The Oscar and Emmy winner was a mental health advocate. — -- Patty Duke, Oscar-winning actress and the star of an eponymous TV show, died this morning, ABC News has confirmed. According to her ...

Patty Duke was born Anna Marie Duke on December 14, 1946 in Elmhurst, New York, to Frances Margaret (McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a cab driver and handyman. She is of Irish, and one ...

Patty Duke, who won a supporting actress Oscar playing Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker,” starred in 1960s sitcom “The Patty Duke Show” and served as president of SAG, died Tuesday. She was 69. Her ...

Actor says his mom, who died earlier this week, had "suffered terribly." — -- Patty Duke was "at peace" in her final moments, following a painful battle with sepsis from a ruptured intestine, her ...