Karen Montgomery was an actress, producer and film executive best known for her work as an associate producer on the film Diary of a Hit Man, starring Forest Whitaker, as well as a documentary about that film’s director, Special Thanks to Roy London. The late Roy London, an avant-garde acting coach, had also served as Montgomery’s former instructor.

1991’s Diary of a Hitman followed the story of a trained killer on his last job. The film also featured performances from Seymour Cassel, Sharon Stone and Jim Belushi. As a producer, Montgomery also worked on the films ‘Til There was You, starring Jeanne Tripplehorn and Dylan McDermott and Row Your Boat, with Jon Bon Jovi, Bai Ling and William Forsythe.

Montgomery began acting in the late 1970s, when she played the role of Patricia in the 1978 Kojak episode “In Full Command.” She also appeared on the television shows Nero Wolfe, Aloha Paradise, Star Trek: The Next Generation and, in 1993, L.A. Law, her final acting credit. On Star Trek she played Beata, the leader of the native inhabitants of the planet Angel One. The episode, titled “Angel One,” ran in 1988, and footage from the shoot was used again in a 1989 episode called “Shades of Gray.”

Additionally, she appeared in the films Going in Style, starring George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg; Willie & Phil, a remake of Jules and Jim, starring Margot Kidder; and Amazon Women on the Moon, starring Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer and Arsenio Hall.

Earlier in her career Montgomery served as an assistant to screenwriter Waldo Salt, director Hal Ashby and producer Bruce Gilbert. She also worked at Gilbert’s American Filmworks as the supervising exec on Sydney Lumet’s 1986 film The Morning After.

Montgomery died December 4, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. She was 66.