Patty Duke

Also Credited As:

Anna Duke-Pearce, Anna Pearce, Anna Marie Duke, Patty Duke Astin
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Biography

Patty Duke won an Oscar for reprising her role as the young Helen Keller in the 1962 screen adaptation. In 1979, she won an Emmy for playing Keller's teacher--the role originally played on Broadway by Anne Bancroft--in a TV version of the same play.

Duke made a successful transition to teen star playing vivacious twins on the cutesy, popular TV series "The Patty Duke Show" (ABC, 1963-66). But since her disastrous feature appearance in the …

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Job Title

Actor, Producer, Writer

Born

December 14, 1946

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