Joan Staley Obituary, Joan Staley Who Played Mrs. Chicken In ‘The Ghost And Mr. Chicken’ Has Died

Joan Staley Obituary, Death Cause – Joan Staley, who played Mrs. Chicken in ‘The Ghost and Mr. Chicken,’ Passes away at age 79 Joan Staley, who played alongside Don Knotts in the film “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” and appeared on television in programs such as “77 Sunset Strip,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and a spinoff of “McHale’s Navy,” has passed away. Her age was 79. Joan Staley, best known for her role as Don Knotts’ co-star in the film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and for her guest appearances on popular television shows like 77 Sunset Strip, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and a spinoff of McHale’s Navy, has passed away.

Her age was 79. In the film Cape Fear (1962), starring Robert Mitchum, Staley played the role of a waitress, and in the film A New Kind of Love (1963), she played the role of a stewardess opposite Paul Newman. Staley played both the damsel in distress and Knotts’ love interest Alma Parker in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), a parody of haunted home movies that was a great box office hit for Universal. Staley wore a brown wig that she claimed was leftover from a Claudia Cardinale movie. Also in 1966, she performed the role of a kidnapped saloon singer who is rescued by Audie Murphy in Gunpoint and a nasty sidekick named Okie Annie on Batman.

Both of these roles were played by Cliff Robertson. However, Staley’s career was cut short when she suffered a broken back in an accident involving horseback riding that same year. Joan Lynette McConchie, the daughter of parents who served in the ministry, was born in Minneapolis on May 20th, 1940. She began her musical training as a kid in Los Angeles, where she played the violin with the Junior Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl and also appeared in the 1948 film The Emperor Waltz, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine.