Victoria Shaw
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Shaw with her then-husband, Roger Smith, in an episode of 77 Sunset Strip, 1962
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| Born | Jeanette Ann Lavina Mary Elizabeth Elphick (1935-05-25)25 May 1935
Sydney, Australia
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| Died | 17 August 1988(1988-08-17) (aged 53)
Sydney, Australia
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1953–1978 |
| Spouses |
(m. 1956; div. 1965)Elliott Alexander
(m. 1966; div. 1969) |
| Children | 3 |
Victoria Shaw (25 May 1935 – 17 August 1988) was an Australian film and television actress.
Shaw was born Jeanette Ann Lavina Mary Elizabeth Elphick[1][2]inSydney, New South Wales, Australia. Her parents were Captain and Mrs. Francis W. Elphick.[3] She lived in Croydon, New South Wales, and attended a convent school.[4]
Shaw worked in an insurance office for six months before she went to the Dally-Watkins Agency,[3] where she studied modelling with June Dally-Watkins[5] before making her Australian screen debut opposite Chips RaffertyinThe Phantom Stockman (1953).[3] Bob Hope spotted her while touring Australia and urged her to try her luck in Hollywood,[6] where in 1955 she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures.[7]
She played opposite Tyrone PowerinThe Eddy Duchin Story (1956), her United States film debut.[2] Her subsequent films included The Crimson Kimono and Edge of Eternity (both 1959), Because They're Young and I Aim at the Stars (both 1960), Alvarez Kelly (1966),[4] and Westworld (1973). She also made appearances in TV shows, including 77 Sunset Strip (1962), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), 12 O-Clock High (two episodes: 1964 and 1966), Cimarron Strip (1968), The F.B.I. (two episodes: both 1968), Ironside (1969),[citation needed] Barnaby Jones (1973), General Hospital (1974),[4] McCloud (1976), and Charlie's Angels (1978).
Shaw married actor Roger Smith in North Hollywood, California, on July 28, 1956.[8] After their divorce in 1965, Smith had joint custody of their three children, Tracey Leone (born 1957), Jordan F. (born 1958), and Dallas E. (born 1961).[1] She married producer Elliott Alexander in 1966. They also divorced.[9]
On August 17, 1988, Shaw died in Hornsby Hospital[4] in Sydney at the age of 53 from emphysema.[9]
Shaw was named Australia's Model of the Year in 1951. The next year, she was named Photographer's Model of the Year.[3]
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| 1953 | The Phantom Stockman | Kim Marsden | |
| 1956 | The Eddy Duchin Story | Chiquita Wynn | |
| 1959 | The Crimson Kimono | Christine Downs | |
| 1959 | Edge of Eternity | Janice Kendon | |
| 1960 | Because They're Young | Joan Dietrich | |
| 1960 | I Aim at the Stars | Maria von Braun | |
| 1966 | Alvarez Kelly | Charity Warwick | |
| 1973 | Westworld | Medieval Queen |
Miss Shaw's second marriage in 1966 to a producer, Elliott Alexander, also ended in divorce.... Miss Shaw, who was 53... suffered from emphysema for several years and became seriously ill on Monday. She died on Wednesday in Hornsby Hospital.
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