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{{short description|American actress and educator (born 1945)}}

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Ronne Troup is an American actress and educator whose acting roles include Pauline "Polly" Williams Douglas on the sitcom My Three Sons.

Biography

Troup is the daughter of musician/actor Bobby Troup, and his first wife, Cynthia Hare, and the stepdaughter of actress/singer Julie London.JOURNAL, For Julie London and Bobby Troup, 'Emergency!' Is Just What the Doctor Ordered,weblink January 17, 1977, 7, 2, Robert, Windeler, People (magazine), People, Ronne Troup attended North Hollywood High School.WEB, Ronne Troup, North Hollywood High School songleader [graphic]/photo by Alan Hyde,weblink ArchiveGrid, 1961, Hyde, Alan, March 16, 2016, Ronne is a graduate of UCLA, where she studied English and elementary education.NEWS,weblink Ronne Splits For Acting, John, Blake, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 5, 1969, August 25, 2020, She has been married three times. Troup's second marriage, to actor James Coleman (known for the 1975-76 television series S.W.A.T.), produced daughters Bridget and Jamie.{{Citation needed |date=September 2022}} Troup's current husband is Bob Bayles. She has a sister, Cynnie (born 1943), a television script supervisor.{{Citation needed |date=September 2022}}For many years, Ronne taught elementary school in the Los Angeles area. She is now retired.

Career

{{BLP one source|section|date=June 2017}}In 1964, Troup was working as a television background extra appearing (uncredited) in some fourth season black-and-white episodes of My Three Sons in classroom scenes featuring co-star Don Grady. She later worked as an uncredited extra in classroom scenes on Gidget (1965).{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}She appeared, uncredited, as a teen party guest in the Bob Hope film "I'll Take Sweden" (1965). In 1966, she made her film debut as part of the all-girl ensemble in Columbia Films' The Trouble with Angels where she is prominent in the graduation scene. In December 1966 (at age 21), she was cast as Sister Bertrille and had begun filming the pilot for The Flying Nun when she was dropped after the studio's first choice Sally Field finally agreed to accept the role.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}In 1968, she played the role of Leslie Hayden in Danger Island, the cliffhanger serial that was featured on the Banana Splits Adventure Hour children's program on Saturday mornings.She appeared on Family Affair in 1970 in the episode "Desert Isle: Manhattan Style". She was subsequently offered the role of Polly Williams Douglas, wife of Chip Douglas on My Three Sons, a role she played for two years (1970–72). In the Season 4 episode of The Partridge Family entitled "Hate Thy Neighbor" (1973), she appeared as Donna Stevens, the daughter of the new family who move next door to the Partridges.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}She then appeared often on popular dramas Emergency! (in which her stepmother and father co-starred), Marcus Welby, M.D., Cannon, S.W.A.T. and Adam-12 (3/18/1975). From 1987 to 1990, she portrayed "Barbara" on the CBS show Knots Landing. In more recent years, Troup has appeared in guest roles on Strong Medicine, The West Wing, and Cold Case.WEB, What a Troup-er,weblink February 21, 2011, Celluloid Slammer, June 21, 2017, On June 19, 2010, Troup appeared with her My Three Sons co-stars at a 50th anniversary celebration of the classic series at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.WEB, My Three Sons: 50th Anniversary Celebration,weblink June 19, 2010, Paley Center for Media, June 21, 2017, May 16, 2016,weblink dead, WEB, Photo Coverage: Paley Center for Media Presents My Three Sons: 50th Anniversary Celebration,weblink BroadwayWorld, June 20, 2010, August 25, 2020,

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