Actor Diane McBain, known for playing Daphne Dutton in the famous crime show Surfside 6 and an author stalking Elvis Presley in Spinout, has died. She was 81.

The actor, who was diagnosed with liver cancer, passed away on Wednesday morning at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. McBain is known for playing pivotal roles alongside Vincent Sherman in Ice Storm (1960) and Troy Donahue and Claudette Colbert in Parrish (1961). 

McBain broke out as the loopy Daphne on the 1960-62 beach-based crime show Surfside 6. She portrayed Diana St Clair, an author of books that help women get their men, in Spinout (1966). Survivors include her son, Evan, and her goddaughter, Mary.