Leigh French

Leigh French is an American actress who grew up in Ashland, Kentucky and became known in the late 1960s for her work on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where she played a hippie called Goldie O'Keefe whose household advice was laced with drug and sex jokes. She went back to that counterculture figure in other television roles, among them Cobalt-Blue in a 1968 episode of I Spy and a hippie part opposite Rob Reiner on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. the following year. Her screen credits include WUSA (1970) and The Drowning Pool (1975), and she also had parts in Aloha, Bobby and Rose and in The Hollywood Knights, plus a role in The Long Days of Summer. She also played Goober Pyle's sister in a comedy pilot, Goober and the Truckers' Paradise, that no network picked up. Acting kept her busy into 2010, much of it voiceover work for animated features, a run that carried through to 2014.