Ena Hartman is a groundbreaking black actress and Augustalready dead. She is 93 years old.

Hartman died on April 16 at her home in Van Nuys. Hollywood Reporter.

Hartman also included her with Tom Selleck, Don Marshall, Roger E. Mosley. Islamic TerminalD (1973), written and directed by Stephanie Rothman.

She assists Lee J. Cobb's character in spy cheating Our man Flint (1966), starring James Coburn; guests attending the party game (1967), starring James Caan, Simone Signoret and Katharine Ross; AIRPORT (1970).

In 1968, she appeared in NBC's first Adam 12 On TV Prescription murderthis was played by Peter Falk in his initial Columbo outing.

In one of the rare regular TV roles that played a black actress at the time, Hartman stood out as the clever, pointless police dispatcher Katy Grant and AugustThis is the police investigating the homicide in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California.

However, the series also includes Richard Anderson and Norman, which lasted only one season and 26 episodes.

Earlier, Hartman had the opportunity to play her in the plan to be picked by famous actress Dorothy Dandridge, which was also the plan to play Sidney Poitier. However, Poitier decided to pass the film in the final stage, which was never made.

(He did become Poitier's guest when Hartman became the first black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.)

Later, she is said to be playing Lieutenant Uhura in NBC Star Trek There is also a nun from Elvis Change habits (1969), but she lost to Nichelle Nichols and Barbara McNair respectively. (She will appear in season 1 trek Episode "Corbomite Maneuver.")

Gerthaline Henry is the daughter of Sharecroppers and was born on April 1, 1932 in Moscow, Arkansas. She was raised by her grandparents and moved to Buffalo, New York, where she lived with her mother at the age of 13.

She dropped out of high school and opened a restaurant that could make enough money to go to New York City, where she would take the stage name, become the top model in the town, and with Josh Shelley and Raisins in the sun Director Lloyd Richards.

Hartman participated in a talent competition for NBC-sponsored young actors and actresses, which led her to get a talent contract from the network - the first deal for any black actor, said to be. ((ebony A 1962 magazine reported that the “modification” contract lasted for five years, at $12,000 a year. "This is the most exciting thing that has happened to me," she said.

In 1964, she made her debut on screen Blind And in the sequel function New intern.

Hartman later appeared in a series like this Courage profile,,,,, The farmer's daughter,,,,, Taishan,,,,, ironside,,,,, It needs a thief,,,,, Dragnet 1967,,,,, The name of the game,,,,, outsider,,,,, ironside And, for her last screen credit, an episode from 1975 Police Story.

In addition to her goddess, survivors include her son Doug and daughter Kimberly.