Joan Hackett

Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress. in film, television, and theater. She played roles in The Group, Will Penny (1968), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), The Last of Sheila (1973), and The Terminal Man (1974). In 1982, Hackett was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; she was also the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance as Toby Landau in the 1981 film Only When I Laugh. During the course of her career, Hackett was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Photoplay Award, and a Golden Laurel Award; she also received an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Theatre World Award. In 1978, she starred as Christine Mannon in the PBS miniseries version of Mourning Becomes Electra. She had a sister, Theresa, and a brother, John. Hackett's mother was from Naples, Italy, and her father had Irish ancestry, and they raised her Catholic and sent her to Catholic schools.

Acting career Hackett debuted in 1959 with the role of Gail Prentiss in the television series, Young Doctor Malone. She could also be seen in Paul Simon's 1980 film One-Trick Pony.

Personal life and death From 1966 to 1973, she was married to actor Richard Mulligan, who was also cast in The Group.

Hackett was diagnosed with cancer in 1981. She died of ovarian cancer on October 8, 1983, at Encino Hospital in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Filmography

Come Again to Carthage (1961 TV movie) - Sister Agnes The Group (1966) - Dottie Renfrew Latham (theatrical feature film debut) Will Penny (1968) - Catherine Allen Assignment to Kill (1968) - Dominique Laurant Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) - Prudy Perkins The Young Country (1970 TV movie) - Clementine Hale How Awful About Allan (1970 TV movie) - Olive The Other Man (1970 TV movie) - Kathy Maitland Hollywood Television Theater: U.S.A. (1971 TV movie) -/- Five Desperate Women (1971 TV movie) - Dorian Lights Out (1972 TV movie) - Sabina the Dollmaker (segment "When Widows Weep") Rivals (1972) - Christine Class of '63 (1973 TV movie) - Louise Swerner The Last of Sheila (1973) - Lee Parkman The Terminal Man (1974) - Dr. Janet Ross Reflections of Murder (1974 TV movie) - Claire Elliott Mackintosh and T.J. (1975) - Maggie The American Woman: Portraits of Courage (1976 TV movie) - Belva Lockwood Treasure of Matecumbe (1976) - Lauriette Paxton Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977) - Jessica Hillard Dead of Night (1977) - Alma (segment "Bobby") The Possessed (1977 TV movie) - Louise Gelson Pleasure Cove (1979 TV movie) - Martha Harrison Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979) - Self The North Avenue Irregulars (1979) - Volunteering Parishioner (uncredited) The Long Days of Summer (1980 TV movie) - Millie Cooper One Trick Pony (1980) - Lonnie Fox Harnessing the Sun (1981) - Self / Narrator Only When I Laugh (1981) - Toby Landau The Long Summer of George Adams (1982 TV movie) - Norma Adams The Escape Artist (1982) - Aunt Sibyl Paper Dolls (1982 TV movie) - Julia Blake A Girl's Life (1983 TV movie) - Evelyn Flicks - Captain Grace (segments for "New Adventures of the Great Galaxy") (1983; final film appearance)

Television series

1959-1960: Young Dr. Malone (Seasons 1, 2 Episodes: appearances in several) playing "Gail Prentiss" (various air dates; television acting debut) 1959: The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (Season 1, Episode 20: "Chauffeur Disguise") -/- (aired February 20); (Season 1, Episode 21: "Shadow of the Past") -/- (aired February 27) 1960: Diagnosis: Unknown (Season 1, Episode 7: "Gina, Gina") -/- (aired September 6) 1960: Armstrong Circle Theater (Season 11, Episode 5: "The Immortal Piano") -/- (aired December 21) 1961: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Season 6, Episode 34: "Servant Problem") playing "Sylvia" (aired June 6)

