Terry Burnham

Elizabeth Teresa "Terry" Burnham (8 de agosto de 1949 - 7 de octubre de 2013 ^{[ 1 ]} ) fue una actriz estadounidense. Desarrolló la mayor parte de su carrera como actriz infantil en series de televisión. Es más conocida por su actuación en el episodio " Pesadilla como niña " de La Dimensión Desconocida , ^{[ 6 ]} que se emitió originalmente en 1960. ^{[ 7 ]}

Burnham interpretó a la joven hija del personaje de Lana Turner en la película Imitation of Life (1959), que fue muy popular. Burnham se retiró de la actuación en 1971. ^{[ 6 ]}

Elizabeth Teresa Burnham nació el 8 de agosto de 1949 en Los Ángeles , California. Fue la menor de dos hijos de Guy Calvin Burnham, ingeniero aeronáutico en Douglas Aircraft Company , y su esposa Elizabeth Teresa Buelna Symons, ama de casa. ^{[ 3 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ]} Fue criada en la fe católica y asistió a la escuela católica St. Maria Goretti, ^{[ 10 ]} la escuela St. Cornelius, ^{[ 3 ]} la escuela secundaria Mark Twain, ^{[ 11 ] [ 12 ]} y la escuela preparatoria Bancroft. ^{[ 13 ]}

On December 22, 1955, Burnham made her television debut at age six alongside Brandon deWilde in the series Climax!, in an episode entitled "The Day They Gave the Babies Away". (This was based on the 1946 novel of the same title, which was also adapted for the 1957 film All Mine to Give.) More prominent roles soon followed, most notably in 1957 with "Let There Be Light", an episode of the series M Squad, which starred Lee Marvin, who Burnham later singled out as her favorite actor.^[3] Also that year, Burnham was set to star in a new child-centered series, Turquoise, Inc., whose writer/producers Dick Chevillat and Ray Singer touted her as "TV's first Shirley Temple".^[14] That projected series was never produced, but a year later, Burnham appeared on an episode of Temple's own series, entitled "The Magic Fishbone". It was adapted by Margaret Fitts from the Charles Dickens short story of the same name.^[15][16]

She first attracted national attention as "Susie", the 8-year-old daughter of Lana Turner's character in Imitation of Life (1959).^[17]Sandra Dee played the girl as a teenager.

Burnham worked in numerous episodes of TV series through the late 1950s and 1960s. She retired from acting in 1971.^[6]

On October 7, 2013, Terry Burnham died of a cardiac arrest.^[1] As she had no surviving next of kin, her unclaimed cremated remains were stored at Los Angeles County Crematorium. On August 8, 2018, which would have been her 69th birthday, Burnham's ashes were buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Long Beach.^[10]

• "Niña de Long Beach, de 8 años, en la serie Air" . Long Beach Independent . 1 de mayo de 1958. pág.  22
• "Maestro de la danza" . The Nashville Tennessean . 25 de diciembre de 1966. pág.  65.
• "El rostro que provocó mil sorbos" . The Bradenton Herald . 30 de abril de 1967. pág.  21

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