Diana Sands
Actor
- Born
- August 22, 1934 · The Bronx, New York, USA
- Died
- September 21, 1973 (age 39)
Diana Patricia Sands was an American actress, perhaps most known for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character in the original stage and film versions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.
Known for
A Face in the Crowd
May 29, 1957
A Raisin in the Sun
May 28, 1961
Odds Against Tomorrow
October 15, 1959
The Landlord
May 20, 1970
Willie Dynamite
January 23, 1974
Ensign Pulver
July 31, 1964
Doctors' Wives
February 3, 1971
Free to Be… You and Me
March 11, 1974
Four Boys and a Gun
January 11, 1957
Georgia, Georgia
March 10, 1972
Caribbean
September 1, 1952
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
October 1, 1974
Acting15
- 2018Poitier's Walter Lee as Self (archive footage)
- 1974Honeybaby, Honeybaby as Laura Lewis
- 1974Free to Be… You and Me as Self (uncredited)
- 1974Willie Dynamite as Cora
- 1972Georgia, Georgia as Georgia Martin
- 1971Doctors' Wives as Helen Straughn
- 1970The Landlord as Francine "Fanny" Johnson
- 1964Ensign Pulver as Mila
- 1963An Affair of the Skin as Janice
- 1961A Raisin in the Sun