Flora June Plumb (October 14, 1944 – July 8, 2018)[1] was an American television and film actress.[2]

Plumb was born in Los Angeles,[2] the daughter of Neeley and Flora Plumb. Her younger sister is Eve Plumb.

As a student at Birmingham High School, she acted in school plays and won the Best Actress and Best Thespian awards.[3] She studied drama at UCLA, and in 1966 she received the Beulah Bondi Drama Scholarship.[4]

She made her TV debut in The Wild Wild West in 1969, in a bit part. She went on to feature appearances in several TV series, including Marcus Welby, M.D., The F.B.I., The Mod Squad, Lovers and Friends (a spinoff of the soap opera Another World), Lou Grant, Dusty's Trail, and Quincy, M.E.. She also appeared in the 1978 film Malibu Beach. More recently, she provided the voice of Oska for Guild Wars 2 and appeared in the 2010 short film Death Panel.

In March 1994, Plumb directed and designed sets for a production of The Homage That Follows at Theatre 40 in Los Angeles.[5]

For a quarter-century, she taught classes in directing and acting at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.[2]

Personal life and death

In 1984, Plumb married Richard Johnson.[2] Flora Plumb died of cancer on July 8, 2018, aged 73.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "This Week in LA Theatre". July 19, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lentz, Harris M. III (2019). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018. McFarland. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-4766-7033-1. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  3. ↑ Jamison, Jessica (February 13, 1962). "Flor Plumb Cops 2 Awards; Venetia And Don Wed Today". Valley Times. California, North Hollywood. p. 5. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Students Receive Scholarships". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. June 8, 1966. p. 5. Retrieved September 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Medoff, Mark Howard (1995). The Homage that Follows. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8222-1469-4. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
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