Janet Landgard, who accompanied Burt Lancaster on a fraction of his weird and wonderful tour of yard swimming pools in the acclaimed 1968 drama The Swimmer, has died. She changed into 75.
Landgard died this week after a in actuality transient bout with brain most cancers, actor Paul Petersen suggested The Hollywood Reporter. She recurred as his savor ardour on the closing three seasons of the ABC family comedy The Donna Reed Display cloak.
On Fb, Petersen known as her “essentially the most attention-grabbing TV female friend my alternate ego, Jeff Stone, ever had. Janet changed into gorgeous, internal and out … a flawless Scandinavian magnificence that literally vastly shocked jaded Hollywood styles into silence. We had been constantly shut despite the time or distance.”
In Columbia Photographs’ The Swimmer — directed by Frank Perry and adapted by his then-wife, Eleanor Perry, from a John Cheever brief record in The Unusual Yorker — Landgard changed into memorable as Julie Ann Hooper, who susceptible to babysit Ned Merrill’s (Lancaster) kids but is now grown up.
The two reconnect as Ned is “swimming his skill dwelling” the spend of neighborhood pools in suburban Connecticut, but when she admits she once had a crush on him, and he will get a bit of too intimate, she runs away, leaving him to proceed his weird and wonderful time out alone.
Janet Landgard (center) with Burt Lancaster and Lisa Daniels in 1968’s The Swimmer
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Born on Dec. 2, 1947, Landgard changed into raised in Pasadena and worked for the William Adrian Modeling Agency. Whereas light at Pasadena Excessive, she made her onscreen debut in 1963 on The Donna Reed Display cloak, taking half in a lady named Sabrina on a fifth-season episode. She additionally seemed on ABC’s My Three Sons that year.
She returned to play Jeff’s female friend Karen on 11 installments of The Donna Reed Display cloak via 1965, and the pair would grace the duvet of Teen Display cloak cloak journal.
Landgard changed into showcased as a rising younger talent alongside Raquel Welch, Mary Ann Mobley, Barbara Parkins and others on the TV particular The Hollywood Deb Stars of 1965, then served as a hostess on Dream Girl of ’67, govt produced by Chuck Barris.
After The Swimmer, Landgard seemed in Land Raiders (1969), starring Telly Savalas, George Maharis and Arlene Dahl; in the 1971 ABC telefilm The Deadly Dream, starring Lloyd Bridges and Janet Leigh; and in Moonchild (1972), starring Victor Buono, sooner than she left appearing.
Landgard changed into “an genuine outdoorswoman,” Petersen stated, adding that she changed into fascinated with horse racing in present years. Knowledge about her survivors changed into no longer correct now accessible.
