Patricia Breslin
Patricia Rose Breslin ( born March 17, 1931 in New York City, New York, † October 12, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American actress.
Life
Breslin was born in New York City, the daughter of Edward and Marjorie Breslin. Her father was a judge. She attended the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School and the College of New Rochelle, a private Catholic college in New Rochelle.
Breslin worked since the late 1940s as an actress. She played in New York theater, acted in films with and worked for television. She was known, especially in the 1950s and 1960s as an actress in numerous television series. Your television career began, according to the IMDb movie database 1949 with the role of Juliet in a television production of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. This was followed by several other theater productions for television.
In the NBC sitcom The People's Choice, she played from 1953 to the side of Jackie Cooper a continuous series starring; she embodied Coopers wife Amanda ' Mandy ' Peoples Miller. In 1954 she had a guest role in the crime series Justice; subsequently Guilty Secret, she starred opposite Peter Mark Richman to see as a young woman who is threatened by criminals. In the U.S. television series The Twilight Zone, she appeared in two episode Starring: first in 1960 in the episode Nick of Time as Pat Carter, as newly married wife whose husband, played by William Shatner, of a machine that can predict the future, in spell is drawn. In 1963 she starred in the episode No Time Like The Past on the side of Dana Andrews as the wife of a man who uses a time machine to change events in the past.
In the soap opera Peyton Place, she took over 1964/1965 in about 20 episodes a continuous series starring role as Laura Harrington Brooks. She played the widow of a doctor and a secretary in a hospital. In the hospital series General Hospital she played from 1966 to 1969 the recurring role of nurse Meg Bentley Baldwin.
She also had episodic and guest roles on many other American television series, including Maverick (1959 ), Outlaws (1960), No case for the FBI (1960), Perry Mason ( 1960-1963 ), West of Santa Fe (1961 ), Bonanza (1962 ), Dr. Kildare (1963) and the Men from Shiloh (1964).
Private
Breslin was married twice. From her first marriage to actor David Orrick McDearmon (1914-1979) derived from two sons, John and David. In 1969 she married the American businessman type model ( b. 1925 ), president of the Cleveland Browns ( 1961-1995 ) and later president of the Baltimore Ravens ( 1996-2004). After her marriage to Breslin pulled from the film business, was devoted to her family and took over duties as society lady.
In Cleveland Breslin to the Cleveland Ballet, the Playhouse Square Foundation committed as part of fundraisers for the Cleveland Musical Arts Association. Breslin has worked in various administrative bodies of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Walters Art Museum. Breslin and model were sponsors and financial supporters of the Baltimore Museum of Art and donated $ 3.5 million to the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore; this now bears the name of Patricia and Arthur Model Performing Arts Center at the Lyric.
Breslin died on 12 October 2011 at the age of 80 after a prolonged hospital stay of several months at the consequences of pancreatitis.