Joyce Ingalls

Joyce Ingalls

Date of Passing: August 05, 2015
Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina

Joyce Ingalls was a former model and actress and the wife of Emmy-nominated producer Darrell Fetty, who earned his nom in 2012 for the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys.

Ingalls was best known for her role in Sylvester Stallone's 1978 film Paradise Alley, the story of a wrestler and his two brothers who try to help further his career. Ingalls played Bunchie, a prostitute with a heart of gold who comforts Stallone's character, Cosmo Carboni. She also appeared in the films The Man Who Would Not Die, Deadly Force and Lethal Weapon 4.

Additionally, she appeared on a 1979 episode of Starsky & Hutch as Kira, an undercover policewoman the detectives compete over, which interferes with their job of finding a dance-hall killer.

Joyce Ingalls was a former model and actress and the wife of Emmy-nominated producer Darrell Fetty, who earned his nom in 2012 for the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys.

Ingalls was best known for her role in Sylvester Stallone's 1978 film Paradise Alley, the story of a wrestler and his two brothers who try to help further his career. Ingalls played Bunchie, a prostitute with a heart of gold who comforts Stallone's character, Cosmo Carboni. She also appeared in the films The Man Who Would Not Die, Deadly Force and Lethal Weapon 4.

Additionally, she appeared on a 1979 episode of Starsky & Hutch as Kira, an undercover policewoman the detectives compete over, which interferes with their job of finding a dance-hall killer.

Ingalls got her start in modeling, when she won a Cover Girl contest in 1966. She became a model for the Eileen Ford Agency and appeared in magazines such as Vogue, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan and Life. She also appeared in ads for Yardley, Breck shampoo, Clairol hair products and Black Velvet whiskey.

Ingalls died August 5, 2015, in Burbank, California. She was 65.

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