Jennifer O'Neill

More recently, O'Neill started to write, and has published From Fallen To Forgiven, a book of biographical notes and philosophical thoughts about life and existence. By 1990, she had quietly retired from acting. O'Neill had more success in TV movies, including notable performances in Love's Savage Fury and in Bare Essence. She also guest-starred four times on the classic Rod Serling anthology series "Night Gallery" and was a frequent visitor of "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island." After playing an LAPD homicide detective investigating the murder of singer Ciji Dunne (Lisa Hartman) on "Knots Landing" in 1983, Pettet's career slowed down in the mid-1980s. After her success in Summer of '42 in 1971, in which she plays the young widow of a soldier killed in war, O'Neill became a well-known Hollywood actress, and continued acting for the next two decades, but was seldom offered roles which challenged her abilities. Her feature film appearance became sporadic in the 1970s, but Pettet re-emerged as the star of over a dozen made-for-television movies during that decade, including "The Delphi Bureau" (1972), "The Weekend Nun" (1972), "Pioneer Woman" (1973), "A Cry in the Wilderness" (1974), "The Desperate Miles" (1975), "The Hancocks" (1976), "Sex and the Married Woman" (1977), and "The Return of Frank Cannon" (1980). In 1970 she played a minor role in Rio Lobo, starring John Wayne. During that time, she married American actor Alex Cord and gave birth to a son in 1968.

In 1968 she landed a small role in For the Love of Ivy. Pettet got her start on Broadway in such plays as "Take Her, She's Mine," "The Chinese Prime Minister" and "Poor Richard" with Alan Bates and Gene Hackman before she was discovered by director Sidney Lumet for his sumptuous 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel, "The Group." The success of that film launched a film career that included roles in "Night of the General" (1967), the James Bond spoof "Casino Royale" (1967), "Blue" (1968) with Terence Stamp, and the Victorian period comedy "The Best House in London" (1969). As a teenager, O'Neill started to work as a model and appeared in TV commercials and on magazine covers. Her mother remarried and settled in Canada, where she was adopted by her stepfather and assumed "Pettet" as her last name. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as the daughter of a Spanish-Irish businessman and his English wife. Her father, Harold Nigel Edgerton Salmon, was a British RAF pilot killed in the war. Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress. Talented, blonde Joanna Pettet was born Joanna Jane Salmon on November 16, 1944 in London, England.

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Such Good Friends (1971). Glass Houses (1972). The Carey Treatment (1972). Lady Ice (1973).

Whiffs (1975). The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975). Gente di rispetto (1975). L'innocente (1976).

Call Girl (1976). 7 Note in Nero (1977). Caravans (1978). A Force of One (1979).

Steel (1980). Cloud Dancer (1980). Scanners (1981). I love NY (1988).

Committed (1988). Discretion assured (1993). Love is Like That (1996). The Corporate Ladder (1997).

The Ride (1997). The Prince and the Surfer (1999). Time Changer (2002).