Joyce Meadows
| Joyce Meadows | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Joyce Burger April 13, 1933 Arrowwood, Alberta, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Spouse(s) | Merrill Harrington (1984-present) |
Joyce Meadows (born April 13, 1933) is a Canadian-born television and film actress.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Burger, she was born Joyce Burger in the village of Arrowwood, Alberta, Canada, she was raised in early childhood on a farm near her birthplace. As a child she acted on the "stage" of her family's back porch. Her family moved to Montana, where she attended her first motion picture at the age of eight. She moved to Los Angeles, California, while she was still a teenager.
She was active in theatre arts in high school and performed the part of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Little Eaglet Theatre in Sacramento, California. Meadows was a student of Jeff Corey, procured a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse, and thereafter studied with Mira Rostova and Stella Adler in New York City.
In 1953, she won the title of Miss Sacramento and became second runner-up for Miss California. She was named Miss Hollywood in 1954. She later went to Hollywood and changed her name to Joyce Meadows.
Meadows's early television roles were in the middle 1950s in such series as Wanted: Dead or Alive, Whirlybirds, Highway Patrol, General Electric Theater, The Millionaire, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and Harbor Command. She also appeared in films, including the 1957 science fiction thriller about a bizarre nuclear scientist, The Brain from Planet Arous, with John Agar and Robert Fuller.
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