Pat Silver-Lasky | |
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| Born | Barbara Hayden Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Other names | Pat Silver |
| Occupation | Actress, screenwriter, writer |
| Years active | 1948–present |
| Spouse(s) | Tony Romano (1946–?) Jesse Lasky Jr. (1959–1988) Peter Betts (1997 - present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | patsilver-lasky |
Barbara Hayden, usually known professionally as Pat Silver or Pat Silver-Lasky, is an American actress, screenwriter, and writer, mostly known for her collaborations with her second husband, Jesse Lasky Jr.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Silver-Lasky attended the University of Washington as a drama major, as well as Stanford University and Reed College. Silver-Lasky worked in films and TV under her birth name, Barbara Hayden. [1] When she played the lead in an episode of Rescue 8 and went on to write three more episodes, she took the pen name Pat Silver.
Silver-Lasky wrote four books with her second husband, Jesse, including the best-selling historical novel The Offer, eight films, nearly 100 TV scripts, including the award-winning "Explorers" series ("Ten Who Dared" in the United States). Their verse play Ghost Town won several awards in the U.S. In 1984 and 1986, their TV series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye won three awards in the USA and in the Netherlands.
In 1987, Pat and Jesse wrote the play Vivien based on their book Love Scene, the story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Pat directed its highly acclaimed first production at the Melrose Theatre in Los Angeles (1987) and directed the London rehearsed reading of Viven in 1992.
Silver-Lasky produced, wrote, directed, and acted in the first live TV drama series from Hollywood, Mabel's Fables, for KTLA (Paramount Pictures), which received an Emmy nomination. She also appeared in feature roles in films, played leading and co-starring roles on television, and directed for the theater in Los Angeles and Palm Springs.
As an ASCAP writer, she wrote lyrics for 14 published and recorded songs, including "While You're Young" for Johnny Mathis's album Portrait of Johnny. She wrote the lyrics for two films at Columbia Studios.
Silver-Lasky served as a story editor on the second Marlowe series (see credits). Silver-Lasky has written articles and interviews, contributed to various British antique journals and written short stories for international magazines, including a 1999 series of romantic short stories for A World of Romance.
Silver-Lasky has lectured on script writing at several American universities, and was script consultant and guest lecturer at the London International Film School for eight years until 1999.
In 1946, Silver-Lasky married the composer, singer, and guitarist Tony Romano, [2] [ better source needed ] with whom she has a son, producer, arranger, and guitarist Richard Niles, [3] and a daughter, Lisa Hayden Miller, a singer, restaurateur, chef and cookbook writer, author of Galley Guru. [4] In 1959, she married Hollywood screenwriter and author Jesse L. Lasky Jr., son of the film pioneer Jesse Lasky. Jesse Lasky Jr. died in 1988. In 1995, Silver-Lasky met British cartoonist Peter Betts, known as Peeby, and they married in 1997. [4] They lived in London but moved to Orange County, California, in 2009. [5]
Trent's Last Case is a detective novel written by E. C. Bentley and first published in 1913. Its central character, the artist and amateur detective Philip Trent, reappeared subsequently in the novel Trent's Own Case (1936), and the short-story collection Trent Intervenes (1938).
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American sitcom television series created by Philip Rosenthal that aired on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005, with a total of 210 episodes spanning nine seasons. It was produced by Where's Lunch and Worldwide Pants Incorporated, in association with HBO Independent Productions. The cast members were Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Madylin Sweeten, and Monica Horan. Most episodes of the nine-season series were filmed in front of a live studio audience.
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The Long Goodbye is a 1973 American neo-noir satirical mystery crime thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who co-wrote the screenplay for Chandler's The Big Sleep in 1946. The film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe and features Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, Mark Rydell and an early uncredited appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Jesse Louis Lasky Jr. was an American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet.
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"Leonard Betts" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on January 26, 1997. It was written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz, directed by Kim Manners, and featured a guest appearance by Paul McCrane as Leonard Betts/Albert Tanner. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Leonard Betts" was Fox's lead-out program following Super Bowl XXXI and was the most watched episode of the series, receiving a Nielsen household rating of 17.2, being watched by 29.1 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received positive reviews, with critics commenting positively on the character of Betts and McCrane's performance.
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"Home Invasion" is the second episode of the first season of the television series American Horror Story, which premiered on the network FX on October 12, 2011. The episode was co-written by series co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.
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"Nana's Party" is the fifth episode of the second series of the British dark comedy anthology television programme Inside No. 9. It was first broadcast on 23 April 2015 on BBC Two. Written and directed by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, the episode starred Claire Skinner as the obsessive-compulsive and aspirational Angela, who is hosting a party for the 79th birthday of her mother Maggie, played by Elsie Kelly. Angela's husband Jim, played by Pemberton, is keen to play a prank on Pat, Angela's brother-in-law, who is a practical joker. Pat is played by Shearsmith, while Carol, a recovering alcoholic who is Pat's wife and Angela's sister, is played by Lorraine Ashbourne. The episode also features Eve Gordon as Katie, Angela and Jim's teenage daughter, and Christopher Whitlow as a paramedic seen at the beginning and end of the episode.
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