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Diana Douglas is a Actor British born on 22 january 1923 at Bermuda (United-kingdom)

Diana Douglas

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Birth name Diana Love Dill
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 january 1923 at Bermuda (United-kingdom)
Death 3 july 2015 (at 92 years)

Diana Love Webster (née Dill; formerly Douglas and Darrid; January 22, 1923 – July 3, 2015) was a Bermudian-born American actress. She was known for her marriage to actor Kirk Douglas, from 1943 until their divorce in 1951. She was the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas.

In 1942, Douglas began her career as an actress and appeared in more than 50 films. Some of her well-known roles were as Susan Rogers in The Indian Fighter (co-starring Kirk Douglas) and as Peg in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. She was also known for her recurring role as Martha Evans in Days of Our Lives (1977–1979, 1982). In 2003, she appeared in It Runs in the Family with her ex-husband Kirk and son Michael. She retired from acting in 2008.

Biography

Dill was married to Kirk Douglas. During the war, Douglas was serving in the U.S. Navy when he saw the May 3, 1943, issue of Life magazine, which featured a photograph of Dill on the cover. He showed the cover to his shipmates and said that he would marry her. The two were married on November 2, 1943. They had two sons, Michael and Joel, before divorcing in 1951.

She married actor Bill Darrid, and the couple lived with her sons on the East Coast of the United States until his death in 1992. In 2002 Douglas married Donald Webster in the old Devonshire Parish Church in Bermuda.

Usually with

Don Devlin
Don Devlin
(2 films)
Gordon Willis
Gordon Willis
(2 films)
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
(2 films)
John Hughes
John Hughes
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Diana Douglas (20 films)

