Jill Banner played Virginia, the "spider baby" in the 1968 cult horror-comedy film Spider Baby.
10 Facts About Jill Banner
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Jill Banner had roles as James Coburn's flower child friend in The President's Analyst, and appearances in Jack Webb's television series, Dragnet.
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Jill Banner studied at the Hollywood Professional School, a K-12 school for working professional children run by Maurice and Bertha Mann, where classes typically ran from 8:45 AM to 12:45 PM, allowing the students the afternoon off to pursue various jobs or performing careers.
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Jill Banner was featured in several episodes of Jack Webb's police-procedural shows, Dragnet and Adam-12, usually playing clueless teenagers and spaced-out daytrippers.
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Jill Banner performed in several movies and TV shows in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Shadow Over Elveron with Don Ameche and Adam-12 co-star Kent McCord.
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Jill Banner was featured in Hunters Are For Killing, an early Burt Reynolds movie.
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Jill Banner later appeared in episodes of the television shows The Bold Ones and Cade's County.
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Jill Banner had an uncredited bit part in Christian Marquand's 1968 film Candy, but her scene was deleted from the final print.
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Jill Banner abandoned Hollywood for a real estate job in New Mexico in 1976.
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Jill Banner returned to Southern California in the early 1980s, reportedly to develop scripts.