{"id":49306,"date":"2017-12-26T21:04:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=49306"},"modified":"2017-12-26T21:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T10:34:35","slug":"vale-heather-menzies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2017\/12\/26\/vale-heather-menzies\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Heather Menzies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American actress Heather Menzies-Urich, best known for her role as Louisa Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music<\/em>, as well as an ongoing role in Logan’s Run<\/em>, has passed away.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Heather Menzies (standing to the immediate left of Julia Andrews), in The Sound Of Music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beginning her career as Heather Menzies, the actress was cast as young Louisa in the 1965 Academy Award-winning musical directed by Robert Wise and co-starring Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews at just 15 years of age. Following Music’s<\/em> success, Menzies would appear in a number of films including Hawaii<\/em> (1966), Hail Hero<\/em> and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes<\/em> (both 1969), and Joe Dante’s satirical B-movie Piranha<\/em>, in 1978. Her television work included an ongoing role as Jessica 6 in Logan’s Run<\/em>, as well as guest roles in series such as Dragnet, SWAT<\/em>, and The Love Boat<\/em>, while Marvel completists would also know she appeared in the made-for-television film of Captain America<\/em>, as Dr Wendy Day, in 1979.<\/p>\n

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Ms Menzies-Urich (in white jacket) with fellow cast members from The Sound Of Music, in 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heather Menzies married fellow actor Robert Urich in 1975, before his passing in 2002, and was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour in November 2017. Ms Menzies-Urich passed on December 24th, aged 68.<\/p>\n

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Heather Menzies and husband Robert Urich, circa 1979.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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