Char "Kaci" Fontane (January 12, 1952 – April 1, 2007) was an American actress and singer. She was born Kerry Charae Fontane in

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, to singer

Tony Fontane Tony Fontane (born Anthony Trankina; September 18, 1925 – June 30, 1974) was an American recording artist in the 1940s and 1950s who gave up his career in popular music to become a gospel singer following a near-fatal car accident in 1957. His cl ...

and his wife, actress Kerry Vaughn Fontane. Early in her career, Fontane worked as an assistant to a disc jockey in Los Angeles. Her first role was portraying her father as a young boy in the 1963 production ''The Tony Fontane Story''. The movie told about her father's rise to popularity as a teen idol and his subsequent tragedies and successes. She also played herself as a child in the second half of the story. She made guest appearances on several popular TV shows during the 1970s, including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. One of her most memorable performances was as a prostitute in the 1978

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television miniseries, ''

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''. She starred in the 1983 TV movie '' The Night the Bridge Fell Down'', and had a small role in the 1989 action film ''

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''. She also appeared on

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in '' Grease'' and toured in a production of ''

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''. Fontane was married to musician

Roy Yeager Roy Yeager (born February 4, 1949) is an American musician and record producer. His musical career started off when he moved to Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 14. Yeager met Bobby Sowell in high school in 1964 and soon they were playing gig ...

, a drummer who worked with several successful recording artists, including the popular 1970s group Lobo and country superstar

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. He was also the drummer for the

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for several years. She had one child, Shaun Fontane, a son born to her and her first husband, Sergio Consani. In her later years, Fontane was an artist and interior designer. Char Fontane died at age 55 on April 1, 2007, in

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from

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