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Anna Navarro

{{short description|American film and television actress (1933–2006)}}

{{distinguish|text=the American political strategist and commentator Ana Navarro}}

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{{Infobox person

|name = Anna Navarro

|image = Anna Navarro in Time Table (cropped).jpg

|caption = Navarro in Time Table (1956)

|birth_name = Anna Delia Navarro

|birth_date = {{birth date|1933|08|18}}

|birth_place = New York, U.S.
or Nicaragua
or Winter Park, Florida, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2006|12|27|1933|08|18}}

|death_place =

|occupation = Film and television actress

|spouse = {{Plain list|*{{marriage|Thomas Francis Foley III|1958|1966|reason=divorced}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Whjb4eJKkHYC|title=Ida Lupino: A Biography|page=291|first=William|last=Donati|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|date=July 24, 2013|isbn=9780813143521|via=Google Books}}"California Divorce Index, 1966-1984", Anna D. Foley and Thomas F. Foley, February 1966, Fresno, California, Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento. Records accessed via online archives of FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 13, 2023.

  • {{marriage|George Pappas|1976|1986|reason=divorced}}"California Marriage Index, 1960-1985", database with images, George Pappas and Anna D. Navarro, July 25, 1976, Los Angeles, California, Center of Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento. Records accessed via online archives of FamilySearch, January 13, 2023.

}}

| children = 2

}}

Anna Delia Navarro (also cited Ana Delia Navarro; August 18, 1933 – December 27, 2006) was an American film and television actress.

Early life

With regard to Anna Navarro's birthplace, various references cite different locations. Some sources state that she was born in Nicaragua, while others note it was Winter Park, Florida.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kZ8hCwAAQBAJ|title=Hitchcock's Objects as Subjects: The Significance of Things on Screen|page=184|first=Marc|last=Strauss|publisher=McFarland|date=2016|isbn=9780786443086|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anna_navarro|title=Anna Navarro|work=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=July 15, 2022}} In an interview with Navarro published in the Los Angeles Times in October 1961, writer Lydia Lane identifies New York as her birthplace.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/386326750/|title=Beauty the Spanish Way|first=Lydia|last=Lane|work=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles, California|date=October 5, 1961|access-date=January 14, 2023|page=A4|via=ProQuest Historical Newspapers}} {{Closed access}}

Career

Navarro began her career in entertainment serving as a guide in numerous variety television programs.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/693893692/|title=Cuffnotes Of A Galloping Gadabout|work=Los Angeles Mirror|location=Los Angeles, California|date=June 11, 1954|access-date=July 15, 2022|page=21|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} According to some sources, she made her film debut in 1953’s Jack Slade. She appeared in the movies Jubilee Trail, The Human Jungle and The Adventures of Hajji Baba in 1954. Navarro’s television debut was in the western television series The Adventures of Kit Carson.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9B-9zAEACAAJ|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2006|pages=260–261|first=Harris|last=Lentz|date=April 24, 2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786429332|via=Google Books}} She then made appearances in the television programs Treasury Men in Action, I Led 3 Lives and The Cisco Kid.

Later in her career, Navarro guest-starred in numerous television programs including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Tales of Wells Fargo, Perry Mason,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmX_mIf32TAC|title=Raymond Burr: A Film, Radio and Television Biography|page=200|first=Ona|last=Hill|publisher=McFarland|date=September 9, 2011|isbn=9780786491377|via=Google Books}} Tombstone Territory, The Virginian, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Maverick, Family Affair (3 episodes), Death Valley Days, Outlaws, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Barnaby Jones, The Californians, Peter Gunn and Bat Masterson. Her final credit was from the action crime television series Walker, Texas Ranger.

Death

Navarro died in December 2006, at the age of 73.

Filmography

Television

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0622823}}
  • {{TCM name|139252%7C13640}}
  • [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anna_navarro/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]

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Category:1933 births

Category:2006 deaths

Category:American film actresses

Category:American television actresses

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:21st-century American women

Category:Western (genre) television actors