Virginia Christine
Born: 1920-03-05 in Stanton, Iowa, USA
Died: 1996-07-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
Virginia Christine Ricketts (March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996) was an American character actress and voice actress of Swedish descent. She had a long career on the screen, stage, and radio and appeared in more than 170 feature films and TV-productions. She is best remembered for her role in a string of television commercials for Folgers Coffee during the 1960s and 1970s.
Filmography
1976
- Woman of the Year as Alma
1973
- Kojak as Mrs. Yankowski
1970
- Nanny and the Professor as Mrs. Wilson
- The Old Man Who Cried Wolf as Miss Cummings
1969
- Hail, Hero! as Eleanor Murchiston
- Daughter of the Mind as Helga
1968
- Lancer as Hannah Sickles
- In Enemy Country as Frau Gulden
1967
- Ironside as Esther Hawkins
- The Invaders as Mrs. Thorne
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Hilary St. George
1966
- Felony Squad as Cleaning Woman
- Jericho as Frau Luders
- Billy the Kid Versus Dracula as Eva Oster
1965
- The Big Valley as Margaret Coleman
- The F.B.I. as Mrs. Ferguson
- Laredo as Agnes Halsey
- A Rage to Live as Emma
1964
- Daniel Boone as Martha
- The Killers as Miss Watson
- Broadside as Wave Commander Peabody
- One Man's Way as Anna Peale
1963
- The Fugitive as Alma Mercer
- Mr. Novak as Mrs. Payne
- Cattle King as Mrs. Ruth Winters (Brassfield's Housekeeper)
- 4 for Texas as Brunhilde
- The Prize as Mrs. Bergh, Chaperon
1962
- The Virginian as Leora Tressider
- Stoney Burke as Flora Hill
- Going My Way
- Incident in an Alley as Mrs. Connell
1961
- Ben Casey as Alice Cabot
- Hazel as Mrs. McGuire
- Mister Ed as Margaret
- The New Breed as Annabelle
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Mrs. Halbestadt
- Target: The Corruptors!
- The Asphalt Jungle as Miss Brandt
1960
- Thriller as Marge
- Coronado 9 as Sarita
- Flaming Star as Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)
1959
- Bonanza as Martha Hale
- The Twilight Zone as Ethel Bedeker
- The Untouchables as Dora Mizo
- Rawhide
- Riverboat as Aunt Samantha Dexter
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Mother
- The Deputy as Molly Baker
1958
- The Rifleman as Mrs. Hardy
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Mrs. Logan (uncredited)
- Peter Gunn as Nancy Davis
- The Donna Reed Show as Margaret Lang
- 77 Sunset Strip as Grace Thorn
- Bronco as Martha Gant
- Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as June Earl
- Steve Canyon as Mary Moore
- Behind Closed Doors as Julie Hollister
- Frontier Doctor
1957
- Perry Mason as Beth Sandover
- Maverick as Verna Lyme
- Wagon Train as Minna Collins
- Trackdown as Millie
- M Squad as Mrs. Jake Fassard
- The Thin Man
- The Restless Gun as Amy Durant
- Casey Jones as Doris Jones
- The Spirit of St. Louis as Secretary (uncredited)
- Johnny Tremain as Mrs. Lapham
- The Careless Years as Mrs. Vernon
- The Hired Man as Beverly
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Julie Hart (uncredited)
- State Trooper
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Hey, Jeannie! as Mrs. Warren
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Wilma Lentz
- Nightmare as Sue Bressard
- Three Brave Men as Helen Goldsmith
- The Killer Is Loose as Mary Gillespie
1955
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Martha Evans
- Gunsmoke as Bess
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Model
- The Millionaire as Mrs. Barnett
- The Star and the Story
- The Cobweb as Sally
- Good Morning, Miss Dove as Mrs. Rigsbee (uncredited)
- Not as a Stranger as Bruni
1954
- Father Knows Best as Grace Miller
- Studio 57
- Public Defender as Mom Kennedy
- The Whistler
- Passport to Danger
- Dragnet as Mrs. Caldwell
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Mrs. Brown
- I'm the Law
- General Electric Theater as Head Nurse
- Never Wave at a WAC as Lt. Myles
- Woman They Almost Lynched as Jenny
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Clerk
- Adventures of Superman as Mrs. Frank
- The Ford Television Theatre as Mrs. Talbot
- Cavalcade of America as Mrs. Sargent
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Mrs. Jackson
- High Noon as Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)
- Dangerous Assignment as Carla Fabri
- Chevron Theatre
- The First Time as Nurse
1950
- Cyrano de Bergerac as Sister Marthe
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Cecile Charron
- Cover Up as Margaret Baker
- Special Agent as Mabel Rumpler
1948
- Women in the Night as Claire Adams
- Night Wind as Jean Benson
1947
- The Gangster as Mrs. Karty
- The Invisible Wall as Mildred Elsworth
1946
- The Killers as Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
- House of Horrors as Lady of the Streets
- The Inner Circle as Rhoda Roberts
- The Wife of Monte Cristo as Florice Michaud
- Idea Girl as Eveline
- The Scarlet Horseman as Carla Marquette / Matosca
- The Mysterious Mr. Valentine as Lola Carson
- Murder Is My Business as Dora Darnell
1945
- Phantom of the Plains as Celeste
- Girls of the Big House as Bernice Meyers
1944
- The Mummy's Curse as Princess Ananka
- The Old Texas Trail as Queenie Leone
- Raiders of Ghost City as Countess Elsa von Merck, alias Trina Dressard
1943
- Mission to Moscow as Maria - Beautician (uncredited)
- Edge of Darkness as Hulda (Stensgard maid)
- Truck Busters as Eadie Watkins
- Women at War as Mary Sawyer