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{{short description|American actress (1923–2017)}}

{{Infobox person
| name               = Dina Merrill
| image              = Dina Merrill 1968.JPG
| caption            = Publicity photo of Merrill in 1968 by John Engstead
| birth_name         = Nedenia Marjorie Hutton
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1923|12|29}}
| birth_place        = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2017|05|22|1923|12|29}}
| death_place        = [[East Hampton (town), New York|East Hampton, New York]], U.S.
| years_active       = 1945–2009
| occupation         = Actress, businesswoman, socialite
| net_worth          = 
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Stanley M. Rumbough Jr.]]|1946|1966|reason=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Cliff Robertson]]|1966|1986|reason=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Ted Hartley]]<br />|1989}}
}}
| children           = 4
| relatives          = [[Eleanor Post Hutton|Eleanor Post Close]] (half-sister)<br />[[C. W. Post]] (grandfather)<br />[[Barbara Hutton]] (first cousin)<br />[[Lance Reventlow]] (first cousin once removed)
| father             = [[Edward Francis Hutton]]
| mother             = [[Marjorie Merriweather Post]]
| education          = [[George Washington University]]<br />[[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]]<br />[[HB Studio]]
}}

'''Dina Merrill''' (born '''Nedenia Marjorie Hutton'''; December 29, 1923 – May 22, 2017) was an American actress.<ref name="Gingrich1960">{{cite book| last=Gingrich| first=Arnold| title=Coronet| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rZJAAAAMAAJ| date=May 1960| publisher=D. A. Smart| page=13}}</ref><ref name="HamiltonStadiem2008">{{cite book| last1=Hamilton| first1=George| last2=Stadiem| first2=William| title=Don't Mind If I Do|url=https://archive.org/details/dontmindifido00hami| url-access=registration| date=October 14, 2008| publisher=Simon and Schuster| isbn=978-1-4165-9450-5| page=[https://archive.org/details/dontmindifido00hami/page/98 98]}}</ref> She had more than a hundred film and television credits from the late 1950s until 2000s. She married three times.

==Early life==
Merrill was born in New York City on December 29, 1923, but for many years, her date of birth was given as December 9, 1925.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hillwoodmuseum.org/about-hillwood/marjorie-merriweather-post/family |title=Date of birth given as December 29, 1923 |website=hillwoodmuseum.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102070442/http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/about-hillwood/marjorie-merriweather-post/family |archivedate=2014-01-02 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://paulbowles.org/marjoriemerriweatherpost.html Dina Merrill date of birth: December 29, 1923] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125003116/http://www.paulbowles.org/marjoriemerriweatherpost.html |date=January 25, 2012 }}, paulbowles.org; accessed December 31, 2013.</ref> She was the only child of [[Post Cereals]] heiress [[Marjorie Merriweather Post]] and her second husband, [[Wall Street]] stockbroker [[Edward Francis Hutton]], founder of [[E. F. Hutton & Co.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/57/Dina-Merrill.html|title=Dina Merrill Biography|website=filmreference.com|access-date=May 24, 2017}}</ref> Merrill had two older half-sisters, Adelaide Brevoort Close (July 26, 1908 – December 31, 1998) and [[Eleanor Post Hutton]] (December 3, 1909 – November 27, 2006), by her mother's first marriage to Edward Bennett Close, grandfather of actress [[Glenn Close]]. Merrill was also first cousin—and first cousin once removed, respectively—to heiress [[Barbara Hutton]] and her son [[Lance Reventlow]].<ref>Nelson, Nancy (2003). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=oIksQz7tXUcC&pg=PA133&dq=%22dina+merrill%27s+father%22+%22I+was+thrilled%22 Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words by Those Who Knew Him Best]''. New York: Citadel Press. p.&nbsp;133. {{ISBN|0-8065-2412-X}}. "Dina Merrill's father (E. F. Hutton) and Barbara Hutton's father were brothers. Dina recalls: 'Cary and Barbara Hutton came to visit us in Washington right after they were married. [...] I was thrilled my cousin had married this eminent movie star.'"</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/lansing-state-journal/150970923/ "Engagement Announced"]. ''Lansing State Journal''. August 7, 1959. p.&nbsp;23. Retrieved July 8, 2024. "Actress Jill St. John, shown with Lance Reventlow, dime store heir [...] Reventlow, 23, son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton and her former husband, Danish nobleman Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, operates a stable of racing cars."</ref>

