{"id":141657,"date":"2017-12-25T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141657"},"modified":"2025-01-18T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T19:03:19","slug":"sound-of-music-actress-heather-menzies-urich-dies-on-christmas-eve-at-age-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/25\/sound-of-music-actress-heather-menzies-urich-dies-on-christmas-eve-at-age-68\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sound of Music&#8217; actress Heather Menzies Urich dies on Christmas Eve at age 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141658\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heather_Menzies_Logans_Run_1977_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141658\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heather_Menzies_Logans_Run_1977_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Heather Menzies as Jessica 6 from the short-lived television program Logan's Run. (Photo By MGM Television - eBay itemphoto frontphoto back, Public Domain)\" width=\"420\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heather_Menzies_Logans_Run_1977_cropped.jpg 420w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heather_Menzies_Logans_Run_1977_cropped-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Heather Menzies as Jessica 6 from the short-lived television program Logan&#8217;s Run. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65027303\">Photo By MGM Television &#8211; eBay itemphoto frontphoto back, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Canadian actress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 film, \u201cThe Sound of Music,\u201d has died. She was 68.<\/p>\n<p>Her son, actor Ryan Urich, told Variety that his mother died late Sunday in Frankford, Ont. She recently had been diagnosed with brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was an actress, a ballerina and loved living her life to the fullest,\u201d Urich said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lyrica online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lyrica.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lyrica.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Menzies-Urich played Louisa von Trapp, the third-oldest of the seven von Trapp children, in the film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that starred Julie Andrews and Canadian actor Christopher Plummer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sound of Music\u201d captured five Academy Awards, including best picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeather was part of &#8216;the family.&#8217; There is really no other way to describe the members of the cast of the movie of &#8216;The Sound of Music,\u201d&#8217; Ted Chapin, president and chief creative officer of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A Toronto native, Menzies-Urich&#8217;s other film credits include \u201cHawaii\u201d and \u201cPiranha.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy paxil online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/paxil.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/paxil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d On television, she appeared as a fugitive in \u201cLogan&#8217;s Run\u201d and had guest spots on \u201cDragnet,\u201d \u201cBonanza,\u201d \u201cMarcus Welby, M.D.\u201d and other series.<\/p>\n<p>Variety reports that Menzies-Urich is survived by two other children, several grandchildren and a great grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, actor Robert Urich, died in 2002.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy mebendazole online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/mebendazole.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/mebendazole.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> After his death, Menzies-Urich established the Robert Urich Foundation to raise funds for cancer research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Canadian actress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[532,40327,40322,1226,40319,40326,40323,40325,40324,40321,40320],"class_list":["post-141657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-bonanza","tag-dragnet","tag-frankford","tag-hawaii","tag-heather-menzies-urich","tag-logans-run","tag-louisa-von-trapp","tag-piranha","tag-rodgers-and-hammerstein-organization","tag-ryan-urich","tag-the-sound-of-music","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285453,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141657\/revisions\/285453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}