Sabrina Scharf
{{short description|American actress, environmental activist, attorney}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sabrina Scharf
| image = Sabrina Scharf.jpg
| caption = Scharf in "The Paradise Syndrome", 1968
| birth_name =
| birth_date October 17, 1943 =
| birth_place = Delphos, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| known_for = Miramanee in The Paradise Syndrome, Star Trek
| spouse = {{marriage|Bob Schiller|1968|2017|end=d.}}
| children = 2
| occupation = Actress, lawyer, real estate developer, activist, politician
| yearsactive = 1965–1975
}}
Sabrina Scharf Schiller is an American actress, lawyer, real estate developer, and activist best known for her roles on American television shows.
Biography
Born in Delphos, Ohio, she moved with her mother to Arizona, eventually living in Tucson.{{cite news |author1=Staff |title=On the Banks of Yesteryear — To boldly go… Sabrina Scharf Schiller |url=https://delphosherald.com/Content/News/Community-News/Article/On-the-Banks-of-Yesteryear-To-boldly-go-Sabrina-Scharf-Schiller/191/1185/201975 |access-date=July 1, 2023 |work=Delphos Herald |publisher=DHI Media, Inc. |date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727050518/https://delphosherald.com/Content/News/Community-News/Article/On-the-Banks-of-Yesteryear-To-boldly-go-Sabrina-Scharf-Schiller/191/1185/201975 |archive-date=July 27, 2019 |location=Delphos, Ohio | url-status=dead}} She eloped with her algebra teacher at age 15, but the marriage was annulled three years later. She later worked as a theatrical assistant in New York, then became a Playboy Bunny beginning in 1962.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5I62jQSEAIC&q=Sabrina+Scharf&pg=PA136 |title = The Bunny Years: The Surprising Inside Story of the Playboy Clubs: The Women Who Worked as Bunnies, and Where They Are Now|isbn = 9781451663280|last1 = Scott|first1 = Kathryn Leigh|pages= 35–36, 39 | publisher = Simon and Schuster | date = September 27, 2011 | via = Google Books}} She appeared in the movie Easy Rider and guest-starred in the third-season episode of the original Star Trek, "The Paradise Syndrome".{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYf2l7gczUC&q=Sabrina+Scharf&pg=PT1196 | title = The Star Trek Encyclopedia | first1 = Michael| last1 = Okuda| first2 = Denise | last2 = Okuda | first3 = Debbie | last3 = Mirek | date = May 17, 2011 | publisher = Simon and Schuster | isbn = 9781451646887 | via = Google Books}}
After Scharf quit acting in the 1970s, she became an anti-pollution activist and unsuccessfully ran for the California State Senate in 1976.{{cite news
| last = Stammer
| first = Larry
| title = Sabrina Schiller—Her Crusade for Clean Air Creates a Whirlwind
| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-01-me-630-story.html
| work = Los Angeles Times
| date = July 1, 1986
| access-date = July 1, 2023
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200705164403/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-01-me-630-story.html
| archive-date = July 5, 2020
| url-status = live
}} She was married to television writer Bob Schiller from 1968 until his death in 2017 and had two children with him.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/obituaries/bob-schiller-dead-writer-on-beloved-tv-comedies.html|title=Bob Schiller, Writer on Beloved TV Comedies, Dies at 98|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|work=The New York Times|date=October 12, 2017|access-date=July 1, 2023}}
Scharf became an attorney in 1989 and practiced real estate law in the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades neighborhood until 2017.{{cite web |title=Sabrina Scharf Schiller, Real Estate Attorneys Pacific Palisades |url=http://lawyers-usa.org/c-1042311-sabrina-scharf-schiller.html |website=Lawyers USA |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805182040/http://lawyers-usa.org/c-1042311-sabrina-scharf-schiller.html |archive-date=August 5, 2017 |url-status=usurped}}
Filmography
=Films=
class="wikitable" | |||
Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
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1966 | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Girl in Bed with Eli | Uncredited |
1967 | Hells Angels on Wheels | Shill | |
1967 | Waterhole No. 3 | Dove | Uncredited |
1969 | Easy Rider | Sarah | |
1969 | The Virgin President | President's girlfriend | |
1973 | Hunter | Anne Novak | TV movie |
=Television=
class="wikitable" | |||
Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
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1965 | Gidget | Penelope Peterson | 1 episode |
1966 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Mari Brooks | 1 episode |
1966 | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Greta Wolfe | 1 episode |
1966 | Daniel Boone | Alkini Matthews | 1 episode |
1967 | Captain Nice | Miss Schneider | 1 episode |
1968 | The Wild Wild West | China Hazard | 1 episode |
1968 | Star Trek | Miramanee | 1 episode |
1968 | I Dream of Jeannie | Valerie Thomas | 1 episode |
1969 | Gunsmoke | Lora | 1 episode |
1969 | The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Diane Kirby | 1 episode |
1968-1969 | Mannix | Celia James / Maureen McGill | 2 episodes |
1968-1970 | Hogan's Heroes | Luisa / Inge Wagner | 2 episodes |
1970 | The Interns | Penny Weems | 1 episode |
1969-1971 | Hawaii Five-O | Nicole Fleming / Victoria Lochner | 3 episodes |
1973 | Banacek | Wyn Reever | 1 episode |
1973 | The New Perry Mason | Sheila Osborne | 1 episode |
1975 | The Streets of San Francisco | Mianna | 1 episode |
1975 | Harry O | Jenny / Kathy | 2 episodes |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0770124}}
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Category:American television actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:People from Delphos, Ohio
Category:People from Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
Category:21st-century American women
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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