About: Diana Chesney

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Diana was born in Mandalay, Burma, where her father, a British Major was stationed. Her family returned to Britain before the war. She decided to become an actress at the age of 12, after seeing a Bette Davis film. Diana attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, with her first stage appearance in a road company production of Show Boat. She would spend four years helping to entertain British and Americans troops during World War II in such places as Egypt, Iraq and Libya. An attack by a Luftwaffe bomber on a train that was carrying her and her fellow entertainers would make her reluctant to travel by train.

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rdfs:label	Diana Chesney
rdfs:comment	Diana was born in Mandalay, Burma, where her father, a British Major was stationed. Her family returned to Britain before the war. She decided to become an actress at the age of 12, after seeing a Bette Davis film. Diana attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, with her first stage appearance in a road company production of Show Boat. She would spend four years helping to entertain British and Americans troops during World War II in such places as Egypt, Iraq and Libya. An attack by a Luftwaffe bomber on a train that was carrying her and her fellow entertainers would make her reluctant to travel by train.
dcterms:subject	Guest Stars Movie actors Television actors Actors British actors 1924 births British voice actors 2004 deaths
abstract	Diana was born in Mandalay, Burma, where her father, a British Major was stationed. Her family returned to Britain before the war. She decided to become an actress at the age of 12, after seeing a Bette Davis film. Diana attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, with her first stage appearance in a road company production of Show Boat. She would spend four years helping to entertain British and Americans troops during World War II in such places as Egypt, Iraq and Libya. An attack by a Luftwaffe bomber on a train that was carrying her and her fellow entertainers would make her reluctant to travel by train. After the war, she would start working in British film, soon appearing in such films as The King and I and All at Sea, and television shows as Quatermass II, while continuing to work in the theatre. In 1961, Diana would move to the United States, where she would continue her acting career, appearing in such series as Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes, McMillan & Wife, Night Gallery, Cannon and Fantasy Island, and in such films as Swashbuckler, Rescue from Gilligan's Island and The Great Mouse Detective, as well as starring in the short-lived series, Fair Exchange. She died in May 2004 from cancer at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hill, California.

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