Lisa Gaye

Who is Lisa Gaye?

Lisa Gaye is an American retired actress, singer, and dancer.

She was born Leslie Gaye Griffin in Denver, Colorado. Her family moved from Denver to Los Angeles, California, in the 1930s to be close to the developing film industry. Her mother, actress Margaret Griffin, was determined that Gaye and her siblings make their careers in show business. Gaye's sisters Judith and Debralee, and her brother Frank all entered the business as either cast or crew.

She made her first professional appearance at the age of seven. She began acting career in 1954 and was a popular leading lady during the 1950s and 1960s, having made eighty-three film and television appearances before retiring in 1970 to raise a family. She was a talented dancer, as demonstrated in the rock-and-roll tribute movie, "Rock Around the Clock.". Among her television appearances were five episodes each of the ABC/Warner Brothers detective series, Hawaiian Eye and 77 Sunset Strip, two episodes of another ABC-WB series, Bourbon Street Beat, seven episodes of CBS's Perry Mason, and eleven episodes of the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days. She appearance in one episode from Zorro in the 1957. She made a single appearance in the 1959 episode "The Peace Offering" of the syndicated western series, Pony Express, starring Grant Sullivan. Among her seven appearances on Perry Mason, Gaye played Rita Magovern who Mason exposed as the murderer of her husband Karl in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Traveling Treasure." She also appeared in several episodes of Bat Masterson. In two 1959 episodes; in "Sharpshooter", she played Laurie LaRue, the stage assistant and wife of stage sharpshooter, Danny Dowling. She also appeared in the 1959 episode"Buffalo Kill" as Susan. In the 1961 episode of Bat Masterson, "The Fatal Garment", she portrayed Elena, a Mexican Cantina owner.