Sherry Jackson

Sherry D. Jackson (born February 15, 1942) is an American retired actor and former child star.

Early life Jackson was born on February 15, 1942, in Wendell, Idaho. Her mother, Maurita, provided drama, singing, and dancing lessons for Sherry and her two brothers, Curtis L. Jackson Jr., and Gary L. Jackson, beginning in their formative years.

By one account Maurita, who had been told while still in Idaho that her children should be in films, was referred to a theatrical agent by a tour bus driver whom they met in Los Angeles.

In 1950, young Sherry became friends with actor Steve Cochran while working with him on The Lion and the Horse. Steve introduced his friend, writer Montgomery Pittman, to Sherry's widowed mother. A romance developed, and Pittman married Maurita Jackson in a small ceremony on June 4, 1952, in Torrance, California, with Sherry as flower girl and younger brother Gary as ring-bearer; Cochran himself was Pittman's best man. In 1955 Cochran hired Pittman to write his next film, Come Next Spring, the first that Cochran produced himself. Sherry played the part of Cochran's mute daughter Annie Ballot, a role Pittman wrote specifically for his step-daughter. and the following year played John Wayne's daughter in the football-themed Trouble Along the Way. Jackson did return as Terry for the premiere episode of the new series Make Room for Granddaddy in 1970.

Later roles Over the next few years, Jackson broadened her range of acting roles by guest starring in television series, appearing as a hit woman on 77 Sunset Strip, a freed Apache captive who yearns to return to the reservation on The Tall Man, an alcoholic on Mr. Novak, a woman accused of murder on Perry Mason, and an unstable mother-to-be on Wagon Train. Sherry also appeared as a first season guest on The Rifleman episode "The Sister" playing the part of a horse riding sibling of two doting brothers. She played a gunslinger's promiscuous young bride in the Western series Maverick episode entitled "Red Dog" with Roger Moore, Lee Van Cleef and John Carradine. After a 1965 appearance on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., she then made guest appearances on Lost in Space ("The Space Croppers", reuniting with her Danny Thomas co-star, Angela Cartwright), My Three Sons, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Wild Wild West ("The Night of the Vicious Valentine" and "The Night of the Gruesome Games", as two different characters), Batman, and the original Star Trek ("What Are Little Girls Made Of?").

When Blake Edwards remade the television series Peter Gunn as a feature film entitled Gunn (1967), Jackson was filmed in a nude scene that appeared only in the international version, not the US release. Stills of the nude scene appeared in the August 1967 issue of Playboy magazine, in a pictorial entitled "Make Room For Sherry". The movie has not been released on VHS or DVD.

In 1968 Jackson co-starred in The Mini-Skirt Mob as a member of an all-female motorcycle gang, and appeared in the 1973 film Cotter opposite Don Murray and Carol Lynley. In subsequent years she appeared in TV movies such as Wild Women (1970), Hitchhike! (1974), The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974), Returning Home (1975), Enigma (1977), The Curse of the Moon Child (1977) and Casino (1980).

In the 1970s through early 1980s she made guest appearances on TV shows Love, American Style; The Rockford Files; Starsky & Hutch; The Blue Knight; Switch; The Streets of San Francisco; Barnaby Jones; The Incredible Hulk; Fantasy Island; Vega$; Alice; Charlie's Angels and CHiPs.

Personal life Jackson dated Lance Reventlow while he was estranged from his wife Jill St. John.

In 1967, she began a five-year relationship with business executive and horse breeder Fletcher R. Jones. On November 7, 1972, Jones was killed in a plane crash eight miles east of Santa Ynez Airport in Santa Barbara County, California. Five months after Jones's death, Jackson filed a palimony suit against his estate, asking for more than $1 million (equivalent to $ million in ), with her attorneys stating that Jones had promised to provide her with at least $25,000 a year for the rest of her life.

Jackson has a star for broadcast television on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6324 Hollywood Boulevard.

