- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 25, 1936
- Place of Birth
- Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
- Died
- March 27, 1977
Diana Hyland
Diana Hyland, a striking, knowing beauty with a confident air about her, was born Diane Gentner on January 25, 1936, in Ohio and appeared on stage in summer stock as a teen before graduating from Cleveland Heights High School. Moving to New York in 1955 to test her acting mettle, the slim-faced, honey-blonde actress began to find TV roles almost immediately (one of her first being a "Robert Montgomery Presents" episode) in between supplementing her income as a switchboard operator. Initially billed Diane Gentner, she changed it to Diana Hyland (taking her mother's maiden name). Following a tour of the play "Look Back in Anger," she broke through quite impressively on the Broadway boards as the neurotic ingénue in the acclaimed 1959 Tennessee Williams production of "Sweet Bird of Youth" starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page. Her role of Heavenly Finley could have made her a film star h…
Filmography
tvEight Is Enough
1977 · Joan Bradford
movieThe Boy in the Plastic Bubble
1976 · Mickey Lubitch
tvS.W.A.T.
1975
tvHarry O
1974
tvHappy Days
1974
tvKojak
1973 · Cleo Donatello
tvHawkins
1973 · Jennifer Pearson
tvThe ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1972
tvBanyon
1972
tvSearch
1972
tvCannon
1971
tvAlias Smith and Jones
1971
movieRitual of Evil
1970 · Leila Barton
tvMedical Center
1969
tvThe Name of the Game
1968 · Lisa Adrian
movieJigsaw
1968 · Sarah
tvMannix
1967 · Janice Graham
tvJudd, for the Defense
1967
tvIronside
1967
tvThe Invaders
1967 · Sherri Vikor, Ellie Markham
tvFelony Squad
1966
tvThe Iron Horse
1966 · Marta Grenier
tvThe Green Hornet
1966 · Claudia Bromley
tvTarzan
1966 · Diana Russell
movieSmoky
1966 · Julie Richards
movieScalplock
1966 · Martha Grenier
movieThe Chase
1966 · Elizabeth Rogers
tvThe F.B.I.
1965 · Marie-Luise Karn, Virginia Lamberth, Joanne Kinston, Pat Laner
tvRun for Your Life
1965 · Eileen Henderson, Diana Hays
movieHercules and the Princess of Troy
1965 · Princess Diana
tvThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Miranda Bryant / Irina, Mara
tvPeyton Place
1964 · Susan Winter
tvThe Rogues
1964 · Celeste Martel
movieOne Man's Way
1964 · Ruth Stafford Peale
tvKraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Laura DeLinda Stevenson / Laura Murdoch
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
tvBurke's Law
1963 · Laurel Peachey
tvThe Fugitive
1963 · Stella Savano, Carol Hollister, Penny, Alison Priestley
tvStoney Burke
1962
tvThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Janet Nelson, Grace Renford
tvSam Benedict
1962
tvAlcoa Premiere
1961
tvBen Casey
1961
tvDr. Kildare
1961 · Dr. Lilith McGraw, Marguerite Williams
tvThe Twilight Zone
1959 · Anne Henderson / Rider in Black
Young Doctor Malone
1958
tvNaked City
1958 · Vivian North
tvGunsmoke
1955 · Dallas Fair
tvRobert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Judy