Ina Balin

Known for ActingBorn 1937-11-12Died 1990-06-20Brooklyn, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

New York Confidential

Call to Danger

Act of Reprisal

Get Smart

Airwolf

Murder, She Wrote

The Comeback Trail

Quincy, M.E.

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Magnum, P.I.

Bonanza

The Six Million Dollar Man

12 O'Clock High

Battlestar Galactica

Search

Code Red

Run for Your Life

Danger in Paradise

Wonder Woman

The Streets of San Francisco

Cool Million

Alias Smith and Jones

Barnaby Jones

The Lonely Profession

The Name of the Game

Run Like a Thief

Hart to Hart

The Lieutenant

Ironside

Toma

Mannix

Stoney Burke

The Comancheros

Panic on the 5:22

The Children of An Lac

From the Terrace

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Invisible Man

Hostage Flight

The Black Orchid

The Loner

The Patsy

Galyon

The Immigrants

Adventures in Paradise

The Don Is Dead

The Projectionist