As per our current Database, Maura McGiveney has been died on 10 November, 1990 at Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
When Maura McGiveney die, Maura McGiveney was 51 years old.
| Popular As | Maura McGiveney |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 51 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | February 28, 1939 (Stockport, England, UK) |
| Birthday | February 28 |
| Town/City | Stockport, England, UK |
| Nationality | UK |
Maura McGiveney’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Maura McGiveney was born in the Year of the Rabbit. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rabbit enjoy being surrounded by family and friends. They’re popular, compassionate, sincere, and they like to avoid conflict and are sometimes seen as pushovers. Rabbits enjoy home and entertaining at home. Compatible with Goat or Pig.
Maura McGiveney was born Mary Alish McGiveney on February 28, 1939 in Stockport, England, the daughter of "quick change" actor Owen McGiveney and Elizabeth Hughes. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and first came to Hollywood to work in film, appearing in an uncredited role as an attendant in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959).
Primarily working in television, she was in several episodes of Perry Mason and Hawaii 5-0, and also appeared in Dr. Kildare, McHale's Navy, The Virginian, Laredo and My Three Sons.McGiveney earned a Golden Globe nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as Most Promising Newcomer of 1966 for her role as Claire Hackett in the farcical comedy Do Not Disturb, with Doris Day and Rod Taylor.
On stage, she appeared in Harvey, The Second City, and The Fantasticks, among other productions.Maura was a comedian and singer as well as an actress. In what she hoped to be her ticket to fame, she appeared in Turn-On, a projected series similar to the successful TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Turn-On's sole episode aired February 5, 1969, with the curvaceous McGiveney as "The Body Politic," a member of the repertory company. The rather sexually explicit themes, jokes and remarks led to ABC affiliates refusing to broadcast the second episode, and the sponsor Bristol-Myers immediately cancelled it, even though five shows were filmed and twenty-one more were planned.
Maura said, "I still can't understand it. We were all so sure it was going to be a big hit."On January 10, 1972, she married longtime on-and-off boyfriend William Szathmary, also known on television as Bill Dana, in Las Vegas, NV.
The couple were divorced four months later in Los Angeles.Maura McGiveney died of cirrhosis of the liver on November 10, 1990 in Sherman Oaks, CA. at the age of 51.