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The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima Jacinta Marto The Lion and the Horse Jenny This Woman is Dangerous Susan Halleck 1953 Trouble Along the Way Carole Williams 1960 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mary Jane Wilkes 1965 Wild on the Beach Lee Sullivan (Lippert Productions Ltd., 20th Century Fox) 1967 Gunn Samantha (Geoffrey Productions, Paramount Pictures) 1968 The Mini-Skirt Mob Connie 1969 The Monitors Mona (Commonwealth United Entertainment) 1973 Cotter Shasta 1977 Bare Knuckles Jennifer Randall 1978 Stingray Abigail Bratowski 1960 The Swamp Fox Melanie Culpin 2 episodes 1960 The Millionaire Susan Johnson Episode: "Millionaire Susan Johnson" 1960 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Mignonne McCurdy Episode: "The Prettiest Collateral in Town" 1960 Surfside 6 Jill Murray Episode: "High Tide" 1960 Riverboat Inez Cox Episode: "The Water of Gorgeous Springs" 1961 Bringing Up Buddy Janie Episode: "Buddy and Janie" 1961 The Tall Man Sally Bartlett Episode: "Apache Daughter" 1962 The New Breed Ellen Talltree Episode: "Care is No Cure" 1962 The Twilight Zone Comfort Gatewood Episode: "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" 1962 Hawaiian Eye Joan Carmichael Episode: "A Scent of Whales" 1962 Gunsmoke Aggie / Lacey Parcher 2 episodes 1963 Vacation Playhouse Alice Watson Episode: "Come a-Runnin" 1963 Mr. Novak Cathy Ferguson Episode: "The Risk" 1963 Perry Mason Madeline Randall Episode: "The Case of the Festive Felon" 1964 The Lieutenant Maggie Shea Episode: "Gone the Sun" 1964 Wagon Train Geneva Balfour Episode: "The Geneva Balfour Story" 1965 Rawhide Mar Episode: "Moment in the Sun" 1965 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Geraldine Episode: "Sergeant Carter Gets a Dear John Letter" 1965 The Virginian Lois Colter Episode: "Show Me a Hero" 1966 Branded Nell Beckwith Episode: "Barbed Wire" 1966 Lost in Space Effra Episode: "The Space Croppers" 1966 My Three Sons Linda June Mitchell Episode: "The Wheels" 1966 Batman Pauline 2 episodes 1966 Death Valley Days Katherine Turner Episode: "Lady of the Plains" 1966 Star Trek Andrea S1:E7, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" 1967–1968 The Wild Wild West Lola Cortez / Michele LeMaster 2 episodes 1970 The Interns Jeri Spencer Episode: "The Quality of Mercy" 1970 Make Room for Granddaddy Terry Williams Episode: "Make Room for Grandson" 1970 The Immortal Sherry Hiller Episode: "Sylvia" 1970 Wild Women Nancy Belacourt TV movie 1971 Love, American Style Blanche Segment: "Love and the Waitress" 1974 Hitchhike! Stefanie TV movie 1974 The Girl on the Late, Late Show Pat Clauson TV movie 1974 Chase Shirley Episode: "$35 Will Fly You to the Moon" 1975 Returning Home Marie Derry ABC Movie of the Week 1975 Barbary Coast Sherry Episode: "Crazy Cats" 1975 Mobile One Leslie Willis Episode: "The Pawn" 1975 The Rockford Files Jennifer Sandstrom Episode: "The Real Easy Red Dog" 1975 Matt Helm Elena Bosworth Episode: "Double Jeopardy" 1976 Starsky & Hutch Denise Girard Episode: "Bounty Hunter" 1976 The Blue Knight Mrs. Bonner Episode: "The Rose and the Gun" 1976 Switch Jennie Rosenthal Episode: "The 100,000 Ruble Rumble" 1977 The Streets of San Francisco Jackie Allen / Joy Adams / September Dawn Episode: "One Last Trick" 1977 Enigma Kate Valentine TV movie 1978 Barnaby Jones Erica Hughes 2 episodes 1978 The Incredible Hulk Dr. Diane Joseph Episode: "Earthquakes Happen" 1979 Fantasy Island Monica Jensen Episode: "Cowboy/Substitute Wife" 1979 Vega$ Denise Episode: "The Usurper" 1980 Alice Toni Morelli Episode: "Good Buddy Flo" 1980 Charlie's Angels Tina Fuller Episode: "Homes $weet Homes" 1980 CHiPs Diane Episode: "The Strippers" 1980 Casino Jennifer TV movie