Nancy Kovack
Actor
Biography
A native of Flint, Michigan, Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15, a radio deejay at 16, a college graduate at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20. Her professional acting career began on television in New York, first as one of Jackie Gleason's "Glea Girls" and then, more prominently, on The Dave Garroway Show (1953), Today (1952) and Beat the Clock (1950). A stage role opened Hollywood doors for Kovack, who signed with Columbia. She later racked up an impressive list of episodic television credits, and was Emmy-nominated for a 1969 guest shot on Mannix (1967). The wife of world-renowned maestro Zubin Mehta of New York Philharmonic fame, Kovack publicly alleges that she was recently bamboozled (to the tune of $150,000) by Susan McDougal, a central figure in the Whitewater scandal.
Filmography
Marooned
as Teresa Stone 1969
Diary of a Madman
as Odette Mallotte 1963
Frankie and Johnny
as Nellie Bly 1966
The Silencers
as Barbara 1966
Strangers When We Meet
as Marcia 1960
The Outlaws Is Coming
as Annie Oakley 1965
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
as Sophia Renault 1966
The Great Sioux Massacre
as Libbie Custer 1965
Enter Laughing
as Miss Laura B 1967
Sylvia
as Big Shirley 1965
Cry for Happy
as Camille Cameron 1961
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
as Annie Oakley (archive footage) 1989
The Wild Westerners
as Rose Sharon 1962
Diamond 33
1966
Our Town's Hero
1968
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
as Monica Gray 1975