Elizabeth Harrower
- Schauspiel
- 28. Mai 1918 · Alameda, California, USA
- 10. Dezember 2003
Biografie
Betty Louise Foss was born during the final days of World War I in Alameda, California as the country plagued by a flu epidemic. Within six weeks, her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around. As babies were thought to draw the deadly flu, Betty was eventually placed in a San Francisco orphanage where she was later adopted by Scottish immigrants William and Jessie Harrower and raised in Berkeley and Los Angeles. During the Great Depression her adoptive father's salary was cut in half and her adoptive mother decided to take Betty out of school and off to Hollywood to begin an acting career. After trying out several alter egos in the hopes of making an impression on someone in the industry, Betty Foss eventually settled on the identity of Elizabeth Harrower. Elizabeth Harrower appeared in "Becky Sharp (1935)", the first feature-length color film in 1935. She would continue to appear in hundreds of radio, television, film and stage productions over the next decades, most notably "True Grit (1969)". In 1942, Harrower married Harry Seabold, an Air Force cadet she had met in fifth grade. Their daughter, actress Susan Seaforth Hayes, was born in 1943. Her husband was called into war even before that and the marriage subsequently did not last. By the 1970s Elizabeth Harrower had met soap opera scribe William J. Bell and she would eventually start her writing career and became head writer of "Days of Our Lives (1965)" from 1979-1980. She went on to write for Bell's "The Young and the Restless (1973)" in the 1980s. Her last writing stint was on the short-lived soap opera "Generations (1989)" in 1991. In 2003, already while taking chemotherapy she had a prominent limited run as Charlotte Ramsey on "The Young and the Restless (1973)". She died shortly thereafter at age 85.
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Filmografie
- Generations · Buch
- I Love You...Good-bye · Mrs. Freeman
- A Brand New Life · Margaret Kalman
- Die Waltons
- The Adventures of Nick Carter · Sister Effie
- Columbo · Board Member (uncredited)
- Shoot Out - Abrechnung in Gun Hill · Housekeeper
- Flucht vom Planet der Affen · Reporter at Hotel (uncredited)
- Fluchtpunkt San Francisco · Communications Officer
- The Immortal
- Pookie · Landlady (uncredited)
- Der Marshal · Mrs. Ross
- Mayberry R.F.D. · Mrs. Meredith, Mrs. Brandt
- Shane · Myra Torrey
- That Girl
- Batman hält die Welt in Atem · Picnicking Woman (uncredited)
- Batman · Miss Prentice, Drusilla
- Cat Ballou - Hängen sollst du in Wyoming · Townswoman (uncredited)
- Ein Zebra in der Küche · Town Gossip
- Alfred Hitchcock zeigt · Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Masters
- Die Leute von der Shiloh-Ranch · Mrs. Crandall, Mrs. Grant
- Das Zerrissene Lasso · Martha Bernard
- Don't Knock the Twist · Ruth Emerson
- House of Women · Mrs. Potter
- Die vier apokalyptischen Reiter · French Prisoner (uncredited)
- Hazel · Edith
- Surfside 6
- The Andy Griffith Show · Customer, Mrs. Hutchins
- I Passed for White · Woman in Employment Office
- Dennis – Der Quälgeist · Mrs. Johnson (uncredited), Mrs. Johnson
- Twilight Zone - Unwahrscheinliche Geschichten · Woman (uncredited)
- Geheimagent des FBI · Clerk (uncredited)
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Die Liebe der Marjorie Morningstar · Miss Kimble (uncredited)
- Reporter der Liebe · Clara Dibney (uncredited)
- Going Steady · Mrs. Armstrong
- Perry Mason · Woman Artist, Woman Apartment Manager
- Dezernat M · Walls' Secretary, Mrs. Michaels
- The Great Gildersleeve
- Rauchende Colts · Mrs. O'Roarke, Mildred O'Roarke
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Vater ist der Beste · Librarian
- Thunder Pass · Mrs. Hemp
- Ihr Star: Loretta Young · Miss Himbler, Mrs. Sims
- Schiff ohne Heimat · Elizabeth Hopkins
- Four Star Playhouse · Nurse, Housekeeper
- Does Christ Live in Your Home?
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- The Pilgrimage Play · Woman of Samaria