Full Name Diana Gentner Name Diana Hyland Cause of death Breast Cancer Role Film actress | Occupation Actress Children Zachary Goodson Years active 1955–1977 | |
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Spouse Joe Goodson (m. 1969–1975) Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama or Comedy Special Movies and TV shows Similar People John Travolta, Connie Needham, Laurie Walters, Dianne Kay, Glynnis O'Connor | ||
Diana hyland
Diana Hyland (January 25, 1936 – March 27, 1977) was an American stage, film and television actress.
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Career
Hyland was born Diana Gentner ( or Diane Gentner, according to some sources) in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She made her acting debut in 1955 at age 19 in an episode of Robert Montgomery Presents. Over the next decade she appeared often in guest and supporting roles in various television series, including Naked City, The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, The Invaders and The Twilight Zone, before being cast in the feature film The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford.
In 1959, she originated the role on Broadway of Heavenly Finley in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, appearing with Geraldine Page and Paul Newman. In 1966, she co-starred in the movie Smoky in which she played Julie Richards, owner of the Rockin' R Ranch, who falls in love with Clint Barkeley (Fess Parker), owner of Smokey, a black stallion turned cutting horse. The same year she appeared in an episode of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Candidate's Wife Affair", with Leo G. Carroll. From 1958 to 1963, Hyland was a regular on the NBC soap opera Young Doctor Malone, playing Gig Houseman, wife of the younger Dr. Malone. She had a continuing role in the prime-time soap opera Peyton Place from 1968 to 1969. She appeared in the 1976 television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, for which she won a posthumous Emmy Award. The following year, she co-starred with Dick Van Patten in the series Eight Is Enough, but appeared in only four episodes prior to her death.
Personal life
Hyland dated actor Joe Goodson briefly before they were married on April 24, 1969. Their son Zachary Goodson was born in 1973. They divorced in 1975.
She began a romantic relationship with actor John Travolta, 18 years her junior, in 1976 after meeting him on the set of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.
Death
Hyland was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977, and underwent a mastectomy. However, the cancer spread and her health deteriorated. Hyland and Travolta remained together until her death, in Travolta's arms, on March 27, 1977, in Los Angeles. After Hyland's death, her son was placed in Goodson's custody.