Harlee McBride

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Harlee McBride
Born (1948-11-20) November 20, 1948 (age 74)
OccupationActress
Years active1976–1999
Spouses
  • Garth Benton
(m. 1985;died 2023)
Children2

Harlee McBride (born November 20, 1948) is a retired American actress. She is best known for the role of Cynthia Chatterley in Young Lady Chatterley and Young Lady Chatterley II , and as Dr. Alyssa Dyer on Homicide: Life on the Street .

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Personal life

She married actor Richard Belzer in 1985. They met in Los Angeles in 1981, when she was 33 and divorced (from actor Garth Benton), [1] with two daughters, Bree and Jessica. [1] McBride, who had been seen in Playboy magazine four years earlier as part of that year's sex-in-cinema feature, in conjunction with Young Lady Chatterley, [2] was appearing in TV commercials for the auto maker Ford and acting in free theater, when she met Belzer at the suggestion of a friend. [1] During the 1980s, she worked as a secretary at Disneyland. [1]

On October 12, 2014, McBride was disruptive on an Air France flight from New York to Paris. She was yelling and threw a tray of food. She was handcuffed to her seat by cabin crew. The pilots made an emergency landing in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, where she spent two nights in a local jail cell until her CAD$10,000 bail was posted. [3] In May 2016, a Gander judge ordered McBride to pay $26,433 in restitution and $10,000. [4]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1977 Young Lady Chatterley Cynthia Chatterley
1978 House Calls Nurse
1985 Young Lady Chatterley II Cynthia Chatterley

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1976 Switch SharonEpisode: "Pirates of Tin Pan Alley"
1976 Most Wanted LilaEpisode: "The Two Dollar Kidnappers"
1976 Raid on Entebbe Air France StewardessTelevision film
1978Three on a DateModel #1Television film
1978Danny and the MermaidAquaTelevision film
1978 The Rockford Files MonicaEpisode: "Local Man Eaten by Newspaper"
1979 Institute for Revenge I. F. R. Female MemberTelevision film
1983Likely Stories Vol. 3HoneyTelevision film
1987Richard Belzer: Another Lone NutMarilyn MonroeTelevision film
1994 – 1999 Homicide: Life on the Street Dr. Alyssa Dyer22 Episodes

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