Kim Darby

She filmed her scenes between Monday 22 August 1966 and Tuesday 30 August 1966 at Desilu Stage 9, Stage 10, and at the 40 Acres backlot. Darby was nineteen when she appeared in the episode. Her shapeless costume was intended to hide her figure, since she was playing a younger girl.

Darby was born Deborah Zerby in Los Angeles to vaudeville performer Inga Wiere (sister of the famous comedy troupe the Wiere Brothers) and dancer Jon Zerby, who were known together as the Dancing Zerbys, a successful nightclub act in the 1940s and 1950s. Her father named her Deborah because he thought "Derby Zerby" would be a great stage name. Neverthless, she took up the stage name "Kim Darby" when she began her acting career.

She began working as an actress at age fifteen and worked steadily until the 2010s. Probably her most famous role is that of Mattie Ross, from John Wayne's True Grit (1969, with John Fiedler, Alfred Ryder, Jeff Corey, and Ron Soble).

She is also known for her performance as Debra Strode in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, with Mitchell Ryan, J.C. Brandy, George Wilbur, Alan Echeverria, and music by Alan Howarth).

Filmography[]

• Dr. Kildare (1964, with Patricia Smith)
• The Fugitive (1965, directed by Ralph Senensky)
• Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965, with James Doohan and Nan Martin, directed by Harvey Hart)
• The Strawberry Statement (1970, with Bruce Davison and Booker Bradshaw)
• Red Sky at Morning (1971, with John Colicos, Nehemiah Persoff and Gregory Sierra)
• The Grissom Gang (1971, with Robert Lansing, Hal Baylor, and Don Keefer)
• The People (1972, with William Shatner)
• The Streets of San Francisco, pilot episode (1972)
• Ironside, episode "Downhill all the Way" (1973, with Roger Perry)
• Rich Man, Poor Man (1976 television miniseries, with Roy Jenson, Fionnula Flanagan, Lawrence Pressman, and Leigh J. McCloskey)
• The One and Only (1978, with William Daniels and Ed Begley, Jr.)
• The Last Convertible (1979 television miniseries, with Michael Nouri)
• This Is the Life (1983, with Jonathan Frakes, Brock Peters, Joan Pringle, Richard Carlyle, Andrew Robinson, Henry Darrow, and Nehemiah Persoff)
• The Facts Of Life episode "Joint Custody" (1984, with Joel Brooks)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984, with Eric Server, Vince Howard, and John Schuck)
• Better Off Dead (1985, with David Ogden Stiers and Vincent Schiavelli)
• Teen Wolf Too (1987, with Estee Chandler, Mark Holton, Eric Matthew and David Burton)
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, with Mitchell Ryan, J.C. Brandy, Alan Echeverria, and George Wilbur)
• NewsBreak (2000, with Michael Spound)

External links[]

• KimDarby.com – official site
• Kim Darby at Wikipedia
• Kim Darby at the Internet Movie Database