Diane McBain, an actress best known for co-starring with Elvis Presley in the 1966 movie Spinout and for playing the lead in the ABC series Surfside 6, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 81 after a battle with liver cancer.
Her close friend Michael Gregg Michaud made the announcement that McBain had passed away at the Woodland Hills, California facility for the motion picture and television industry.
According to Michaud, who co-wrote McBain’s 2014 autobiography Famous Enough, “It is with great regret that I announce that Diane McBain lost her battle with liver cancer and passed away on December 21, 2022,” according to Deadline.
Prior to signing a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. Studios when she turned 18 in 1959, McBain worked as a model, according to Michaud.
In 1959, she had her television debut on the ABC series Maverick opposite James Garner, and in 1960, she made her debut on the ABC crime drama Surfside 6 as Daphne Dutton.
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On the morning of December 21, 2022, McBain, a longtime resident of the Motion Picture Country Home in Los Angeles, California, passed away from liver cancer. She was 81.
