Selma Diamond

Selma Diamond was born on Aug 05, 1920 in Canada. Selma Diamond's big-screen debut came with It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World directed by Stanley Kramer in 1963. Selma Diamond is known for Night Court directed by Jeff Melman, Harry Anderson stars as Judge Harry T. Stone and John Larroquette as Dan Fielding. The upcoming new movie Selma Diamond plays is The Ratings Game which will be released on Dec 15, 1984.

Most familiar to TV audiences as the diminutive but feisty court bailiff on Tribunal de nuit (1984), Selma Diamond's entrance into acting was not through the usual venue of vaudeville, stage work or modeling - she was a writer for TV shows, once having been nominated for an Emmy for Caesar's Hour (1954). Although she had that tough New York accent and street demeanor, she was actually born in Montreal, Canada, then raised in Brooklyn. A graduate of New York University, she at first made a living by selling cartoons and fiction to the "New Yorker" magazine. NBC hired her as a writer for one of its radio shows, "The Big Show," and she later made the transition into writing for television. Her film debut was as the voice on the telephone of Spencer Tracy's wife in Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou (1963), where the world got a sample of the distinctive Diamond voice: nasal, high-pitched and one that could never be mistaken for anyone else's. She did a lot of TV work and was a regular on another series, Jackie et Sara (1980) before Tribunal de nuit (1984). She died due to lung cancer in 1985.