Trish Van Devere
Trish Van Devere, actually Patricia Louise Dressel, ( born March 9, 1943 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) is an American film and theater actress. From the mid- 1960s to the early 1990s, she appeared in almost 30 film and television roles, mostly dramas in appearance. From 1972 until his death in 1999, she was married to the American actor George C. Scott, with whom she performed frequently together in the film, television and theater in the 1970s.
Life
Training and success with "My heart needs love "
Trish Van Devere was born as Patricia Louise Dressel in 1943 in New Jersey ( other claims to 1945 in Tenafly ). She attended the prestigious Ohio Wesleyan University, where she enjoyed a theater training. Your professional stage debut was in 1967 off- Broadway in New York, where she appeared in the play Kicking the Castle Down. Mid-1960s, she co-founded the non-profit Poor Peoples' Theatre, and it was followed by sporadic appearances on American television series, including the part of Meredith Lord in the series Love, lies, passion (1968). Your game film debut in 1970 under the pseudonym Patricia Van Devere with a small supporting role in Hal Ashby's tragicomedy The homeowner, in which Beau Bridges and Lee Grant held the lead roles. In the same year Trish Van Devere under the name followed by a bigger role in Carl Reiner's feature film, Where's Daddy? (1970 ), in which the actress was seen as a young nurse and an object of desire by George Segal. The comedy about a cranky old woman (played by Ruth Gordon) who terrorized her two adult sons, met on a continuous storm of protest in the U.S. feature articles due to their jet-black staging. Although the film by United Artists was taken soon after its launch from the rental and should come until ten years later in a nachgedrehten version back in the cinemas, critics praised the performance of the performer ensembles. The New York Times pointed in their criticism of the as yet unknown Trish Van Devere, resulting in Where's Daddy? as " commedienne of complexity, precision and quality " prove and would understand it to balance the spread atrocities of the film exactly. Meanwhile, compared to the American industry publication Variety, the actress with her " sweet, unadulterated face under a white cap " with an " angel of mercy ".
After winning critical acclaim for Where's Daddy? Van Devere made during the filming of Richard Fleischer's Gangster film Who incited the mob (1971 ) acquaintance with George C. Scott. The 15 years old actor and Oscar winner then allowed to divorce his wife, actress Colleen Dewhurst in February 1972 and married Van Devere in September of the same year. A few months later, she paved the first starring role in Mel Stuart's My heart needs love his breakthrough as a film actress. In the drama Van Devere slipped into the role of a young woman who is left by her husband. After the divorce, try this, to take their lives for the first time into their own hands. American critics were impressed by this performance and compared the actress her beauty with a young Laraine Day. The part of Aimee Brower brought Van Devere 1973, a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for best actress in a drama, but she had over the later Oscar -nominated Norwegian Liv Ullmann ( emigrants ) in the cold.
Collaboration with George C. Scott and ending of the film career
Following the success of My heart needs love was Van Devere in the following years, unable to match, in which they almost invariably with her husband George C. Scott realized film and television projects. With him, she held the starring roles in Mike Nichols ' film The Day of the Dolphin (1973 ), Scott's unsuccessful directorial work The Savage Is Loose (1974 ) or the British television game Beauty and the Beast ( 1976), an adaptation of the folk tale of the same name. In addition to her film career, the pair also appeared together on Broadway in appearance. In the theater, Van Devere acted under the direction of her husband in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's All God's children have wings (1975 ), in which she took the part of Ella Downey. Although the critics were impressed by Van Devere's attractiveness, but rated the performance of the still little experience in theater actress as emotionally and vocally weak. As a performer, were Van Devere and Scott together in Arthur Penn's successful production of the play Sly Fox (1976 ), based on Ben Jonson's comedy Volpone to see who brought it in the next two years to nearly 500 performances. In contrast, less successful was the joint appearance in the four-person piece Tricks of the Trade (1980). The romantic detective story about a psychiatrist and his patient was discontinued after the premiere.
Shared success in the film Trish Van Devere and George C. Scott was granted only in 1978 with the main roles in Stanley Donen musical comedy Movie Movie. The more times for a Golden Globe Award -nominated parody of the two typical Hollywood genre pieces Dynamite Hands and Baxter's Beauties of 1933 presented Van Devere as a bespectacled librarian and rejected lover of a boxer or a famous Broadway actress whose alcohol problems, a chorus girl over night awareness help. The New York Times praised the couple in two episodes as "superb" and American critics Van Devere as just as funny and appealing as eight years earlier in Where's Daddy?. The last joint film project was the Canadian horror film The Changeling (1980 ) represents the staged in conventional style production by a composer who withdraws after the accidental death of his wife and child on a lonely country house, two major Canadian Film Award, Genie brought Award as best foreign actor a. In the 1980s, Van Devere as devoted to her husband on his work in television. She graduated from guest appearances on such series as Highway to Heaven (1985) and The Love Boat (1986) and was with films like Hollywood Cop ( 1986) or J. Lee Thompson's The Law is only represented the death (1986 ) sporadically in the cinema. Van Devere's film and television career sounded from the early 1990s. She turned then amplified the work in the theater.
Until the death of her husband in 1999, Trish Van Devere and George C. Scott lived alternately in Malibu, California, and on a five -acre estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, which they had acquired the mid-1970s. The marriage of the two remained childless. In the early 1980s, the couple committed publicly against an extension of their estate located near Westchester County Airport. 1984 came the marriage of Van Devere and Scott into the focus of tabloids, after the police because of a domestic dispute pronounced subpoenas for both. From the mid- 1980s, Van Devere is committed publicly for improved government help schizophrenia sufferers after her seven years younger brother, a student at the University of Oxford and talented photo journalist, had been confronted in the early 1970s with the diagnosis.