Gail Fisher

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Gail Fisher

Born 18 August 1935(1935-08-18)
Orange, New Jersey, USA
Died 2 December 2000 (aged 65)
Culver City, California, USA

Gail Fisher (August 18, 1935 - December 2, 2000) was a Golden Globe Award- and Emmy Award-winning American actress, best known for her role as secretary "Peggy Fair" on the television detective series Mannix, which she played from 1968 through 1975.

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Fisher landed her first television appearance at age 25 in the 1960 syndicated program, Play of the Week. Thereafter, her television work was sparse until the late 1960s. She made her first appearance in Mannix during the second season, when Mannix left the detective firm Intertect and set up shop as a private investigator.

In 1968, while a regular on Mannix, she also made appearances on My Three Sons, Love, American Style and Room 222.

In 1970, Fisher was honored for her work on this series with an Emmy Award for outstanding performance by an actress in a dramatic supporting role. (She beat out Susan Saint James in The Name of the Game and Barbara Anderson in Ironside). In addition to this honor, Fisher was well regarded as a role model, having served (along with Diahann Carroll in 1968's Julia and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek) as one of the first African-American women to find substantive work in television.

After the 1975 cancellation of Mannix, her television appearances were few; most notably, she guest-starred in a 1980 episode of The White Shadow.

She was the lyricist for The Buckinghams' hit song, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy."

She was twice married, with 2 children from her first marriage.

She died of renal failure and emphysema brought on by heavy smoking in 2000, aged 65.

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[edit] Awards and nominations

Year Result Award Category Television series
1970 Won Emmy Awards Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama Mannix
1971 Nominated Emmy Awards Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama Mannix
1972 Nominated Emmy Awards Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama Mannix
1973 Nominated Emmy Awards Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama Mannix
1971 Won Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress - Television Mannix
1972 Nominated Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress - Television Mannix
1973 Won Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress - Television Mannix
1974 Nominated Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress - Television Mannix

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series

Barbara Hale (1959) · Pamela Brown (1962) · Glenda Farrell (1963) · Ruth White (1964) · Lee Grant (1966) · Agnes Moorehead (1967) · Barbara Anderson (1968) · Susan Saint James (1969) · Gail Fisher (1970) · Margaret Leighton (1971) · Jenny Agutter (1972) · Ellen Corby (1973) · Joanna Miles (1974) · Ellen Corby (1975)
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NAME Fisher, Gail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange, New Jersey, United States
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 2000
PLACE OF DEATH Culver City, California, United States