Strikingly comely brunette Patty Shepard was born in 1945 in Greenville South Carolina The daughter of a US Air Force official Patty moved to Spain when she was only 18 years old After becoming popular as a model in a series of TV commercials the lovely Ms Shepard embarked on an acting career making her film debut in a small part in La ciudad no es para mí 1966 aka The City is Not for Me She initially acted in paella westerns and thrillers before appearing in a handful of horror movies which include Assignment Terror 1970 aka Dracula vs Frankenstein The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman 1971 aka The Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman Hannah Queen of the Vampires 1973 aka Crypt of the Living Dead and El monte de las brujas 1975 aka The Witches Mountain and Special Killers 1973 aka La Ragazza di Via Condotti Patty often acted alongside Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy in these films and projects a certain eerie otherworldly aura thats stunningly similar to Barbara Steele Other films include the endoftheworld science fiction feature Creation of the Damned 1974 aka Refuge of Fear and the tongueincheek spaghetti Western oddity Blood Money 1974 aka The Stranger and the Gunfighter After appearing in the horror movies Rest in Pieces 1987 aka Rest in Pieces and Slugs 1988 aka Slugs Shepard retired from acting in the late 1980s She died of a heart attack at her home in Madrid Spain on January 3 2013