Kay Doubleday

Kay Doubleday was born on Aug 10, 1933 in Honduras. Kay Doubleday's big-screen debut came with Mad Dog Coll directed by Burt Balaban in 1961.

Kay Earley Doubleday was born in the northern Caribbean coastal town of Tela, Honduras, where her father was a railroad construction engineer for the Tela Railroad Company, a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company, later to become Chiquita Brands International. It controlled vast territories and transportation networks in Central America and had a monopoly on the banana industry. In 1933, just after Doubleday was born, the company moved its headquarters to New Orleans. Her family moved there in 1936 and she grew up there, appearing in several local theater productions as a child. Upon graduation from high school at the Academy of the Holy Angels in 1951, she moved to New York to pursue acting and soon flew to London, where she auditioned for and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After a year, she graduated and lived in Rome for a short time, returning to New York in 1954, where she soon began taking acting lessons from playwright and actor