Information and advice to help you cope with the death of someone important to you. She suffers a seizure while surfing and drowns. God is a God of all Comfort and he will Comfort the family's..My heartfelt condolences to the family's, May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow, I so enjoyed her movies Where the boys are my favorite. Mimieux was unhappy with the roles she was being offered They have no complexity in their lives. [6] Her first acting appearances were in episodes of the television shows Yancy Derringer and One Step Beyond, both in 1959, at the age of 17. Yvette Mimieux was found dead Tuesday morning, a rep for her family confirmed. At age 17, she wed Evan Harland Engber on December 19, 1959, but kept the marriage secret for almost two years. Dr. Kildare: Season 3, Episode 17 - Rotten Tomatoes Mimieux co-wrote and co-produced the 1984 CBS TV movie Obsessive Love, about a deranged fan obsessed with a soap opera star. Smart, sweet and soulful. Dr. Kildare follows her to stop her, but he is too late. (1967); and a heist film The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967). Location Bel Air, Los Angeles, Calif. Price $49.5 million. I was so very sad to hear of her passing . What happened to Yvette Mimieux? Where is she today? Wiki Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1942 to a French father and Mexican mother. Humphrey Bogart starred in the 1955 film The Desperate Hours, rather than Frank Sinatra as an earlier version stated. [7] Her performance in Platinum High School earned her a 1960 Golden Globe Awards nomination for "New Star Of The Year - Actress". Her character, an artist and assassin, was not a good housewife or sex object. [16] For this role, Mimieux was nominated for the 1971 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Actress Drama Series. She later said: "I suppose I have a soulful quality. The film lost money but was well regarded critically. Yvette Mimieux, who found stardom in the early 1960s portraying delicate, fragile women in The Time Machine, Where the Boys Are and other films, died on Monday night at her home in Los Angeles. She played a surfer suffering from epilepsy, a performance that was much acclaimed [12] and led to a 1965 Golden Globe nomination for "Best Actress In A Television Series". 13, No. Her celebrity was cemented by Tyger, Tyger, a two-part episode broadcast in early 1964 of the TV hit Dr Kildare, starring Richard Chamberlain.