Linda Harrison(I)
- Actress
- Director
- Producer
A native of Berlin, Maryland, Linda Harrison was Miss Berlin at 16,
then a model in New York's Garment Center. Homesickness brought her
back to Maryland, where she entered and won the state beauty pageant.
During the finals in the Miss International contest (held in Long
Beach, California), she was "spotted" by talent scout Mike Medavoy and
presented at 20th Century-Fox. Throughout her acting years at Fox, and
amidst movie roles in Planet of the Apes (1968), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and others, she dated studio
boss Richard D. Zanuck and married him in 1968. They were divorced in 1978, but
she's appeared in three of his movies since then.
