Joan Darling

. 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. 2Biography 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 also 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 is in the Mail, and a number of made-for-television film