Barbara Hayden, usually known professionally as Pat Silver or Pat Silver-Lasky, is an American actress, screenwriter, and writer, mostly known for her collaborations with her second husband,

Jesse Lasky Jr. Jesse Louis Lasky Jr. (September 19, 1910 – April 11, 1988) was an American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet. Early life He was the son of film producer Jesse Lasky Sr. and his wife, Bessie Ida Ginsberg. Lasky was born on Broadway ...

Beginnings

Born in

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...

Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...

, Silver-Lasky attended the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

as a drama major, as well as

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

and

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

. Silver-Lasky worked in films and TV under her birth name, Barbara Hayden. When she played the lead in an episode of ''

Rescue 8 ''Rescue 8'' is a syndicated American action adventure crime drama series about Los Angeles County Fire Department Rescue Squad 8. It premiered in 1958 and originally ran for two seasons with syndicated reruns continuing for almost a decade th ...

'' and went on to write three more episodes, she took the pen name Pat Silver.

Collaborations with Jesse L. Lasky Jr.

Silver-Lasky wrote four books with her second husband, Jesse, including the best-selling historical novel ''The Offer'', eight films, nearly 100 TV scripts, including the award-winning "Explorers" series ("Ten Who Dared" in the United States). Their verse play ''Ghost Town'' won several awards in the U.S. In 1984 and 1986, their TV series ''

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye ''Philip Marlowe, Private Eye'' is an American mystery series that aired on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986, and on ITV in the United Kingdom. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's title chara ...

'' won three awards in the USA and in the Netherlands. In 1987, Pat and Jesse wrote the play ''Vivien'' based on their book ''Love Scene'', the story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Pat directed its highly acclaimed first production at the Melrose Theatre in

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...

(1987) and directed the London rehearsed reading of ''Viven'' in 1992.

Solo work

Silver-Lasky produced, wrote, directed, and acted in the first live TV drama series from Hollywood, ''Mabel's Fables'', for KTLA (

Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...

), which received an Emmy nomination. She also appeared in feature roles in films, played leading and co-starring roles on television, and directed for the theater in Los Angeles and Palm Springs. As an ASCAP writer, she wrote lyrics for 14 published and recorded songs, including "While You're Young" for

Johnny Mathis John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum s ...

's album ''Portrait of Johnny''. She wrote the lyrics for two films at Columbia Studios. Silver-Lasky served as a story editor on the second ''Marlowe'' series (see credits). Silver-Lasky has written articles and interviews, contributed to various British antique journals and written short stories for international magazines, including a 1999 series of romantic short stories for ''A World of Romance''. Silver-Lasky has lectured on script writing at several American universities, and was script consultant and guest lecturer at the London International Film School for eight years until 1999.

Personal life

In 1946, Silver-Lasky married the composer, singer, and guitarist Tony Romano, with whom she has a son, producer, arranger, and guitarist

Richard Niles Richard Niles is an American composer, arranger, record producer, guitarist, broadcaster, and journalist. Biography Early years Niles was born May 28, 1951, in Hollywood. He is the son of Tony Romano, a composer, singer, and guitarist who writ ...

, and a daughter, Lisa Hayden Miller, a singer, restaurateur, chef and cookbook writer, author of ''Galley Guru''. Link at Pat Silver-Lasky official website In 1959, she married Hollywood screenwriter and author

Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Jesse Louis Lasky Jr. (September 19, 1910 – April 11, 1988) was an American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet. Early life He was the son of film producer Jesse Lasky Sr. and his wife, Bessie Ida Ginsberg. Lasky was born on Broadway ...

, son of the film pioneer

Jesse Lasky Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer Film producer, motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Early life ...

. Jesse Lasky Jr. died in 1988. In 1995, Silver-Lasky met British cartoonist Peter Betts, known as Peeby, and they married in 1997. They lived in London but moved to Orange County, California, in 2009.https://www.mirror.co.uk/src/webroot/m4/2005/01/27/mirror-works-never-two-old-89520-15120708/

Credits

As an actress

The Crimson Kimono ''The Crimson Kimono'' is a 1959 film noir directed by Samuel Fuller. The film stars James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett and Victoria Shaw. It featured several ahead-of-its-time ideas about race and society's perception of race, a thematic and stylisti ...

" (1959) — Mother *"

Have Gun – Will Travel ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' is an American Western series that was produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television and radio from 1957 through 1963. The television version of the series starring Richard Boone was rated number t ...

" episode "The Man Who Lost" (1959) — Mrs. Bryson *"

" episode "Find That Bomb!" (1958) — Kit Shocky *"A Perilous Journey" (1953) — Cathy *"The Loves of Carmen" (1948) (uncredited) — Woman on Stagecoach

Books

*''Ride the Tiger'' *''A Star Called Wormwood'' *''The Offer'' *''Screenwriting for the 21st Century'' *''Men of Mystery'' *''Dark Dimensions'' *''Love Scene'' *''The Offer''

Theater productions

*''Ghost Town'' *''Gehenna of the Bone'' (London) *''Vivien''

Feature films

*''

The Wizard of Baghdad ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

'' (1960) *'' 7 Women from Hell'' (1961) *''

Pirates of Tortuga ''Pirates of Tortuga'' is a 1961 DeLuxe Color American swashbuckler film which invented an alternate history for the actual Welsh privateer Henry Morgan. It was released in October 1961 in the United States in CinemaScope. Plot In the 17th centu ...

'' (1961) *'' Land Raiders'' (1970) *'' Ace Up My Sleeve'' (1976) *''

The Bulldance ''The Bulldance'' (also known as ''Forbidden Sun'') is a 1989 British film directed by Zelda Barron. The script was written by Robin Hardy, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., and Pat Silver-Lasky. The film centers on an Olympic gymnastics coach ( Lauren Hutto ...

'' (1989)

Television series

*''Mabel's Fables'' *''Shannon'' *''Paladin'' * ''The New Breed'' *''The Saint'' *''The Baron'' *''

Danger Man ''Danger Man'' (retitled ''Secret Agent'' in the United States for the revived series, and ''Destination Danger'' and ''John Drake'' in other overseas markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again b ...

'' *''The Avengers'' *''The Protectors'' *''BBC Musical Specials'' *'' Space: 1999'' *''The Swinging Scene'' *'' Ben Hall'' *''The World of Lowell Thomas'' *''The Explorers'' *''

'' *''Love at First Sight''

References

External links

Official website
*
Peter Betts website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Silver-Lasky, Pat American women screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Reed College alumni Writers from Seattle Screenwriting instructors Screenwriters from Washington (state) 21st-century American women