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The unfaithful wife of a physician watches in horror as her husband is run over by a speedboat near Acapulco. His body then disappears from a hospital autopsy slab! In HD.
(Alex Gromberg (Michael Douglas) is a man caught in the mi...)
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Diana Dill was a Bermudian-born American actress, who has also appeared professionally under the names Diana Douglas and Diana Douglas Darrid. Some of her well-known roles were as Susan Rogers in The Indian Fighter (co-starring Kirk Douglas) and as Peg in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Background
Diana was born on January 22, 1923, in Bermuda, a daughter of Thomas M. (attorney general of Bermuda) and Ruth (a homemaker; maiden name, Neilson) Dill. Her sister Ruth was married to John Seward Johnson I, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune.
Education
Diana attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art.
In 1942, Diana began her career in a minor, uncredited role in Keeper of the Flame. She went on to appear in many films during the 1950s and 1960s, one of her most notable roles arguably being Susan Rogers in The Indian Fighter. During the 1960s and 1970s, she appeared in a variety of television programs (such as the General Electric Theater and Naked City), her best known television role being Lily Chernak Donnelly on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.
She played Poco on Three Steps to Heaven and Martha Evans in Days of Our Lives. Following the cancellation of Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, she played Annie Andersen in The Cowboys. She appeared in Roots: The Next Generations and The Waltons. In It Runs in the Family, Douglas appeared with her former husband, Kirk Douglas, son Michael and grandson Cameron, and later appeared on an episode of CBS's Cold Case and in the Season 15 ER episode "Heal Thyself" (2008), the year that she retired from acting.
In 1999, her autobiography, In the Wings: A Memoir, was published. She retired from acting in 2008.
On July 3, 2015, Douglas, a breast cancer survivor, died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.
Diana Douglas will always be remembered as the wife of a Hollywood superstar Kirk Douglas and the mother of Michael Douglas, but she had ambitions of her own in television and cinema and achieved some success. She appeared in more than 20 films, including “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and “It Runs in the Family,” in addition to TV roles on “The West Wing” and “Love is a Many Splendored Thing.”
(Alex Gromberg (Michael Douglas) is a man caught in the mi...)
2003
Membership
Diana Douglas was a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Interests
art, opera, travel, tennis, golf
Connections
Dill was married to Kirk Douglas. The two had met as acting students before the Second World War. The two were married on November 2, 1943. They had two sons, Michael and Joel, before divorcing in 1951.
She married actor Bill Darrid, and the couple lived with her sons on the East Coast of the United States until his death in 1992.
In 2002, Douglas married Donald Webster in the old Devonshire Parish Church in Bermuda.