Katherine Walsh

Katherine Victoria Walsh (April 11, 1947 – October 7, 1970) was an American actress best known for her performance as Lulu in Roger Corman's movie The Trip (1967). Early life Walsh was born on April 11, 1947, in Kenton County, Kentucky, (or South Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, to Martha and Thomas Walsh. Her father, Thomas Walsh (died 1965), was President of the Atlantic Underwriters Agency. He was killed in the November 8, 1965, crash of American Airlines Flight 383 in Boone County, Kentucky. She was the family's oldest child, and she had two brothers and two sisters. Walsh attended Villa Madonna Academy, Dixie Heights High School, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, and the University of London. Walsh was discovered at Paramount Studios by a William Morris agent while she was having lunch with a girlfriend. The agent took Walsh to Columbia, where she read scenes, had an interview, and had a screen test. Columbia signed her under a then-new expanded talent program. She was 17 at the time, and Judge Ben Koenig of Los Angeles Superior Court approved the long-term contract.