Cathey Paine

Cathey Paine
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Portrays:	C.O.R.A.
Date of Birth:	January 27,1951
Date of Death:	Missing required parameter 1=month!
Age:	75
Nationality:	USA
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Cathey Paine (born Cathey Lynn Paine, January 27, 1951, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; also credited as Cathy Paine) is an American actress who provided the uncredited voice of the Colonial flight computer C.O.R.A. in the Original Series episode "The Long Patrol." Her credited screen work spans American film and television from 1974 to 1991, including the role of Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten in the 1976 television film Helter Skelter.

Career

Before her screen career, Paine studied at Wendy Ward Charm School, a modeling and deportment program operated through Montgomery Ward stores. In 1968 she was named Miss Baton Rouge, Louisiana through the program and placed as a finalist in the associated national teenage beauty competition.

Paine began appearing in episodic American television in 1974, with guest roles on Happy Days, Marcus Welby, M.D. and The Rookies. Further guest appearances followed on the crime series Cannon (1975), Police Woman (1976) and Kojak (1977).

In 1976 she played Leslie Van Houten in Helter Skelter, a two-part television dramatization of the Tate–LaBianca murders directed by Tom Gries and adapted from the book by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. IMDb lists Helter Skelter among her best-known credits. The same year she appeared as Mae Lee Cleghorne in the miniseries Once an Eagle.

Her feature and television-film work of the late 1970s included Tina Elliott in the disaster film Avalanche (1978), Lois in the horror film The Fifth Floor (1978), and Yvonne Arthur in the television film Image of Death (1978). She continued in episodic television into the 1980s and early 1990s, with appearances on Quincy, M.E. (1979, billed as Cathy Paine), CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1980, as Ellen Gibbs across five episodes), B.J. and the Bear (1981), The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1981), Murder, She Wrote (1984), L.A. Law (1986, as Wendy Bryant) and The New Lassie (1991). Her later feature credits were Mall Administrator in Prime Risk (1985) and Janet Henderson in Back to Freedom (1988).

Voice work

For "The Long Patrol", first broadcast on ABC on 15 October 1978, Paine voiced C.O.R.A. (Computer, Oral Response Activated), the voice-activated flight computer fitted to the prototype reconnaissance Viper Starchaser that Starbuck test-flies in the episode. The performance was not credited on screen.

The following year she supplied another uncredited computer voice in a Glen A. Larson science-fiction series, playing Raphael Argus' ship's computer in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "The Plot to Kill a City, Part 1."

Later career

Following her last screen credit in 1991, Paine transitioned to a career in financial services. By 2015 she was a financial advisor with Lincoln Financial Advisors in Westlake Village, California, and was selected as one of Barron's Top 500 Women Financial Advisors in the United States, attending the Barron's Top Women Advisors Summit in Palm Beach, Florida that December.

Personal life

Paine was born Cathey Lynn Paine on January 27, 1951, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Walter Reeves Paine Jr. and Evelyn Louise Bates.

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