Patty Regan; Actress on Film, TV and Stage

Patty Regan, 66, actress and comedian known for her work in films and television and on the stage in the Billy Barnes Revues. The musical shows, which also starred Ken Berry and Joanne Worley, began at UCLA in 1958 and became popular in the 1960s and 1970s at the Las Palmas Theater in Hollywood and the Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles County Music Center. Two of them, “The Billy Barnes Revue” and “Billy Barnes People,” moved successfully to Broadway and London. Regan, a tall, brassy redhead, had small roles in such films as “The Thomas Crown Affair” and on popular television series, including “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “F Troop,” “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,” “Bewitched” and “Nanny and the Professor.” On June 9 in Eau Claire, Wis., of cancer.