Mariette Hartley
From Alfred Hitchcock Wiki
- born: 21/Jun/1940 (Weston, Connecticut, USA)
Biography
Mariette Hartley (born Mary Loretta Hartley) is a prolific American character actress.
She began her career in her teens as a stage actress, coached and mentored by the noted Eva Le Gallienne. Her film career began with "Ride the High Country", a classic western with actors Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; and directed by Sam Peckinpah.
She has worked with Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry, two famed creators of television and film science fiction. She first appeared in Serling's 1964 The Twilight Zone episode "The Long Morrow". In 1969, she acted in the next-to-last "Classic" Star Trek episode, "All Our Yesterdays" (1969), under Roddenberry. She appeared in several science fiction films, "Marooned" (1969), "Earth II" (1971), and "Genesis II" (1973), another Roddenberry production.
On television, she portrayed Dr. Claire Morton, the daughter of Leslie Nielsen's character on the primetime adaption of "Peyton Place". In 1978, she appeared in the TV series "Logan's Run", based on the film of the same name, and in "The Incredible Hulk" alongside Bill Bixby for two episodes as Dr. Carolyn Fields. For this role, in which she marries the title character, Ms. Hartley won an Emmy Award. Hartley also co-starred with Bixby in the 1983 sitcom "Goodnight, Beantown".
During the late 1970s, Hartley also appeared with James Garner in a popular series of television commercials advertising Polaroid cameras. The two actors worked so well together that it was often erroneously supposed that they were married in real life. Her biography contains a photo of her in a T-shirt proclaiming, "I am NOT Mrs. James Garner." Hartley also guest-starred in a memorable episode of Garner's TV series "The Rockford Files" during this period. The script required them to kiss at one point. Unknown to them, a paparazzo was photographing the scene from a distance. The photos were run in a tabloid trying to provoke a scandal, causing a good deal of attention.
In the 1990s, she toured with Elliott Gould and Doug Wert in the revival of the mystery Deathtrap.
She has spoken in public about her experience of bipolar disorder, and was a founder of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- Marnie (1964) - cast: Susan Clabon