Lane Bradbury

Lane Bradbury was born in Buckhead, Georgia.^[1] She studied ballet as a young girl. In the 1950s, she moved to New York City and was admitted to the Actors Studio.^[2]

Stage

Bradbury made her Broadway debut in the role of Jolly Adams in J.B. (1958–59), performing with Raymond Massey and Christopher Plummer.^[2] Bradbury was the first actress to play Dainty June^[2][3] in the original Broadway production of Gypsy (1959–61).^[4][5][6][7] She starred in Tennessee Williams' play Night of the Iguana (1961–62) with veteran actress Bette Davis. From 1963 to 1964, Bradbury portrayed The Mick in June Havoc's Broadway play Marathon '33.^[1]

Screen

In the 1960s, Bradbury moved with her husband Lou Antonio to Los Angeles, where she began a long career in television. She was in 1963's season three opener of The Fugitive titled "Wings of an Angel", playing Janet Kegler, a woman taken hostage.^[8] In 1965, Bradbury co-starred with Antonio on Gunsmoke as Allie Sommers in the season eleven episode, "Outlaw's Woman." She returned to play Lucky in the season twelve episode "Muley" in 1967 before portraying the popular Gunsmoke recurring character Merry Florene between 1968 and 1969.^[9]

In the 1970s, Bradbury made guest appearances on shows such as Medical Center (1970), The Mod Squad (1970), The Partridge Family (1970), Mannix (1972), Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972), Kung Fu (1973), The Rockford Files (1976), and The Waltons (1979).^[8][10]

She appeared in the popular television movies Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971),^[11] and To Dance with the White Dog (1990).^[12]

Bradbury portrayed Hazel Head in the Unsolved Mysteries 2002 episode, "Wanted: Hazel Head".^[13][14]

Her theatrical film credits include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974),^[15] The Ultimate Warrior (1975),^[16] and Major Arcana (2018).^[17]

In 1965, Bradbury married actor and director Lou Antonio^[18] and they had two daughters. The couple divorced in 1980. Their daughter Elkin Antoniou is a writer, director, and documentarian.^[19]

She is the founder and artistic director of the Valkyrie Theater of Dance, Drama, and Film, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to introduce at-risk teens to the theatrical arts.^[2]