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Lana Wood (born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin; March 1, 1946) is an American actress and producer.[1][2] She made her film debut in The Searchers as a child actress and later achieved notability for playing Sandy Webber on the TV series Peyton Place and Plenty O'Toole in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. Her sister was Natalie Wood.

Lana Wood
Wood in 1982
Born	Svetlana Lisa Gurdin (1946-03-01) March 1, 1946 (age 76) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, producer
Years active	1947–present
Spouses	Jack Wrather Jr. ​ ​ (m. 1962; annulled 1963)​ Karl Brent ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1965)​ Stephen Oliver ​ ​ (m. 1966; annulled 1966)​ Stanley William Vogel ​ ​ (m. 1968; div. 1968)​ Richard Smedley ​ ​ (m. 1972; div. 1976)​ Allan Balter ​ ​ (m. 1979; div. 1980)​
Partner	Alan Feinstein (1980s)
Children	1
Relatives	Natalie Wood (sister) Natasha Gregson Wagner (niece)

Early life

Wood was born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin[3][4] to Russian immigrant parents, Maria Zudilova (1908[lower-alpha 1]–1998) and Nicholas (né Nikolai/Nikolay) Zacharenko (1912–1980). They had each left Russia as child refugees with their parents following the Russian Civil War, and they grew up far from their homeland. Her father's family left Vladivostok after her grandfather, a chocolate-factory worker who joined the anti-Bolshevik civilian forces, was killed in a street fight in 1922;[7] they settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, with their relatives, then moved to San Francisco. Lana's maternal grandfather owned soap and candle factories in Barnaul; he left Russia with his family in 1918 after his eldest son was killed by the Red Army, and settled in a Russian community in Harbin, China.[8] Maria married Alexander Tatuloff there in 1925,[5] and they had a daughter, Olga Viripaeff (1928–2015),[9][10] before divorcing in 1936.[11]

When Nicholas and Maria married in February 1938, she brought her daughter Olga, then known as Ovsanna, to the household, sharing joint custody with her ex-husband in El Cerrito, California. The couple had two daughters together; the first was Natalie, known as "Natasha", the Russian diminutive. The family settled in Santa Monica, near Hollywood, and changed their surname to Gurdin. Svetlana, known as "Lana", was born there. Her parents changed the surname of her elder sister, making her Natalie Wood, after she started her acting career as a child. She was named after her director Irving Pichel's friend Sam Wood.[12] When Lana made her film debut in The Searchers (1956), her mother was asked under what last name Lana should be credited. Maria agreed to use "Wood" for Lana, building on Natalie's recognized work.

Career

In her early career, Wood usually played in films in which Natalie appeared. Starting in the 1960s, her own career took off. After appearing on the short-lived drama series The Long, Hot Summer, she landed the role of Sandy Webber on the soap series Peyton Place. She played the role from 1966 to 1967. She turned down the Karen Black role in Easy Rider (1969), a decision she now cites as the worst mistake she has made in her career. She was cast as a Bond girl, Plenty O'Toole, in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). In 1970, Wood was approached by Hugh Hefner and she agreed to pose for Playboy. The Playboy pictures appeared in the April 1971 issue, along with Wood's poetry.^{[citation needed]}

Wood has more than 20 other films and over 300 television series to her credit, including The Fugitive, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, Wild, Wild West, Police Story, Starsky & Hutch, Nero Wolfe, Fantasy Island, and Capitol. After appearing in the horror film Satan's Mistress (1982), she retired from acting, concentrating on her career as a producer, but since 2008 she has returned to acting in a number of low-budget films. Wood is a character in the Steve Alten book Meg: Hell's Aquarium (2009).^{[citation needed]}

She wrote a memoir, Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister (1984), and another, Little Sister (2021), in which she claimed veteran actor Kirk Douglas sexually assaulted her sister Natalie when she was just 16.[13]

Personal life

Wood has been married six times:

1. Jack Wrather Jr. – (1962–1963; annulled when she was 16 years old)
2. Karl Brent – (1964–1965; divorced)
3. Stephen Oliver – (1966–1966; annulled)
4. Dr. Stanley William Vogel (1968–1968; divorced)
5. Richard Smedley – (1972–1976; divorced) one child, Evan Taylor Smedley Maldonado (August 11, 1974 – July 18, 2017), by whom she has three grandchildren.[14]
6. Allan G. Balter (1979–1980; divorced)

Between marriages, Wood dated actors Dean Stockwell, Adam West, Eddie Fisher, Warren Beatty, Sean Connery, Alain Delon and Ryan O'Neal, as well as producer Jerome Hellman and composer Leslie Bricusse.[15] For most of the 1980s she was in a relationship with Alan Feinstein.[16] Feinstein was at Natalie's funeral with her.[17]

