Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue was born on Jan 27, 1936 in USA. Troy Donahue's big-screen debut came with Man of a Thousand Faces directed by Joseph Pevney in 1957, strarring Assistant Director in Bullpen (uncredited). Troy Donahue is known for Shades of LA directed by Jim Johnston, Summer Shohfi stars as Southern belle and John D'Aquino as Det. Michael Burton. Troy Donahue has got 2 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Troy Donahue achieved is Photoplay Awards. The upcoming new movie Troy Donahue plays is Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story which will be released on Nov 07, 1999.

Troy Donahue was a journalism student at Columbia University when he began playing in stock productions. He made his film debut in L'emprise de la peur (1957) and in 1959 signed as a contract player with Warner Bros., which promoted him to stardom with Ils n'ont que vingt ans... (1959) that year. He was soon a teenage heartthrob, his blond hair and blue eyes appearing frequently on the covers of movie magazines. His most successful film was La soif de la jeunesse (1961), in which he played the title character. A few years after that his career went into a decline; he made only a few television movies between the mid-'60s and his small role in Le Parrain, 2ᵉ partie (1974) (in which his character's name, Merle Johnson, was actually his real name). His later films were almost entirely for the low-budget home video market, e.g., Sexpot (1990) and Recherche comédiennes déshabillées (1990).