Patricia Smith (actress)
Patricia Smith | |
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Born | Patricia Harlan Smith February 20, 1930[1] |
Died | January 2, 2011[2] | (aged 80)
Alma mater | Skidmore College Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre Actors Studio |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1953–1997 |
Known for | |
Spouse | [3] |
Children | 2 |
Patricia Smith (born Patricia Harlan Smith; February 20, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress who performed on stage, in films, and on television from the early 1950s to the late 1990s.
Early life and education
Born in Connecticut in 1930, Patricia was the younger of two children of Virginia and E. Allen Smith Jr., who worked in New Haven as a salesman of plate glass.[4][5] She began her primary education in New Haven public schools and completed her secondary education in her father's native state of New Jersey, where by 1940 the Smith family had moved to the city of Summit and where Allen was employed as a representative for a paint manufacturer.[5] Then, during the late 1940s, Patricia obtained her higher education at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, majoring there in English and drama.[6]
Stage training
By 1950 Smith was residing in New York City and studying acting at the
Television and film careers
Smith appeared in a 1953 episode of
Smith appeared in
Smith was a regular on the 1969-70 short-lived television sitcom The Debbie Reynolds Show playing Reynolds' sister Charlotte. Smith also had an earlier role in the second season of Barnaby Jones, in the drama series' episode "Blind Terror". She had a recurring role too on The Bob Newhart Show during its initial season (1972–1973), played Jack Lemmon's wife in the 1973 feature film Save the Tiger, and appeared in the episode "You're Not Alone" from the 1977 anthology series Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected (known in the United Kingdom as Twist in the Tale).[citation needed] She also appeared on the TV series Highway to Heaven in the season-one episode "A Child of God".
Smith continued to perform in supporting roles on television and in films into the late 1990s. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the episode "Unnatural Selection", she plays the role of Sara Kingsley, a healthy young doctor in her mid 30s who quickly deteriorates physically and mentally due to being afflicted by accelerated aging. Her final film role was in the 1997 film Mad City.[11]
Personal life and death
Smith was married to John W. Lasell in 1964.[3] Before their divorce a decade later,[12] the couple had two sons, Joseph and Peter.[2] Smith, who had a "sixty-five year fight" with diabetes, died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California in 2011.[2]
Partial filmography
- The Bachelor Party (1957) - Helen Samson
- The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) - Mirror Girl
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961) (Season 6 Episode 16: "A Crime for Mothers") as Jane Birdwell
- Barney (1965, TV Movie) - Patricia
- Where's Everett (1966, TV Movie) - Sylvia Baker
- Paint Your Wagon (1969) - Dance Hall Girl (uncredited)
- The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969) - Tricia Grinaldi
- Helen Keller and Her Teacher (1970) - Mrs. Keller
- Save the Tiger (1973) - Janet Stoner
- Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973) - Mrs. Wilma Walford
- I Love You... Good-bye (1974) - Gwen
- A Case of Rape (1974, TV Movie) - Marge Bracken
- Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974, TV Movie) - Naomi
- Planet Earth (1974, TV Movie) - Skylar (uncredited)
- Returning Home (1975, TV Movie) - Mrs. Cameron
- Roots: The Next Generations (1979, TV Mini-Series) - Mrs. Randall
- Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979, TV Movie) - Marion Burke
- The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980, TV Movie) - Louise Knight
- Who Will Love My Children? (1983, TV Movie) - Cleta Thomas
- Making of a Male Model (1983, TV Movie) - Mrs. Rockwell
- Into Thin Air (1985, TV Movie) - Olga Conway
- Who Is Julia? (1986, TV Movie) - Marlene
- Mimi Me (1991, TV Movie)
- Malibu Summer (1993) - Patient's Wife
- Mad City (1997) - Jenny's Mother (final film role)
References
- ^ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, Patricia Harlan Smith, born February 20, 1930; died January 2, 2011; U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database, Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service. Retrieved via FamilySearch online archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 11, 2011.
- ^ a b c "LASELL, Patricia Smith", obituary, Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2011, p. AA7. Retrieved via ProQuest Historical Newspapers (Ann Arbor, Michigan); subscription access through The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Library, September 11, 2023.
- ^
- ^ "Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930 Population Schedule", digital copy of original enumeration page, family of E. Allan [sic] Smith Jr, New Haven City, New Haven County, Connecticut, April 4, 1930, Enumeration District (E.D.) 5-93; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. Retrieved via FamilySearch online archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 17, 2023; hereinafter cited "FamilySearch".
- ^ a b Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940 Population Schedule", digital copy of original enumeration page, family of E. Allen [sic] Smith Jr, Summit, Union County, New Jersey, April 10, 1940, Enumeration District (E.D.) [23]-155; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. Retrieved via FamilySearch, September 17, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Point of No Return", Playbill (New York), premiered at Alvin Theatre in Manhattan on December 13, 1951. Retrieved via Playbill, Inc., online archives, September 17, 2023.
- ^ Refer to internal link to Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for alumni listing.
- ^ "Patricia Smith Broadway debut", cast of Point of No Return, Internet Broadway Database (IBDB), The Broadway League, Manhattan, New York. Retrieved September 18, 2023.
- ^ "Obituaries". Los Angeles Times. January 5, 2011.
- ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
- ^ "Patricia Smith", cast member, Mad City (1997); Turner Classic Movies (Atlanta, Georgia). Retrieved September 12, 2023.
- ^ "California Divorce Index, 1966-1984," online database, Patricia H. Smith and John W. Lasell, April 1974; Los Angeles, California, Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento. Retrieved via FamilySearch online archives.