Merrill graduated from [[Miss Porter's School]], then attended George Washington University in Washington, DC for one term, but then enrolled at the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]] in New York City. She studied acting at [[HB Studio]]<ref>[https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ HB Studio Alumni]</ref> under [[Uta Hagen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/02/28/a-touch-of-class-5/|title=A Touch Of Class|date=February 28, 1993 |access-date=May 24, 2017}}</ref>

==Acting career==
On advice from her half-sister's (then) husband, she adopted the stage name Dina Merrill, borrowing from [[Charles E. Merrill]], a famous stockbroker like her father.<ref name=PeopleStage>{{cite news |url=https://people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20076454,00.html |title=An Actress Turns to Finance: History Proves That Both Dina Merrill and Her Daddy Knew Best |last=Rowes |first=Barbara |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=1980-05-12 |access-date=2016-07-14}}</ref> Merrill made her debut on the stage in the play ''The Mermaid Singing'' in 1945.<ref name=Post>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/dina-merrill-actress-and-philanthropist-of-aristocratic-poise-dies-at-93/2017/05/22/|title=Dina Merrill, actress and philanthropist of aristocratic poise, dies at 93|last=Bernstein|first=Adam|date=22 May 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=23 March 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324030513/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/dina-merrill-actress-and-philanthropist-of-aristocratic-poise-dies-at-93/2017/05/22/|archive-date=24 March 2019}}</ref>

During the late 1950s and 1960s, Merrill was believed to have been marketed as a replacement for [[Grace Kelly]],<ref name="HamiltonStadiem2008" /> and in 1959, she was proclaimed "Hollywood's new Grace Kelly".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/03/nyregion/dina-merrill-a-star-on-her-toes.html| title=Dina Merrill: A Star on Her Toes| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=April 3, 1983| access-date=April 9, 2014| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Merrill's film credits included ''[[Desk Set]]'' (1957), ''[[A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed]]'' (1958), ''[[Don't Give Up the Ship (film)|Don't Give Up the Ship]]'' (1959), ''[[Operation Petticoat]]'' (1959, with [[Cary Grant]], who had been married to her cousin, [[F. W. Woolworth Company|Woolworth]] heiress [[Barbara Hutton]]), ''[[The Sundowners (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]'' (1960), ''[[Butterfield 8]]'' (1960), ''[[The Young Savages]]'' (1961), ''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film)|The Courtship of Eddie's Father]]'' (1963), ''[[I'll Take Sweden]]'' (1965), ''[[The Greatest (1977 film)|The Greatest]]'' (1977), ''[[A Wedding (1978 film)|A Wedding]]'' (1978), ''[[Just Tell Me What You Want]]'' (1980), ''[[Anna to the Infinite Power]]'' (1983), ''[[Twisted (1986 film)|Twisted]]'' (1986), ''[[Caddyshack II]]'' (1988), ''[[Fear (1990 film)|Fear]]'' (1990), ''[[True Colors (1991 film)|True Colors]]'' (1991), ''[[The Player (1992 film)|The Player]]'' (1992), ''[[Suture (film)|Suture]]'' (1993), and ''[[Shade (film)|Shade]]'' (2003). She also appeared in made-for-TV movies, such as ''[[Seven in Darkness]]'' (1969), ''[[The Lonely Profession]]'' (1969), ''[[Family Flight]]'' (1972), and ''[[The Tenth Month]]'' (1979).

[[File:Dina Merrill.jpg|thumb|left|Dina Merrill in the film [[The Sundowners (1960 film)|The Sundowners]], 1960]]
Merrill appeared in numerous television series in the 1960s, such as playing the villain Calamity Jan in two 1968 episodes of ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' with then-husband [[Cliff Robertson]]. She also made guest appearances on two ''[[Bonanza]]'' episodes as Susannah Clauson, ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'' episode "Bonfire" (1962), ''[[The Investigators (1961 TV series)|The Investigators]]'', ''[[The Bold Ones]]'', ''[[Wagon Train]]'' (1964), ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]'', ''[[The Love Boat]]''; ''[[Quincy, M.E.]]''; ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''; ''[[Roseanne]]'', and ''[[The Nanny]]'', as Maxwell Sheffield's disapproving and distant British mother. In 1971, Merrill appeared as Laura Duff in ''The Men from Shiloh'' (rebranded name for the TV Western ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]'') in the episode titled "The Angus Killer".

