Joy Bang

Joy Bang is a former American actress best known for her film appearances in the early 1970s.

Joy Bang
Bang in 1970
Born	Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1968–1973
Spouse	Paul Bang

Early life

Bang was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and was adopted at one month old.^[1] She was raised in New York City, where she attended Hunter Elementary School.^[1] She attended Boston University for one year, but dropped out, and later worked as a go-go dancer. She married Paul Bang in the late 1960s.^[1]

Career

Cast of Pretty Maids All in a Row (L-R): (front row) June Fairchild, Joy Bang, Aimee Eccles; (middle row) Joanna Cameron, Gene Roddenberry, Rock Hudson, Roger Vadim; (back row) Margaret Markov, Brenda Sykes, Diane Sherry, Gretchen Burrell

Bang began her career collaborating with underground filmmaker Andrew Meyer in Boston.^[2] She would appear in a total of eight films between 1970 and 1973, most notably Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam in 1972.^[3]

Bang also appears in a 1971 episode of the Christian TV series Insight entitled "The Party" and on the American television series Room 222 in the 16th episode of the third season, entitled "Where Is It Written?".

Selected filmography

List of acting performances in film and television

Year	Title	Role
1970	Events	Joy
	Maidstone	Joy Broom
	The Kowboys	Smitty
	Mission: Impossible, "Flip Side" S5.E2	Girl
	Brand X	Joy Bang
	The Young Lawyers, "The Two Dollar Thing" S-1 E-3	Chicago
	The Psychiatrist, "God Bless the Children" (pilot episode)	Kendell
1971	Pretty Maids All in a Row	Rita
	Red Sky at Morning	Corky
	Medical Center, "The Impostor" S-3 E-3	Peggy
	Insight, "The Party" S1.E339	Abby
	Hawaii Five-O, "To Kill or Be Killed" S-3 E-17	Gail Howard
1972	Cisco Pike	Lynn
	Night of the Cobra Woman	Joanna
	Room 222, "Where Is It Written?" S-3 E-16	Judy Shore
	Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues	Sandra
	Play It Again, Sam	Julie
1973	Adam-12, “Killing Ground” S-5 E-18 (№ 120)	Susan Danhart
	Police Story, "Collision Course" S-1 E-6	Gloria
	Messiah of Evil	Toni