She provided the recurring female computer voice in A Man Called Sloane (1979–80). In 1977, she played Belle on one episode of Man from Atlantis. Carey played the title role in the 1972 Gunsmoke episode 'Tara', appeared in the second The Six Million Dollar Man pilot film (1973), and co-starred with Angie Dickinson and Roy Thinnes in the Dan Curtis TV movie The Norliss Tapes that same year. (1964), Mission Impossible (1969), It Takes a Thief (1970), and three episodes of The Wild Wild West ('The Night of the Feathered Fury', 1967 and the two-part 'The Night of the Winged Terror', 1969), the December 1969 episode 'Tug-of-War' on The F.B.I., Starsky and Hutch, and Alias Smith and Jones. On television, she appeared in guest-starring roles on episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Carey went on to co-star in films such as the Elvis Presley vehicle Live a Little, Love a Little (1968), The Sweet Ride (1968), and Dirty Dingus Magee (1970), starring Frank Sinatra, in which she played an anachronistically miniskirted Indian girl. The following year, she did more television work, had a small part in the classic beach party film How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), and acted in her first major film, the 1966 Western El Dorado, produced and directed by Howard Hawks, as high-spirited troublemaker Josephine 'Joey' MacDonald, acting alongside John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan. In 1964, she made her first television appearance on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Aided by her beauty and trademark long, wild hair, she soon caught the eye of Hollywood producers. She enjoyed success as a model, but she was more interested in acting. Career Īfter graduating from high school, she was signed by the John Robert Powers Agency and moved to Los Angeles in 1964 with her son to pursue a modeling career. She graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1960. Ĭarey's family eventually moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, where her father practiced as a physician, becoming Fort Collins' first open-heart surgeon. Carey was a piano prodigy who won a national contest at the Chicago Music Festival at age 13, and performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. The family soon moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where her father continued his medical studies. She appeared in movies and guest-starred in television series in the 1960s and 1970s.Ĭarey was born on February 26, 1942, in Annapolis, Maryland, to Stanley Willard Henson, Jr., and Thelma Burnell Henson her father was working as a wrestling instructor at the U.S. Michele Carey (born Michele Lee Henson Febru– November 21, 2018) was an American actress who was best known for her role as Josephine 'Joey' MacDonald in the 1966 Western film El Dorado.

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