Biography

A very pretty blonde television actress of the 60s and 70s, usually seen in wholesome roles. The daughter of a marine engineer and a dance teacher, she graduated from Van Nuys High School and initially pursued a secretarial career. She came to acting by pure chance, 'discovered' by a talent scout while shopping at one of the (now long defunct) Joseph Hughes supermarkets in Los Angeles.

On screen from 1964, her film roles were largely inconsequential, with the sole exception of her scantily-clad seductress in the Matt Helm spoof The Ambushers (1967). The small screen saw her mostly cast as coeds, ingénues or assorted groovy chicks. Signed by Universal, Linda soon became dissatisfied with the roles on offer and asked to be released from her contract. She then turned freelance and was better served on TV, especially as co-star of Hank (1965), a short-lived sitcom on NBC, in which Linda played a university registrar's daughter and the titular character's romantic interest. After the show had run its course, she moved on to play the daughter of the town drunk in an episode of F Troop (1965) and enjoyed a rare pivotal guest role in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), assisting Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin in coming to grips with 'The Thor Affair'. She made repeat appearances in Bonanza (1959) and My Three Sons (1960) before calling it quits in 1984.

Linda Foster was married to Vince Edwards (TV's Ben Casey (1961)) from 1967 to 1974. Her second husband was the actor Edward Winter, best remembered as the paranoid, inept Colonel Flagg in the hit TV series M*A*S*H (1972).
- IMDb mini biography by: I.S.Mowis