Maureen Hingert Dies: ‘Gunmen From Laredo', ‘The King And I' Actor Was 88
Her death was announced on Facebook July 1 by Sri Lankan actress and Angela Seneviratne.
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Maureen Neliya Ballard was born on January 9, 1937, in Columbo, Ceylon, to Bank of Ceylon president Lionel Hingert and Lorna Mabel del Run. In 1955, at the age of 18, she was crowned Miss Ceylon and that same year was selected as a Miss Universe contestant (she finished as second runner-up).
She subsequently moved to Los Angeles and in the mid-1950s had several small, uncredited roles in films, the most notable of which was 1956's The King and I. In 1958, sometimes under her stage name Jana Davi, she appeared in the films Gun Fever, The Rawhide Trail and Fort Bowie and an episode of Death Valley Days.
The following year she starred in the Western film Gunmen From Laredo and an episode of the short-lived series Captain David Grief, based on Jack London stories, before retiring to raise a family. She is survived by a daughter.
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