---
name: "Heather Menzies"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/heather-menzies"
fi1m_id: "heather-menzies"
imdb_id: "nm0579991"
tmdb_id: 92691
wikidata_id: "Q462368"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 December 1949"
died: "24 December 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:28:33.153886+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Heather Menzies

## Identity

Heather Menzies

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/heather-menzies
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** heather-menzies
- **IMDb ID:** nm0579991
- **TMDB ID:** 92691
- **Wikidata ID:** Q462368
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Menzies, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462368, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579991/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/92691

Actor. Born 3 December 1949 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Died 24 December 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 December 1949, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Died:** 24 December 2017
- **Also known as:** Heather Menzies-Urich
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Menzies, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462368, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579991/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/92691

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Sound of Music*](https://film.one/film/the-sound-of-music.md) (86)

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## Biography

Heather Menzies, also credited as Heather Menzies-Urich, was a Canadian actress. Born in Toronto on 3 December 1949, she began her career with a television appearance in *The Farmer's Daughter* in 1964. At the age of 14 she was cast as Louisa von Trapp in the film *The Sound of Music* (1965), in which she performed songs including "So Long, Farewell" and "The Lonely Goatherd".

Menzies appeared in films such as *Hawaii* (1966), *Sssssss* (1973) and *Piranha* (1978), and starred as Jessica 6 in the television series *Logan's Run* (1977). She made guest appearances in series including *Bonanza*, *The Bob Newhart Show*, *T. J. Hooker* and *The Love Boat*. In 1973 she posed for a pictorial in *Playboy* magazine.

She married actor and producer Robert Urich in 1975; the couple adopted three children. Following Urich's death in 2002, Menzies established the Robert Urich Foundation to support cancer research. She died on 24 December 2017.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, bbc.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Sound of Music* (1965), Fi1m 86, as Louisa von Trapp — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sound-of-music.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Truant* (2005), Writer
- *American Dreamer* (1990), series, Actor
- *Spenser: For Hire* (1985), series, Actor
- *Gavilan* (1982), series, as Professor Maitland
- *Endangered Species* (1982), as Susan
- *T. J. Hooker* (1982), series, as Dr. Kincaid
- *Captain America* (1979), as Dr. Wendy Day
- *Vega$* (1978), series, Actor
- *Piranha* (1978), as Maggie McKeown
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, as Cybill Hartman
- *Logan's Run* (1977), series, as Jessica
- *Tail Gunner Joe* (1977), as Logan
- *The Keegans* (1976), as Brandy Keegan
- *James Dean* (1976), as Jan
- *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), series, as Alison Harker
- *Sssssss* (1973), as Kristina Stoner
- *The Bob Newhart Show* (1972), series, as Debbie Borden
- *Outside In* (1972), as Chris
- *Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law* (1971), series, as Sally Waite
- *The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes* (1969), as Priscilla's Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
- *Hail, Hero!* (1969), as Molly Adams
- *Love, American Style* (1969), series, as Shari
- *To Rome with Love* (1969), series, Actor
- *Marcus Welby, M.D.* (1969), series, as Margie McGurney
- *How Sweet It Is!* (1968), as Tour Girl
- *The High Chaparral* (1967), series, as Beth Roberts
- *Dragnet* (1967), series, as Edna Mae Dixon, Lisa Bogart
- *Hawaii* (1966), as Mercy Bromley
- *The Sound of Music* (1965), as Louisa von Trapp — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-sound-of-music.md)
- *The Farmer's Daughter* (1963), series, Actor
- *Bonanza* (1959), series, as Martha Thornton

## Gallery

- ![Heather Menzies](https://film.one/media/person/105564/gallery-bb045d372657.jpg) Heather Menzies — MGM Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Heather_Menzies_Logan%27s_Run_1977_%28cropped%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Photo of Heather Menzies as Jessica 6 and Gregory Harrison as Logan 5 from the short-lived television program Logan's Run. (1977)](https://film.one/media/person/105564/gallery-708acb2b4cc9.jpg) Photo of Heather Menzies as Jessica 6 and Gregory Harrison as Logan 5 from the short-lived television program Logan's Run. (1977) — MGM Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Heather_Menzies_Gregory_Harrison_Logan%27s_Run_1977.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Heather Menzies](https://film.one/media/person/105564/gallery-fc771cb4d4e6.jpg) Heather Menzies — Image via TMDB

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