Bethel Leslie

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Bethel Leslie (born August 3, 1929 in New York City , † November 28, 1999 there ) was an American actress and screenwriter .

Life

The daughter of a lawyer attended the Brearley School in New York . Bethel Leslie was discovered as a high school student by producer George Abbott , who cast her for his Broadway comedy Snafu when she was 15 . More productions followed, and she soon got her first offers from Hollywood.

Though Bethel Leslie has made regular appearances since The Rabbit Trap , her first film in 1958, she is best known as a television actress. Along with Vera Miles and Beverly Garland , she was one of the most sought-after guest actresses on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Leslie played almost every role, from kidnap victim to cold-blooded murderess - in Perry Mason she was on trial three times as a defendant. Other well-known series in which she appeared were Bonanza , Auf der Flucht , High Chaparral , The People of the Shiloh Ranch , Mannix and Kung Fu . In 1970 she starred in the historical drama Cursed Until Judgment at the side of Sean Connery .

Bethel Leslie also worked as a screenwriter, so she wrote episodes for various television series, including Smoking Guns , A Sheriff in New York and Falcon Crest .

From the beginning of the 1980s, Leslie was mostly on stage again. In 1986, she starred alongside Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey in the Broadway play Long Day's Journey Into Night , for which she was nominated for a Tony . Her recent film and television productions include the miniseries in Cold Blood  (1996) and the film Message in a Bottle  (1998).

Bethel Leslie died of cancer in 1999 at the age of 70.

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SURNAME Leslie, Bethel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1999
Place of death New York City , New York , United States