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Gail Fisher (August 18, 1935 – December 2, 2000) was an American actress who was one of the first black women to play substantive roles in American television. She was best known for playing the role of secretary Peggy Fair on the television detective series Mannix from 1968 through 1975, a role for which she won two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award; she was the first African-American ...
Oct 24, 2021 · Gail Fisher may have been one of the first Black women to play substantial roles in American TV, but she battled demons, faced the law, and died earlier than expected.
Gail Fisher. Actress: Mannix. A classy, smart-looking African-American actress who broke racial barriers in 1970s Hollywood but suffered greatly in her private life years after her TV glory days, award-winning actress Gail Fisher was born on August 18, 1935, in Orange, New Jersey, the youngest of five children. Her father, a carpenter, died when she was only two years old and the family was ...
Feb 20, 2001 · Gail Fisher, who won an Emmy Award in 1970 for her portrayal of Peggy Fair, secretary to the gumshoe played by Mike Connors on the CBS television series ''Mannix,'' died on Dec. 2 at a hospital in ...
Feb 18, 2001 · Gail Fisher, who won an Emmy Award in 1970 for her portrayal of Peggy Fair, secretary to the gumshoe played by Mike Connors on the CBS television series "Mannix," died on Dec. 2 at a hospital in ...
Jun 19, 2022 · Why Gail Fisher is not more widely celebrated in the annals of Hollywood history is a mystery not even Joe Mannix could solve. Fisher was only the third Black actress to appear in a prominent ...
Feb 20, 2001 · Gail Fisher, who won an Emmy award in 1970 for her portrayal of Peggy Fair, secretary to the gumshoe played by Mike Connors on the CBS television series "Mannix," died on Dec. 2 at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 65.
Feb 23, 2001 · Gail Fisher, who won an Emmy for her role on the 1970s television series “Mannix,” has died. Fisher died of kidney failure Dec. 2 at a hospital in Los Angeles.
Feb 28, 2001 · Actress Gail Fisher, one of the first black actresses with a regular prominent role in primetime American TV, died Dec. 2 of kidney failure at a hospital in Los Angeles.
Mar 31, 2014 · Gail Fisher was already a popular model in African American newspapers and magazines, as well as a theater actress when, in the late 1950s, she starred in The New Girl in the Office, a film about integrating a hitherto all-white office staff of a white-owned company.The film was inspired by new federal equal employment policies under President Dwight Eisenhower’s President’s Committee on ...
