Pilar Seurat

Pilar Seurat
Pilar Seurat
	Seurat in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Born	Rita Hernandez; July 25, 1938; Manila, Commonwealth of the Philippines
Died	June 2, 2001 (aged 62); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupation(s)	Film, television actress
Years active	1959–1972
Spouse(s)	Don Devlin (1959–div.1963); Don Cerveris (1970–div.1981)
Children	Dean Devlin
Relatives	Lisa Brenner (daughter-in-law)

Pilar Seurat (born Rita Hernandez; July 25, 1938 – June 2, 2001) was a Filipino American film and television actress in the 1960s.^[1]

Life and career

Born in Manila, Seurat began her Hollywood career as a dancer in Ken Murray's "Blackouts", the popular postwar variety show at the El Capitan Theatre. Though she primarily played Asian characters, Seurat was adept at playing various nationalities; her breakthrough role was as Louisa Escalante, the blind murder victim's sister in John Frankenheimer's The Young Savages (1961).

She was frequently cast on 1960s television shows whose production staff sought performers for Asian, Hispanic, or Native American roles, including in Adventures in Paradise, The Fugitive, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Seaway, Hawaiian Eye, The Virginian, Maverick, Bonanza, Stoney Burke, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O, The F.B.I., I Spy, The Lieutenant, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Rawhide, and Mannix.

Personal life

She married producer Don Devlin in 1959; the couple divorced in 1963. The couple's son is the producer Dean Devlin. In 1970, she married writer Don Cerveris and shortly afterwards retired from acting and began using the name Pilar Cerveris. This marriage ended in 1981.

Her father, Major Al Hernandez, fought the Japanese occupiers in the Philippine jungle during World War II. He later wrote the book, Bahala na about his time in World War II. Pilar also had a full sister in the Philippines and a younger half-sister, Alana Hernandez, in Los Angeles.

Death

Seurat died of lung cancer in 2001, aged 62, and is interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

The horror-comedy film Eight Legged Freaks (2002), produced by her son Dean, was dedicated to her.

Select filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961	The Young Savages	Louisa Escalante
1961	Battle at Bloody Beach	Camota
1961	Seven Women from Hell	Mai-Lu Ferguson
1963	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Mickey Arthur	Season 2 Episode 4: "You'll Be the Death of Me"
1966	The Virginian	Hapamawa	Season 4 Episode 18: "Long Ride to Wind River"
1968	The Virginian	Tela	Season 7 Episode 12: "Nora"
1970	Hawaii Five-O	Theresa Dietrich	Season 2 Episode 22: "Nightmare Road"