Andrea Darvi (born July 29, 1952, as Andrea Margolis), now known as Andrea Plate, is a social worker and author and a former child actress mainly in American television in the 1960s.
Her TV roles were nearly all in mainstream productions. A popular choice in casting, she was a familiar face on American television. Her career peaked in 1964 when she was 12 years old.
Acting career
The daughter of Samuel and Evelyn Margolis, she had her acting debut in the 1960 ''
The Twilight Zone'' episode, "
Dust". She appeared again in the 1961 episode "Night of the Meek". She then appeared in episodes of ''
87th Precinct'', ''
Peter Gunn'' and ''
The Untouchables'', returning to the latter in another episode in 1962, followed by episodes of ''
Bonanza
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'', ''
Pete and Gladys
''Pete and Gladys'' is an American sitcom television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was b ...
'', ''
Hawaiian Eye
''Hawaiian Eye'' is an American detective television series that ran from October 1959 to April 1963 on the ABC television network.
Premise
Private investigator Tracy Steele (Anthony Eisley) and his half-Hawaiian partner, Tom Lopaka (Robert Con ...
'' and ''
Adventures in Paradise''.
In 1963 she appeared on ''
The Danny Thomas Show'' and starred in an episode of ''
Death Valley Days'' alongside Gilbert Roland. In 1964 she appeared as “Amity”, the title character in the S9E27 offering “Owney Tupper Had A Daughter” on ''
Gunsmoke
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''. She appeared as Nezhmet in a 1966 episode of ''
I Spy''. She appeared in 4 episodes of the TV series ''
Combat!'', including one 1966 episode named after her character "Gitty". She appeared in the Disney movie ''Monkeys Go Home'' and as Greti Koska in
Alfred Hitchcock
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's ''
Torn Curtain'' in 1966. Once a teen, she essentially outgrew her career as a "child" actress but made one final appearance in 1971 in ''
The Night God Screamed''.
Education
She holds three academic degrees: B.A. in English, UC Berkeley; MA in Journalism, USC; and MSW (Master of Social Work), UCLA.
Family
In 1979 she married veteran journalist
Tom Plate, who later became a professor at
UCLA and Loyola Marymount University). Tom Plate died in May of 2023, after 43 years of marriage. They have one child and two grandchildren.
Post-acting career/published works
Darvi, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California, worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs for nearly 15 years (2003–17).
She is a published author: In 2019, she authored the internationally published ''Madness: In the Trenches of America's Troubled Department of Veterans Affairs'' (Marshall Cavendish Intl.)
[Plate, Andrea, Madness (2019); ]
She currently teaches in the Sociology Department of Loyola Marymount University and is a Board Member of US Vets Initiative, America's largest nonprofit serving homeless veterans.
References
External links
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Madness by Andrea Plate
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1952 births
Actresses from Los Angeles
21st-century American women
Living people