Her stage credits include the 1983 Broadway revival of the [[Rodgers and Hart]] musical ''[[On Your Toes]]'', starring Russian prima ballerina [[Natalia Makarova]]. In 1991, she appeared in the rotating cast of the off-Broadway staged reading of ''[[Wit & Wisdom]]''.<ref>[https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/wit-and-wisdom_20415 ''Wit & Wisdom''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614033442/http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/wit-and-wisdom_20415/ |date=June 14, 2012 }}, theatermania.com; accessed December 27, 2013.</ref>
[[File:Dina Merrill & Bobby Short.jpg|thumb|Merrill, [[Bobby Short]] and Dick Sheridan in New York City (1970)]]

In 1991, Merrill and her third husband Ted Hartley merged their company Pavilion Communications with RKO to form [[RKO Pictures]], which owns the intellectual property of the RKO Radio Pictures movie studio.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Merrill was a recurring guest on several network television game and panel shows, including ''[[Match Game]]'', ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'', ''[[What's My Line]]'', and ''[[Hollywood Squares]]''.

==Board memberships==
Merrill was a presidential appointee to the board of trustees of the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]], a trustee of the [[Eugene O'Neill Theater Center]], and a vice president of the New York City Mission Society. In 1980, Merrill joined the board of directors of her father's E. F. Hutton & Co., continuing on the board and the compensation committee of [[Lehman Brothers]] when it acquired Hutton, for over 18 years.<ref name=PeopleStage /><ref>{{cite book| page=[https://archive.org/details/moneyfornothingh0000gill/page/13 13]| title=Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions| first=John| last=Gillespie| publisher=Free Press| isbn=978-1-4165-5993-1| date=2010-01-12| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/moneyfornothingh0000gill/page/13}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==
[[File:Dina_Merrill_1999.jpg|thumb|Merrill in 1999]]
Merrill was married three times. In 1946, she wed [[Stanley M. Rumbough Jr.]], an heir to the [[Colgate-Palmolive]] toothpaste fortune and entrepreneur.<ref name=NYTimesObit /> They had three children, Nedenia Colgate Rumbough; David Post Rumbough; and Stanley Rumbough III,<ref name=NYTimesObit /> before divorcing in 1966.<ref name=BroadwayLeague>{{cite web| url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dina-merrill-52846|title=Dina Merrill: Performer| publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]]| access-date= May 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021121656/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dina-merrill-52846 |archive-date=October 21, 2017}}</ref> Later that year, she wed actor [[Cliff Robertson]], with whom she had a daughter, Heather Robertson.<ref name=Post/> The couple divorced in 1986.<ref name=BroadwayLeague />

In 1989, she married producer [[Ted Hartley]], and they remained married until her death.<ref name=NYTimesObit />

On May 22, 2017, Merrill died at her home in East Hampton, New York at age 93. She had been suffering from [[Lewy Body Dementia]].<ref name=NYTimesObit>{{cite news| url =https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/movies/dina-merrill-dead-actress-and-heiress.html|title=Dina Merrill, Actress and Philanthropist, Dies at 93| first=Aljean| last=Harmetz| work=The New York Times| date=May 22, 2017| access-date=May 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523020205/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/movies/dina-merrill-dead-actress-and-heiress.html |archive-date=May 23, 2017 }}</ref>

Two of Merrill's four children predeceased her.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1975/11/17/page/57/article/actress-dina-merrill |title=Fortune, fame...and tragic deaths |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=1975-11-17 |access-date=2016-07-14}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E7DA163AF931A35756C0A9619C8B63 |title=Deaths Robertson, Heather Merriweather |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2007-05-02 |access-date=2016-07-14}}</ref> David died in a boating accident a few weeks before his 24th birthday, and Heather died from ovarian cancer at the age of 38.{{Citation needed |date=June 2023}}

She was a registered [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], though she headed a pro-abortion group called "Republican Majority for Choice."

==Honors==
Merrill received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award, in 1994,<ref>{{Cite web| author1=Women's International Center| title=Dina Merill | url=http://www.wic.org/bio/merrill.htm | access-date=September 13, 2021}}</ref> and a lifetime achievement award from the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]] in April 2005.<ref>{{cite web| title=Dina Merrill - biography| website=[[IMDb]]| url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581277/bio| access-date=September 13, 2021}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===Feature films===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable"| Notes
|-
|1957 || ''[[Desk Set]]'' || Sylvia Blair||
|-
|1958 ||''[[A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed]]'' ||Margie Solitaire||
|-
|rowspan=3|1959 || ''[[Don't Give Up the Ship (film)|Don't Give Up the Ship]]'' || Ensign Rita J. Benson||
|-
| ''[[Operation Petticoat]]'' || Second Lieutenant Barbara Duran, NC, USAR||
|-
| ''Catch Me As You Can'' || ||
|-
|rowspan=2|1960 || ''[[Butterfield 8]]'' || Emily Liggett ||
|-
| ''[[The Sundowners (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]'' || Jean Halstead ||
|-
|rowspan=2|1961 || ''[[The Young Savages]]'' || Karin Bell ||
|-
| ''[[Twenty Plus Two]]'' || Nicki Kovacs ||
|-
|rowspan=2|1963 || ''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film)|The Courtship of Eddie's Father]]'' || Rita Behrens ||
|-
| ''[[I'll Take Sweden]]'' || Karin Granstedt ||
|-
|1970 || ''Aru heishi no kake'' || Kelly Allen ||
|-
|1974 || ''Throw Out the Anchor!''|| Lindy Baker ||
|-
|1975 || ''The Meal'' || Kelly Fielding ||
|-
|1977 || ''[[The Greatest (1977 film)|The Greatest]]'' || Velvet Green ||
|-
|1978 || ''[[A Wedding (1978 film)|A Wedding]]'' || Antionette Goddard ||
|-
|1980 ||''[[Just Tell Me What You Want]]'' || Connie Herschel ||
|-
|1983 ||''[[Anna to the Infinite Power]]'' || Sarah Hart ||
|-
|1986 || ''[[Twisted (1986 film)|Twisted]]'' || Neil Kempler ||
|-
|1988 || ''[[Caddyshack II]]'' || Cynthia Young ||
|-
|1990 || ''[[Fear (1990 film)|Fear]]'' || Catherine Tarr ||
|-
|1991 || ''[[True Colors (film)|True Colors]]'' || Joan Styles ||
|-
|1992 || ''[[The Player (1992 film)|The Player]]'' || Celia ||
|-
|1993 || ''[[Suture (film)|Suture]]'' || Alice Jameson ||
|-
|rowspan=2|1995 || ''Open Season'' || Doris Hays-Britton ||
|-
| ''[[Point of Betrayal]]''|| Mother ||
|-
|1996 || ''[[Milk & Money]]'' || Ellen - David's Mother||Executive Producer
|-
|1998 || ''[[Mighty Joe Young (1998 film)|Mighty Joe Young]]'' || Society Woman ||
|-
|1999 || ''[[The Other Sister]]'' || Pucky ||Uncredited
|-
|2000 || ''Meeting Genevieve'' || Mother || Short movie
|-
|2003|| ''[[Shade (film)|Shade]]''|| Dina ||
|-
|2009 || ''[[Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009 film)|Beyond a Reasonable Doubt]]'' || Woman in Courtroom ||Uncredited
|}

===Television films===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable"| Notes
|-
| 1961 || ''Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed'' || Annette DeGrande ||
|-
| 1962 || ''The Expendables'' || Barbara ||
|-
| 1968 || ''The Sunshine Patriot'' || Brancie Hagen ||
|-
| rowspan=2|1969 || ''[[Seven in Darkness]]'' || Emily Garth ||
|-
| ''[[The Lonely Profession]]'' || Beatrice Savarona ||
|-
| 1971 || ''Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones'' || Vivian Greher ||
|-
| 1972 || ''[[Family Flight]]'' || Florence Carlyle ||
|-
| rowspan=2|1973 || ''[[The Letters (1973 film)|The Letters]]'' || Penelope Parkington ||
|-
| ''Running Wild'' || Whit Colby ||
|-
| 1979 || ''[[The Tenth Month]]'' || Cele ||
|-
| 1983 || ''The Brass Ring'' || Mother ||
|-
| 1986 || ''The Alan King Show'' || Nan Cooper ||
|-
| 1989 || ''Turn Back the Clock'' || Maureen Dowd ||
|-
| 1993 || ''Not in My Family'' || Claire Worth ||
|-
| 1997 || ''Something Borrowed, Something Blue'' || Lydia D'Arcy - Monique's Mother ||
|-
| 1998 || ''[[A Chance of Snow]]'' || Merilee Parker ||
|-
| rowspan=2|2002 || ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons (2002 film)|The Magnificent Ambersons]]'' || Mrs. Johnson ||
|-
| ''[[The Glow (film)|The Glow]]'' || Phoebe Janusz ||
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
|-
|1955
|''[[Four Star Playhouse]]''
|Marcia
|Episode: "A Place Full of Strangers"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1956
|''[[Playwrights '56]]''
|Sarah / Mrs. Neville
|Episode: "The Center of the Maze"<br />Episode: "Return to Cassino"
|-
|''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]'' 
|Lieutenant Roxberry / 
WAC Lieutenant
|Episode: "Bilko's Rest Cure"<br />Episode: "Bilko's War Against Culture"
|-
|1957–1958
|[[NBC Matinee Theater|''Matinee Theatre'']]
|
|Episode: "One for All"<br />Episode: "Day of Discoveries"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1958
|''[[Playhouse 90]]''
|Mary
|Episode: "The Time of Your Life"
|-
|''[[Climax!]]''
|Iris Farrar
|Episode: "Spider Web"
|-
|1959
|''[[Sunday Showcase (TV series)|Sunday Showcase]]'' 
|Laurette Harrington
|Episode: "What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1"<br />Episode: "What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2"
|-
|1959–1960
|''[[The Dupont Show of the Month|The DuPont Show of the Month]]''
|Laura Hudson / Julie
|Episode: "The Fallen Idol"<br />Episode: "Men in White"
|-
|1960
|''[[Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse]]''
|Aline Lincoln
|Episode: "Murder Is a Private Affair"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1961
|[[The Investigators (1961 TV series)|''The Investigators'']]
|Valerie Corbin
|Episode: "Style of Living"
|-
|''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
|Lisa Muller
|Episode: "Brandenburg Gate"
|-
|[[Hong Kong (TV series)|''Hong Kong'']]
|Helen Rowan Randolph
|Episode: "Lady Godiva"
|-
| rowspan="5" |1962
|''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents|The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]''
|Laura
|Season 1 Episode 13: "Bonfire"
|-
|''[[The Dick Powell Theatre]]'' 
|Mrs. Eve Emerson /
Carol Manson
|Episode: "The Court Martial of Captain Wycliff"<br />Episode: "Obituary for Mr.X"
|-
|''[[The New Breed (TV series)|The New Breed]]''
|Ruth Kingman
|Episode: "So Dark the Night"
|-
|''[[Dr. Kildare (TV series)|Dr. Kildare]]''
|Evelyn LeFevre
|Episode: "Oh, My Daughter"
|-
|''[[Checkmate (American TV series)|Checkmate]]''
|Laura Hammond
|Episode: "A Very Rough Sketch"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1963
|''[[Burke's Law (1963 TV series)|Burke's Law]]''
|Barrie Coleman
|Episode: "Who Killed Mr. X?"
|-
|''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]''
|Rita Hall
|Episode: "Everybody Knows You Love Me"
|-
|1963–1965
|''[[Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre]]''
|Maralise / Joan Cowley
|Episode: "The Candidate"<br />Episode: "The Game"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1964
|''[[Kraft Suspense Theatre]]''
|Jo Andrews
|Episode: "The Gun"
|-
|''Mickey''
|Angela
|Episode: "Seaside Westside"
|-
|''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]''
|Lisa Temple
|Episode: "Incident of the Gilded Goddess 
|-
|1964–1965
|''[[The Rogues (TV series)|The Rogues]]''
|Clothilde Bonheur / Kendall Frazier
