Joan Goodfellow

Joan Goodfellow (born February 2, 1950) is an American actress and singer who appeared on stage, screen, and television throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Best known for her performance in Buster and Billie (1974), she also appeared in the TV-movies Returning Home (1975) and Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill (1979). Her final film was Victor Nuñez's A Flash of Green in 1984. On stage, she was part of the original cast of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues (1985).

Martha Joan Goodfellow was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her parents were the late Millard Preston Goodfellow and Allene Leach Goodfellow. She attended Brandywine High School, participating in theater arts productions, including The King and I, in which she sang and acted the lead role of Anna. She also performed in Beauty and the Beast just before her graduation in 1968.

Goodfellow attended the University of Delaware, majoring in theater and dramatic arts. While there, she performed supporting roles in various plays, including Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear and G. B. Shaw's Arms and the Man. In 1970, she joined with other student/actors to present George Tabori's Brecht on Brecht. Later, Goodfellow took the female lead in the school's production of Guys and Dolls. In Fall 1970, Goodfellow transferred to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Upon graduating in 1972, she received a call from her agent, who had secured an audition for her in a new MGM motion picture based on Sue Grafton's 1969 novel The Lolly-Madonna War.