Sources differ as to whether Maggie Blye was born in 1939 or 1942. Experience suggests that when an actress fudges her age, the truth is probably the older one, and quite honestly this isn't the sort of blog that prioritizes nailing such things down. To what end? I don't care. I'm not even sure how she got on my radar, although I love that her name lands as a mash-up of Maggie Cline and Nelly Bly. I think I just liked her name.
And I've seen her in several films that I have written about here. She was never a top star, but had pretty good success. At her peak she tended to hover around fourth in the billing. Her better known films include Hombre (1967), Waterhole No. 3 (1967), the original version of The Italian Job (1969), Ash Wednesday (1973), Hard Times (1975), Mayday at 40,000 Feet (1976), Walking Tall: Final Chapter (1977), and Little Darlings (1980, in which she played Kristy McNichols' mom). Lesser known films, in which she tended to have slightly bigger roles, include Diamond for Breakfast (1968) with Marcello Mastroianni, The Sporting Club (1971), and Every Crook and Nanny (1972).
Blye was a regular on the short-lived show Kodiak (1974-75) with Clint Walker, and was also seen on such shows as Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, The Rockford Files, Harry O, and In the Heat of the Night, and in TV movies like Undercover with the KKK (1979) and LBJ: The Early Years (1987).
Originally from Houston, Blye attended the University of Texas, then transferred to UCLA, where she got involved in theatricals. Her last credit was in 2010. Cancer took her in 2016.
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