During the mid-sixties television viewers could not change the channel without catching a glimpse of Eileen O’Neill. This beautiful brunette (sometimes blonde) Irish lass was a regular playing a police officer on Burke’s Law starring Gene Barry for two years. She then made appearances on practically all of the era’s top sitcoms including The Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, Get Smart, and Batman as Clock King’s (Walter Slezak) wonderfully named henchgirl Millie Second. Eileen’s career was not limited to the small screen though. She made her film debut in A Majority of One and then played a haughty rich girl in the teen exploitation film Teenage Millionaire. After taking small roles in Four for Texas, Kiss Me, Stupid, and The Third Day Eileen played the heroine in the James Bond spy spoof A Man Called Dagger starring Paul Mantee. In 1973, she retired from acting to concentrate on her marriage. You can read my interviews with Eileen in my book Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema and my and Louis Paul’s book Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films & Television 1962-1973 (in which she wrote the foreword). As a side note, my friend Shaun Chang and I visited Eileen about 15 years ago in LA. She was warm, friendly, and a gracious hostess living in a beautiful home with spectacular views of the Los Angeles basin.
