Personal details
- Birth Date: 1953-06-07
- Height: 5′ 2½″ (1.59 m)
- Birth Location: San Francisco, California, USA
- Children: (divorced, 1 child) Emily Goldwyn
- Parents: Wilson Camp
- Professions: Actress, Producer, Additional Crew
Colleen Camp’s story? Wildly unconventional, honestly. Born smack dab in San Francisco, she was hustling in showbiz before most kids even got the hang of crayons—three years old, that’s not a typo. Most toddlers are still figuring out how to string a sentence together, but there she was, already landing gigs. But wait, it gets better. She wasn’t just a regular child actress grinding away in commercials. Nah, she wound up at Busch Gardens, not as a performer, but wrangling birds. Yeah, literal bird trainer. That’s like something out of a sitcom, but it’s real. Some Hollywood scout must’ve had a good eye (or just really liked parrots), because they spotted her doing her thing, and before you know it, Camp’s popping up on The Dean Martin Show in the mid-60s. That’s a pretty iconic gig, if you ask me. Not long after, she jumps into the movie world with Battle for the Planet of the Apes in ’73. And once she started, she just didn’t stop. We’re talking north of a hundred credits—movies, TV, you name it. She’s one of those faces you see and go, “Wait, I know her from somewhere.” Blends comedy, drama, whatever they throw at her. She’s carved out this weirdly diverse, under-the-radar career that not enough people appreciate. If you’ve watched movies or TV in the last fifty years, odds are you’ve caught Colleen Camp in action at least once, whether you realized it or not.
movies triviannBefore she got tangled up in Hollywood madness, she actually wrangled birds for a living at Busch Gardens Bird Sanctuary out in the San Fernando Valley. Yeah, that’s right—she was a legit bird trainer, not just some random gig for a paycheck, but the real deal, teaching feathered creatures all sorts of tricks. Wild, right? Fast forward to Apocalypse Now, the 1979 epic—if you’ve checked out the restored cut, there’s a sneaky little nod to her bird-whispering past. The filmmakers literally worked in a scene that calls back to her days at the sanctuary. Not something you’d expect in a gritty war film, but there it is, proof that the strangest threads of your past can pop up in the most unexpected places. Only in Hollywood do you go from training parrots to being immortalized in a Francis Ford Coppola classic. Maybe there’s a lesson in there, or maybe it’s just a cool bit of trivia to drop at parties.
Six strangers show up at a creepy old mansion after getting mysterious invites, and, surprise, surprise—someone ends up dead. The butler, Wadsworth, tries to keep the whole circus under control while everyone else freaks out, points fingers, swaps stories, and generally loses their minds. Blackmail, secret identities, weapons hidden in random places—yeah, it’s chaos. The power keeps going out, people keep dropping like flies, and everyone’s got something to hide. The dialogue? Snappy. The physical comedy? Top tier. And just when you think you’ve got it figured out, the movie yanks the rug out from under you with not one, but three bonkers endings. It’s a murder mystery, but with a wink and a nudge, never taking itself too seriously. The whole thing is ridiculous and honestly, that’s the charm.
June 7, 1953
5′ 2½″ (1.59 m)
Konidela Ram Charan
San Francisco, California, USA
Yes, Emily Goldwyn
Wilson Camp and Surekha
72 years old