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Diana Sands
The Bronx, New York, USA
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 ver…
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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.
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2018
Poitier's Walter Lee
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1974
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
Movie Laura Lewis
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1974
Free to Be… You and Me
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1974
Willie Dynamite
Movie Cora
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1972
Georgia, Georgia
Movie Georgia Martin
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1971
Doctors' Wives
Movie Helen Straughn
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1970
The Flip Wilson Show
TV show Self
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1970
The Landlord
Movie Francine "Fanny" Johnson
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1969
Medical Center
TV show Dr. Marylou Neeley
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1966
ABC Stage 67
TV show Self - Wife
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1964
Ensign Pulver
Movie Mila
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1963
An Affair of the Skin
Movie Janice
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1963
The Fugitive
TV show Davala Unawa
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1963
The Outer Limits
TV show Dr. Julia Harrison
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1963
Breaking Point
TV show
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1961
Dr. Kildare
TV show Irene Rush
More credits
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1961
A Raisin in the Sun
Movie Beneatha Younger
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1959
Odds Against Tomorrow
Movie Club Hostess (uncredited)
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1957
A Face in the Crowd
Movie Homeless Woman (uncredited)
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1957
Four Boys and a Gun
Movie (uncredited)
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1956
Carib Gold
Movie Bar Girl
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1952
Caribbean
Movie Native Woman (uncredited)
