Dianne Danford Bio
Dianne Danford is an American glamour model, swimsuit model, and actress. She was born on August 9, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois. Playboy named her its November 1961 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Danford has natural breasts, hazel eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-22-35.
Dianne Danford came to Playboy through one of the more unconventional discovery stories in the magazine’s early years. While working as a swimsuit model in California, she caught Playboy’s attention at a skeet range, calmly shooting clay pigeons rather than posing for a photographer. The setting suited her unusually well: Danford genuinely enjoyed skeet shooting and approached it with the same enthusiasm she brought to water skiing, swimming and horseback riding.
Mario Casilli photographed her centerfold, bringing his characteristically controlled lighting and composed studio style to a subject whose off-camera interests were considerably more outdoorsy. The contrast gave the pictorial some of its personality—a polished studio image attached to a woman Playboy had first noticed with a shotgun in her hands.
Danford also had a quieter creative side. Painting was among her favorite pastimes, while her musical tastes included a particular fondness for Fabian. Despite living close to Hollywood and already working as a model, she showed remarkably little interest in chasing conventional movie stardom. Her ambitions at the time were more personal, and she spoke openly about wanting marriage with a considerate, courteous man rather than a life built entirely around cameras.
Film nevertheless found her a few years later. In 1966, Danford appeared as Connie in the low-budget horror picture Weekend of Fear, written, directed and produced by Joe Danford. It remained her principal screen credit and a brief departure from a public record otherwise centered on modeling and Playboy. That combination—swimsuit work, skeet shooting, painting and one obscure horror film—makes Danford’s story feel less like a conventional Hollywood climb than a compact snapshot of someone who never seemed especially interested in following the expected route.
