Pat Silver-Lasky Obit

 

She was not on the list.

Pat worked in films and TV as actress Barbara Hayden. When she played the lead in an episode of 'Rescue 8' in Hollywood and then went on to write three more episodes, she took the pen name, Pat Silver.

Pat married and then wrote as a team with her late husband, Hollywood screen writer and author, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., son of the film pioneer Jesse L. Lasky who produced the first full length motion picture in Hollywood, 'The Squaw Man'.

Together, Pat and Jesse wrote 4 books, 8 produced films, nearly 100 produced TV scripts and won several awards. She now writes as Pat Silver-Lasky.

She has lectured on script writing at American Universities, was Script Consultant and lecturer at the London (International) Film School for eight years.

She is currently working on a biographical history of Hollywood seen through the focus of an archive of 450 letters from Jesse Lasky to his son, Jesse Jr. - 'Letters From A Hollywood Mogul'.

Silver-Lasky wrote four books with her second husband, Jesse, including historical novel The Offer, eight films, nearly 100 TV scripts, including the "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 won three awards in the US and 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. Silver-Lasky directed its first production at the Melrose Theatre in Los Angeles (1987) and directed the London-rehearsed reading of Viven in 1992.

As an actress

"The Crimson Kimono" (1959) — Mother

"Have Gun – Will Travel" episode "The Man Who Lost" (1959) — Mrs. Bryson

"Rescue 8" 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 (1960)

7 Women from Hell (1961)

Pirates of Tortuga (1961)

Land Raiders (1970)

Ace Up My Sleeve (1976)

The Bulldance (1989)

Television series

Mabel's Fables

Shannon

Paladin

The New Breed

The Saint

The Baron

Danger Man

The Avengers

The Protectors

BBC Musical Specials

Space: 1999

The Swinging Scene

Ben Hall

The World of Lowell Thomas

The Explorers

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

Love at First Sight