Anne Seymour (actress)
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May Davenport Seymour Eckert (mother) |
Anne Seymour (September 11, 1909 – December 8, 1988) was an American
Personal life
Anne Seymour Eckert was born in Manhattan to William Stanley and
Her great-uncle was character actor Harry Davenport, and her cousins were writer James Seymour and actor John Seymour. Seymour never married, and had no children.
Education
After attending St. Mary's for "her conventional education", Seymour studied at the American Laboratory Theatre.[4]
Death
She died of heart failure
Career
Stage
Seymour's first professional activity as an entertainer came with the Jitney Players, for which she earned $15 per week.[4]
She was in four Broadway productions. She played in At the Bottom and Puppet Show, both in 1930, and in The School for Scandal in 1931. Almost three decades later, she played Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello.[6]
Radio
Seymour debuted on radio in Cincinnati in 1932.[4] According to the 06/25/1938 issue of WLS Radio's "Stand By" magazine Seymour was living in the north side of Chicago. In the early 1940s, she played Prudence Dane, the leading female role in the "historic serial" A Woman of America[4] and starred as Mary Marlin in The Story of Mary Marlin, both on NBC.[3] She was also a member of the casts of Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne; Tom Bradley; Against the Storm; and King Arthur, Junior.[7]
Television
Seymour's first venture in television was a three-month role in Follow Your Heart, an NBC soap opera. "I hated every minute of it," she said.[8] She also "had a running part on a CBS soap opera called The First Hundred Years."[8] She played Mrs. Barr in season 1, episode 15 of My Three Sons in 1961. She later starred in Empire, a 1962–63 series set in the modern American West.[8] Turning her talents to comedy, she was a regular on The Tim Conway Show in 1970.[9]
She was a guest star on many American television series in the 1960s and 1970s. She appeared in two episodes of Perry Mason; in 1963 she played Hettie Randall in "The Case of the Festive Felon", and in 1964 she played Bonnie Mae Wilmet in "The Case of the Bullied Bowler". She portrayed Amelia Tarbell in Pollyanna (1960), Esther in the episode "Final Escape" of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985), and Miss Tilford in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. In a 1965 episode of Hazel entitled "A 'Lot' to Remember", she played Laura Kirkland. In 1966 she was a guest star in season 3, episode 11 of Bewitched.
She played Ms. Frost in "A Visit to Upright", a 1972 episode of
Film
An early film appearance by Seymour was in
Radio appearances
Year | Program | Episode/source |
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1946 | Inner Sanctum Mystery | No Rest for the Dead[12] |
1948 | Quiet, Please | Green Light |
Film appearances
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1949 | All the King's Men | Mrs. Lucy Stark | |
1951 | The Whistle at Eaton Falls | Mary London | |
1957 | Four Boys and a Gun | Mrs. Richards | |
1957 | Man on Fire | Judge Randolph | |
1958 | The Gift of Love | Miss McMasters | |
1958 | Desire Under the Elms | Eben's Mother | |
1958 | Handle with Care | Matilda Iler | |
1959 | Peter Gunn | Dean Norse | |
1960 | Home from the Hill | Sarah Halstead | |
1960 | Pollyanna | Mrs. Amelia Tarbell | |
1960 | All the Fine Young Cannibals | Mrs. Bixby | |
1960 | The Subterraneans | Charlotte Percepied | |
1961 | Misty | Grandma Beebe | |
1964 | Stage to Thunder Rock | Myra Parker | |
1964 | Good Neighbor Sam | Irene | |
1964 | Where Love Has Gone | Dr. Sally Jennings | |
1965 | Mirage | Mrs. Frances Calvin | |
1966 | Blindfold | Smitty | |
1966 | Waco | Ma Jenner | |
1967 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Gertrude Biggley | Uncredited |
1967 | Fitzwilly | Grimsby | |
1968 | Stay Away, Joe | Mrs. Hawkins | |
1969 | How to Commit Marriage | Molly - Baby's Nurse | Uncredited
1970 Gunsmoke "Snow Train" Sarah |
1972 | The Man | Ma Blore | |
1973 | So Long, Blue Boy | Martha | |
1974 | Seven Alone | Narrator (adult Catherine) | |
1975 | Gemini Affair | Agnes Wilson | |
1975 | Hearts of the West | Nietz' Housekeeper | Uncredited |
1980 | Never Never Land | Zena | |
1983 | Triumphs of a Man Called Horse | Elk Woman | |
1984 | Trancers | Chairman Ashe | |
1988 | Big Top Pee-wee | Pearl | |
1989 | Field of Dreams | Chisolm Newspaper Publisher | (final film role) |
References
- ^ Anne Seymour;MyHeritage.com
- ISBN 0-8108-1201-0
- ^ a b "Friday's Highlights" (PDF). Radio and Television Mirror. 14 (1): 52. May 1940. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
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- ^ Quinlan's Film Character Actors: Anne Seymour
- ^ "Anne Seymour". Playbill Vault. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ^ a b c Stern, Harold (August 5, 1962). "Anne Seymour to Rule TV Ranch". Sunday Gazette-Mail. p. 53. Retrieved September 13, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Penton, Edgar (February 21, 1970). "'Navy' Adversaries Run World's Worst Airlines". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. p. 16. Retrieved September 13, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c IMDb - Anne Seymour, Filmography Retrieved 2015-08-07
- ^ "History of Misty of Chincoteague", Misty's Heaven - Misty'sHeaven.com Retrieved 2015-08-07
External links
- Anne Seymour at IMDb
- Anne Seymour at the Internet Broadway Database