Joan Staley Bio
Joan Staley was an American glamour model, and prominent Hollywood actress. She was born Joan Lynette McConchie on May 20, 1940, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Playboy named her its November 1958 Playmate at 18. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Staley had natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-23-34.
A trained performer from local stages, Staley moved into screen work with small parts in studio pictures—credits that included The Robe and Brigadoon—and early anthology television like Playhouse 90 and Westinghouse Studio One. Those formative assignments introduced her to the routines of studio filmmaking and the exacting tempo of live‑styled television, a combination that would shape much of her career in the years that followed.
Through the 1960s she became a familiar guest star, turning up across the decade’s signature series from crime drama to sitcom: The Untouchables, The Real McCoys, The Virginian, The Munsters and Batman among them. Television also offered steadier employment; she was a regular on 77 Sunset Strip, where she played Hannah, the secretary to Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s character.
She carried a light comedic touch into larger commitments as well. Staley led the short‑lived McHale’s Navy spinoff Broadside as Roberta “Honey‑Hips” Love, and weathered a serious back injury in 1966 that shifted the balance of her work toward television for a time. Her film credits placed her alongside notable screen names too, including a turn opposite Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in A New Kind of Love.
Off camera she kept a busy life: marriage to television director Chuck Staley followed by a later marriage to Dale Sheets, with whom she co‑founded International Ventures Incorporated; a large family; and civic engagements ranging from consumer affairs to church and prison ministry. In 1962 the Hollywood Make‑Up Artists and Hair Stylists Union named her one of its “Deb Stars,” a modest professional recognition in a career that threaded studio pictures, television anthology work, sitcoms and community activity into a quietly persistent public presence.
