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Sherry Jackson
Age: 67
Height: 5' 4"
Birth Place: Wendell, Idaho, USA
Born: Feb. 15th, 1942
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Sherry Jackson's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: Gorgeous, mouth-watering Sherry Jackson began her prolific career as a rather plain-looking child actress in film bits. Her parts increased in size and she managed to hold her own among the older Hollywood's elite that included Barbara Hale in Lorna Doone (1951), moppet star Bobby Driscoll in When I Grow Up (1951) and Steve Cochran (I) in The Lion and the Horse (1952). She earned a little more attention than usual as John Wayne (I)'s daughter in Trouble Along the Way (1953). The stepdaughter of TV writer/director/actor Montgomery Pittman, who died of cancer in 1962, rumor has it that Idaho-born Sherry was "discovered" by a talent agent while she and her mother were waiting for a bus. Quite the busy little beaver from 1949 on, pig-tailed Sherry frequently appeared unbilled in films and even turned up as one of the bucolic brood in the popular "Ma and Pa Kettle" series for Universal Pictures.
Her most impressive role during that time was as a Portuguese youngster who witnesses a vision in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952). At the age of 11, TV became her choice of medium. Sherry literally grew up as Danny Thomas (I)' spunky daughter "Terry" on "Make Room for Daddy" (1953). After leaving the series, Sherry somewhere along the line grew totally out of her pert and pretty teen figure into a ravishing stunner. But after leaving the stability of her classic sitcom (the script had her heading off to college), things changed drastically work-wise. Going through the typical adjustment of child star to adult actress, she found it increasingly difficult to find work. As such, she began compromising her skills as an actress and taking on roles easily offered to her -- ones that emphasized her physical allure.
Her image changed drastically -- from a smart but vulnerable TV tyke to hot-looking babe. She even developed a minor cult audience playing beehive brunettes in such low-budget films as Gunn (1967) and The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968), and on TV in episodes of "Batman" (1966), "Lost in Space" (1965), "Star Trek" (1966) and "The Wild Wild West" (1965). You could usually count on spotting Sherry somewhere as a biker chick, cooey-voiced party girl or scantily-clad femme fatale. The work was thoroughly routine, however, and her career pretty much fell away by the 1980s. Little has been heard from her of late.
TRIVIA:
- Stepdaughter of 'Montgomery Pittman' (qv)
- Measurements: 36-22-35 (Souce: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is located at 6324 Hollywood Blvd.
- 1959 Deb Star.
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