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Tiffany Bolling (born Tiffany Royce Kral in 1947) is a retired American actress, model and singer, best known for her appearances in cult movies.


Early years

Bolling was born in
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. Her father was singer/pianist Roy Kral. Singer
Irene Kral Irene Kral (January 18, 1932 – August 15, 1978) was an American jazz singer. Life She was born to Czechoslovak parents in Chicago and settled in Los Angeles, California, in the early 1960s. She died from breast cancer in Encino, Los Angeles. ...
was her aunt. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth. Her mother then married businessman William Bolling, who adopted her. His business ventures brought his new family to southern Florida, where she grew up


Career

In the late 1960s, Bolling had bit parts in the comedy ''
Birds Do It ''Birds Do It'' is a 1966 comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O'Connell, Edward Andrews and Beverly Adams. It was made by Columbia Pictures and filmed at the Ivan Tors Studios in Miami. Plot There a ...
'' (1966) and the detective drama '' Tony Rome'' (1967), starring
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. She starred in the television series ''
The New People ''The New People'' is a 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean. This program is ...
'', but it only lasted one season (1969–70). She guest-starred on a number of other television series, including '' Ironside'' ("The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place", 1970, as a film actress who falls in love with Don Galloway's Sgt. Ed Brown), '' Marcus Welby, M.D.'' (as a leprosy victim engaged to Don Galloway's character, shot the same year as the "Ironside" episode), and ''
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'' (as Damaris in "Witch, Witch, Burning Bright", 1972). In April 1972, she did a pictorial for ''
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'' magazine. She later called that exposure "the worst experience of my life" and said she was not paid a fee. The ''Playboy'' photographs led to her appearing in
exploitation films An exploitation film is a film that seeks commercial success by capitalizing on current trends, niche genres, or sensational content. Exploitation films often feature themes such as suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudi ...
, including ''
Bonnie's Kids ''Bonnie's Kids'' is a 1972 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Arthur Marks. Plot Myra and Ellie Thomas, sisters residing in Glendora, California, find themselves entangled with their abusive stepfather, Charley, who was once ...
'' (1972); '' The Candy Snatchers'' (1973); ''
Wicked, Wicked ''Wicked, Wicked'' is a 1973 horror-thriller film written and directed by Richard L. Bare and starring David Bailey, Tiffany Bolling and Randolph Roberts. It was presented in "Duo-Vision", a gimmick more commonly known as split-screen. Plot ...
'' (1973); '' The Centerfold Girls'' (1974); and a bit part as Kate in the "Woman in the Wilderness" episode of ''
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams ''The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams'' is a 1974 independent feature film produced by Charles E. Sellier Jr. and Raylan D. Jensen for Sunn Classic Pictures. The film's popularity led to an NBC television series of the same name. The title ...
'' (1977). She was dismissive of ''The Candy Snatchers'' and took the role solely for the money, elaborating "I was doing
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...and I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was very angry about the way that my career had gone in the industry... the opportunities that I had and had not been given... The hardest thing for me, as I look back on it, was I had done ''
The New People ''The New People'' is a 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean. This program is ...
'', and so I had a lot of young people who really respected me and... revered me as something of a hero, and then I came out with this stupid ''Candy Snatchers'' movie... it was a horrendous experience." Bolling continued to win roles throughout the 1970s. She had a supporting role in the
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movie '' The Wild Party'' (1975) She also appeared in the children's television program ''
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'' (1976) and the sci-fi show ''
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'' (1977) and co-starred with
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in the science fiction film ''
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'' (1977). She had guest roles in ''
The Mod Squad ''The Mod Squad'' is an American crime drama series, originally broadcast for five seasons on ABC from September 24, 1968, to March 1, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Peter "Pete" Cochran, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln "Linc" Hayes, Pegg ...
'', '' Bronk'', ''
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'', ''
Bonanza ''Bonanza'' is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, ''Bonanza'' is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on ...
'', ''
Mannix ''Mannix'' is an American detective television series that originally aired for eight seasons on CBS from September 16, 1967, to March 13, 1975. The show was created by Richard Levinson and William Link, and developed by executive producer ...
'', ''
Barnaby Jones ''Barnaby Jones'' is an American detective fiction, detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law. They run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, Califor ...
'', and ''
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'' as well as '' Ironside''.


Filmography


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolling, Tiffany 1947 births Living people Actresses from Santa Monica, California American television actresses American film actresses People from Greater Los Angeles 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American women