Pilar Seurat

Infobox actor

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caption = Seurat in an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
birthname = Rita Hernandez
birthdate = birth date|1938|4|29
birthplace = Manila, Phillipines
deathdate = death date and age|2001|6|2|1938|4|29
deathplace = Los Angeles, California
United States
yearsactive = 1959-1972
spouse = Don Devlin (1959-1963)
Don Cerveris (1970-1981)
children = Dean Devlin

Pilar Seurat (July 29, 1938 – June 2, 2001) was a Filipina-American film and television actress in the 1960s.

Biography

Born Rita Hernandez in Manila, Seurat began her Hollywood career as a dancer in Ken Murray's "Blackouts," the popular postwar variety show at the El Capitan Theatre. Though she primarily essayed Asian characters, she was adept at playing various nationalities; her breakthrough role was Louisa Escalante, the blind murder victim's sister in John Frankenheimer's "The Young Savages".

Seurat was frequently cast on 1960s television shows that sought exotic beauties for Asian, Hispanic, or Native American roles, including "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", "Hawaiian Eye", "The Virginian", "Bonanza", "Star Trek", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "The Wild Wild West", "Hawaii Five-0", and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

She married producer Don Devlin in 1959, and the two were divorced in 1963. The couple's son is successful film producer Dean Devlin. In 1970 she married writer Don Cerveris, and shortly afterwards she retired from acting and began using the name Pilar Cerveris. The two were divorced in 1981.

Seurat died of lung cancer in 2001. The 2002 film Eight Legged Freaks (produced by her son, Dean) was dedicated to her.

External links

*imdb name|id=00786193|name=Pilar Seurat