Patricia Breslin

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Patricia Rose Breslin (born March 17, 1931 in New York City , New York - † October 12, 2011 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American actress .

Life

Breslin was born in New York City to Edward and Marjorie Breslin. Her father was a judge . She attended the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School and the College of New Rochelle , a private Catholic college in New Rochelle .

Breslin worked as an actress since the late 1940s. She played in New York theater , worked in movies and worked for television . She was best known in the 1950s and 1960s as an actress in numerous television series . Her television career began in 1949 , according to the IMDb film database, with the role of Juliet in a television production of the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet . This was followed by several other theater productions for television.

In the NBC - sitcom The People's Choice , she played from 1953 to the side of Jackie Cooper , a continuous series starring; she played Cooper's wife Amanda 'Mandy' Peoples Miller. In 1954 she had a guest role in the crime series Justice ; in the episode Guilty Secret , she was seen alongside Peter Mark Richman as a young woman who is threatened by criminals. In the US television series Twilight Zone , she was seen in two main episode roles: first in 1960 in the episode Nick of Time as Pat Carter, as a newlywed wife whose husband, played by William Shatner , from a machine that can predict the future in Spell is drawn. In 1963, she was seen in the episode No Time Like The Past at the side of Dana Andrews , in love with a man who uses a time machine to change events in the past.

In the soap opera Peyton Place , she took over 20 episodes of a continuous series lead role as Laura Harrington Brooks in 1964/1965. She played the widow of a doctor and secretary in a hospital. In the hospital series General Hospital , she played the continuous role of the nurse Meg Bentley Baldwin from 1966 to 1969.

She also had episode roles and guest roles in numerous other American television series, including Maverick (1959), Outlaws (1960), Kein Fall für FBI (1960), Perry Mason (1960–1963), West of Santa Fé (1961) , Bonanza (1962), Dr. Kildare (1963) and The People at Shiloh Ranch (1964).

Private

Breslin was married twice. Her first marriage to actor David Orrick McDearmon (1914–1979) has two sons, John and David. In 1969 she married the American businessman Art Model (* 1925), the President of the Cleveland Browns (1961–1995) and later President of the Baltimore Ravens (1996–2004). After their marriage, Breslin withdrew from the film business, devoted himself to her family and took on duties as a society lady.

In Cleveland , Breslin held fundraisers for the Cleveland Musical Arts Association, the Cleveland Ballet, and the Playhouse Square Foundation. Breslin served on various governing bodies of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Walters Art Museum . Breslin and Modell were the sponsors and financial backers of the Baltimore Museum of Art , donating $ 3.5 million to the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore; this is now called Patricia and Arthur Model Performing Arts Center at the Lyric .

Breslin died on October 12, 2011 at the age of 80 after an extended hospital stay of several months of complications from pancreatitis .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: The Philco Television Playhouse ( Romeo and Juliet )
  • 1953–1958: The People's Choice (TV series)
  • 1954: Justice (TV series, episode)
  • 1954: Artists of Sports (Go, Man, Go!)
  • 1959: Maverick (TV series, an episode)
  • 1960: Outlaws (TV series, an episode)
  • 1960: No case for FBI (The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor) (TV series, episode)
  • 1960–1963: Incredible Stories (The Twilight Zone) (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1960–1963: Perry Mason (TV series, three episodes)
  • 1961: West of Santa Fé (The Rifleman) (TV series, an episode)
  • 1961: Los Angeles Location (The New Bread) (TV series, episode)
  • 1962: The Donna Reed Show (TV series, an episode)
  • 1962: Bonanza (TV series, an episode)
  • 1963: Dr. Kildare (TV series, episode)
  • 1964: The People at Shiloh Ranch (The Virginian) (TV series, an episode)
  • 1964–1965: Peyton Place (TV series)
  • 1965: It happened at 8:30 a.m. (I Saw What You Did)
  • 1966–1969: General Hospital (TV series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Patricia Breslin, Actress and Wife of Former Ravens Owner, Dies at 80 Obituary in: New York Times, October 13, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c d e Patricia Breslin Model dies  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Variety of October 12, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
personal data
SURNAME Breslin, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breslin, Patricia Rose (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2011
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland