Diane Shalet Strong; actress, teacher, novelist

[Hyfler/Rosner]

STRONG--Diane Shalet. On February 23, 2006 in Palm Springs.
Founder of the Actors and Writers Lab in Manhattan, she was
a charter member of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre
under the direction of Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan. She
taught acting at UCLA and was a teaching associate of Robert
Lewis for 14 years. A resident of Manhattan and Los Angeles,
Diane acted in Broadway, Off Broadway, films (The Reivers,
The Last Tycoon) and T.V. (The Waltons, Perry Mason, The
Monkees). She was the author of ''Greece in a Sunny
Climate'', a comedic novel about a grieving L.A. widow. She
was preceded in death by her husband, actor Michael Strong.
Her many friends will miss her wit and warmth. Tributes in
Diane's memory may be made to UNAIDS (www.unaids.org) or
Actors Fund of America (www.actorsfund.org)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787726/

[Hyfler/Rosner]

Pd obits, NY Times today

"Hyfler/Rosner" <rel...@rcn.com> wrote in message
news:3f2dnVVOmqzVmJjZ...@rcn.net...

> STRONG--Diane Shalet. On February 23, 2006 in Palm
> Springs. Founder of the Actors and Writers Lab in
> Manhattan, she was a charter member of the Lincoln Center
> Repertory Theatre under the direction of Robert Whitehead
> and Elia Kazan. She taught acting at UCLA and was a
> teaching associate of Robert Lewis for 14 years. A
> resident of Manhattan and Los Angeles, Diane acted in
> Broadway, Off Broadway, films (The Reivers, The Last
> Tycoon) and T.V. (The Waltons, Perry Mason, The Monkees).
> She was the author of ''Greece in a Sunny Climate'', a
> comedic novel about a grieving L.A. widow. She was
> preceded in death by her husband, actor Michael Strong.

Here on the Star Trek Memorial page
http://home.teleport.com/~vli/memorial.htm

[bway...@gmail.com]

http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=93492
Interesting that her Broadway debut in 1964 was in AFTER THE FALL,
where she played one of the nurses. The other nurse was Faye Dunaway -
who, ten years later, played the female lead in a TV adaptation.

[robertc...@yahoo.com]

Hyfler/Rosner wrote:
> Pd obits, NY Times today
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> Here on the Star Trek Memorial page
> http://home.teleport.com/~vli/memorial.htm
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So many familiar faces here. I've bookmarked the page. Thanks!

[Brad Ferguson]

In article <1141186138....@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
<robertc...@yahoo.com> wrote:

The pic of Morgan Farley on that page is actually a pic of Torin
Thatcher, who died on 4 March 1983 and is not listed on the page. Both
Farley and Thatcher were in "Return of the Archons."

Woudl the real Morgan Farley please stand up?:

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/images/8/89/Hacom.jpg

[deb...@comcast.net]

Diane Shalet, Teacher and Broadway Actress, Is Dead
By Robert Simonson, Playbill
01 Mar 2006

Diane Shalet, an actress and teacher who was a charter member of the
Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre, died Feb. 23 in Palm Springs, the New
York Times reported. No age was given.

Ms. Shalet worked with director Eli Kazan and producer Robert Whitehead
in the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre, the first theatrical
organization to inhabit Lincoln Center. Her first play there, and first
Broadway credit, was the premiere of Arthur Miller's After the Fall
in 1964. With the same company, she acted in S.N. Behrman's But For
Whom Charlie, Moliere's Tartuffe, Danton's Death and the classic
The Changling.

As an acting teacher, she taught at UCLA and was a teaching associate
with Robert Lewis for 14 years.

On television she appeared in everything from "The Monkees,"
"Bonanza" and "All in the Family" to "Little House on the
Prarie," "The Incredible Hulk" and "Cagney & Lacey." She
played a recurring character on "Matlock." Her films included
"The Last Tycoon," which was directed by Kazan. In 1994, she
published the novel "Grief in a Sunny Climate."