American Actor Troy Donahue was born Merle Johnson, Jr. on 27th January, 1936 in New York City, New York, USA and passed away on 2nd Dec 2001 Santa Monica, California, USA aged 65. He is most remembered for A Summer Place. His zodiac sign is Aquarius.

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"After he was paid $10,000 for a bit part as Talia Shire's boyfriend in 1974's The Godfather, Part II—as an inside joke, the character was called Merle Johnson—he returned to L.A., married Vicki Taylor, a land-development manager, did occasional TV shows and made whiskey commercials for Japanese TV. In those ads, says Troy, "I stood in a speedboat, dressed in a tuxedo, holding a glass and toasting the world." Nevertheless, "whatever money I made I put into cocaine," he says. After his fourth marriage broke up in 1981, Donahue says, "I was whipped. Powerless. But the worst thing, I was in pain. Ironically that helped me. In May of 1982 I decided to get sober."