1961: Ben Casey (Season 1, Episode 11: "A Certain Time, a Certain Darkness") playing "Ellen Parker" (aired December 11, 1961); (Season 4, Episode 13: "This Wild, Wild, Wild Waltzing World") playing "Ellen Parker" (aired December 14, 1964) 1962: The New Breed (Season 1, Episode 15: "Cross the Little Line") playing "Angie" (aired January 9) 1962: The Twilight Zone (Season 3, Episode 22: "A Piano in the House") playing "Esther Fortune" (aired February 16) 1962: Dr. Kildare (Season 1, Episode 23: "The Witch Doctor") playing "Karen Welby" (aired March 8) 1962: Gunsmoke (Season 7, Episode 25: "The Widow") playing "Mady Arthur" (aired March 24) 1962: Theatre '62 (Season 1, Episode 7: "Rebecca") playing the "Second Mrs. de Winter" (aired April 8) 1962: Alcoa Premiere (Season 1, Episode 26: "A Place to Hide") playing "Sue Wilson" (aired May 22); (Season 2, Episode 11: "The Way from Darkness") playing "Edith Fletcher" (aired December 13) 1963: Combat! (Season 1, Episode 19: "The Chateau") playing "Gabrielle" (aired February 12) 1963: The Doctors and the Nurses (Season 1, Episode 19: "The Life") playing "Margaret Hunter" (aired February 14) 1963: Empire (Season 1, Episode 31: "Between Friday and Monday") playing "Dolores Lanza" (aired May 7) 1963: The Great Adventure (Season 1, Episode 9: "The Outlaw and the Nun") playing "Sister Blandina" (aired December 6) 1964: Channing (Season 1, Episode 15: "A Rich, Famous, Glamorous Folk Singer Like Me") playing "Djuna Phrayne" (aired January 8) 1964: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (Season 2, Episode 21: "Beast in View") playing "Helen Clarvoe" (aired March 20) 1964: The Wednesday Play (Season 1, Episode 4: "Pale Horse, Pale Rider") playing "Miranda" (aired November 11) 1964, 1965: Chrysler Theatre (Season 1, Episode 27: "Echo of Evil") playing "Florence" (aired December 1, 1964); (Season 3, Episode 8: "The Highest Fall of All") playing "Lili Strode" (aired June 5, 1965) 1965, 1972: Bonanza (Season 6, Episode 17: "Woman of Fire") playing "Margarita Miguel" (aired January 17, 1965); (Season 13, Episode 16: "Second Sight") playing "Judith Corman" (aired January 9, 1972) 1966: Court Martial (Season 1, Episode 8: "Judge Them Justly") playing "Lt. Christie Foster" (aired June 3) 1966: Run for Your Life (Season 2, Episode 6: "The Sex Object") playing "Diana Murrow" (aired October 17) 1967: Judd, for the Defense (Season 1, Episode 14: "The Living Victim") playing "Ruth Massey" (aired December 15) 1968: The Name of the Game (Season 1, Episode 2: "Witness") playing "Jean Thorndyke" (aired September 27) 1969: Daniel Boone (Season 5, Episode 26: "A Pinch of Salt") playing "Theodora Liggett" (aired May 1) 1969: Allen Ludden's Gallery (Season 1, Episode 42: "Episode #1.42") as Self / Guest (aired August 19) 1970, 1971: Love, American Style (Season 1, Episode 14: "Love and the Pick-Up/Love and the Proposal/Love and the Fighting Couple") playing "Linda" (aired January 5, 1970); (Season 2, Episode 21: "Love and the Boss/Love and the Jury/Love and the Logical Explanation/Love and the Pregnancy") -/- (aired February 19, 1971) 1971 Dan August (Season 1, Episode 26: "The Assassins") playing "Nancy Williams" (aired April 8) 1971: Alias Smith and Jones (Season 1, Episode 15: "The Legacy of Charlie O'Rourke") playing "Alice Banion" (aired April 22) 1972: The Dick Cavett Show (Season 6, Episode **: "27 April 1972") as Self / Guest (aired April 27) 1974: The Merv Griffin Show (Season 11, Episode **: "23 July 1974") as Self / Guest (aired July 23) 1974, 1978: The Mike Douglas Show (Season 13, Episode 224: "Episode #13.224") as Self / Guest (aired July 25, 1974); (Season 17, Episode 136: "Episode #17.136") as Self / Guest (aired April 6, 1978) 1975: Bicentennial Minutes (Season 1, Episode 315: "Episode #1.315") as Self / Narrator (aired May 11) 1976: Dinah! (Season 2, Episode 118: "Episode #2.118") as Self / Guest (aired March 4) 1977: The Magical World of Disney (Season 24, Episode 2: "The Treasure of Matecumbe") playing "Lauriette Paxton" (aired October 2) 1978: Another Day (Season 1, Episode 1: "Episode #1.1") playing "Ginny Gardner" (aired April 8); (Season 1, Episode 2: "Episode #1.2") playing "Ginny Gardner" (aired April 15); (Season 1, Episode 3: "Episode #1.3") playing "Ginny Gardner" (aired April 22); (Season 1, Episode 4: "Episode #1.4") playing "Ginny Gardner" (aired April 29) 1978: Mourning Becomes Electra (TV miniseries) playing "Christine Mannion" (Season 1, Episode 1: "The Secret") (aired August 20) (Season 1, Episode 2: "The Homecoming") (aired August 27) (Season 1, Episode 3: "The Hunted") (aired September 3) (Season 1, Episode 4: "An Act of Justice") (aired September 10) 1979: $weepstake$ (Season 1, Episode 3: "Vince, Pete and Patsy, Jessica and Rodney") -/- (aired February 9) 1979: Trapper John, M.D. (Season 1, Episode 10: "The Surrogate") playing "Wilma" (aired December 23) 1979: Taxi (Season 2, Episode 2: "Honor Thy Father") playing "Charlotte Reiger", sister of "Alex Reiger" (aired September 18) 1979: The Love Boat (Season 3, Episode 3: "The Grass Is Always Greener/Three Stages of Love/Oldies But Goodies") playing "Tina Phillips" (aired September 22) 1980: Saturday Night Live (Season 5, Episode 12: "#98 – Kirk Douglas/Sam & Dave") as Self - uncredited cameo (aired February 23) 1981: The Toni Tennille Show (Season 1, Episode 98: "Episode #1.98") as Self / Guest (aired February 23) 1982: The 39th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special) as Self / Winner (aired January 30) 1982: The 54th Annual Academy Awards (TV special) as Self / Nominee (aired March 29) 1982: Great Performances (Season 11, Episode 3: "Great Performances' 10th Anniversary Celebration") as Self (aired December 6) 1983: The 40th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special) as Self / Presenter (aired January 29) 1985: Tales of the Unexpected (Season 8, Episode 4: "Scrimshaw") playing "Brenda" (aired July 28; final performance of her multi-medium career) 1989: American Masters (Season 4, Episode 1: "Howard Clurman: A Life in Theatre") as Self - archive footage (aired June 26) 2020: Cineficción Radio (Season 2, Episode 3: "Horror antológico") as "Mother" (segment "Bobby" from Dead of Night) - archive footage (aired July 12)

