Actress, author, producer, and Photoplay's "Most Popular Actress of 1961," the daughter of Ice Capades skating stars and choreographers Nathan and Edith Walley. She was skating with her parents at age three, but resisted her father's urging to continue, opting to study acting at the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her stage debut was at 14, in a summer-stock production of "Charley's Aunt". When she moved to Arizona to raise her three sons, she co-founded two children's theater companies (Pied Piper Productions and Sedona Children's Theater), introducing live theater and teaching acting to disadvantaged children. She also founded the Swiftwind Theater Company, writing film scripts and training American Indian actors and production-crew members. Her 1990 short film Legend of 'Seeks-To-Hunt-Great' (1989), starring Michael Horse, was awarded the National Cine Golden Eagle, the Oklahoma Tribal Council Award for best fiction film, the 1991 Algrave (Portugal) International Video Festival best-of-festival award, and the American Indian Film Festival's best short-subject award. She incorporated the story line -- an Indian boy's appreciation of nature while following a mountain lion -- into her 1993 children's book "Grandfather's Good Medicine." Deborah Walley also wrote scripts for her own production companies, for other children's films, and for Disney Animation, for which she supplied cartoon voice-overs.
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The Mothers-In-Law (1967)
Starring as Suzie Hubbard Buell
(56 episodes)
- Episode 2x26: The Not-So-Grand Opera (Apr 13, 1969)
- Episode 2x25: The Charge of the Wife Brigade (Apr 6, 1969)
- Episode 2x24: Show Business is No Business (Mar 30, 1969)
- Episode 2x23: Take Her, He's Mine (Mar 23, 1969)
- Episode 2x22: Two on the Aisle (Mar 16, 1969)
- Episode 2x21: Every In-Law Wants to Get Into the Act (Mar 2, 1969)
- Episode 2x20: Guess Who's Coming Forever? (Feb 23, 1969)
- Episode 2x19: Void Where Prohibited by In-Laws (Feb 9, 1969)
- Episode 2x18: Double Trouble in the Nursery (Feb 2, 1969)
- Episode 2x17: Nanny Go Home (Jan 26, 1969)
- Episode 2x16: And Baby Makes Four (Jan 19, 1969)
- Episode 2x15: Haven't You Had That Baby Yet? (Jan 12, 1969)
- Episode 2x14: Make Room for Baby (Jan 5, 1969)
- Episode 2x13: Didn't You Use to Be Ozzie Snick? (Dec 22, 1968)
- Episode 2x12: Hail, Hail, the Gang's Still Here (Dec 15, 1968)
- Episode 2x11: Nome, Schnome, I'd Rather Have It at Home (Dec 8, 1968)
- Episode 2x10: The Birth of Everything but the Blues (Dec 1, 1968)
- Episode 2x09: The First Anniversary is the Hardest (Nov 24, 1968)
- Episode 2x08: It's a Dog's Life (Nov 10, 1968)
- Episode 2x07: The Matador Makes a Movie (Oct 27, 1968)
- Episode 2x06: Even Mothers-in-Law Have Mothers-in-Law (Oct 20, 1968)
- Episode 2x05: I Didn't Raise Myself to Be a Grandmother (Oct 13, 1968)
- Episode 2x04: Love Thy Neighbor, If You Can't Get Him to Move (Oct 6, 1968)
- Episode 2x03: A Little Pregnancy Goes a Long Way (Sep 29, 1968)
- Episode 2x02: The Match Game (Sep 22, 1968)
- Episode 2x01: Here Comes the Bride, Again (Sep 15, 1968)
- Episode 1x30: How Not to Manage a Rock Group (Apr 28, 1968)
- Episode 1x29: Jealousy Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (Apr 7, 1968)
- Episode 1x28: The Long, Long Weekend (Mar 31, 1968)
- Episode 1x27: Jerry's Night Out with the Boys (Mar 24, 1968)
- Episode 1x26: I Haven't Got a Secret (Mar 17, 1968)
- Episode 1x25: It's Only Money (Mar 10, 1968)
- Episode 1x24: The Wig Story (Mar 3, 1968)
- Episode 1x23: Bye, Bye Blackmailer (Feb 25, 1968)
- Episode 1x22: Herb's Little Helpers (Feb 11, 1968)
- Episode 1x21: I'd Tell You I Love You, But We're Not Speaking (Feb 4, 1968)
- Episode 1x20: Don't Give Up the Sloop (Jan 28, 1968)
- Episode 1x19: The Hombre Who Came to Dinner (Part 2) (Jan 21, 1968)
- Episode 1x18: The Hombre Who Came to Dinner (Part 1) (Jan 14, 1968)
- Episode 1x17: The Kids Move Out (Jan 7, 1968)
- Episode 1x16: Everybody Wants to Be a Writer (Dec 31, 1967)
- Episode 1x15: You Challenge Me to a What? (Dec 17, 1967)
- Episode 1x14: The Not Cold Enough War (Dec 10, 1967)
- Episode 1x13: Divorce-Mother-In-Law Style (Dec 3, 1967)
- Episode 1x12: Through The Lurking Glass (Nov 26, 1967)
- Episode 1x11: The Great Bicycle Race (Nov 19, 1967)
- Episode 1x10: I Thought He'd Never Leave (Nov 12, 1967)
- Episode 1x09: How Do You Moonlight a Meatball? (Nov 5, 1967)
- Episode 1x08: My Son, the Actor (Oct 29, 1967)
- Episode 1x07: Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? (Oct 22, 1967)
- Episode 1x06: The Career Girls (Oct 15, 1967)
- Episode 1x05: The Newlyweds Move In (Oct 8, 1967)
- Episode 1x04: A Night to Forget (Oct 1, 1967)
- Episode 1x03: All Fall Down (Sep 24, 1967)
- Episode 1x02: Everybody Goes on a Honeymoon (Sep 17, 1967)
- Episode 1x01: On Again, Off Again, Lohengrin (Sep 10, 1967)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1963)
Guest starring as Anne
- Episode 1x28: This Train Don't Stop Till It Gets There (Apr 14, 1964)