Pat worked in films and TV as actress Barbara Hayden. When she played the lead in an episode of 'Rescue 8' in Hollywood and then went on to write three more episodes, she took the pen name, Pat Silver. Pat wrote as a team with her late husband, Hollywood screen writer and author, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., son of the film pioneer Jesse L. Lasky who produced the first full length motion picture in Hollywood, 'The Squaw Man'.Together, Pat and Jesse wrote 4 books, 8 produced films, nearly 100 produced TV scripts and won several awards. She now writes as Pat Silver-Lasky. She has lectured on script writing at American Universities, was Script Consultant and lecturer at the London (International) Film School for eight years. She is currently working on a biographical history of Hollywood seen through the focus of an archive of 450 letters from Jesse Lasky to his son, Jesse Jr. - 'Letters From A Hollywood Mogul', a long term project. For her current book RIDE THE TIGER click here.
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Books
SCAMS SCHEMES SCUMBAGS (Ouroborus Books)RIDE THE TIGER (Ouroborus Books)
SCREENWRITING FOR THE 21st CENTURY (Batsford Books)
LOVE SCENE (T.Y. Crowell N.Y./Angus & Robertson U.K. - paperback Berkley-Jove N.Y./Sphere U.K.)THE OFFER (Doubleday N.Y./ paperback Berkley-Jove )
DARK DIMENSIONS (Everest House )
MEN OF MYSTERY (W.H. Allen/Star U.K.)
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Feature Films
WIZARD OF BAGHDAD (20th C. Fox)
CRIME AND PASSION (AIP Dir: Ivan Passer)
7 WOMEN FROM HELL (20th C. Fox)
PIRATES OF TORTUGA (20th C. Fox),
LAND RAIDERS (Columbia)
BULL DANCE (Filmscreen Int'l, Yugoslavia)
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Television SeriesMABEL'S FABELS (18, Acted/Created/Written/Directed)
RESCUE 8 (3) SHANNON (3) PALADIN (2) THE NEW BREED (7) THE SAINT (3)
THE BARON (2) DANGER MAN (aka “Secret Agent”) (4) THE AVENGERS (3)
THE PROTECTORS (4) BBC MUSICAL SPECIALS (5) SPACE1999 (2)
THE SWINGING SCENE (ITV Musical Series, 6) BEN HALL (BBC Australia, 2)
THE WORLD OF LOWELL THOMAS (43 documentaries BBC/USA)
THE EXPLORERS (BBC/USA 2, BAFTA Docu-Drama award)
PHILIP MARLOWE (Head Writer/Story Editor LWT/HBO/Paragon, Edgar Allen Poe Award, TV Guide 'Best New Series')
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Arena/Telecip Fr./Italy./U.K.
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Films for TelevisionERNEST HEMINGWAY, & ALFRED NOBEL (Chatsworth Prize Winner's Series)
PAINT ME A MURDER (orig. MOW Fox/Hammer
Theatre ProductionsGHOST TOWN (Directed 2 award-winning U.S. prods., British Drama Festival)
GEHENNA OF THE BONE (London)
VIVIEN (L.A. production, (also Director); & Rehearsed rd'ing, London 1992)
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