Selected theatre credits Night Watch, playing "Elaine Wheeler", Morosco Theatre, New York City, NY – 1972 The Rothschilds, playing "Gutele Rothschilds", Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, NY – 1970 Park, playing "Young Woman", Center Stage, Baltimore, MD; John Golden Theatre, New York City, NY – 1970 A Place for Polly, playing "Angela", Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT; also, productions in Fairfield, CT and Ivortyton, CT – 1969 Peterpat, playing "Pat", Longacre Theatre, New York City, NY – 1964-1965 She Didn't Say Yes, Pocono Playhouse, Mountainhome, PA – 1963 Dear Me, the Sky is Falling: A Comedy in Three Acts, playing "Debbie Hirsch", Music Box Theatre, New York City, NY – 1963 Journey to the Day, Westport County Playhouse, Westport, CT – 1961 Two Queens of Love and Beauty, Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA – 1961 Call Me By My Rightful Name, playing "Chris", One Sheridan Square, New York City, NY – 1961 Laurette, playing "Marguerite", Shubert Theatre, New Haven, CT – 1960 Much Ado About Nothing, playing "Lady", Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, NY – 1959 The Play's the Thing, Princeton University Playhouse, Princeton, NJ – 1959 A Clearing in the Woods, One Sheridan Square, New York City, NY – 1959

Selected radio credits 1974, 1975: CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Season 1, Episode 25: "# 25 – Mother Love"), playing "Paula Richards" (aired January 30, 1974); (Season 2, Episode 42: "#235 – The Eye of Death"), playing "Sandy" (aired March 7, 1975)

Accolades

Call Me By My Rightful Name — Winner — Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress (1961) Call Me By My Rightful Name — Winner — Theatre World Award for Best Performance (1961) Call Me By My Rightful Name — Winner — Drama Desk-Vernon Rice Award for Lead Performance (1961) Ben Casey — Nominee — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress (for episode "A Certain Time, A Certain Darkness") (1962) The Group — Nominee — Golden Laurel Award for New Faces, Female, 9th place (1966) The Group — Nominee — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress (1967) Gold Medal for Favorite Female Star — Nominee — Photoplay Awards (1976) Only When I Laugh — Winner — Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture (1982) Only When I Laugh — Nominee — Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (1982)