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June Fairchild | 'Up in Smoke' actress, 68

June Fairchild, 68, who appeared in more than a dozen movies, including Cheech and Chong's drug movie Up in Smoke before real addictions left her homeless on Skid Row in Los Angeles, died of liver cancer Tuesday at a convalescent home, her friend Dawna Sodders told the Los Angeles Times.

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June Fairchild, 68, who appeared in more than a dozen movies, including Cheech and Chong's drug movie

Up in Smoke

before real addictions left her homeless on Skid Row in Los Angeles, died of liver cancer Tuesday at a convalescent home, her friend Dawna Sodders told the Los Angeles Times.

Ms. Fairfield's work included 1974's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot starring Clint Eastwood and as an Ajax-snorting druggie in Up in Smoke.

Ms. Fairchild once dated Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night and is credited with suggesting the group's name.

Drugs and alcohol derailed her career in the 1970s. The Times said she spent time in rehab and jail and was robbed and raped while living on the street before going clean. She spent her last years living on disability payments. - AP

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