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Citizenship
  
Parents
  
Judith Loring

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Lisa Loring

Occupation
  
Actress


Lisa Loring looking surprised with her braided hair as Wednesday on the 1964 TV series "The Addams Family"

Full Name
  
Lisa Ann DeCinces

Born
  
February 16, 1958 (
1958-02-16
)

Movies and TV shows
  
The Addams Family, Halloween with the New Addams Family

Spouse
  
Graham Ritch (m. 2003), Jerry Butler (m. 1987–1992)

Children
  
Vanessa Loring, Marianne Loring

Similar People
  
Ted Cassidy, Ken Weatherwax, Christina Ricci, Carolyn Jones, John Astin

Died
  
January 28, 2023 (aged 64) Burbank, California, U.S.

Lisa Loring (February 16, 1958 – January 28, 2023) was an American actress. She was best known for having played Wednesday Addams on the 1964–66 sitcom The Addams Family.

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Lisa Loring posing in a fierce look with her wavy hair down

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The Life and Sad Ending of Lisa Loring


Early life

Lisa Loring smiling in a black lace dress

Her parents both served in the United States Navy, but divorced shortly after her birth. She grew up in Hawaii and later moved to Los Angeles with her mother. She began modeling at age three and appeared in an episode of Dr. Kildare which aired in 1964. Her mother died of alcoholism in 1974 at age 34.

Lisa Loring smiling with crossed arms and wavy hair while wearing a white sleeve blouse

She joined the cast of ABC sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton in 1966. After her childhood career, she also was a cast member of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns from 1980 to 1983, where she created the role of Cricket Montgomery.

Personal life

Loring married her childhood sweetheart, Farrell Foumberg, in 1973, and had a daughter at the age of 16. The marriage ended a year later in 1974. Loring married her second husband, actor Doug Stevenson, in 1981. He was a contract performer on another CBS/Procter and Gamble soap opera Search for Tomorrow, with whom she had a second daughter. Their marriage ended in 1983.

Lisa Loring smiling during an interview and wearing a blue blouse

She appeared in the slasher film Blood Frenzy (1987).

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In 1987, Loring married pornographic actor Jerry Butler. They met on the set of the 1987 adult film, Traci's Big Trick, on which Loring worked as a make-up artist. In the ensuing years of their marriage, she voiced her dissatisfaction with Butler's continued involvement in pornography, and eventually Butler began secretly participating in porn shoots without her knowledge. In an interview with Dateline NBC in the 1990s, Butler described himself as "addicted to the lifestyle", ashamed of his clandestine behavior and its effect on his marriage. The couple later appeared on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show, again discussing the damage Butler's porn career was causing to their marriage. Butler and Loring divorced in 1992, which was also the year he began to drop out of the hardcore industry, and evidently by choice virtually disappeared from the public eye for many years. Loring's fourth marriage was in 2003 to Graham Rich. The couple separated in 2008, and as of June 2014 were in the process of a divorce.

Lisa Loring smiling and wearing a floral blouse

Loring had a heroin addiction in her thirties, getting clean in 1992. She returned to acting in 2011.

Death

Loring had a stroke caused by smoking and hypertension, and died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, on January 28, 2023, at age 64.

