massachusetts, United States
Edit pageNatalie Trundy
Biography
Natalie Trundy (born Natalie Trundy Campagna, August 5, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American stage, film, and television actress.
As an actress, she starred in the 1962 film Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation. In May 1963, she was struck by a car, and suffered a ruptured disc in her back, disrupting the momentum of her acting career as she spent a year recovering in a back brace.
Trundy's second husband Arthur P. Jacobs produced films and television through his APJAC Productions. APJAC produced the original Planet of the Apes movie series.
In the early 1970s, Trundy played the telepathic mutant Albina in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, the early 1970s human Dr. Stephanie Branton in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and featured as the nearer-future chimpanzee Lisa, the mate of Caesar, in both Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Trundy's last film was 1974's Huckleberry Finn, also produced by APJAC Productions.
Newspaper columnist Erskine Johnson once described Trundy as "(a) sort of electronic Shirley Temple who sparkled on TV between the ages of 11 and 16," adding that she appeared, uncredited, "in nearly 200 live New York TV shows" in those early days of television.
As Trundy and television matured, she made a number of credited appearances in network television series, including the 1960 episode "The Twisted Image" on Thriller, the 1960 episode "Denver McKee" on Bonanza, the 1963 episode "The Case of the Golden Oranges" on Perry Mason, the 1963 episode "Valley of the Shadow" on The Twilight Zone, as well as guest appearances on episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Silent Force and Wagon Train. Trundy last appeared in a 1978 episode of the series Quincy, M.E.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes as Dr. Stephanie Branton
Beneath the Planet of the Apes as Albina