{{Short description|American actress (1935–2016)}} {{distinguish|Lisa Gaye (actress, born 1960)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox person | image = Richard Boone Lisa Gaye Have Gun Will Travel 1958.JPG | image_size = 200px | caption = Lisa Gaye with Richard Boone as a guest star on CBS's ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' | birth_name = Leslie Gaye Griffin | birth_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|3|6}} | death_place = Houston, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|7|14|1935|3|6}} | death_cause = | education = Hollywood Professional School | known_for = {{hlist|''Drums Across the River''|''Ten Thousand Bedrooms''|''How to Marry a Millionaire''}} | occupation = {{hlist|Actress|dancer}} | years_active = 1954–1970 | spouse = {{marriage|Bently C. Ware|1955|1977|reason=died}} | children = 1 | relatives = {{unbulletedlist|Debra Paget (sister)|Teala Loring (sister)}} }} '''Leslie Gaye Griffin'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile of Lisa Gaye |url=http://www.debra-paget.com/lisagaye/gayebio.html |access-date=2016-08-12 |website=Debra-Paget.com |archive-date=October 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004031606/http://www.debra-paget.com/lisagaye/gayebio.html |url-status=live }}</ref> (March 6, 1935 – July 14, 2016), better known as '''Lisa Gaye''', was an American actress and dancer.<ref name="Barnes">{{Cite magazine |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=2016-07-19 |title=Lisa Gaye, Actress and Dancer in 'Rock Around the Clock,' Dies at 81 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lisa-gaye-dead-rock-around-912617 |access-date=2016-07-20 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-date=July 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721212729/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lisa-gaye-dead-rock-around-912617 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Early years== Leslie Gaye Griffin was born on March 6, 1935, in Denver, Colorado, to Frank Henry Griffin, a painter, and Margaret Allen Griffin (née Gibson), an actress.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}
Her family moved from Denver to Los Angeles, California, when sister Teala was contracted to be an actress by Paramount Pictures.<ref name="Barnes" /> Her mother was determined that Gaye and her siblings make their careers in show business. Her siblings, Marcia (Teala Loring), Debralee (Debra Paget), and Frank (Ruell Shayne), all entered the business as either cast or crew.<ref name="ShoFamly">{{Cite web |last=Ware |first=Janell |title=Dramatis Personae: The Family Cast |url=http://geocities.com/showbizfamily/cast.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021017161806/http://geocities.com/showbizfamily/cast.html |archive-date=2002-10-17 |access-date=2009-10-26 |website=GeoCities}}</ref>
She attended Hollywood's Professional School.<ref name=":0" />
==Career== Gaye made her first professional film appearance at the age of 7. At 17, she signed a seven-year contract with Universal Studios and was enrolled in the studio's professional school for actors and actresses.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 25, 1954 |title=Lisa Gaye Proves Star in Theory |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3303403/the_indiana_gazette/ |access-date=September 26, 2015 |work=The Indiana Gazette |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=August 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826004340/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3303403/the_indiana_gazette/ |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref>
She began her acting career with two uncredited cameos in 1953–54. Her first starring role was in ''Drums Across the River'' (1954).<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 25, 1954 |title=Adventure Hit on Grand Bill Colorful Saga |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3303551/the_terre_haute_tribune |access-date=September 26, 2015 |work=Terre Haute Tribune |page=31 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=September 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928061252/http://www.newspapers.com/clip/3303551/the_terre_haute_tribune/ |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref> She appeared in 13 films between 1954 and 1967, including ''Ten Thousand Bedrooms'' (1957), and television shows such as ''Hawaiian Eye'' (1959) and ''How to Marry a Millionaire'' (1957).
On stage, Gaye acted in a production of ''Merry Wives of Windsor'' when she was 12 years old. In 1957, she made her adult stage debut in ''Darling, I'm Yours'' in San Francisco.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=May 5, 1957 |title=Lisa Gaye and New Play Will Bow Together Tomorrow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56208136/lisa-gaye/ |access-date=July 27, 2020 |work=Oakland Tribune |page=119 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727233305/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56208136/lisa-gaye/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Television== Among Gaye's television appearances were three episodes of ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'' in 1956, 13 episodes of ''The Bob Cummings Show'' as Colette Dubois, five episodes each of the ABC/Warner Brothers detective series, ''Hawaiian Eye'' and ''77 Sunset Strip'', two episodes of another ABC-WB series, ''Bourbon Street Beat'', seven episodes of CBS's ''Perry Mason'', and eleven episodes of the syndicated anthology series, ''Death Valley Days'', along with several episodes of ''Sea Hunt'' and an episode of ''Colt .45''. She appeared as Susan Marno in ''Wanted Dead or Alive'' with Steve McQueen.
