Fran Ryan
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Fran Ryan (November 29, 1916 – January 15, 2000) was an American character actress featured in television and films. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
Fran Ryan began performing at the age of 6, at Oakland's Henry Duffy Theatre, in Northern California. She attended Stanford University for three years, and during World War II was a member of the USO entertaining troops. She performed comedy, singing and acting on stage in California and Chicago but was not to launch her television career for two decades. Her small screen debut came in an episode on Television's Batman, in 1966, followed by a bit part in Beverly Hillbillies. Ryan's best known television role was as Aggie Thompson in The Doris Day Show (in its first incarnation plotline theme), though the gig only lasted a few months. This role was cut short because she was offered the 'replacement' role on the hit series Green Acres as Doris Ziffel from 1969-1971. Fran was to replace Barbara Pepper, who by then was in poor health. Sadly, Miss Pepper died just five months later of heart ailments, on July 15, 1969.
Ryan also starred on the long running TV Western series Gunsmoke during its twentieth and final season as Miss Hannah (Cobb). In 1987, she reprised the role of Miss Hannah in the TV movie Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge.
Fran Ryan played the role of Sister Agatha in the soap opera General Hospital in (1979). She also did voices for cartoons such as Hong Kong Phooey, Mister T and Little Dracula. Fran starred on some TV shows for children like Sigmund and the Sea Monsters in 1975 as Gertrude Grouch, and in 1970s children's show The New Zoo Revue as Ms. Goodbody, the 1980s TV series No Soap, Radio as Mrs. Belmont, the short lived 1980s CBS TV series The Wizard as Tillie Russell from 1986-1987. Her last regular TV role was on The Dave Thomas Comedy Show.
She starred in many feature films, including Flush (1977), Big Wednesday (1978), Take This Job and Shove It (1981), Pale Rider (1985), Chances Are, and in her scene-stealing cameo in 1981's Stripes, as a tortured cab fare to Bill Murray as the cabbie, in the opening scenes of the comedy film.
Ryan made guest appearances on TV shows ranging from Batman, Adam-12, CHiPs, Quantum Leap, Night Court, Baywatch to The Commish.
Fran Ryan was often compared to actress Marjorie Main; they looked similar to one another. Ryan died on January 15, 2000, at age 83. She is buried in the family plots alongside her mother, at the Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, in Hayward, California.
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Fotos
Películas (50)
River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keene
1993 · Hattie Clandell
Suture
1993 · Mrs. Lucerne
Thanksgiving Day
1990 · Lois
Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again
1990 · Miss Grundy
Nick Knight
1989 · Jeannie
Chances Are
1989 · Mavis Talmadge
Out Cold
1989 · Arlene
Lucky Stiff
1988 · Ma
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
1987 · Hannah
Quiet Cool
1986 · Ma
Stewardess School
1986 · Fainting Lady
Fuzzbucket
1986 · Mrs. Langendorf
Pale Rider
1985 · Ma Blankenship
Rebel Love
1985 · Granny Plug
Father of Hell Town
1985 · Mother Maggie
The Sure Thing
1985 · Lady in Car
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1984 · Millie Clark
Eyes of Fire
1983 · Sister (Calvin's Wife)
Brainwash
1983 · Marie Davis
Private School
1983 · Miss Dutchbok
Ghost Dancing
1983 · Judge
Tough Enough
1983 · Gert Long
Johnny Belinda
1982 · Aunt Aggie McAdam
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1982 · Beatrice's Mother
Savannah Smiles
1982 · Farmer Wilma
Shoot the Moon
1982 · Judge (uncredited)
Stripes
1981 · Dowager in Cab
The Adventures of Nellie Bly
1981 · Mrs. Roman
Americana
1981 · Colonel
Take This Job and Shove It
1981 · Mrs. Hinkle
Christmas Mountain: The Story Of A Cowboy Angel
1981 · Flora
The Long Riders
1980 · Mrs. Samuel
Goldie and the Boxer
1979 · Ethel
Rocky II
1979 · Adrian's Nurse (uncredited)
The Great Brain
1978 · Aunt Bertha
Big Wednesday
1978 · Lucy
Straight Time
1978 · Cafe Owner
Deadly Game
1977 · Frieda Beezly
Panic in Echo Park
1977
Liza’s Pioneer Diary
1976 · Martha Stedman
Stalk the Wild Child
1976 · Ellen Mott
Family Plot
1976 · Registrar Clerk (uncredited)
Long Way Home
1975 · Marvis Bidwell
The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975 · Mrs. Stockley
Hog Wild
1974 · Flora
The Million Dollar Duck
1971 · Mrs. Purdham (uncredited)
Scandalous John
1971 · Farm Woman
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
1969
Mickey One
1965 · Homeless Woman (uncredited)
The Front Line
1965 · Haughty Customer
Series (65)
The Commish
1991
Little Dracula
1991
The New Adam-12
1990 · Ida Collins
Tiny Toon Adventures
1990 · Grandma (voice)
The Dave Thomas Comedy Show
1990
The Bradys
1990
Baywatch
1989
Quantum Leap
1989 · Dorothy Jaeger
Murphy Brown
1988 · The Asp
Empty Nest
1988 · Mrs. Kramer
The Wizard
1986 · Tillie Russell
Matlock
1986 · Doris Curtis
The Colbys
1985
Amazing Stories
1985 · Mrs. Abbott
Hollywood Wives
1985 · Nita Carrolle
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Rose Mulligan
Highway to Heaven
1984
Punky Brewster
1984
Brothers
1984 · Mrs. Murphy
Night Court
1984 · Ethel La Rue, Miss Crombie
Manimal
1983
Mister T
1983
It Takes Two
1982
Matt Houston
1982
No Soap, Radio
1982
Falcon Crest
1981 · Cass
Father Murphy
1981
Foul Play
1981
Hill Street Blues
1981
When the Whistle Blows
1980
Taxi
1978 · Elizabeth Weber
CHiPs
1977 · Nancy
Carter Country
1977
Grizzly Adams
1977 · Gerty
How the West Was Won
1977
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Nurse Fager, Belle Asher
The Quest
1976 · Mag Wood
Good Heavens
1976
Laverne & Shirley
1976
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976 · Miss Adeline Jeeter
One Day at a Time
1975
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Landlady
Barney Miller
1975 · Mrs. Hirsch, Homeless Woman
Hong Kong Phooey
1974
Devlin
1974
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
1973 · Gertrude
The Waltons
1972
The Rookies
1972
New Zoo Revue
1972
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971 · Dick's mother
Nichols
1971 · Minnie Dowd
Night Gallery
1970
The Partridge Family
1970 · 1st Wife
McCloud
1970
The Brady Bunch
1969
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1969
The Bill Cosby Show
1969 · Mrs. Beal
Adam-12
1968 · Mrs. Killian
The Second Hundred Years
1967 · Mrs. Sanders
That Girl
1966
Batman
1966 · Chairlady
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · Switchboard Operator
Green Acres
1965
Daniel Boone
1964 · Mrs. Jones
Gunsmoke
1955 · Mrs. Keller, Hannah