Sherry Jackson

Sherry Jackson was born on Feb 15, 1942 in USA. Sherry Jackson's big-screen debut came with Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town directed by Charles Lamont in 1950. Sherry Jackson is known for The Immortal directed by Michael Caffey, Christopher George stars as Ben Richards and Don Knight as Fletcher. The most recent award Sherry Jackson achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Sherry Jackson plays is Casino which will be released on Aug 01, 1980.

Gorgeous, brown-eyed, chestnut-maned Sherry Jackson began her promising career as a pig-tailed, pleasant-looking child actress. Born in Idaho on February 15, 1942, she was the only daughter of four children born to Maurita Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson, Sr. Her father died when she was 6, and the family relocated to Los Angeles. Her mother married television writer/director/actor Montgomery Pittman, who died of cancer in 1962. Sherry's mother provided her daughter drama, singing and dancing lessons as a child. The story goes that the little girl was discovered by a talent agent while she and her mother were waiting for a bus. She began her career at age 7 with small, unbilled bit parts in You're My Everything (1949), On va se faire sonner les cloches (1950), Les maudits du château-fort (1951), Le grand Caruso (1951), and two of the "Ma and Pa Kettle" films series, Placide et Zoé à New York (1950) and Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951), as Susie Kettle, one of the couple's numerous children.Sherry gained more attention as her parts increased in size, holding her own among the Hollywood's movie elite, including moppet star Bobby Driscoll in When I Grow Up (1951); John Garfield and Patricia Neal in Trafic en haute mer (1950); and rugged Steve Cochran in the "B" western Le lion et le cheval (1952). She earned good notices as John Wayne's daughter in Un homme pas comme les autres (1953), but her most impressive role during this time was as a Portuguese youngster who witnesses a vision in the religious offering Le miracle de Fatima (1952). At age 11, she made appearances on both "The Roy Rogers Show" and "The Gene Autry Show". She literally grew up on the small screen as Danny Thomas' daughter Terry Williams on the comedy series Make Room for Daddy (1953) which co-starred Jean Hagen as her mother and Rusty Hamer as her pesky younger brother. A cast change occurred in 1956 when Hagen, who did not get along with Danny Thomas, opted to leave the show (Hagen's character was killed off between seasons) and a step-mother (played by Marjorie Lord) and step-sister (played by Angela Cartwright) helped increase the ratings. During the show's run, she was given a strong teen role in the film drama Come Next Spring (1956) as the daughter of Ann Sheridan and Steve Cochran.Named a "Deb Star" in 1959, Sherry played a number of beguiling victims or bewitching vixens on such 60's programs as "77 Sunset Strip," "Mr. Novak," "The Twilight Zone," "Hawaiian Eye," "Gunsmoke," "Perry Mason," "Gomer Pyle," "The Virginian," "My Three Sons," "Batman" and "The Wild, Wild West." On film, the vivacious beauty was pretty much relegated to minor cult worship in low-budgets or exploitation films -- Wild on the Beach (1965), Peter Gunn, détective spécial (1967), Des filles à moto (1968) and The Monitors (1969). One could usually spot Sherry somewhere as a biker babe, party chick, capricious rich girl or scantily-clad femme fatale with character names such as "Comfort", "Shasta", "Lola" and "Mona" pretty much putting a stamp on her typecast.Her adult work remained a sexy standard throughout the 1970's as seen in the TV-movies Femmes sauvages (1970), Hitchhike! (1974), Une femme dangereuse (1974), Returning Home (1975), and Casino (1980). She also reprised her role as Terry Williams in the premiere episode (only) of the series Make Room for Granddaddy (1970) and appeared in the glamorous title role of Brenda Starr, Reporter (1979), an unsold TV pilot. As a guest star, she participated in such well-established series as "Love, American Style", "Get Christie Love", "The Rockford Files", "Matt Helm", "Barnaby Jones", "The Streets of San Francisco", "Starsky & Hutch", "The Incredible Hulk", "Fantasy Island", "Charlie's Angels", and "CHiPs".A few forgettable films came her way with Cotter (1973), Le Maniaque (1977) and Stingray (1978), but she grew hard-pressed to find more challenging parts. By the early 1980s, a frustrated Sherry let her career slide away. She was last seen onscreen in an episode of "Strike Force" in 1982. Never married, she was at involved in a fairly long-term relationship with business executive and horse breeder Fletcher R. Jones. That ended in 1972 when he died in a small plane crash.