Full Name Rita Hernandez Role Film actress Cause of death Lung cancer Children Dean Devlin | Years active 1959-1972 Siblings Alana H. Lambros Name Pilar Seurat | |
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Occupation Film, television actress Died June 2, 2001, Los Angeles, California, United States Movies The Young Savages, Seven Women from Hell Spouse Don Cerveris (m. 1970–1981), Don Devlin (m. 1959–1963) Similar People | ||
STONEY BURKE THE WEAPONS MAN 4 8 1963 Henry Silva, Pilar Seurat Guest stars
SEAS OF LIBERTY US NAVY DOCUMENTARY Movie & SEAWAY MARIA Pilar Seurat Visitor Stars 2171966
Pilar Seurat (July 25, 1938 – June 2, 2001) was a Filipina-American film and television actress in the 1960s.
Contents
- STONEY BURKE THE WEAPONS MAN 4 8 1963 Henry Silva Pilar Seurat Guest stars
- SEAS OF LIBERTY US NAVY DOCUMENTARY Movie SEAWAY MARIA Pilar Seurat Visitor Stars 2171966
- Life and career
- Filmography
- References
Life and career
Born as Rita Hernandez in Manila, Seurat began her Hollywood career as a dancer in Ken Murray's "Blackouts", the popular postwar variety show at the El Capitan Theatre. Though she primarily played Asian characters, Seurat was adept at playing various nationalities; her breakthrough role was as Louisa Escalante, the blind murder victim's sister in John Frankenheimer's The Young Savages (1961).
Seurat was frequently cast on 1960s television shows that sought exotic beauties for Asian, Hispanic, or Native American roles including Adventures in Paradise, The Fugitive, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Seaway, Hawaiian Eye, The Virginian, Maverick, Bonanza, Stoney Burke, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O, I Spy, The Lieutenant and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
She married producer Don Devlin in 1959; the couple divorced in 1963. The couple's son is the producer Dean Devlin. In 1970, she married writer Don Cerveris and shortly afterwards retired from acting and began using the name Pilar Cerveris. This marriage ended in 1981.
She died of lung cancer in 2001. The 2002 horror-comedy film Eight Legged Freaks (produced by her son Dean) was dedicated to her.
Seurat's interment was in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.