Quinn O'Hara (January 3, 1941 – May 5, 2017), born Alice Jones, was a Scottish-born American actress and nurse.

Early life

O'Hara was born in

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. Later, she and her mother moved to

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where she attended a convent school, then to Quebec when she was a teen, and eventually to

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Career

O'Hara was crowned Miss Scotland in a beauty contest held in Long Beach in 1960. In April 1963, photographer Gene Lester introduced O'Hara to singer-actor Fabian; they became a couple for a time in the 1960s. In 1964, she was the decorative "queen" of the American Road Race of Champions in Riverside, greeting and posing with winners for photographs. In 1969, she was chosen on ''

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'' and went on a chaperoned trip to Nepal. O'Hara was a regular on ''The Lively Ones'', a musical program that was broadcast on NBC television in the summers of 1962 and 1963. "I was just used as a decoration," she recalled later. She appeared in films including '' The Errand Boy'' (1961), ''The Caretakers'' (1963), '' Who's Minding the Store?'' (1963), '' The Patsy'' (1964), ''

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'' (1965), ''

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'' (1966), ''

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'' (1970), '' Rubia's Jungle'' (1970), and '' The Teacher'' (1974). Her many television credits included appearances on '' Dragnet'', ''

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.'' In 1978, O'Hara was working as a real estate agent in

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. She became a United States citizen in 1992, and later worked as a nurse, known as Alice Kirk.

Death

In 1986, O'Hara married William Kirk, some two decades her junior. She died at her home in Los Angeles on May 5, 2017, aged 76.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:OHara, Quinn 1941 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American women Actresses from Edinburgh American film actresses American television actresses American women nurses Scottish emigrants to the United States