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Diana Hyland (born Diane Gentner;January 25, 1936 – March 27, 1977)[1] was an American stage, film and television actress.

Diana Hyland
Hyland as Susan Winter in Peyton Place, 1968
Born	Diane Gentner (1936-01-25)January 25, 1936 Cleveland Heights, Ohio, U.S.
Died	March 27, 1977(1977-03-27) (aged 41) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1955–1977
Spouse	Joe Goodson ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1974)​
Partner	John Travolta (1976-1977; her death)
Children	1
Awards	Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Special 1977 The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; awarded posthumously

Early years

Hyland was born Diane Gentner[2] to John Theodore and Mary (Gorman) Gentner in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She had one sibling, a brother, John Gorman Gentner.[3]

Career

She made her acting debut in 1955 at age 19 in an episode of Robert Montgomery Presents. Over the next decade she appeared often in guest and supporting roles in various television series, including Naked City, The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, The Invaders and The Twilight Zone as well as cast in the feature film The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford.

In 1959, she originated the role of Heavenly Finley in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth[4] on Broadway, appearing with Geraldine Page and Paul Newman.

In 1966, she co-starred in the movie Smoky in which she played Julie Richards, owner of the Rockin' R Ranch, who falls in love with Clint Barkeley (Fess Parker), owner of Smokey, a black stallion turned cutting horse. The same year she appeared in an episode of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. titled "The Candidate's Wife Affair", and in another episode titled "The Nowhere Affair". From 1958 to 1963, Hyland was a regular on the NBC soap opera Young Doctor Malone, playing Gig Houseman, wife of the younger Dr. Malone.

Hyland's debut in a feature film was in One Man's Way (1963), playing the wife of Norman Vincent Peale.[5][6] She had a continuing role as Susan Winter in the prime-time soap opera Peyton Place[7]^: 829 from 1968 to 1969. She appeared in the 1976 television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, for which she won a posthumous Emmy Award.[5] The following year, she co-starred with Dick Van Patten in the series Eight Is Enough,[7] but appeared in only four episodes before her death, and her character, Joan Bradford was written to have died as well.[8]

Personal life

Hyland married actor Joe Goodson on April 24, 1969. The couple had one son, Zachary, born in July 1973. Hyland and Goodson divorced in August 1974.^{[citation needed]}

She began a romantic relationship with actor John Travolta, 18 years her junior, in 1976 after meeting him when she played his mother in the television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.[9]

Death

Hyland was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977, and underwent a mastectomy.[9] However, the cancer spread and her health deteriorated. Hyland and Travolta remained together until her death at age 41 on March 27, 1977, in Los Angeles.[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	One Man's Way	Ruth Stafford Peale
1965	Hercules and the Princess of Troy	Princess Diana
1966	The Chase	Elizabeth Rogers
1966	Smoky	Julie Richards
1967	Scalplock	Marta Grenier
1968	Jigsaw	Sarah

