Sherry Jackson (born February 15, 1942, Wendell, Idaho) is an American actress and former child star. She made her film debut at seven years old in the musical You're My Everything, starring Anne Baxter and Dan Dailey. During the course of appearing in several of the Ma and Pa Kettle movies during the 1950s as Susie Kettle, one of the titular couple's numerous children. Jackson also appeared in The Breaking Point with John Garfield, the actor's penultimate role before his sudden death two years later. In 1952, Jackson portrayed the emotionally volatile visionary and ascetic Jacinta Marto in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, and the following year played John Wayne's daughter in the football-oriented Trouble Along the Way.

Jackson may be best-remembered today for her role as older daughter Terry Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (AKA Make Room for Daddy) from 1953–58. During the course of her five years on the show, she established a strong bond with her on-screen mother, Jean Hagen, but Hagen left the series after the third season in 1956. Worn out from the relentless pace of producing the show, Jackson left the program once her five-year contract ended two years later.

Over the next few years, Jackson broadened her range of acting roles, appearing as a hit woman on 77 Sunset Strip, an alcoholic on Mr. Novak, and an unstable mother-to-be on Wagon Train. She then took advantage of her abundant sex appeal in guest appearances on Lost in Space, Batman and the original Star Trek series. On the latter program, she made one of her more memorable portrayals as the android "Andrea" in the episode, "What are Little Girls Made Of?"

When Blake Edwards remade the Peter Gunn television series as a feature film entitled Gunn in 1967, Jackson was filmed in a nude scene that appeared only in the international version, not the U.S. release.[citation needed] Stills of the nude scene appeared in the August 1967 issue of Playboy magazine, in a pictorial entitled "Make Room For Sherry". The movie has not yet been released on VHS or DVD.

That same year, Jackson began a five-year relationship with business executive and horse breeder Fletcher R. Jones, a union that ended on November 7, 1972, when Jones was killed in a California plane crash. Five months after Jones' death, Jackson filed suit against his estate, asking more than $1 million, with her attorneys stating that Jones had promised to provide her with at least $25,000 a year for the rest of her life. The litigation proved to be unsuccessful.

Jackson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960. It is located at 6324 Hollywood Blvd.

Partial filmography

Lorna Doone (1951), as Young Annie Ridd

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952), as Jacinta Marto

Trouble Along the Way (1953), as Carole Williams

The Danny Thomas Show (TV series, 1953–1958), as Terry Williams

The Rifleman (TV series), as Rebecca Snipe in the episode "The Sister"

Come Next Spring (1956)

Maverick (TV series, 1957) as Annie Haines in the episode "Naked Gallows"

The Swamp Fox (TV series, 1959), as Melanie Culpin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960), as Mary Jane Wilkes

Maverick (TV series, 1961) as Erma Kerr in the episode "Red Dog"

The Twilight Zone (1962), as Comfort in the episode "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964), as Geraldine

Lost in Space (TV Series, 1966) as Effra in the Season 1 episode "The Space Croppers"

Batman (TV series, 1966) as Pauline in the Season 1 episode "Death in Slow Motion"

Batman (TV series, 1966) as Pauline in the Season 1 episode "The Riddler's False Notion"

Star Trek (TV series, 1966) as Andrea in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"

The Wild Wild West (TV series, 1967) as Michele in the Season 2 episode "The Vicious Valentine"

The Mini-Skirt Mob (American International Pictures-AIP) as Connie