Troy Donahue
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When and where Troy Donahue was born?

88 years
from birthday
Birth date
January 27, 19361936-01-27
Date of death
September 2, 2001 (65 years)2001-09-02
Zodiac sign
Aquarius
Place of Birth
United States
Occupation
Actor

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Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson, Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor and singer. He was a popular male sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s.

Born in New York City, Donahue was the son of a retired stage actress and the manager of the motion-picture department of General Motors. Donahue later recalled in a 1959 interview:

Acting is all I ever wanted. Ever since I can remember, I've studied and read plays. My mother would help me, but my parents didn't want me to become an actor. They preferred something more stable—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, anything.

"I can remember always being exposed to Broadway and theater people," he added in 1984. "I can remember sitting with Gertrude Lawrence while she read her reviews in The King and I."

To please his parents, Donahue attended a New York military academy, where he met Francis Ford Coppola. He was going to attend West Point, but suffered a damaged knee at a track meet. He volunteered for the army, but was rejected.