Filmography

Actress
2015
Doctor Spine as
Miss Rhonda
2014
Way Down in Chinatown as
Vera
1992
Layin' Down the Law (Video) as
Hooker (non-sex role)
1989
Iced as
Jeanette
1987
Savage Harbor as
Roxey
1987
Blood Frenzy as
Dory
1980
As the World Turns (TV Series) as
Cricket Montgomery
- Episode dated 28 October 1983 (1983) - Cricket Montgomery
- Into the Ring (1983) - Cricket Montgomery
- Episode dated 23 February 1982 (1982) - Cricket Montgomery
- Episode #1.6672 (1982) - Cricket Montgomery
- Episode dated 14 May 1981 (1981) - Cricket Montgomery (credit only)
- Episode #1.6299 (1980) - Cricket Montgomery
- Episode #1.6298 (1980) - Cricket Montgomery
1981
Gabe and Walker (TV Movie) as
Sexy Girl
1978
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) as
Amanda Adamson / Lois
- Indoctrination in Evil (1979) - Amanda Adamson
- Memory of a Nightmare (1978) - Lois
1978
Fantasy Island (TV Series) as
Maria
- The Flight of the Great Yellow Bird/The Island of Lost Women (1978) - Maria
1978
Annie Flynn (TV Movie) as
Sherry
1977
Halloween with the New Addams Family (TV Movie) as
Wednesday Sr
1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) as
Felicia
- The Montori Device Affair (1966) - Felicia
1966
The Phyllis Diller Show (TV Series) as
Susan "Suzy" Pruitt
1964
The Addams Family (TV Series) as
Wednesday Addams
- Ophelia's Career (1966) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Lurch's Grand Romance (1966) - Wednesday Addams
- The Addams Policy (1966) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Lurch's Little Helper (1966) - Wednesday Addams
- Cat Addams (1966) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Addams Cum Laude (1966) - Wednesday Addams
- Ophelia Visits Morticia (1966) - Wednesday Addams
- Morticia, the Decorator (1966) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump (1966) - Wednesday Addams
- Pugsley's Allowance (1966) - Wednesday Addams
- Ophelia Finds Romance (1966) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- The Great Treasure Hunt (1966) - Wednesday Addams
- Fester Goes on a Diet (1966) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama (1966) - Wednesday Addams
- Uncle Fester, Tycoon (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Christmas with the Addams Family (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Morticia's Dilemma (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Portrait of Gomez (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Gomez, the Cat Burglar (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Feud in the Addams Family (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Gomez, the Reluctant Lover (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Morticia, the Sculptress (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Morticia, the Writer (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Halloween - Addams Style (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Cousin Itt's Problem (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Gomez, the People's Choice (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Morticia Meets Royalty (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Morticia's Romance: Part 2 (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Morticia's Romance: Part 1 (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- My Fair Cousin Itt (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- The Winning of Morticia Addams (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Lurch, the Teenage Idol (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Uncle Fester's Toupee (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Progress and the Addams Family (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Morticia's Favorite Charity (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- My Son, the Chimp (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- The Addams Family and the Spaceman (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Morticia, the Breadwinner (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Lurch and His Harpsichord (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Crisis in the Addams Family (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Thing Is Missing (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Amnesia in the Addams Family (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- The Addams Family in Court (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- The Addams Family Splurges (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Uncle Fester's Illness (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man (1965) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik (1965) - Wednesday Addams
- Art and the Addams Family (1964) - Wednesday Addams
- Lurch Learns to Dance (1964) - Wednesday Addams
- Morticia, the Matchmaker (1964) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- The Addams Family Meet the VIPs (1964) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Wednesday Leaves Home (1964) - Wednesday Addams
- The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family (1964) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Green-Eyed Gomez (1964) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Halloween with the Addams Family (1964) - Wednesday Addams
- Morticia Joins the Ladies League (1964) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- The Addams Family Tree (1964) - Wednesday Addams
- Gomez, the Politician (1964) - Wednesday Addams (credit only)
- Fester's Punctured Romance (1964) - Wednesday Addams
- Morticia and the Psychiatrist (1964) - Wednesday Addams
- The Addams Family Goes to School (1964) - Wednesday Addams
1964
Dr. Kildare (TV Series) as
Cindy Norcross
- Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House (1964) - Cindy Norcross
Make Up Department
1989
Blowing in Style (Video) (makeup artist - as Maxine Factor)
1986
Traci's Big Trick (make-up & hair - as Maxine Factor)
1985
Bi-Coastal (makeup artist - as Maxine Factor)
Writer
1986
Traci's Big Trick (contributing writer - uncredited)
Soundtrack
1965
The Addams Family (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Christmas with the Addams Family (1965) - (performer: "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" - uncredited)
- Lurch, the Teenage Idol (1965) - (performer: "There's No Place Like Home (Home, Sweet Home)")
Miscellaneous
1986
Traci's Big Trick (production assistant - uncredited)
Self
2016
Scream Queen Stream (TV Series) as
Self
- "Big Scares, Indie Budgets" Panel at Long Beach Comic Con (2016) - Self
2014
The Dr. Susan Block Show (TV Series) as
Self
- The Hollywood Show: Love Among the Legends (2014) - Self
2009
The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 17 November 2009 (2009) - Self
2008
On the Edge of Black and White (Documentary) as
Self
2006
The 100 Greatest TV Quotes & Catchphrases (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- 20-1 (2006) - Self
- 40-21 (2006) - Self
- 60-41 (2006) - Self
- 80-61 (2006) - Self
- 100-81 (2006) - Self
2006
Good Morning America (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 31 October 2006 (2006) - Self
2004
TV Land's Top Ten (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Greatest TV Romances (2005) - Self
- Wacky Neighbors (2005) - Self
- Top 10 TV Dads (2004) - Self
2004
Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes as
Self
2004
The 2nd Annual TV Land Awards (TV Special) as
Self
2003
Child Stars: Then and Now (TV Special documentary) as
Self
2002
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Carolyn Jones: Morticia and More (2002) - Self
1995
Howard Stern (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 10 May 1995 (1995) - Self
Archive Footage
2023
Good Morning America (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 30 January 2023 (2023) - Self
2023
Inside Edition (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Chocolate Explodes in Teen's Face (2023) - Self
2014
The Sixties (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Wednesday Addams
- When Television Came of Age (2014) - Wednesday Addams (uncredited)

References

Lisa Loring Wikipedia


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