Pat Barrington (born Patricia Annette Bray, October 16, 1939September 1, 2014) was a dancer and actress who appeared in the films ''

Orgy of the Dead ''Orgy of the Dead'' is a 1965 erotic horror film directed by Stephen C. Apostolof (under the alias A. C. Stephen). The screenplay was written by cult film director Edward D. Wood Jr., who adapted the screenplay into a novel. Genre The film b ...

'' credited as Pat Berringer (1965, dir Stephen C. Apostolof, writer

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), '' The Agony of Love'' (1966, Harry Novak) and ''

Mondo Topless ''Mondo Topless'' is a 1966 pseudo-documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland among others. It was Meyer's first color film following a string of black and white " roughie nudies", including ''Faster, Pussycat! ...

'' (1966, directed by

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). She had several husbands, including Robert Caramico, the director of cinematography on

; in between she lived with jazz musician Melvin Rees in 1960 when he was arrested for mass murder—and later for serial murder—in West Memphis, AR. They met in D.C. when she was stripping as Vivian Storm—a job secured for her by a mobster—and lived together there in 1959 before venturing further south. She stripped until the early 1990s, then became a

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, and supported animal rescue groups. Barrington died from lung cancer at age 74 on September 1, 2014.

Selected filmography

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* 1941 births 2014 deaths 20th-century American actresses Deaths from lung cancer in Florida 21st-century American women {{US-film-actor-1940s-stub