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Tallie Cochrane was a fiery, pretty, and extremely talented frizzy-haired brunette who usually portrayed hard-bitten tough cookie types in a handful of sleazy softcore pictures and entertainingly trashy drive-in exploitation features made throughout the 1970s.

She was born Lillian Rose Cochrane on October 7, 1944 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tallie grew up in Alabama. Her father was a doctor and administrator of the county hospital in Greensboro, Alabama while her mother was a Southern blueblood. Moreover, she studied dance for about eleven years and taught dancing with her teacher for three years. Cochrane began acting at age four in stage plays at the University of Alabama and continued to appear in stage productions until she was 16. Tallie moved to Hollywood at age 24 and began acting in films in the late 1960s. Cochrane's most memorable movie roles include crazed Mansonesque flower child cult member Ruth in The Love-Thrill Murders (1971), ruthless lesbian convict Kat in Five Loose Women (1974), an ill-fated hitchhiker in Al Adamson's Girls for Rent (1974), mean hippie chick Donna in The Centerfold Girls (1974), a brutalized hooker in Matt Cimber's sensationally scuzzy blaxploitation blast The Candy Tangerine Man (1975) and Jane in the bawdy comedic romp Tarz and Jane and Cheeta (1975). Tallie frequently worked with her actor husband Patrick Wright in such films as Changes (1970), Only in My Dreams (1970), Sassy Sue (1973), Tanya (1976), The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1976), If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind!!! (1975), Dan's Motel (1982), Frightmare (1983) and Emanon (1987). Moreover, Cochrane not only was the associate producer of the raunchy teen sex comedy hoot Hollywood High (1976) but also handled make-up chores on Eroticon (1971), The Cheerleaders (1973), "Sassy Sue", Track of the Moon Beast (1976) and Falling in Love Again (1980). In addition to her film work, Tallie also did voice-overs and TV commercials.

She died at age 66 on May 21, 2011 in Panama City, Florida.

Tallie Cochrane and Margie Lanier in Five Loose Women (1974)

Met her first husband <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0942698/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Patrick Wright</a> on the set of the first film she acted in.

Graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuschaloosa in 1967.

Graduated from Paul W. Bryant High School in Alabama in 1963.

Was the mother of two children: daughter Mary Parker and son J. Norman Sherer.

As of December 2009 was living in Panama City, FL.

Lived in Italy for a year and a half in the late 1960s. While there she worked for the English Language Dubbing Association dubbing movies of all languages into English.

Ran a casting agency for the adult film industry in New York City in the early 1970s.

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