Barboura Morris

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Barboura Morris
UCLA
OccupationActress
Years active1956–1970
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1954; div. 1958)​

Donald Freed
(m. 1965; div. 19??)[1]
Children1

Barboura Morris (born Barboura O'Neill; October 22, 1932 – October 23, 1975) was an American actress and writer. She is most remembered for her roles in American International Pictures productions.

Early years

Morris was born Barboura O'Neill[2] in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA, where she won the Best Actress awards two times. Shortly after, she joined the Stumptown Players, a 16-person stock theater company in Guerneville which was composed of fellow California university undergraduates and alumni.[3][4]

Career

Acting

Fellow Stumptown player

American International Productions. Notably, she starred opposite Charles Bronson in 1958's Machine-Gun Kelly and costarred with Peter Fonda in 1967's The Trip, written by Jack Nicholson
.

Morris' final film role was as Anne Sullivan in Helen Keller and Her Teacher, a 1970 dramatization of Keller's life.

Morris' television credits include a 1956 episode of The Man Called X and a 1959 episode of The Thin Man.[5]

Writing

In 1974, Morris penned an essay titled "Flight 553: the Watergate Murder" that was included in Steve Weissman's Big Brother and the Holding Company: the world behind Watergate. In the piece, Morris implicated

Watergate.[6]

The essay was planned as part of a full book to be called The Watergate Women, written by Morris and edited by Donald Freed.[7]

Personal life

Morris' first marriage was to Monte Hellman, a producer of experimental theater who led the Stumptown company.[8] The two met when Hellman hired Morris for Stumptown[9] and were married from 1954 to 1958.[10] Following her divorce, she had a brief romantic involvement with Roger Corman during the production of A Bucket of Blood[11]

In 1965, Morris met playwright Donald Freed at the Los Angeles Art Theater.[12] The couple were married that same year and had one son.[citation needed] Morris and Freed collaborated as writers aligned with the New Left movement; Morris published under the name Barboura Morris Freed.[13]

Death

Morris died in Santa Monica, one day after her 43rd birthday. She had been battling cancer, but died from a stroke.[

Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.[14]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1957 Rock All Night Syl
Teenage Doll Janet
Sorority Girl Rita Joyce
The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
1958 Machine-Gun Kelly Lynn Grayson
Teenage Caveman Young Tribe Member Uncredited
1959 A Bucket of Blood Carla
The Wasp Woman Mary Dennison
1961 Atlas Candia
1963 X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes Nurse with Young Patient Uncredited
The Haunted Palace Mrs. Weeden
1966 The Wild Angels Mother Uncredited
1967 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre Jeanette Landsman
The Trip Flo
1969 De Sade Nun Uncredited
1970 The Dunwich Horror Mrs. Cole
Helen Keller and Her Teacher Anne Sullivan Final film role

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1956 The Man Called X 1 episode
1959 The Thin Man Amnesiac 1 episode

References

  1. ^ "Barboura Morris - the Private Life and Times of Barboura Morris. Barboura Morris Pictures".
  2. ^ Barboura Morris at Rotten Tomatoes
  3. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Barboura Morris Biography".
  6. ISBN 0393285278
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  7. ISBN 0878670505
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  8. ISBN 978-0786462650
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  9. ISBN 978-0786482504
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  10. ISBN 9780393313789
    . Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  11. ISBN 978-1617031670
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  12. ^ Berg, Beatrice (May 3, 1970). "'Inquest': Its Author Speaks for It". The New York Times.
  13. ISBN 0878670505
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  14. ^ Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14000 Famous Persons by Scott Wilson

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