Ina Balin
Ina Balin ( born November 12, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City as Ina Rosenberg, † June 20 1990 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an American actress.
Life and achievements
Balin was born into a Jewish family that resided in Brooklyn. She made her debut in an episode of the TV series Kraft Television Theatre from the year 1958. During the same year she starred alongside Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn in the film drama The Black Orchid.
In the career - drama from the terrace (1960 ) Balin was the girl who got on the end of Paul Newman. For this role she won the 1961 Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress. In the same year she was nominated for a Golden Laurel. For her role in the Western The Comancheros (1961 ), in which she starred alongside John Wayne, she was awarded the 1962 Western Heritage Award in bronze. By the way it operated from 1961 to 1963 with a friend, a art gallery in New York City.
In 1964 she was a partner of Jerry Lewis in the staged his own Klamaukkomödie The Heulboje. In the Bible filming The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965 ) Balin appeared at the side of Max von Sydow as Martha of Bethany. In Western Charro! (1969 ), she took next to Elvis Presley one of the main roles. In the action film Don dead (1973 ) is, she appeared alongside Anthony Quinn. She also starred in numerous television series such as Quincy, where they from 1977 to 1982 occurred in the years five times, Bonanza, It Takes a Thief, The Chief and Mannix. Her last film was 1989 comedy That's Adequate ( starring Bruce Willis and Tony Randall ) a studio, which also realized an absurd film ideas.
In the late 1960s, Ina Balin had visited South Vietnam in a military hospital. In 1970, she returned as part of a tour for the United Service Organizations and learned the An Lac orphanage located near Saigon know. At the end of the Vietnam War Ina Balin helped in the evacuation of many orphans. She adopted in 1976 three of them. 1980 she wrote and produced a work based on their experiences in Vietnam semi- documentary TV drama, in which she also embodied itself, The Children of An Lac.
Balin died of pulmonary hypertension.