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Profile of Joan Hackett
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1st March 1934 |
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East Harlem, New York City, New York, USA |
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Joan Hackett (March 1, 1934 - October 8, 1983) was a New York City-born American actress of Irish and Italian extraction, who appeared on stage, in films and on television.
Her immigrant parents, both of whom died of cancer, raised her Roman Catholic and sent her to Catholic schools, which she did not always attend punctually. Hackett debuted with the role of Gail Prentiss in the TV series Young Dr. Malone (1958) in 1959. She had a leading role in the Twilight Zone episode A Piano in the House (1962). She had one of the starring roles in the 1966 Sidney Lumet film The Group along with Candice Bergen, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Pettet, and others.
One of the roles she's best remembered for, perhaps, is the role of Catherine Allen in the western Will Penny (1968) with Charlton Heston. Hackett also has a notable part in the classic Western comedy Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) with James Garner. After this she primarily had parts in TV movies and on episodes of TV series.
Hackett won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1981 movie Only When I Laugh, the last movie she made before her death.
She was married to the late actor Richard Mulligan, who also appeared in the movie The Group, from 1965 to 1973. (1)
Joan Hackett lost her battle against ovarian cancer at Encino Hospital in California in 1983 at the age of 49. She is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Partial Filmography
1966 The Group
1968 Will Penny
1969 Support Your Local Sheriff!
1973 The Last of Sheila
1977 Dead of Night
1981 Only When I Laugh
Selected TV Guest Appearances
1962 The Twilight Zone (1959) playing "Esther Fortune" in episode: "A Piano in the House" (episode # 3.22) 16 February
1962 Gunsmoke (1955) playing "Mady Arthur" in episode: "The Widow" (episode # 7.25) 24 March
1963 Combat! (1962) playing "Gabrille" in episode: "The Chateau" (episode # 1.19) 12 February
1965 Bonanza (1959) playing "Margarita Miguel" in episode: "Woman of Fire" (episode # 6.17) 17 January
1979 Trapper John, M.D. (1979) playing "Wilma" in episode: "The Surrogate" (episode # 1.10) 23 December
External link
- Joan Hackett at the Internet Movie Database
- Biography from various sources
- All Movie Guide Review of her episode of The Twilight Zone
- Review of her episode of Combat!
- All Movie Guide Plot sypnosis of her 1965 Bonanza episode
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