Katherine Walsh

Katherine Victoria Walsh (April 11, 1947 – October 7, 1970) was an American actress best known for her performance as Lulu in Roger Corman's movie The Trip.

Early life Walsh was born on April 11, 1947, in Kenton County, Kentucky, (or South Fort Mitchell, Kentucky), to Martha and Thomas Walsh. Her father, Thomas Walsh (died 1965), was President of the Atlantic Underwriters Agency. He was killed in the November 8, 1965, crash of American Airlines Flight 383 in Boone County, Kentucky. She was the family's oldest child, and she had two brothers and two sisters.

Career Walsh made her acting debut in the 1966 film The Chase. She went on to guest star in television shows such as The Monkees (in the debut episode, "Royal Flush"), The Virginian, and Daniel Boone.

Walsh is best known for the last professional acting assignment of her career, as Lulu in The Trip (1967), starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, written by Jack Nicholson, and directed by Roger Corman.

Death On October 7, 1970, Walsh died while at a small party in her flat in Kensington, an area in London, England. The Coroner's report in London returned an open verdict because of insufficient evidence, concluding death was due to alcohol and barbiturate poisoning, but that it had been impossible to establish whether the death was due to suicide or accident.