Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dies at 69
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Academy and Emmy award-winning actress, Patty Duke appeared during a March 2010 news conference at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, Calif. Duke, who won an Oscar as a child at the start of an acting career that continued through her adulthood, died today of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was 69.
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Actress Patty Duke was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles in Aug. 2004. Duke, who won an Oscar as a child at the start of an acting career that continued through her adulthood, died today of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was 69.
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Actress Patty Duke, 16, accepted the Oscar as best supporting actress for her work in “The Miracle Worker” at the annual Academy Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. in April 1963. Duke, who won an Oscar as a child at the start of an acting career that continued through her adulthood, died today of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was 69.
NEW YORK » Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for “The Miracle Worker” and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life while battling personal demons, has died at the age of 69.
Duke’s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress died early this morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She died in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, according to Teri Weigel, the publicist for her son, actor Sean Astin.
Duke, born Anna Marie Pearce, followed on her early success playing the young Helen Keller with a popular sitcom, “The Patty Duke Show,” which aired for three seasons in the mid-1960s. She played dual roles under an unconventional premise: identical cousins living in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
In 2015, she played twin roles again: as a pair of grandmas on an episode of “Liv and Maddie,” a series on the Disney Channel.
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Oh wow! Life is so fragile. May God Bless.
My deepest ALOHA to her ohana. She was one of the BEST… You will be missed.
Condolences to family. She was so young, a pity she did not have a longer time on this ball of mud.
I am so saddened by this news. I always liked her. May she RIP. That is way to young.
It is a shame she has died. She will be missed. At least she was around for 69 years and was not taken from us earlier.
Truly a remarkable lady….I always had great respect for her
The “The Miracle Worker” was one of the best made movies I’ve ever seen … touching and done so well by Patty … there’s a loss in all of hearts with your departure … Aloha and Mahalo Patty Duke…
I couldn’t agree more. RIP, Patty Duke.
Did she ever visit Hawaii?
Well, she did appear in the Jack Lord original Hawaii Five-O in the episode “Thanks for the Honeymoon” back in 1973.
And in the Hawaii Five-O reboot as the character Sylvia Spencer in 2011.
On stage recently with Joe Moore and Pat Sajak at Hawaii Theatre.
The Miracle Worker is one of the all time great films. Great acting by anyone’s standards by Duke and Bancroft. You can keep your special effects films. Give me good, human acting anytime.
Loved watching “The Patty Duke Show.”