Lisa Seagram

{{Short description|American actress (1936–2019)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Lisa Seagram

| image = Lisa Seagram.JPG

| caption = Seagram in 1964

| birth_name = Ruth Browser

| birth_date = {{birth date|1936|7|7}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|2|1|1936|7|7}}

| death_place = Burbank, California, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1958–1976

| spouse = Marc Fiorini{{Cite web|url=https://www.nocturno.it/lisa-seagram-e-yellow/|title=Lisa Seagram e Yellow|date=13 May 2014|website=Nocturno|language=it}}

| children = 2

}}

Lisa Seagram (born Ruth Browser;{{cite web |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Lisa Seagram, Actress on ‘Batman’ and ‘The Beverly Hillbillies,’ Dies at 82 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/lisa-seagram-dead-actress-batman-beverly-hillbillies-was-82-1190950/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=January 10, 2025}} July 7, 1936 – February 1, 2019){{cite journal |title=Lisa Seagram, 82 |journal=Classic Images |date=June 2019 |issue=528 |page=48}} was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in The Carpetbaggers (1964), Caprice (1967) and 2000 Years Later (1969). After appearing in several Italian films, she retired from acting during the 1970s.

Life

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Seagram was the daughter of Harry Browser, a New York City police detective. She worked as a graphic artist after graduating from college. Acting on a friend's suggestion, she began working as a model. After someone suggested that she "looked like an actor", she studied drama for three years, which led to a small role in Shadows (1959).{{cite book|last1=Lisanti|first1=Tom|title=Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles|date=2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476612416|pages=193–198|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITClSVUV7voC&q=%22sultry+siren+with+impeccable+cheekbones%22&pg=PA193|accessdate=21 June 2017|language=en}} During the 1960s, she played numerous supporting roles, including appearances on television shows such as McHale's Navy, The Beverly Hillbillies, Perry Mason and Batman. She appeared in season 1, episode 11, of Bewitched as Sarah, a fellow witch Endora gets to test the fidelity of Darrin. She played the lead female role in the comedy film 2000 Years Later. She relocated for a time to Italy where she appeared in several local productions, most notably playing the lead role in the thriller film Yellow - Le Cugine (1969). The majority of the films she made in Italy were geared to Italian audiences and were never released in the United States.Tom Lisani, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, McFarland, 2015, page 195 It was while working in Italy that she met her husband, expatriate Canadian actor Marc Fiorini.

After retiring from acting, Seagram first sold commercial real estate. In the 1980s, she created Actors 2000, teaching acting in Hawaii. She later moved the school to Los Angeles.

Seagram died of dementia in Burbank, California on February 1, 2019, at the age of 82.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lisa-seagram-dead-actress-batman-beverly-hillbillies-was-82-1190950|title=Lisa Seagram, Actress on 'Batman' and 'The Beverly Hillbillies,' Dies at 82|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 26, 2019}}

Filmography

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YearTitleRoleNotes
1958ShadowsWomanUncredited
1961Love in a Goldfish BowlUncredited
1961Man-TrapYolande ThawUncredited
1961Bachelor in ParadiseNiles' SecretaryUncredited
1963Come Blow Your HornParty GuestUncredited
1963My Three SonsMariaSeason 3 Episode 30 "The Rug"
1963Wagon TrainEstherSeason 6 Episode 32 "The Clarence Mullins Story"
1963McHale's NavyRita HowardSeason 2 Episode 4 "Is There a Doctor in the Hut?"
1963GunsmokeSaloon GirlSeason 9 Episode 6 "My Sister's Keeper"
1963GunsmokeGirlSeason 9 Episode 10 "Extradition: Part 1"
1964BewitchedJanineSeason 1 Episode 11 "It Takes One to Know One"
1964The CarpetbaggersMoroni's Secretary
1964A House Is Not a HomeMadge
1964Where Love Has GoneEdna - Bar GirlUncredited
1964Burke's Law DianaSeason 1 Episode 27 "Who Killed WHO IV?"
1964Burke's LawMilaSeason 1 Episode 30 "Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?"
1964Burke's LawVentura JonesSeason 2 Episode 12 "Who Killed 711?"
1964Burke's LawPandora ShrinerSeason 2 Episode 15 "Who Killed Davidian Jonas?"
1965Burke's LawMathildeSeason 2 Episode 19 "Who Killed Rosie Sunset?"
1965Burke's LawPrincessSeason 3 Episode 10 "Deadlier Than the Male"
1965The Beverly HillbilliesEdythe BrewsterSeason 3 Episode 24 "Brewster's Honeymoon"
1965The Beverly HillbilliesEdythe BrewsterSeason 3 Episode 32 "The Brewsters Return"
1965My Favorite MartianFelicia FratoliSeason 2 Episode 38 "Portrait in Brown"
1966The Double Life of Henry PhyfeBeautiful Girl - EquestrienneSeason 1 Episode 1 "Phyfe and a Filly"
1966The Beverly HillbilliesEdythe BrewsterSeason 4 Episode 22 "Brewster's Baby"
1966Perry MasonRobin SpringSeason 9 Episode 21 "The Case of the Twice-Told Twist"
1966My Brother the AngelMarcellaSeason 1 Episode 26 "Her Number Is 36-22-35"
1966Honey WestConnie PhillipsSeason 1 Episode 30 "An Eerie, Airy, Thing"
1966The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.Miss. KarumSeason 1 Episode 8 "The Garden of Evil Affair"
1967CapriceMandy
1967BatmanLilaSeason 3 Episode 7 "Louie, the Lilac"
19692000 Years LaterCindy
1969Yellow: The CousinsMarta Garbini
1969The Reward's Yours... The Man's MineBar owner
1973Canterbury n° 2 - Nuove storie d'amore del '300Greek warriorUncredited
1974The CousinMurderessUncredited
1976La studentessa(final film role)

Television

Seagram guest starred on American television sitcom McHale's Navy as the fictional movie star, singer, and dancer Rita Howard entertaining troops in the Pacific theater of WWII. She also guest starred on the sit-coms The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched Season 1 episode 11 "It Takes One to Know One" playing Sarah Baker, a rival witch trying to lure Darrin from Samantha as the gorgeous "Jasmine Girl," a seductive model for a perfume advertising campaign;{{Citation needed |date=July 2020}} as Robin Springer in Perry Mason season 9, episode 21, "The Case Of The Twice Told Twist", notable as being the only episode of the series filmed in color; Burke's Law S01E27 "Who Killed Who IV" and several other TV series in the 1960s such as Batman.{{Citation needed |date=July 2020}}

References

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