Jillian Kesner Graver a great actress and wife of director-cinematographer late Gary Graver was born on 17th November, 1950 at Norfolk in Virginia. She was the daughter of a United States Navy officer. She spent most of her childhood at Denver in Colorado. In the year 1959, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career as a model.
Jillian Kesner-Graver was also a historian but will be best remembered as an actress for the character Lorraine in the movie Happy Days. In Los Angeles she also got to work in television and movie acting. From the period 1970 to 1990 she acted in B-rated films in most of the cases. She appeared in many of the television shows that include Three Company, The Rockford Files etc.
Friendly, humble, and lovable person Jillian Kesner-Graver met her husband Gary when they worked on the 1976 movie The Student Body. Later she moved into production and had worked with her husband Gary Graver on several projects, including their documentary.
Jillian Kesner-Graver husband, who was best-known as Orson Welles' final cinematographer Gray died on November 16, 2006 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California after a lengthy battle with cancer at the age of 68.
In a tribute to her husband Jillian Kesner-Graver said she would like to travel with her husband and arrange to show their program in festivals and museum. Even after his death she arranged many tours around the world to show and discuss Welles' many late works, but unfortunately Jillians untimely death has kept it incomplete.
A key member of the informal organisation Volunteers in Service to Orson Welles Jillian Kesner-Graver was invited by the biggest film festival of Asia to honor her husband. At present, Kesner-Graver worked to preserve the footage of her husband shot in the 1970s for unfinished future of the Welles The Other Side of the Wind.
On 5th December 2007 Jillian Kesner-Graver died at the age of 58. She was suffering from leukemia for a long period of time. She had the sudden and untimely death at Irvine hospital, where she was admitted on 4th December with staph infection.
Jillian Kesner Graver
