Lillian Bronson

Born: 1902-10-21

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lillian Bronson (October 21, 1902 - August 2, 1995) was an American character actress. She performed in over 80 films, 60 of the films from 1939 to 1964, and appeared in over one hundred television productions from 1949 to 1975. Bronson was born Lillian Rumsey Bronson in Lockport, New York, the daughter of a carriage builder, and attended the University of Michigan. She began her artistic career by performing plays at Broadway. During the Great Depression, Bronson and her late sister, Dorothy, opened the Bronson Studio in New York, designing and making toy animals and pillows. In 1943, Bronson appeared in the movie Happy Land as Mattie Dyer and on television in the episode "The Druid Circle" of The Philco Television Playhouse, that aired on March 6, 1949, in the role of Miss Dagnall. She then appeared in a long series of minor characters for many television series episodes from the early days of television until the mid-1970s, including many western genres. She became widely known for her role as the grandmother in the Kings Row television series. Bronson's final appearance on the small screen was as "Grandma Nussbaum", Fonzie's grandmother, in the episode "Fonzie Moves In" of the ABC-TV sitcom series Happy Days, which aired on September 9, 1975. Her final big screen appearance was in the film Kisses for My President (1964), in which she plays the part of Miss Currier.


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Marnie

as Mrs. Maitland (uncredited)
Released: 1964-07-17

Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her...

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Christmas in Connecticut

as Secretary
Released: 1945-07-27

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a...

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Gaslight

as Lady (uncredited)
Released: 1944-05-04

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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Father of the Bride

as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Released: 1950-05-18

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she...

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Librarian (uncredited)
Released: 1945-02-28

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and...

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Dressed to Kill

as Minister's Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1946-05-24

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing...

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Spencer's Mountain

as Grandma Spencer
Released: 1963-05-16

Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't...

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Sleep, My Love

as Helen
Released: 1948-02-18

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got...

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In the Good Old Summertime

as Aunt Addie
Released: 1949-07-29

Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry...

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They Won't Believe Me

as Aunt Martha Hines (uncredited)
Released: 1947-07-16

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand...

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Over 21

as Elsie - Paula's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1945-08-08

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old...

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The Pearl of Death

as Maj. Harker's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: 1944-08-01

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its...

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The Invisible Man's Revenge

as Norma, the Maid (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-09

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner...

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Room for One More

as Teacher (uncredited)
Released: 1952-01-10

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the...

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The Suspect

as Miss Crevy (uncredited)
Released: 1945-01-31

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly...

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The Sword of Monte Cristo

as Pepite
Released: 1951-03-03

In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La...

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Nocturne

as Gotham Cashier
Released: 1946-10-29

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest...

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Foxfire

as Mrs. Potter (uncredited)
Released: 1955-07-13

A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

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The Brighton Strangler

as Hotel Maid (Uncredited)
Released: 1945-05-10

After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe...

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The Over the Hill Gang

as Mrs. Louise Murphy
Released: 1969-07-06

A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a...

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The Hucksters

as Miss Hammer - Secretary
Released: 1947-07-17

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult...

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The Next Voice You Hear...

as Aunt Ethel
Released: 1950-06-29

The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God...

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Murder in the Music Hall

as Cleaning Woman
Released: 1946-04-10

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

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Battle at Bloody Beach

as Delia Ellis
Released: 1961-06-20

This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and...

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The Judge Steps Out

as Harriett (uncredited)
Released: 1947-12-15

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

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Sentimental Journey

as Miss Benson (uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-06

An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that...

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Molly and Me

as Perkins
Released: 1945-05-25

A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and...

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Road to Alcatraz

as Dorothy Stone
Released: 1945-07-10

The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it...

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Kisses for My President

as Miss Currier (uncredited)
Released: 1964-08-21

A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.

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I've Always Loved You

as Music Teacher 1
Released: 1946-12-02

A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant...

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Rose of Cimarron

as Emmy Anders
Released: 1952-01-28

A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.

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Mademoiselle Fifi

as Mme. Follenvie
Released: 1944-07-28

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride...

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No Room for the Groom

as Aunt Elsa
Released: 1952-06-13

A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding...

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So This Is Love

as Mrs. Green
Released: 1953-07-15

Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

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The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

as Mrs. Louise Murphy
Released: 1970-11-16

Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This...

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Affair with a Stranger

as Miss Crutcher
Released: 1953-06-20

Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.

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Enter Arsène Lupin

as Wheeler
Released: 1944-11-24

A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know...

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In the Meantime, Darling

as Mrs, Dalrymple
Released: 1944-09-22

A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house...

