Donahue, Troy

Donahue, Troy
▪ 2002
Merle Johnson, Jr. 
      American actor (b. Jan. 27, 1936, New York, N.Y.—d. Sept. 2, 2001, Santa Monica, Calif.), was a teen heartthrob in the late 1950s and early '60s, with starring roles in movies, including A Summer Place (1959), Parrish (1961), Rome Adventure (1962), and Palm Springs Weekend (1963), and the television series Surfside Six (1960–62) and Hawaiian Eye (1962); after overcoming substance-abuse problems in the early 1980s, he appeared in some two dozen more movies, including Cry-Baby (1990).

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