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More sad news: Yvonne Craig has died.  She was an aspiring actress in the 60’s, best know for her role as Batgirl!

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She was in many other roles during her career; probably the least known (by name) was Marta, a green-skinned Orion slave girl who wanted to kill Captain Kirk on Star Trek…

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More (from Wikipedia):

“Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16, 1937 – August 17, 2015) was an American ballet dancer and actress best known for her role as Batgirl from the 1960s television series Batman, and as the Orion slave girl Marta in the Star Trek episode “Whom Gods Destroy”. The Huffington Post called her a “a pioneer of female superheroes” for television….

In 1958 she appeared in an episode (“The Case of the Lazy Lover”) of the TV series Perry Mason alongside Neil Hamilton, who played her stepfather (coincidentally, Hamilton who would go on to play Gotham City police Commissioner James Gordon, Batgirl’s father, in Batman). In 1959 she appeared in three films—The Young Land, The Gene Krupa Story, and Gidget—and also guest-starred in TV series Mr. Lucky as Beverly Mills in the 1959 episode “Little Miss Wow”. In 1960, she appeared with Bing Crosby in High Time. In 1961, she appeared in Seven Women from Hell alongside Cesar Romero, who would later play the Joker in Batman.

Craig starred in roles with Elvis Presley in two films: It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963) and Kissin’ Cousins (1964). She also starred in the 1966 cult sci-fi film Mars Needs Women and appeared in In Like Flint (1967) as a Russian ballet dancer opposite James Coburn.

Television

In the 1960s, she moved to television, appearing in several shows, including The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Death Valley Days,Hennesey, and My Three Sons. Craig appeared five times on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, portraying five separate girlfriends for the titular character between 1959 and 1962. In 1969 Craig appeared on Star Trek as Marta, a green-skinned Orion slave girl who wanted to kill Captain Kirk in a Season 3 episode called “Whom Gods Destroy”.

In a 1965 episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (“The Brain-Killer Affair”), she helps solve the mystery of a brain-endangering poison.[7] In 1966, she appeared as an U.N.C.L.E. employee in a theatrical film, One Spy Too Many (expanded from an episode from Season Two called “The Alexander the Greater Affair”). In a 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West (“The Night of the Grand Emir”), she played an assassin who performs an exotic Arabian dance. She also played a nurse in the U.S. Navy with exotic Arabian dance skills in an episode of McHale’s Navy (“Pumpkin Takes Over”, 1965). She appeared in an episode of The Big Valley with Lee Majors and Barbara Stanwyck. In a 1968 episode of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (“Haunted Honeymoon”), she played a bride-to-be stranded overnight at Gull Cottage. In a 1970 episode of Land of the Giants (“Wild Journey”), she played one-half of a humanoid, time-observing duo (alongside Bruce Dern) who chase two of the Earth castaways (series stars Gary Conway and Don Marshall) into the past, ultimately forcing them to relive the flight that sent them to the giants’ planet.

Batman

 

Yvonne Craig as Batgirl in 1967

In September 1967, Craig acted her highest-profile role—as Batgirl—for the third and last season of the 1960s ABC TV series Batman. As Batgirl she wore a purple and yellow outfit and rode a “purple motorcycle with white lace trim”,[5] whereas as her alter ego Barbara Gordon she played the librarian daughter of Commissioner Gordon.[8] The New York Times praised her for “add[ing] a scrappy girl-power element” to a TV series it described as “campy”.[3]

Read more at the Wikipedia link!

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A few other photos:

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Yvonne Craig - Batman (1960s)

(Love the Batbike!)

“Yvonne had a difficult time riding her Batcycle for the Batman show; the prop men took off the shock absorbers so they could fit batwings on it.”

Yvonne Craig as Batgirl, 1960s

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More on Yvonne’s extensive career at: TV.com!

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