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'''Diane Jones''' is an American background performer who portrayed [[Adama]]'s wife [[Ila]] in portraiture in the {{OS|Saga of a Star World|prose=y}}, and later as a [[Bar Maiden|bar maiden]] on [[Equellus]] in the {{OS|The Lost Warrior|prose=y}}. Both performances were uncredited and were identified through computer-aided facial recognition.
'''Diane Jones''' is an American background performer who portrayed Adama's wife [[Ila]] in portraiture in the {{OS|Saga of a Star World|prose=y}}, and later as a [[Bar Maiden|bar maiden]] on [[Equellus]] in the {{OS|The Lost Warrior|prose=y}}. Both of her performances were uncredited, but she was identified through computer-aided facial recognition.
 
== Career ==
 
Jones' first known acting credit is as Patricia in ''The Psycho Lover'' (1970),<ref group="external" name="imdb_psycholover_fullcredits_jones">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168137/fullcredits/#:~:text=Diane%20Jones|title=The Psycho Lover (1970) – Full cast & crew|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=8 June 2026}}</ref> a [[w:Sexploitation film|sexploitation]] crime film written and directed by Robert Vincent O'Neil. The character Patricia — referred to in the film as "the one with the cat"<ref group="external" name="cinemacats_psycholover_patricia_cat">{{cite web|url=https://cinemacats.com/the-psycho-lover-1970/#:~:text=Patricia%20(Diane%20Jones)%2C%20referred%20to%20as%20%22the%20one%20with%20the%20cat%22|title=The Psycho Lover (1970)|author=Kay, Linda|publisher=Cinema Cats|date=29 December 2023|accessdate=8 June 2026}}</ref> — is a lesbian sculptor killed at her home by Marco Everson ([[w:Frank_Cuva|Frank Cuva]]), a psychotic patient hypnotized by his psychiatrist into committing murder.
 
In January 1974, Jones appears uncredited in two productions within five days of each other. She is listed as an observer at a crime scene in the ''[[w:Kojak|Kojak]]'' episode "Last Rites for a Dead Priest" (Season 1, Episode 12, January 23, 1974)<ref group="external" name="imdb_kojak_lastrites_fullcredits_jones">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0621341/fullcredits/#:~:text=Diane%20Jones|title="Kojak" Last Rites for a Dead Priest (TV Episode 1974) – Full cast & crew|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=8 June 2026}}</ref> and five days later as a show spectator in the ''[[w:The Magician (American TV series)|The Magician]]'' episode "The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady" (Season 1, Episode 13, January 28, 1974).<ref group="external" name="imdb_magician_stainlesslady_fullcredits_jones">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639588/fullcredits/#:~:text=Diane%20Jones|title="The Magician" The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady (TV Episode 1974) – Full cast & crew|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=8 June 2026}}</ref> Later that year she appears uncredited as a nurse in ''[[w:The Terminal Man (film)|The Terminal Man]]'' (1974), a science-fiction film directed by [[w:Mike Hodges|Mike Hodges]] and adapted from the novel by [[w:Michael Crichton|Michael Crichton]], starring [[w:George Segal|George Segal]] and [[w:Joan Hackett|Joan Hackett]].<ref group="external" name="imdb_terminalman_fullcredits_jones">{{cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0072267/fullcredits/#:~:text=Diane%20Jones|title=The Terminal Man (1974) – Full cast & crew|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=8 June 2026}}</ref>
 
Jones also appears uncredited as Miss Alabama in the ''[[w:The Bionic Woman|The Bionic Woman]]'' Season 1 episode "Bionic Beauty" (March 17, 1976), in which Jaime Sommers ([[w:Lindsay Wagner|Lindsay Wagner]]) goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant.
 
Her two appearances in ''Battlestar Galactica'' came in 1978. In "[[Saga of a Star World]]," she appears in photographs of [[Ila]] that [[Adama]] examines. In "[[The Lost Warrior]]," she is seen as an unnamed [[Bar Maiden|bar maiden]] on [[Equellus]]. Both roles were uncredited, with both identifications made through computer-aided facial recognition.
 
== Reeferences ==


=== External Sources ===
Jones' appearances span across the 1970s mainly as various background extras, such as a bystander in ''Kojak'' and as Miss Alabama in ''The'' ''Bionic Woman''  episode "Bionic Beauty." Her first known acting credit is as Patricia ("the one with the cat"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cinemacats.com/the-psycho-lover-1970/|title=Cinema Cats - The Psycho Lover (1970)|accessdate=1 December 2024|date=29 December 2023}}</ref>), a lesbian sculptor that Marco (the protagonist) murders in her bathtub, in the 1970 [[w:Sexploitation_film|sexpolitation]] crime film ''[https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Psycho_Lover The Psycho Lover].''
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== References ==
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[[Category:Glen Larson Productions Cast and Crew]]

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