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- Lean-framed, arch and edgy, somewhat hard-looking, dark-haired Neva Patterson, known by face perhaps as opposed to name, was a familiar presence in heavily-styled drama of the 1950s and 1960s radio, stage, film and TV. Christened Neva Louise Patterson in 1920 (some sources incorrectly state 1922) to a mailman father and seamstress mother, she was born and raised in Nevada, Iowa. She loved putting on plays at home (along with her brother, Harlan) and performed in high school plays. Her interest was further spurred on when she found work as an usher at Nevada's Circle Theatre.
Neva graduated from high school in 1937 and worked for a short time in Des Moines finding secretarial jobs to make do until she moved to New York the next year. She worked long and hard at such jobs as secretary, radio/hotel singer and bit part performer before finally making her Broadway bow in "The Druid Circle" in 1947. By this time she had married a professional dancer, but they quickly divorced in 1948. More plays came her way: "Ring 'Round the Moon" (1950), "Susan and God" (1951), "The Cocktail Party" (1951) and "The Seven-Year Itch" (1952). Television became a viable medium for her during the "Golden Age" of TV; she would appear in than 400 dramas during her career, including work from "The Colgate Theatre" (1950) through "In the Heat of the Night" (1988).
Neva appeared very sporadically in movies with support roles in such prominent fare as Taxi (1953), her debut; The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956); Desk Set (1957); An Affair to Remember (1957), as Cary Grant's socialite fiancée; Too Much, Too Soon (1958) as Diana Barrymore's mother, writer Blanche Oelrichs (aka Michael Strange); David and Lisa (1962); Dear Heart (1964); and Counterpoint (1967), to name a few. A versatile talent, her ladies could be brittle and overwrought or exceedingly strong-minded and business-oriented. More often than not, the had dominant, overbearing personalities.
Neva continued in this fashion with a flux of TV roles and graced such short-lived series as The Governor & J.J. (1969) as the secretary to governor Dan Dailey in 1969; Nichols (1971), wherein she played a powerful, corruptible matriarch opposite James Garner; and 1974's _"Doc Elliot" (1974)_, as a widow and frequent confidante to medic James Franciscus. None of these lasted more than a season. In 1980 the actress made a brief Broadway comeback as a replacement in "Romantic Comedy". She later had recurring roles in the TV movie V: The Final Battle (1984) and in the series Webster (1983), St. Elsewhere (1982) and Berrenger's (1985).
Married three times, she adopted two children with her third husband, writer James Lee, who died in 2002. Neva, who retired in the early 1990s, passed away at age 90 of complications following a pelvic fracture in December of 2010. - Tom Irish was born on 21 January 1928 in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for Father of the Bride (1950), Father of the Bride (1991) and Father's Little Dividend (1951). He died on 14 December 2010 in Manteca, California, USA.
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Pete O'Herne was born in 1961. He was an actor, known for Bad Taste (1987), God of Vampires (2010) and The Valley (1976). He died on 14 December 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand.- Alberto Segado was born on 24 August 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Perdido por perdido (1993), I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993) and Plata dulce (1982). He died on 14 December 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Adrienne Roy was born on 28 June 1953 in Verona, New Jersey, USA. Adrienne is known for Galaxian (1979). Adrienne was married to Anthony Tollin. Adrienne died on 14 December 2010 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Jimmy Gardner was born on 27 August 1957 in Flatwell Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for This Life (1996), Stanton Blues (1998) and Buried (2003). He was married to Claire Russell. He died on 14 December 2010 in London.
- Elisa Gabbai was born on 31 December 1933 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was an actress, known for Musik aus Studio B (1961), Musik und Information (1966) and Songs, Chansons, Lieder (1966). She was married to Rafi Gabbai and Nico Andokik. She died on 14 December 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Gary Chapman was born on 8 August 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was married to Carol Flake. He died on 14 December 2010 in Guatemala.