Megan Timothy
| Megan Timothy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 21, 1943 Zimbabwe |
| Occupation | actress, singer, inn keeper author |
| Years active | 1967 - 1971 |
Megan Timothy is a former actress, singer, adventurer and stroke survivor. She is also the author of Let Me Die Laughing!: Waking from The Nightmare of a Brain Explosion, which is an account of her brain injury.
The daughter of an architect, Timothy was born in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia in 1943. At the age of 16 she was working for the Victoria Times, a Rhodesian newspaper. Later, she worked as a horse trainer for a short period of time. In the 1960s, having left Africa, she came to the United States. She was aged around 21 at this time. After coming to the United States in 1964, she arrived in California with aspirations of being either an actress or stuntwoman. She found work as a telephone operator. She later did six weeks of training to be a waitress at the Playboy Club and found work there for a period of time. One day while working at the club she accidentally set fire to a patrons beard while trying to light his cigarette. In a bid to extinguish the flame, she threw water in his face. This resulted in her being fired. Later she would enter into the world of acting and also become a screenwriter. Her first film role was in Good Morning... and Goodbye!.
In the 1980s, Timothy was running La Maida House, a bed and breakfast inn which she had purchased in the mid 1970s. She had done most of the renovations herself on the building which was built in 1926. She was still running the Californian inn in the 1990s. In 1999, and in now in her late 50s, she sold her North Hollywood home, her car and a good deal of her possessions. This was in preparation to undertake what would be a 12,000-mile solo bicycle journey. Her journey would take her various places in Western Europe and to parts of Africa. In 2003, she suffered a brain aneurysm and lost her ability to speak. Her book Let Me Die Laughing!: Waking from The Nightmare of a Brain Explosion details her injury and road to recovery.
In 1967, she had a credited role in the Russ Meyer film Good Morning... and Goodbye!, which also starred Alaina Capri, Stuart Lancaster, Patrick Wright, Haji, Karen Ciral, Don Johnson, and Tom Howland. In 1968, she appeared in Hells Chosen Few which would be the first of three David L. Hewitt directed films she would do. This biker genre film was about a Vietnam vet who returns to find his biker brother accused of murdering a boyfriend of the local sheriff's daughter. Her second film with Hewitt was The Mighty Gorga, where she played female trapper April Adams who teams up with Mark Remington (played by Anthony Eisley) who embark on a mission in search of a 50-foot gorilla. She then had a role in the 1969 Elvis Presley film, Charro!, which was directed by Charles Marquis Warren. Her last film with Hewitt was the exploitation actioner, The Girls from Thunder Strip. This film about three bootlegging sisters taking on a gang of bikers was released in 1970. It also starred Maray Ayres and Casey Kasem. Her last film appears to be the exploitation westerner, The Female Bunch which starred Lon Chaney Jr., Russ Tamblyn, Jennifer Bishop, and Regina Carrol.
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