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1955	Robert Montgomery Presents	Judy	Episode: "Second Chance"
1956	Star Tonight	Louise	Episode: "Two Windows" Episode: "Will Power"
1960	Play of the Week	Mabel	Episode: "Climate of Eden"
1961	Play of the Week		Episode: "No Exit/The Indifferent Lover" Episode: "A Cool Wind Over the Living"
1961–1962	Young Doctor Malone	Gig Houseman Malone	TV series
1962	The Defenders	Mary DiFalco Robinson	Episode: "The Unwanted"
1962	The United States Steel Hour		Episode: "Wanted: Someone Innocent"
1962	Alcoa Premiere	Liza Laurents	Episode: "The Voice of Charlie Pont"
1962	Sam Benedict	Donna Heistand	Episode: "The Bird of Warning"
1963	Ben Casey	Greta Bauer	Episode: "Rigadoon for Three Pianos"
1963	Stoney Burke	Eileen Fowler	Episode: "To Catch the Kaiser"
1963	The DuPont Show of the Week	Ellen Graham	Episode: "The Shark"
1963	Naked City	Vivian North	Episode: "Stop the Parade! A Baby Is Crying!"
1963	Wagon Train	Kitty Pryer	Episode: "The Kitty Pryer Story"
1963	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Lilith McGraw	Episode: "Love Is a Sad Song"
1963	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Janet Nelson	Episode: "To Catch a Butterfly"
1964	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Grace Renford	Episode: "Beyond the Sea of Death"
1964	Twilight Zone	Anne Henderson	Episode: "Spur of the Moment"
1964	The Eleventh Hour	Madelyn Marner	Episode: "A Full Moon Every Night"
1964	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Laura DeLinda Stevenson / Laura Murdoch	Episode: "The Sweet Taste of Vengeance"
1964	The Fugitive	Carol Hollister	Episode: "When the Bough Breaks"
1965	The Fugitive	Stella Savano	Episode: "Set Fire to a Straw Man"
1965	Dr. Kildare	Marguerite Williams	Episode: "Please Let My Baby Live"
1965	Burke's Law	Celeste Martel	Episode: "Run for the Money"
1965	The Nurses	Dr. Mai Lind	Episode: "The April Thaw of Doctor Mai"
1965	Hercules and the Princess of Troy	Princess Diana	TV movie
1965	Convoy	Lt. Katya Katrovich	Episode: "Katya"
1965	The Wackiest Ship in the Army	Margaret Cochran	Episode: "The Sisters" Episode: "I'm Dreaming of a Wide Isthmus"
1965	Run for Your Life	Ellen Henderson	Episode: "The Girl Next Door Is a Spy"
1966	Run for Your Life	Diana Hays	Episode: "I Am the Late Diana Hays"
1966	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Mrs. Collier	Episode: "Guilty or Not Guilty"
1966	Scalplock	Marta Grenier	TV movie
1966	A Man Called Shenandoah	Nancy Pruitt	Episode: "An Unfamiliar Tune"
1966	Iron Horse	Marta Grenier	TV movie
1966	I Spy	Marisa Terizcu	Episode: "So Coldly Sweet"
1966	The Green Hornet	Attorney Claudia Bromley	Episode: "Give 'Em Enough Rope"
1966	Twelve O'Clock High	Heidi Voss	Episode: "Practice to Deceive"
1966	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Mara Miranda Bryant / Irina	Episode: "The Nowhere Affair" Episode: "The Candidate's Wife Affair"
1966	Felony Squad	Cloris Harte	Episode: "Killer with a Badge"
1966	The Fugitive	Penny	Episode: "The Devil's Disciples"
1967	The Fugitive	Alison Priestley	Episode: "Dossier on a Diplomat"
1967	The F.B.I.	Marie-Louise Karn Virginia Lamberth	Episode: "The Hostage" Episode: "Overload"
1967	Tarzan	Diana Russell	Episode: "The Fanatics"
1967	The Invaders	Sherri Vikor Ellie Markham	Episode: "Vikor" Episodes: "Summit Meeting, Part I"; "Summit Meeting, Part II"
1968	Judd, for the Defense	Jessie Tree	Episode: "Fall of a Skylark: Part 1 - The Trial" Episode: "Fall of a Skylark: Part 2 - The Appeal"
1968–1969	Peyton Place	Susan Winter	56 episodes
1969	The Name of the Game	Lisa Adrian	Episode: "The Perfect Image"
1970	Ritual of Evil	Leila Barton	TV movie
1970	Bracken's World	Mary Draper	Episode: "The Mary Tree"
1971	Ironside	Hrûska Pazoureck	Episode: "From Hrûska, with Love"
1971	The Interns	Writer	Episode: "Casualty"
1971	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Cynthia Crowley	Episode: "Cynthia"
1971	Alias Smith and Jones	Clara Philips	Episode: "Return to Devil's Hole"
1971	Dan August	Phyllis Hendricks	Episode: "Days of Rage"
1971	Medical Center	Susan	Episode: "Suspected"
1971	The F.B.I.	Joanne Kenster	Episode: "The Stalking Horse"
1972	The F.B.I	Pat Laner	Episode: "Arrangement with Terror"
1972	Banyon	Julia Egan	Episode: "The Graveyard Vote"
1973	Hawkins	Jennifer Pearson	Episode: "Candidate for Murder"
1973	Search	Anjeanette Marie Shanahan	Episode: "Let Us Prey"
1973	Gunsmoke	Dallas Fair	Episode: "Shadler"
1973	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	Lita Coleman	Episode: "Final Semester"
1973	The ABC Afternoon Playbreak		Episode: "The Things I Never Said"
1974	Hawkins	Jennifer Pearson	Episode: "Candidate for Murder"
1974	Medical Center	Pat Londean	Episode: "Three-Cornered Cage"
1975	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Janet Trent	Episode: "Dark Fury: Part 1" Episode: "Dark Fury: Part 2"
1975	Harry O	Sandra Dawes	Episode: "The Confetti People"
1975	Mannix	Janice Graham	Episode: "A Ransom for Yesterday"
1975	S.W.A.T.	Joanna Bishop	Episode: "Kill S.W.A.T."
1975	Cannon	Nedra Cameron	Episode: "The Melted Man"
1976	Kojak	Cleo Donatello	Episode: "A Grave Too Soon"
1976	Barnaby Jones	Nora Bradford	Episode: "Deadly Reunion"
1976	The Boy in the Plastic Bubble	Mickey Lubitch	TV movie
1977	Happy Days	Adrianna Prescott	Episode: "Fonzie's Old Lady"
1977	Eight Is Enough	Joan Bradford	Main cast, 4 episodes

References

External links

• Diana Hyland at IMDb 
• Diana Hyland at the Internet Broadway Database
• Diana Hyland portrait gallery at NY Public Library (Billy Rose collection)

На других языках

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[de] Diana Hyland

Diana Hyland (* 25. Januar 1936 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio als Diana Gentner; † 27. März 1977 in Los Angeles) war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.[1]

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- [en] Diana Hyland

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[ru] Хайленд, Дайана

Дайа́на Ха́йленд (англ. Diana Hyland), урождённая — Ге́нтнер (англ. Genter; 25 января 1936, Кливленд-Хайтс, Огайо, США — 27 марта 1977, Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния, США) — американская актриса. Посмертно лауреат премии «Эмми» (1977) в номинации «Выдающиеся исполнение актрисой второго плана роли в комедии или драме» за роль Мики Любич из фильма «Под колпаком» (1976).

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