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Actress

It Runs in the Family, 1h49
Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Kirk Douglas, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Rory Culkin, Bernadette Peters, Michael Douglas
Roles Evelyn Gromberg
Rating55% 2.7515152.7515152.7515152.7515152.751515
The story involves a highly successful New York City family, each with its set of problems, and highlights the difficulties of the father-son relationship. Mitchell Gromberg is trying to deal with health problems resulting from a stroke. (Kirk Douglas himself suffered a stroke in 1996.) His son, Alex, works as a lawyer in the firm that his father founded, but is questioning the usefulness of his work and his place in the family. Alex's son, Asher, does not take college seriously and seems lost. The youngest son Eli, while extremely intelligent, is entering a difficult pre-adolescent time, while being socially awkward.
Cold Heaven, 1h45
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Theresa Russell, Mark Harmon, James Russo, Will Patton, Richard Bradford, Julie Carmen
Roles Mother St. Agnes
Rating51% 2.5551552.5551552.5551552.5551552.555155
The plot concerns a lapsed Catholic, Marie Davenport (played by Theresa Russell), who is about to leave her husband Alex (played by Mark Harmon) for her lover, Daniel (played by James Russo), when Alex is apparently killed in a boating accident and then seems to have risen from the dead. The film deals with Marie's dilemma in confronting this apparent miracle.
Switching Channels, 1h45
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about television, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, George Newbern
Roles Upper Class Woman
Rating59% 2.951452.951452.951452.951452.95145
Sullivan (Reynolds) is the operations manager of Satellite News Network, a fictitious cable TV news channel. He tries to prevent the impending marriage of Colleran (Turner), his best reporter and ex-wife, by keeping her on the job during the critical news coverage of an upcoming execution and prison break.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1h33
Directed by John Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Rail transport films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Dylan Baker
Roles Peg
Rating75% 3.7976853.7976853.7976853.7976853.797685
Neal Page is trying to return to his family for Thanksgiving in Chicago after being on a business trip in New York City, but is held up by an advertising executive who spends the entirety of the meeting looking at the three pictures to choose to launch their ad. On their way out, he tries to find a cab and successfully hails one, but is beaten to the punch by another man (Kevin Bacon in a cameo appearance). Del Griffith, a traveling salesman, interferes by leaving his trunk by the side of the road causing Neal to trip while racing a man for a cab, then inadvertently snatching the taxi ride that Neal bought from an attorney. The two meet again on the flight from JFK Airport to O'Hare; the plane is diverted to Wichita due to a blizzard in Chicago. What should have been a 1-hour and 45-minute New York-to-Chicago flight turns into a three-day ordeal, in which everything that can go wrong does.
The Star Chamber, 1h49
Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Serial killer films, Films about capital punishment, Children's films
Actors Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, Larry Hankin, James Sikking
Roles Adrian Caulfield
Rating62% 3.146673.146673.146673.146673.14667
Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles jurist who gets frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of two men who are accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old boy. They were driving slowly late at night and attracted the suspicion of two police officers, who wondered if the van's occupants might be burglars. After checking the license plate for violations, the policemen pulled them over for expired paperwork, claimed to have smelled marijuana, then saw a bloody shoe inside the van. However, the paperwork was actually submitted on time (it was merely processed late), meaning the police had no reason to pull over the van and Hardin has no choice (see fruit of the poisonous tree) but to throw out any subsequently discovered evidence, i.e. the bloody shoe. Hardin is even more distraught when the father of the boy attempts to shoot the criminals in court but misses and shoots a cop instead. Subsequently, the father commits suicide while in jail only after he informs Hardin that another boy has been discovered raped and murdered and tells him "This one is on you, your Honor. That boy would be alive if you hadn't let those men go." After hearing all this, Judge Hardin approaches his friend, Judge Caulfield (Hal Holbrook), who tells him of a modern-day Star Chamber: a group of judges who identify criminals who fell through the judicial system's cracks and then take actions against them outside the legal structure.
Sister, Sister, 1h38
Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Actors Diahann Carroll, Irene Cara, Rosalind Cash, Dick Anthony Williams, Paul Winfield, Robert Hooks
Roles Rhoda
Rating77% 3.85953.85953.85953.85953.8595
The story starts out with Caroline Lovejoy (Carroll) singing in the church choir at the local church. It is later revealed that she is having an intense affair with the church's reverend. She later comes home to find her younger sister, Sissy (Cara), with her boyfriend, Johnny. It is expressed that Sissy is an aspiring ice skater, but Caroline wants her to follow in her footsteps and become a schoolteacher.
A Fire in the Sky, 2h30
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Disaster films
Actors Richard Crenna, Elizabeth Ashley, David Dukes, Joanna Miles, Lloyd Bochner, Andrew Duggan
Roles Mrs. Rearden
Rating59% 2.999282.999282.999282.999282.99928
While reviewing pictures of the planet Jupiter, astronomer Jennifer Dreiser (Joanna Miles) discovers a new comet streaking through space. The joy of finding the comet is short-lived, however, when it is determined that it may hit the Earth in just eight days. Dreiser is summoned to see the President (Andrew Duggan) at his vacation home, along with a number of other experts, to discuss the situation. Astronomer Jason Voight (Richard Crenna), a specialist in near-Earth objects, shocks the group by telling them that the comet will hit within 50 miles of Phoenix. Voight urges the President to order an evacuation of Phoenix and the surrounding area, but the President ultimately leaves that decision in the hands of Arizona's governor, Michael Ritchie (Nicolas Coster). The President does order the MIRV nosecone of a Minuteman ICBM be launched into space aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket, so that an attempt can be made at destroying the comet.
Another Man, Another Chance, 2h12
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell, Richard Farnsworth, Christopher Lloyd
Roles Mary's Mother
Rating61% 3.099063.099063.099063.099063.09906
France in 1870: Napoleon III has just lost the war against Prussia and left the country in poverty.
Mary White
Mary White (1977)
, 1h42
Directed by Jud Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ed Flanders, Fionnula Flanagan, Kathleen Beller, Tim Matheson, Donald Moffat, Diana Douglas
Roles Jane Addams
Rating64% 3.233333.233333.233333.233333.23333
In Emporia, Kansas, in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Mary Katherine White, a teenage girl, comes of age. Having grown up in wealth and privilege, as a result she meets famous people of the day. In 1921, at age 16, she dies in a riding accident. Her story is recounted in flashback style by her father, a famous editor, author and publisher.
Loving
Loving (1970)
, 1h29
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, David Doyle, Edgar Stehli
Roles Mrs. Shavelson
Rating60% 3.049153.049153.049153.049153.04915
Brooks Wilson (George Segal) is a busy man, juggling his work as a commercial artist with a marriage to Selma (Eva Marie Saint) and two young daughters. He also has a girlfriend on the side named Grace (Janis Young) who wants him to commit to her, but he cannot do it.
The Indian Fighter, 1h25
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas, Walter Abel, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Susan Rogers
Rating62% 3.148293.148293.148293.148293.14829
Johnny Hawks is a man who made his name fighting Indians. Returning to the West after the Civil War he must now keep wronged Sioux warriors from massacring the Oregon-bound wagon train he is leading and the nearby fort.
Monsoon
Monsoon (1952)
, 1h19
Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ursula Thiess, Diana Douglas, George Nader, Ellen Corby, Philip Stainton, Myron Daniel Healey
Roles Julia
Rating46% 2.34852.34852.34852.34852.3485
A well established gentleman falls in love with his fiancé's sister.