Savannah Smith Boucher | |
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Born |
Janice Elaine Boucher October 28, 1943 Springhill, Louisiana, U.S. |
Occupation | Employee Boucher & Slack Home Center Springhill Louisiana Officer |
Spouse(s) | Ronnie Wayne Campbell and William J. Stover |
Children | Sherrie LeAnne Campbell |
Parent(s) | Jesse L. Boucher and Mary Eloise H Boucher |
Savannah Smith Boucher (born October 28, 1943), known professionally as Savannah Smith prior to 1985, is an American actress originally from Springhill in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Her younger sister, Sherry Boucher, is a former actress who was the third wife of the late actor George Peppard.
Janice Elaine Boucher (pronounced "butcher") named after her aunt, Elaine Herrington Lynd, was born to Jesse L. Boucher (1912–2004) and the former Eloise Herrington (born November 21, 1923). Her father co-owned Boucher and Slack Insurance Agency, served as mayor of Springhill from 1958–1962, and later became a successful developer. She graduated in 1961 from Springhill High School.
Though she is two years older than her sister, Boucher’s film debut did not occur until 1979, when she was thirty-six. By then a life member of The Actors Studio, she and her sister appeared together that year with Peppard in the film Five Days from Home. Thereafter, Sherry's roles receded, as Savannah’s increased. That same year, Savannah appeared in the role of Joanne Rodney in Nick Nolte's North Dallas Forty.
In 1980, she appeared as Tanya Sinclair in an episode of the ABC detective series Vega$, with the late Robert Urich. That same year, she played "Zee" (for Zerelda) in the western film The Long Riders, based loosely on the bandit Jesse James. In 1982, she appeared as Addie Burnett in "A Night at the Red Ox" in the NBC western series Bret Maverick, which returned James Garner in his original role but aired only for nineteen episodes. In 1984, Boucher appeared as Eadie Wright in the episode "The Two Faces of Betsy Morgan" of ABC’s T.J. Hooker with William Shatner and in the television movie Sweet Revenge, one of several films of that same title, in the role of Anne Haggarty Cheever.