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First Love

as Violin Player
Released: 1939-11-10

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and...

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Family Honeymoon

as Aunt Jo
Released: 1948-12-06

Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the...

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Welcome Stranger

as Miss Lennek
Released: 1947-06-13

Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he...

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Here Come the Nelsons

as Miss Tompkins
Released: 1952-02-23

The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter...

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Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

as Prunella Pennyworth - Humphrey's Sister
Released: 1950-02-05

Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey...

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Dakota Lil

as Sheriff's Wife
Released: 1950-02-17

Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.

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Excuse My Dust

as Mrs. Matilda Bullitt
Released: 1951-06-27

Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car,...

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Happy Land

as Mattie Dyer (uncredited)
Released: 1943-11-10

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist...

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Junior Miss

as Maid
Released: 1945-06-16

A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly...

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Hollywood and Vine

as Abigail Wrighthouse
Released: 1945-04-25

A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that...

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The Lady Is My Wife

as Widow
Released: 1967-02-01

After the Civil War ends, a rich horse rancher out West hires the Bannisters, a married Southern...

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What a Man!

as Constance
Released: 1944-01-31

Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his...

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Beauty on Parade

as Mrs. Enfield-Hyphen-Hatch
Released: 1950-05-04

Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty...

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Perry Mason

as Clara
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as Judge
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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The Rifleman

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-30

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas...

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Ben Casey

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-02

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was...

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The Andy Griffith Show

as Erma Bishop
First aired: 1960-10-03

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...

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The Virginian

as Mrs. McCleary
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Aunt Grace
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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Matinee Theater

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-10-31

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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Adam-12

as Norma Fisher
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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Adam-12

as Edna Digby
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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Adam-12

as Mrs. O'Brien
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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Adam-12

as Miss Baker
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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My Three Sons

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-29

A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his...

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Happy Days

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-01-15

In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.

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Wagon Train

as Alicia Thorton
First aired: 1957-09-18

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...

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Wagon Train

as Miss Phoebe
First aired: 1957-09-18

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...

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Climax!

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Emergency!

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-01-22

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...

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Emergency!

as Winifred Lenover
First aired: 1972-01-22

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...

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Dr. Kildare

as Frances Neilson
First aired: 1961-09-27

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Mother Superior
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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The Untouchables

as Mrs. Lindsey
First aired: 1959-10-15

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in...

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Cheyenne

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-09-20

Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on...

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Leave It to Beaver

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-10-04

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often...

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The F.B.I.

as Librarian
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as Mrs. Guthrie
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Rawhide

as Mrs. Lefever
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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The Donna Reed Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-24

Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a...

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The Detectives

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-16

The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons,...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as Mrs. Elliott
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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Thriller

as Adelaide Leggett
First aired: 1960-09-13

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62...

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The Adventures of Jim Bowie

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-09-07

The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956...

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Peter Gunn

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-22

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and...

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77 Sunset Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Mrs. Bowers
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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The Millionaire

as Ann Trenner
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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The Millionaire

as Tessie Thorne
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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Arrest and Trial

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-15

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Neighbor
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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The Mod Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-09-25

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September...

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Dragnet

as Bird Lady
First aired: 1967-01-12

Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.

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Trackdown

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-10-04

Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS...

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Mr. Lucky

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-24

Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June...

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The Outsider

as Mrs. Buchanan
First aired: 1968-09-18

The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where...

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Nichols

as Old Lady
First aired: 1971-09-16

Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United...

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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-04-15

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight...

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Dan August

as Amy Phipps
First aired: 1970-09-23

Dan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series...

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Pete and Gladys

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-19

Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara...

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Mr. & Mrs. North

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-10-03

Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October...

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The Roaring 20's

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-15

The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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Alcoa Theatre

as Granny
First aired: 1957-09-30

Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate...

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Omnibus

as Cissie Chandler
First aired: 1967-10-13

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the...

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Hank

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-24

Hank is an American situation comedy which is perhaps most notable for being an early example of...

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Yancy Derringer

as Carrie Meade
First aired: 1958-10-02

Yancy Derringer is an American Western series

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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-10-15

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October...

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The Thin Man

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-20

Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and...

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Date with the Angels

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-05-10

Date with the Angels is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from May 10, 1957 to January 29,...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Miss Pringle
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Lavinia Corey
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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General Electric Theater

as Momma
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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General Electric Theater

as Mrs. Rutledge
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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General Electric Theater

as Mrs. Willard
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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Revlon Mirror Theatre

as Sister
First aired: 1953-06-23

Also known as 'Mirror Theater', this was an American anthology drama television series.

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