NEW YORK -- Patty Duke, who as a teen won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker," then maintained a long career while battling personal demons, has died at the age of 69. The ...

Patty Duke, the Oscar-winning actress who also spent 50 years in front of TV cameras, capturing the heart of an entire generation playing a pair of identical cousins, died Tuesday. She was 69. Duke’s ...

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke, the legendary actress who has been a North Idaho resident since the late 1980s,passed away at age 69 on Tuesday from sepsis due to a ruptured intestine. Duke was a superstar ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The courage that a teenage Patty Duke portrayed on-screen as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker” was breathtaking and Oscar-winning. Duke’s own gritty struggle against bipolar ...

In the new book "In the Presence of Greatness: My Sixty-Year Journey as an Actress," the late Oscar winner Patty Duke reflects on her extraordinary career and the many legends with whom she crossed ...

Academy Award-winning actress Patty Duke will join the San Francisco cast of the hit musical, ?Wicked,? starting March 24. ?Wicked,? the musical about the maligned Elphaba, who grows up to be the ...

Patty Duke had well-documented difficulties throughout her life. The Oscar-winning actress wrote about them in her 1987 book, “Call Me Anna,” in which she discussed her mental illness—a bold move from ...

Patty Duke, the film, TV, and stage actress who won an Academy Award at age 16 for her role as Helen Keller in A Miracle Worker, has died. She was 69. Actor Sean Astin confirmed the death of his mom ...

Patty Duke, the teen who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker and later played "identical cousins" in her own TV sitcom, has died. She was 69. The news was confirmed Tuesday by one of her ...

NEW YORK — Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for The Miracle Worker and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life, has died at the age of 69. Duke's agent, Mitchell Stubbs, said ...