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Diana Hyland

Highest Rated: 80% The Chase (1966)

Lowest Rated: 80% The Chase (1966)

Birthday: Jan 25, 1936

Birthplace: Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA

After graduating from high school in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where she'd been involved in summer stock theater, Diana Hyland moved to New York City to take her chances there. She got a job as a telephone operator, and began to get small acting roles. Soon she got into television, starting with an appearance on the drama "Robert Montgomery Presents" in 1955. In 1959, she appeared alongside Paul Newman and Geraldine Page in the Tennessee Williams drama "Sweet Bird of Youth," a major hit that ran for 375 performances and was nominated for four Tony Awards. At the same time, Hyland was making regular appearances as Gig Houseman Malone, the wife of the younger Dr. Malone on the soap-opera "Young Doctor Malone." Soon after that character was killed off, she decided to try her luck in Hollywood. It didn't take long for her to find success there, landing a role alongside Robert Redford in the Fred Astaire-hosted program "Alcoa Premiere," which featured a new story each week and was known for using big-name actors and writers. In 1976, she appeared as the title character's mother in the made-for-TV movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble," which starred John Travolta. (She would posthumously be awarded an Emmy for this role). The following year, she was seen as the matriarch, Joan Bradford, in four episodes of the family comedy-drama "Eight is Enough," before she was written out of the series because of her failing health.

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Highest rated movies

80% 73% The Chase
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47% The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
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Hercules
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The Things I Never Said
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50% Hercules and the Princess of Troy
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Hercules vs. the Sea Monster
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One Man's Way
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Scalplock
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40% Smoky
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Ritual of Evil
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet 47% The Boy in the Plastic Bubble Mickey Lubitch (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Things I Never Said Unknown (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Candidate for Murder Jennifer Pearson (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ritual of Evil Leila Barton (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scalplock Marta Grenier (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 40% Smoky Julie Richards (Character) - 1966
80% 73% The Chase Elizabeth Rogers (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sweet Taste of Vengeance Laura DeLinda Stevenson, Laura Murdoch (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hercules Princess Diana (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 50% Hercules and the Princess of Troy Princess Diana (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hercules vs. the Sea Monster Princess Diana (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Man's Way Ruth Stafford Peale (Character) - 1964

TV

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92% 96% The Twilight Zone Anne Henderson (Character) 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Eight Is Enough Joan Bradford (Character) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Happy Days Adriana (Guest Star) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Cleo Donatello (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barnaby Jones Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cannon Nedra Cameron (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Janice Graham (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harry O Unknown (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Dallas Fair (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dan August Phyllis Hendricks (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alias Smith and Jones Unknown (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marcus Welby, M.D. Cynthia Crowley (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Interns Unknown (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Peyton Place Susan Winter (Character) 1964-1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tarzan Diana Russell (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Penny (Guest Star) 1964-1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Felony Squad Cloris Harte (Guest Star) 1966
100% No Score Yet The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet 12 O'Clock High Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet 83% The Green Hornet Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Iron Horse Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Man Called Shenandoah Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wackiest Ship in the Army Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Burke's Law Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1963 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Hour Unknown (Character) 1963-1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train Unknown (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Greta Bauer (Guest Star) 1963