Ronne Troup is an American

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and educator whose acting roles include Polly Williams Douglas on the

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My Three Sons ''My Three Sons'' is an American television sitcom that aired from September 29, 1960, to April 13, 1972. The series was broadcast on ABC during its first five seasons, before moving to CBS for the remaining seasons. ''My Three Sons'' chroni ...

''.

Biography

Troup is the daughter of musician/actor

Bobby Troup Robert William Troup Jr. (October 18, 1918 – February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. He wrote the song " Route 66" and acted in the role of Dr. Joe Early with his wife Julie London in the television progra ...

, and his first wife, Cynthia Hare, and the stepdaughter of actress/singer

Julie London Julie London (née Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her sultry, languid contralto vocals, London recorded over thirty album ...

. Ronne Troup attended

North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School (NHHS) is a public high school in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is located in the San Fernando Valley and enrolls approximately 2,500 students. Several neighborhoods, ...

. Ronne is a graduate of

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californi ...

, where she studied English and elementary education. She has been married three times. Troup's second marriage, to actor James Coleman (known for the 1975-76 television series ''

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''), produced daughters Bridget and Jamie. Troup's current husband is Bob Bayles. She has a sister, Cynnie (born 1943), a television script supervisor. For many years, Ronne taught elementary school in the Los Angeles area. She is now retired.

Career

In 1964, Troup was working as a television background extra appearing (uncredited) in some fourth season black-and-white episodes of ''

'' in classroom scenes featuring co-star Don Grady. She later worked as an uncredited extra in classroom scenes on ''

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'' (1965). She appeared, uncredited, as a teen party guest in the Bob Hope film " I'll Take Sweden" (1965). In 1966, she made her film debut as part of the all-girl ensemble in Columbia Films' '' The Trouble with Angels'' where she is prominent in the graduation scene. In December 1966 (at age 21), she was cast as Sister Bertrille and had begun filming the pilot for ''

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'' when she was dropped after the studio's first choice

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finally agreed to accept the role. In 1968, she played the role of Leslie Hayden in '' Danger Island'', the cliffhanger serial that was featured on the '' Banana Splits Adventure Hour'' children's program on Saturday mornings. She appeared on '' Family Affair'' in 1970 in the episode "Desert Isle: Manhattan Style". She was subsequently offered the role of Polly Williams Douglas, wife of Chip Douglas on ''

'', a role she played for two years (1970–72). In the Season 4 episode of ''

The Partridge Family ''The Partridge Family'' is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children, in a family who embarks on a music career. It ran from S ...

'' entitled "Hate Thy Neighbor" (1973), she appeared as Donna Stevens, the daughter of the new family who move next door to the Partridges. She then appeared often on popular dramas ''

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'' (in which her stepmother and father co-starred), '' Marcus Welby, M.D.'', ''

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'', ''

'' and ''

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'' (3/18/1975). From 1987 to 1990, she portrayed "Barbara" on the

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show ''

Knots Landing ''Knots Landing'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of ''Dallas'', it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially centered on the lives ...

''. In more recent years, Troup has appeared in guest roles on ''

Strong Medicine ''Strong Medicine'' is an American medical drama with a focus on feminist politics, health issues and class conflict that aired on the Lifetime network from 2000 to 2006. It was created and produced in part by Whoopi Goldberg, who made cameo ...

'', ''

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'' , and ''

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''. On June 19, 2010, Troup appeared with her ''My Three Sons'' co-stars at a 50th anniversary celebration of the classic series at the

Paley Center for Media The Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) and the Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, is an American cultural institution in New York with a branch office in Los Angeles, dedicated to t ...

in Beverly Hills.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Troup, Ronne Living people American film actresses American television actresses 20th-century American actresses People from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Actresses from Pennsylvania 21st-century American actresses North Hollywood High School alumni Year of birth missing (living people)