She appears in one episode of ''Zorro'' in the 1957 episode "Constance". She appeared twice in ''Have Gun - Will Travel'' in 1957 as Helen in "Helen of Abajinian", and as Nancy in "Gun Shy" (along with Dan Blocker, Corey Allen and Jeanette Nolan), and in the ''Science Fiction Theatre'' episode "Gravity Zero" as Elisabeth. She made a single appearance in the 1959 episode "The Peace Offering" of the syndicated western series, ''Pony Express'', starring Grant Sullivan. Among her seven appearances on ''Perry Mason'', Gaye played Rita Magovern and Lola Bronson in the 1961 episodes, "The Case of the Traveling Treasure" and "The Case of the Guilty Clients". In 1964 she played as Pamela Blair in "The Case of the Nautical Knot". Also in 1961, Gaye appeared as a Spanish woman tied up in a revolution against the United States in an episode of ''Maverick'' titled "State of Siege". She appeared in several episodes of ''Bat Masterson'': in "Sharpshooter", she played Laurie LaRue, the stage assistant and wife of stage sharpshooter, Danny Dowling; in the 1959 episode "Buffalo Kill" as Susan; and in the 1961 episode, "The Fatal Garment", she portrayed Elena, a Mexican Cantina owner. In 1961, she also appeared in an episode of ''Tales of Wells Fargo'' entitled “The Dowery”. She also appeared in a 1962 episode of ''Laramie'' as an Indian woman, Winona.
==Personal life and death== Gaye was married in 1955 to Bently C. Ware; the marriage ended with his death in 1977; the couple had one daughter, Janelle.<ref name=ci/> Gaye died in Houston, Texas, on July 14, 2016.<ref name="ci">{{Cite journal |last=Lentz |first=Harris III |date=September 2016 |title=Lisa Gaye, 81 |journal=Classic Images |issue=495 |page=57}}</ref> Because her husband had served as a corporal in the U.S. Army, she was interred at Houston National Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ware, Lisa Gaye |url=https://www.cem.va.gov/nationwide-gravesite-locator/ |access-date=June 8, 2024 |website=Nationwide Gravesite Locator |publisher=National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |archive-date=June 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240609104543/https://www.cem.va.gov/nationwide-gravesite-locator/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''The Glenn Miller Story'' (1954) - Bobbysoxer (uncredited) * ''Yankee Pasha'' (1954) - Harem Girl (uncredited) * ''Drums Across the River'' (1954) - Jennie * ''Magnificent Obsession'' (1954) - Switchboard Girl (uncredited) * ''Ain't Misbehavin''' (1955) - Chorine (uncredited) * ''Rock Around the Clock'' (1956) - Lisa Johns * ''Shake, Rattle & Rock!'' (1956) - June Fitzdingle * ''Ten Thousand Bedrooms'' (1957) - Ana Martelli * ''Sweethearts'' (1957) * ''Night of Evil'' (1962) - Dixie Ann Dikes * ''La cara del terror'' (1962) - Norma Borden * ''Castle of Evil'' (1966) - Carrol Harris * ''The Violent Ones'' (1967) - Dolores
===Other television credits=== * ''The Bob Cummings Show'' (1955–1959) - Collette DuBois (recurring role) * ''Annie Oakley'' (1956) - Vera Barker<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Annie and the Lacemaker |series=Annie Oakley |season=3 |year=1956 |number=7}}</ref> * ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'' (1956) - Carol Rogers / Felicia Norris / Mary Brewster * ''The Adventures of Jim Bowie'' (1956, 1957) - Maria Miro / Jeanne Brasseaur<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Trapline |series=The Adventures of Jim Bowie |year=1956}}</ref> * ''Science Fiction Theater'' (1957) - Episode "Gravity Zero" * ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' (1957, 1958) - Nancy Warren / Helen Abajinian * ''The Walter Winchell File'' (1958) - Doris Carter * ''Tombstone Territory'' (1958, 1959) - Nancy Cooley / Miss Lizette * ''How to Marry a Millionaire'' (1958–1959) - Gwen Kirby (main cast, season 2) * ''Perry Mason'' (1958–1966) - Laraine Keely / Pamela Blair / Joyce Hadley / Alyssa Laban / Rita Magovern / Lola Bronson / Juror * ''Sea Hunt'' (1959) - Ann Barry / June Leeds / Philana / Louise Wiley / Blaze Green * ''Bat Masterson'' (1959, 1961) - Lori Dowling / Susan Carver / Elena * ''Men into Space'' (1960) - Joyce Lynn * ''Wanted Dead or Alive'' (1960) season 3 episode 3 (“Journey for Josh”) - Susan Marno * ''Cheyenne'' (1960) - Francie Scott / Jenny Beaumont * ''Rawhide'' (1960) - Odette Laurier * ''Death Valley Days'' (1960–1969) - Lisa Tracy / Lottie Deno / Mystic Maude / Rosie Winters / Gypsy / Faith Turner / Lena / Tacilia - Healing Woman / Delores / Raquel / Yvonne Benet * ''77 Sunset Strip'', The Desert Spa Caper (1961) - Janet Hubbell * ''Maverick'' (1961) - Soledad Lozaro * ''Wagon Train'' (1961) - Alma Mendez * ''Tales of Wells Fargo'' (1961) - Sunset / Michelle Bovarde * ''Laramie'' (1962) - Winona * ''Going My Way'' (1962) - Rosa Pavone * ''The Wild Wild West'' (1966, 1967) - Lana Benson / Lorelei * ''The Time Tunnel'' (1967) - Ahza * ''Get Smart'' (1967) - Miss Smith * ''I Dream of Jeannie'' (1968) - Daisy Lou * ''The Flying Nun'' (1969) - Rosita / Elena * ''The Mod Squad'' (1970) - Yolanda (final appearance)
==See also== {{Portal|Film|Television|United States|Biography}} {{Clear}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Sister project links|auto=0}} * {{IMDb name}} * [http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/102/Lisa+Gaye/index.html The Private Life and Times of Lisa Gaye] at glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com
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