Collection: TV Soap Star and Accomplished Director

Denise Alexander and Richard Colla Estate, Beverly Hills

Denise Alexander was born in New York City but grew up in Beverly Hills, on November 11, after her agent father, Alec Alexander, an agent who handled such notables Frank Gorshin  and Sal Mineo, decided to make the switch from the East to the West Coast. Alexander had appeared on TV and radio by the time she was a junior at University of California, Los Angeles.  She made her feature movie debut at age fourteen in the Don Siegel film Crime in the Streets, starring John Cassavetes. In 1962 Alexander appeared as Mildred Kroeger on the first season of the TV western The Virginian on the episode titled "Impasse."