Diane Brewster
American actress (1931-1991) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 60
Diane Brewster was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in television series of the 1950s and 1960s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in the Western Maverick with James Garner; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife Helen Kimble in The Fugitive.
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Still the BeaverFilm, Miss Canfield1967
IronsideSeries1966
Family AffairSeries1963
Arrest and TrialSeries
The FugitiveSeries, 1963Helen Kimble (uncredited)1959
King of the Wild StallionsFilm, Martha Morse
The Man in the NetFilm, 1959Vicki Carey
The Young PhiladelphiansFilm, 1959Kate Judson Lawrence1958
77 Sunset StripSeries
Quantrill's RaidersFilm, 1958Sue Walters
Torpedo RunFilm, 1958Jane Doyle1957
Leave It to BeaverSeries, Miss Canfield
Black PatchFilm, 1957Helen Danner
Courage of Black BeautyFilm, 1957Ann Rowden
Pharaoh's CurseFilm, 1957Sylvia Quentin
The Invisible BoyFilm, 1957Mary Merrinoe1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeries, Nancy Tapper
So You Want to Be PrettyFilm, 1956Nurse Anna (uncredited)1955
Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeries, Secretary
CheyenneSeries, 19551953
General Electric TheaterSeries, Amanda James1931Born11 March 1931People around Diane
Michael Curtiz Directed The Man in the Net (1959)
Alan Ladd Produced The Man in the Net (1959)
Vincent Sherman Directed The Young Philadelphians (1959)
George Montgomery Also in Black Patch (1957)
Joseph Pevney Directed Torpedo Run (1958)
Paul Picerni Also in Torpedo Run and The Young Philadelphians- Walter Mirisch Produced The Man in the Net (1959)
Ziva Rodann Also in Courage of Black Beauty (1957)
John O'Malley Also in Black Patch and The Invisible Boy- Nicholas Nayfack Produced The Invisible Boy (1957)
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Brewster was a direct descendant of William Brewster, a Pilgrim and Governor of the Plymouth Colony.
