Joan Darling (née Kugell; born April 14, 1935, Boston, Massachusetts,
United States) is an American actress, film and television director
and a dramatic arts instructor.Born Joan Kugell in Boston, Darling
began her career with the New York improvisational theater troupe
"Premise Players," and soon graduated to off-Broadway and Broadway
productions. She gravitated to feature films making her debut in
Theodore J. Flicker's The Troublemaker (1964) and later his The
President's Analyst. She went into television in the 1970s. She was a
regular on the law series Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, playing
office secretary to Arthur Hill, Lee Majors, and David Soul.Darling
was the first woman nominated for an Emmy for directing. She was
nominated four times, winning one. She was nominated two times for a
Director's Guild of America award, winning one. She was nominated for
an Emmy for her performance of Dorothy Parker in Woven in a Crazy
Plaid.Darling directed episodes of the television series Rhoda, Doc,
Taxi, Hizzonner, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Hartman, Mary
Hartman, Magnum, P.I., Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, and The
Bionic Woman, as well as the feature film The Check Os in the Mail,
and a number of television movies. She directed the famous "Chuckles
Bites the Dust" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and received a
1976 Emmy nomination for her efforts.
United States) is an American actress, film and television director
and a dramatic arts instructor.Born Joan Kugell in Boston, Darling
began her career with the New York improvisational theater troupe
"Premise Players," and soon graduated to off-Broadway and Broadway
productions. She gravitated to feature films making her debut in
Theodore J. Flicker's The Troublemaker (1964) and later his The
President's Analyst. She went into television in the 1970s. She was a
regular on the law series Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, playing
office secretary to Arthur Hill, Lee Majors, and David Soul.Darling
was the first woman nominated for an Emmy for directing. She was
nominated four times, winning one. She was nominated two times for a
Director's Guild of America award, winning one. She was nominated for
an Emmy for her performance of Dorothy Parker in Woven in a Crazy
Plaid.Darling directed episodes of the television series Rhoda, Doc,
Taxi, Hizzonner, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Hartman, Mary
Hartman, Magnum, P.I., Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, and The
Bionic Woman, as well as the feature film The Check Os in the Mail,
and a number of television movies. She directed the famous "Chuckles
Bites the Dust" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and received a
1976 Emmy nomination for her efforts.
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