Her sister Natalie Wood was married to actor Robert Wagner until her drowning death on November 29, 1981.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1947	Driftwood	Infant	Scene cut
1955	One Desire	Little Girl	Uncredited
1956	The Searchers	Debbie Edwards
1958	Marjorie Morningstar	Girl	Uncredited
1962	Five Finger Exercise	Mary
1965	The Fool Killer	Alice
1965	The Girls on the Beach	Bonnie
1968	For Singles Only	Helen Todd
1969	Scream Free!	Karen
1970	Black Water Gold	Eagan Ryan
1970	The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again	Katie Flavin
1971	Diamonds Are Forever	Plenty O'Toole
1972	Justin Morgan Had a Horse	Kathleen
1972	A Place Called Today	Carolyn Schneider
1974	Goodnight Jackie	Jackie
1975	Who is the Black Dahlia?	Boarder
1975	Sons of Sassoun	Hasmig
1976	Nightmare in Badham County	Smitty
1977	Little Ladies of the Night	Maureen
1977	Speedtrap	New Blossom
1977	Grayeagle	Beth Colter
1978	A Question of Guilt	Elizabeth Carson
1979	Captain America II: Death Too Soon	Yolanda
1982	Satan's Mistress	Lisa
2009	The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith	Tani
2010	War of Heaven	President Bailey
2010	Deadly Renovations	Dr. Nitas
2010	Last Wish	Helen
2013	The Executive	Margo Steel
2014	Donors	Norma
2015	Bestseller	Marta
2016	Killing Poe	Dean Wood
2016	Subconscious Reality	Implicit
2017	Operation: Assassination	Lana Wood
2018	Wild Faith	Opal
2018	Invasion	Lana Wood
2019	Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws	Ms. Darling
2020	Alone	Maria Clemm
2021	Best Years Gone	Edith
2021	The Sand Dollar Suicide	Cordelia Cozzi
2022	Bestseller 2	Marta
TBA	Dog Boy	Vera Summers
TBA	Race to Judgment	Sofia Jacalone
TBA	Virtue	Celia Lovell

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1957	Judgment at Nuremberg	Judy	Episode: "Winter Dreams"
1958	Alcoa Theatre	Pat	Episode: "The Victim"
1958	Judgment at Nuremberg	Evie Gray	Episode: "Point of No Return"
1958	Have Gun – Will Travel	Becky Coldwell	Episode: "The Teacher"
1958	The Real McCoys	Marilyn Harwick	Episode: "The New Neighbors"
1964	Dr. Kildare	Judy Gaer	Episode: "Man Is a Rock"
1964	Wendy and Me	Millie	Episode: "George Burns While Rome Fiddles"
1964	The Fugitive	The Doll	Episode: "Detour on a Road Going Nowhere"
1965–1966	The Long, Hot Summer	Eula Harker	23 episodes
1966–1968	Peyton Place	Sandy Webber	80 episodes
1967	The Wild Wild West	Sheila O'Shaughnessy	Episode: "The Night of the Firebrand"
1967	Bonanza	Dana Dawson	Episode: "The Gentle Ones"
1969	Felony Squad	Sherry Martin	Episode: "The Last Man in the World"
1969	The Wild Wild West	Averi Trent	Episode: "The Night of the Plague"
1971	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Angie	Episode: "Don't Kid a Kidder"
1971	O'Hara, U.S. Treasury	Fran Harper	Episode: "O'Hara, U.S. Treasury"
1971	Monty Nash	Diana	Episode: "Code Name: Diana"
1972	Disneyland	Kathleen	2 episodes
1972	Night Gallery	Maid	Episode: "You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore"
1972	Mission: Impossible	Marcy Carpenter	Episode: "The Deal"
1973	Police Story	June Lang	Episode: "Countdown: Part 2"
1974	QB VII	Sue Scanlon	Episode: "Part One & Two"
1976	Starsky & Hutch	Ella	Episode: "Running"
1977	Corey: For the People	Janet Hanley	TV film
1983	Capitol	Fran Burke	unknown episodes

Footnotes

Bibliography

• Wood, Lana (1984). Natalie Wood: A Memoir by Her Sister. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-12903-0.
• Finstad, Suzanne (2001). Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0609809570.

References

External links

• Lana Wood at IMDb
• Lana Wood at the TCM Movie Database
• Lana Wood at AllMovie
• Interview with Lana Wood at Classic Film & TV Cafe

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[de] Lana Wood

Lana Wood (* 1. März 1946 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien; eigentlich Svetlana Nikolaevna Gurdin) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Filmproduzentin.

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- [en] Lana Wood

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[es] Lana Wood

Lana Wood, nacida Svetlana Nikolaevna Zakharenko  (en ruso: Светла́на Николаевна Захаренко), Santa Mónica, California, 1 de marzo de 1946; Es una actriz[1] y productora[2] estadounidense. Lana Wood es la hermana menor de la también actriz Natalie Wood. Su primer papel importante fue a los 9 años en el western de John Ford The Searchers (Centauros del desierto). Fue una habitual en la serie de televisión Peyton Place, y conocida por su papel de Plenty O'Toole en la película de James Bond de 1971 Diamantes para la eternidad.[3] Apareció en películas y papeles invitados en televisión a lo largo de los años setenta y ochenta.

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[ru] Лана Вуд

Лана Вуд (англ. Lana Wood, наст. имя Светлана Николаевна Захаренко, род. 1 марта 1946 (1946-03-01)) — американская актриса, писательница и продюсер, младшая сестра Натали Вуд[1].

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