|Episode: "The Personal Touch"<br />Episode: "A Daring Step Backward"
|-
|1965
|''[[Daniel Boone (1964 TV series)|Daniel Boone]]''
|Madeline Lorne
|Episode: "The Tamarack Massacre Affair"
|-
|1965–1972
|[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|''The F.B.I'']]
|Christine Minton / 
Jean Davis
|Episode: "The Monsters"<br />Episode: "The Franklin Papers"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1966
|''[[Bonanza]]''
|Susannah Clauson
|Episode: "The Pursued: Part 1"<br />Episode: "The Pursued: Part 2"
|-
|''[[Daktari]]''
|Janet Lorne
|Episode: "Trail of the Cheetah"
|-
|''12 O'Clock High''
|Capt. Patricia Bates
|Episode: "Which Way the Wind Blows"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1967
|''[[Run for Your Life (TV series)|Run for Your Life]]''
|Caroline Willins
|Episode: "East of the Equator"
|-
|''A.B.C Stage 67''
|Ginny Weldon
|Episode: "The Trap of Solid Gold"
|-
|1968
|''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''
|Calamity Jan
|Episode: "Penguin's Clean Sweep" (uncredited)<br />Episode: "The Great Escape"<br />Episode: "The Great Train Robbery"
|-
|1969
|''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]''
|Meredyth
|Episode: "The Controllers Part 1"<br />Episode: "The Controllers Part 2"
|-
|1969–1970
|''[[The Name of the Game (TV series)|The Name of the Game]]''
|Maggie Payden / Nancy Devlin
|Episode: "The Incomparable Connie Walker"<br />Episode: "The Glory Shouter"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1971
|''[[The Bold Ones: The New Doctors]]''
|Madeline Calvert
|Episode: "Angry Man"
|-
|''[[Medical Center (TV series)|Medical Center]]''
|Ruth Marlowe
|Episode: "Perfection of Vices"
|-
|''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]''
|Laura Duff
|Episode: "The Angus Killer"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1973
|''Cannon''
|Doris Hawthorne
|Episode: "Murder By the Numbers"
|-
|''[[Marcus Welby, M.D.]]''
|Dr. Carol Brooks
|Episode: "A Cry in the Night"
|-
|''[[Night Gallery]]''
|Ruth Wilson
|Episode: "Hatred Until Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire"<br />Segment: "Hatred Unto Death"
|-
|1974
|[[The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)|''The Odd Couple'']]
|Anita
|Episode: "Oscar in Love"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1975
|[[Ellery Queen (TV series)|''Ellery Queen'']]
|Harriet Manners
|Episode: "The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express"
|-
|''Switch''
|Luciana
|Episode: "Kiss of Death"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1976
|''Quincy M.E.''
|Claire Garner
|Episode: "Who's Who In Neverland"
|-
|''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]''
|Dr. Barbara Dalton
|Episode: "Nine Dragons"
|-
|''[[Kingston: Confidential]]''
|Helen Martinson
|Episode: "Kingston"
|-
|1977
|''The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries''
|Thelma March
|Episode: "A Haunting We Will Go"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1979
|''[[The Love Boat]]''
|Helen Ames
|2 Episodes
|-
|''[[Roots: The Next Generations|Roots: The Next Generation]]''
|Mrs. Hickinger
|TV Mini-Series<br />Episode: "Part V"
|-
|1980
|''Matt and Jenny''
|Adelaide Alcott
|Episode: "The Actress"
|-
|1982-
1984
|''Hotel''
|Jessica Cabot / Eleanor Blackwood
|Episode: "Queen's Gambit"<br />Episode: "Opening Moves"<br />Episode: "The Wedding"
|-
|1984
|[[Hot Pursuit (1984 TV series)|''Hot Pursuit'']]
|Estelle Mordian
|12 Episodes
|-
|1984
|"Tales of the Unexpected"
|Series 7, ep 18, "The Open Window"
|"Marjorie"
|-
|1990-
1992
|''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''
|Monica Douglas / Annie Floret
|Episode: "Always a Thief"<br />Episode: "The Monte Carlo Murders"
|-
|1995
|''[[The Nanny]]''
|Elizabeth Sheffield
|Episode: "The Two Mrs. Sheffields"
|-
|1996
|''[[Roseanne]]''
|Doris
|Episode: [[Hoi Polloi Meets Hoiti Toiti|"Hoi Polloi Meets Holti Toiti"]]
|-
|1998
|''Vengeance Unlimited''
|Ellen Hayworth
|Episode: "Ambition"
|-
|2001
|''100 Centre Street''
|Judge Helen Randolph
|Episode: "Bottlecaps"
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19880731&id=uJ9jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JM4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2850,9134234 In Step with: Dina Merrill]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, news.google.com; accessed 2014-07-09. 

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