High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Diane Brewster (March 11, 1931 in Kansas City, Missouri – November 12, 1991 in Studio City, California) was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in Maverick; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife Helen Kimble in The Fugitive.