Like Nicholas Hammond, Menzies-Urich had a full acting career after “The Sound of Music,” but she gained further notoriety after posing nude in Playboy, much to the dismay of her parents, as told by BBC News. Menzies-Urich married film producer Robert Urich in 1975, and was with him until his death. Though she was busy working as an actress, Menzies-Urich, who played Louisa, worked a lot with the Robert Urich foundation. “It is a California-based foundation. We raise funds for cancer research and patient care,” she told Classic Film & TV Café.
Much of Menzies-Urich’s work in the ’60s and ’70s were on popular television series, and some of her favorite roles included “Anything having to do with horses. So, I guess that would be any western, such as ‘Bonanza,’ ‘[The] High Chaparral,’ and ‘Alias Smith’ and ‘Jones.'”
Menzies-Urich died from brain cancer in 2017 — just over a year after her “Sound of Music” sister Charmian Carr. Her von Trapp siblings paid tribute to Menzies-Urich after her death, bidding her one last “so long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye,” proving how strong the bond was between them.
