Nina Shipman


Nina Shipman is a retired American actress.

Early years

Shipman is the daughter of screenwriter Barry Shipman and dancer and film actress Gwynne Shipman. Her grandfather Ernest Shipman was a member of one of the first Shakespearean touring companies in the United States, and her grandmother, Nell Shipman, was a silent film actress.
She attended Maddox Academy in Mexico City and Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles, California. Shipman graduated from California State University, Los Angeles, with a degree in music. She enhanced her acting skills at the Pasadena Playhouse, in film industry workshops, and by studying under acting coach Sanford Meisner.

Educational television

In 1981, Shipman was host of Contemporary Health Issues, a series consisting of 30 half-hour episodes that could be used by students to earn credits at participating colleges and universities. The series' topics included death, sexuality, drugs, cardiovascular disease, alcoholism, and cancer.

Book

Shipman is the author of How to Become an Actor in Television Commercials.

Personal life

Shipman has been married three times. She was married to Richard Harrington from 1956 until their divorce in 1958. Her second husband, from 1961 until their divorce in 1973, was actor and stuntman C. Ransom Walrod. They have two daughters, Westerly and Lani. Shipman's third husband was Donald Merrill Bremer; they were married from 1975 until his death in 2015.
Shipman was maid of honor at Jill St. John's wedding to Lance Reventlow.

Selected filmography

Official Detective - SallyVertigo - Woman in Museum Mistaken for Madeleine The Hunters - WAF Lieutenant In Love and War - Nurse Compulsion - Girlfriend Say One for Me - Fay FlaggBlue Denim - Lillian BartleyThe Oregon Trail - Prudence CooperThe Man Who Understood Women - Minor Role Wake Me When It's Over - Minor Role High Time - Laura HowardThe Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet – Paula in the 1962 episode "The Apartment"; Peggy in the 1963 episode "The Girl At The Ski Lodge"77 Sunset Strip "The Hamlet Caper" – Darlene Wells; "The Lady Has The Answer" Rita YaleStraightaway "The Bribe" – LaurieIchabod and Me "Bob's Award" – Lois WainwrightBonanza Episode: "The Mountain Girl" - Trudy Coombs-HarkerThe Munsters - the Beautiful Woman in "Lily Munster, Girl Model" Rawhide (TV series) appearing as Marion Curtis, a blind woman, in the 1962 episode, "Incident of the Portrait."Rawhide (TV series) appearing as Valley Rose, in the 1963 episode, "Incident of the Rawhiders"Daniel Boone Molly in "The Sisters O'Hanrahan"