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Dawn Lyn Born Dawn Lyn Nervik
January 11, 1963
Los Angeles, California, USAOccupation Actor Dawn Lyn (b. January 11, 1963) is an American actress best known for her role as Dodie Douglas during the last three seasons of the long-running CBS family comedy My Three Sons.
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Career
Born Dawn Lyn Nervik in Los Angeles, California, Lyn first appeared as an American Indian child in the 1967 B-grade western Cry Blood, Apache at age 4.
In 1969, Lyn auditioned for the character Prudence on the short-lived ABC series Nanny and the Professor, but when the pilot did not initially sell, she was released from her contract with ABC. ABC unsuccessfully sued to get Lyn for the part after she'd already been cast for M3S.
Lyn worked steadily in her youth on many popular series like Adam 12, Emergency, Marcus Welby and Gunsmoke. In 1971 Lyn had a major role in the western Shoot Out as Gregory Peck's daughter. She also appeared in movies such as the Walking Tall trilogy. In 1973 Lyn auditioned for the role of Regan in The Exorcist, but was considered too young for the subject matter.
In 1974, Lyn appeared in the cult classic Devil Times Five, where Lyn's character Moe dumps a bucket of piranhas into a bathtub to creatively kill the character Lovely, played by Lyn's mother. (In Cry Blood Apache, the cowboy played by Lyn's father murdered the character played by her mother.)
She financially supported her mother and brother from 1969 until around 1980 when her brother's fame eclipsed her.
Later career
Like many petite child actors, Lyn's 4'10" height began to work against instead of for her when in her teen years. She made a few appearances with Nickelodeon when the network revived the syndicated M3S series; during a 1990 appearance in New York City for Nickelodeon, she was invited for an in-studio radio broadcast of The Howard Stern Show along with actress Erin Murphy (of Bewitched fame). Lyn and Murphy discussed international politics while egged on by Stern. It was Lyn's second appearance on Stern's program.
While living in Avalon on Catalina Island from 1997 to 2006, Lyn performed live voice acting with the Avalon Community Theater Radio Troupe. Actor Tony Dow sat in for an in-studio show and later appeared with Lyn at an island charity fundraiser along with his TV brother Jerry Mathers and TV mother Barbara Billingsley. Actor Johnny Whitaker, a childhood friend of Lyn's when Family Affair was being shot on the same studio lot as M3S, joined her in a live broadcast of the troupe's satire of the film Pearl Harbor.
YouTube, Ireland and Facebook
In 2008 a Spanish fan of Lyn’s produced a YouTube video called “Wonder Woman’s New Partner” using clips of Lyn taken from an episode of the Wonder Woman series entitled “My Teen Idol is Missing.”
In March 2010, Lyn was invited to dinner with Maureen O'Hara while Lyn was on a visit to Ireland attending Tedfest IV, a celebration of the Irish comedy Father Ted. O’Hara’s brother Charles FitzSimons produced some of the TV programs in which Lyn appeared, and she generously spent the evening trading stories about the industry and people they both knew.
In September 2010, Lyn got into a heated and public Facebook discussion about the so-called Ground Zero Mosque with actress Susan Olsen, who portrayed the character Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch. Olsen’s position was that the Islamic center shouldn’t be built, while Lyn’s position was that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the Freedom of Religion, noting that there is already a mosque within the Pentagon, the other target hit by extremists on September 11, 2001.
In October 2010 at the invitation of English documentary producer Steve Hardy, Lyn attended a reunion of the cast and crew of the 1970-1971 British children’s science-fiction series Timeslip. The event was held north of London at a pub named The Plough in the town of Cuffley in Hertfordshire.
In February 2011 Lyn recorded several public service announcements for Armed Forces Radio Bavaria concerning the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Lyn's most recent television appearance was as herself in a 2008 episode of A&E's Biography about her troubled former teen idol brother Leif Garrett. She declined an on-air interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly after her brother's arrest on heroin possession in 2006; actor Paul Petersen gave O’Reilly Lyn's number and eventually appeared himself in Lyn's place on The O'Reilly Factor. Similar requests from cable music channel VH1 and others for interviews about her brother were also declined.
Lyn currently resides in Germany on a five-year mission with her second husband, a former soldier now a civilian with the Department of the Army.
External links
- Dawn Lyn at the Internet Movie Database
- Official Website [1]
Categories:- American expatriates in Germany
- American film actors
- American television actors
- People from the Greater Los Angeles Area
- American people of Norwegian descent
- Living people
- 1963 births
- American child actors
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