Dallas Star and Fort Worth Native Gayle Hunnicutt Dies in London

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Gayle Hunnicutt, a Fort Worth native who found fame on British television and theater stages before returning to America to star on TV's Dallas, has died at the age of 80.

Share this:Gayle Hunnicutt, 80, died from an unspecified illness on Aug. 31, in London, where she had lived and worked for the last three decades, according to theDallas

Hunnicutt was born on Feb. 6, 1943, in Fort Worth, to Army Col. Sam Lloyd Hunnicutt, who served in the South Pacific during World War II, and Mary Virginia Dickerson, who gave birth to her while her husband served overseas. Hunnicutt chronicled her father's service and parents' life as a military family in a 2005 book,"We were a military family of three, plus a small cocker spaniel name Pudgey," Hunnicutt wrote.

"I'm really hurting because I am away from you and because I know so well what I'm missing in love and companionship and sheer physical delight by being separated from you so long," Col. Hunnicutt wrote in a letter on Feb. 23, 1943, just a few weeks after becoming a father."Sweet thoughts of you are with me all day and much of the night, and when I get upset or unhappy, I draw on that love to bolster my courage just as one would draw money out of a bank.

in 1965. It starred Roger Smith and was based on the acclaimed stage play and movie of the same name, which starred Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon. Her first film role came courtesy of B-movie maven Roger Corman, who cast her in a minor role the following year in an outlaw biker flick calledThe Beverly Hillbillieshe was revealed to be an android when her character fell for CONTROL's agent android Hymie, played by Dick Gautier.

 

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