Dianne Foster

• Name — Dianne Foster • Born — 31 October 1928 • Birthplace — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • Died — 27 July 2019 • Birth Name — Olga Helen Laruska • Occupation — * Actress • model • Years Active — 1951–1966 • Spouse — Andrew Allan (m. married 1951; div. divorced 195?) • Children — 3 Dianne Foster (born Olga Helen Laruska; October 31, 1928 – July 27, 2019) was a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent.

Foster was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She began her career at the age of 13 in a stage adaptation of James Barrie's What Every Woman Knows. In London in 1951, she appeared on stage in Agatha Christie's The Hollow and Orson Welles's Othello. At 14, she began a radio career, subsequently moved to Toronto, and became one of Canada's top radio stars, working with Andrew Allan, drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on productions such as Stage '49. She appeared on Radio Luxembourg in a broadcast of The Lives of Harry Lime. She became a Walter Thornton model and also taught modeling at the Thornton school. She married Andrew Allan in 1951.

In 1960, Foster was the title guest star in the episode "Lawyer in Petticoats" on the short-lived NBC Western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. Foster also appeared in 1960 in three other NBC Westerns, Bonanza (as Joyce Edwards in "The Mill"), Wagon Train (as Leslie Ivers in "Trial for Murder: Part 2"), and Riverboat (as Marian Templeton in "Path of the Eagle"). Also in 1960, she appeared in Have Gun Will Travel season four, episode 20. After a three-year absence, she returned to the big screen in King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein, playing Carolyn Green Rothstein, wife of the title character. Foster continued to appear in television programs, such as the Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Lord of Limbo", CBS's The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963), the ABC medical drama Breaking Point (1963–1964), and The Fugitive. Foster appeared as a pilot in an episode of My Three Sons, as a woman's editor of Home Decorator Magazine Incorporated in another episode of My Three Sons, as a librarian in a 1964 episode of Petticoat Junction, and as Amy Collins in the 1965 Green Acres episode "How to See South America by Bus". She guest-starred in the ABC drama Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly. She made four guest appearances on Perry Mason between 1962 and 1965, an episode of Honey West, "A Matter of Wife and Death" (episode 4) in 1965, and appeared in the "Caesar's Wife" episode of The Big Valley in 1966. Dianne Foster also appeared on two episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo (1960 and 1962).

In 1951, Foster married Andrew Allan, head radio drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in London. They soon divorced, and in 1954, she married Joel A. Murcott, a Hollywood radio-television scriptwriter, in Owensboro, Kentucky. On February 14, 1956, she gave birth to twins—a son, Jason, and a daughter, Jodi. That same year, she also filed for divorce from Murcott. She asked for custody and $1 in token alimony. The couple reconciled, but it proved to be temporary, as they separated twice more before finally divorcing in 1959. In 1961, Foster married her third husband, Harold Rowe, a Van Nuys dentist. On November 14, 1963, their son, Dustin Louis Rowe, was born in Los Angeles. Foster died in July 2019 at the age of 90.

• The Quiet Woman (1951) • The Steel Key (1953) • Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953) • Bad for Each Other (1953) • Drive a Crooked Road (1954) • Three Hours to Kill (1954) • The Bamboo Prison (1954) • The Violent Men (1955) • The Kentuckian (1955) • Monkey on My Back (1957) • Night Passage (1957) • The Brothers Rico (1957) • The Deep Six (1958) • Gideon's Day (or Gideon of Scotland Yard) (1958) • The Last Hurrah (1958) • King of the Roaring '20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) • Gunsmoke (1962) S7E23 "Reprisal" as Cornellia • Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)