Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Ada Driver , better known as Phyllis Diller (born July 17, 1917 in Lima , Ohio , † August 20, 2012 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American comedian and actress .
She was considered the pioneer of stand-up comediennes in the United States and thus a pioneer of comedians such as Rita Rudner , Totie Fields , Joan Rivers , Lily Tomlin , Sandra Bernhard , Joy Behar , Rosie O'Donnell and Roseanne Barr .
Life
Phyllis Ada Driver was the daughter of Perry Marcus Driver and his wife Frances Ada Romshe. She attended Central High School in Lima and studied piano at the Sherwood Music Conservatory in Chicago for three years before receiving a scholarship to Bluffton University in Bluffton , Ohio. The future showmaster and writer Hugh Downs was her fellow student. In the mid-1950s, she appeared regularly on the Jack Couple Show and was a contestant on Groucho Marx 's quiz show You Bet Your Life . She subsequently made regular appearances at the Purple Onion , a well-known nightclub in San Francisco .
She gained greater fame through appearances on the side of Bob Hope , with whom she was seen in a total of 23 television programs and three movies. Although the films were financial failures, Hope invited them to appear together in 1966 as part of the US troop support in Vietnam .
She appeared regularly on American television in the 1960s and played supporting roles in films such as Fever in the Blood of Elia Kazan . In the ABC - sitcom The Pruitt of Southampton , she took the lead role in 1966 and 1968 had their own entertainment show The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show .
Phyllis Diller was married three times:
- 1939-1965 with Sherwood Anderson Diller (divorced); from this marriage there were six children;
- 1965–1975 with Warde Donovan (divorced)
- with Robert P. Hastings from 1985 until his death in 1996.
Diller suffered a heart attack in 1999 and from then on lived with a pacemaker. On August 20, 2012, she died at the age of 95 in her Los Angeles home.
Filmography (selection)
- 1961: Fever in the Blood (Splendor in the Grass)
- 1966: Completely wrongly connected! (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!)
- 1966: Batman (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1966–1967: The Pruitts of Southampton (TV series, 30 episodes)
- 1968: Where can you get beer at the front, please? (The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell)
- 1969: Mini-Max ( Get Smart ; TV series, 1 episode)
- 1975: The Sunny Boys (The Sunshine Boys)
- 1975: Uncle Croc's Block (TV series, 16 episodes)
- 1979: The HLM Puff-Company (A Pleasure Doing Business)
- 1979/1982: Love Boat (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1982: Pink Motel
- 1985 The Jefferson ( The Jefferson ; TV series, episode 1)
- 1987: Alice in the Land of the Magic Mirror ( Alice Through the Looking Glass ; TV movie)
- 1988: Full House (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1988: Dr. Hackenstein (Doctor Hackenstein)
- 1990: The Nutcracker Prince (The Nutcracker Prince) (voice)
- 1994: The Silence of the Mutton (Il silenzio dei prosciutti)
- 1994: Life and Me ( Boy Meets World ; TV series, 1 episode)
- 1997–2012: Reich und Schön ( The Bold and the Beautiful ; TV series, 17 episodes)
- 1998: A Bug's Life (A Bug's Life) (voice)
- 1998: Diagnosis: Murder ( Diagnosis Murder ; TV series, 1 episode)
- 1999–2003: A Heavenly Family ( 7th Heaven ; TV series, 3 episodes)
- 2001/2002: Titus (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2002/2004: Jimmy Neutron (TV series, 2 episodes) (voice)
- 2006–2007: Family Guy (TV series, 3 episodes) (voice)
- 2007: Boston Legal (TV series, 1 episode)
- 2009: Family Dinner (short film)
Awards
- 1966: Golden Apple Awards
- 1967: Golden Globe (nominated)
- 1967: Laurel Award (nominated)
- 2000: Lucy Award
- 2004: Governor's Award at the San Diego Film Festival
- Walk of Fame in St. Louis
literature
- Phyllis Diller. In: Susan Horowitz: Queens of Comedy. Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers and the New Generation of Funny Women (= Studies in Humor and Gender. 2). Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam et al. 1997, ISBN 2-88449-243-7 , pp. 45-63, (English).
- Phyllis Diller, Richard Buskin: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse. My Life in Comedy. Thorndike Press, Waterville ME 2005, ISBN 0-7862-7557-X .
Web links
- Phyllis Diller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Phyllis Diller in the nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timeline and Marriages of Phyllis Diller on the website marriage.about.com, quoting Diller's autobiography Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy , p. 223
- ↑ Phyllis Diller Dead - Legendary Comic Dies at 95 . US celebrity portal TMZ.com. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diller, Phyllis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Driver, Phyllis Ada |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comedian and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lima (Ohio) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 2012 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |