Neva Patterson
Born: 1920-02-10 in Nevada, Iowa, USA
Died: 2010-12-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Neva Louise Patterson (10 February 1920 – 14 December 2010) was an American character actress. Born on a farm near Nevada in Story County in central Iowa, she and her parents moved to New York City in 1938. She made her Broadway debut in 1947's The Druid Circle. In 1952, she played "Helen Sherman" in The Seven Year Itch. Her first feature movie was the 1953 film Taxi; other film credits include The Buddy Holly Story, All of Me, and as Cary Grant's fiancee in An Affair to Remember. Her television credits included Nichols, starring with James Garner, The Governor & J.J., with Dan Dailey, and as Eleanor Dupres in V, which she reprised in V: The Final Battle. She made guest appearances on Appointment with Adventure, The Defenders, Ironside, Barnaby Jones, The Dukes of Hazzard, and St. Elsewhere. Patterson died from complications from a broken hip at age 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neva Patterson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1988
- Deadline: Madrid as Andy
1986
- Amen
- Women of Valor as Lady Judith Eason
1985
1984
- V: The Final Battle as Eleanor Dupres
- All of Me as Gretchen
1982
- Hotel
- St. Elsewhere as Marguerite Spooner
- Cagney & Lacey as Muriel Lacey
- The Rules of Marriage as Mrs. Kirby
- Something So Right as Mrs. Farrow
1981
- Dynasty
- Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill as Eliza Farinpour
1978
- The Buddy Holly Story as Mrs. Holly
- Nowhere to Run as Marian's Mother
1977
- Logan's Run as Victoria Mackie
- The Domino Principle as Gaddis
- Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Warden Sorenson
- Quincy, M.E.
- Family
- All the President's Men as CRP Woman
- The Eccentricities of a Nightingale as Mrs. Buchanan
1975
- S.W.A.T.
- The Runaways as Alice Collingwood
1974
- The Rockford Files as Louise Hartman
- The Manhunter
- The Stranger Who Looks Like Me as Mrs. Denver
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Bea Johnson
- The Lie as Mary Forman
- Message to My Daughter as Mrs. Oliver
- The Snoop Sisters as Maureen Larson
- Doc Elliot
1972
- The Waltons as Aunt Kate Grover Daly
- Ghost Story as Mary
- The Paul Lynde Show
1971
- Great Performances as Mrs. Buchanan
- Cannon
- All in the Family as Ms. Maloney
- Skin Game as Mrs. Claggart
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Helen Flint
- Nichols as Sara "Ma" Ketcham
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Dolly Simmons
1967
- Ironside as Gerry Sindall
- Counterpoint as Dorothy
1966
1965
- Dear Heart as Connie
1963
- The Lieutenant as Vera Delwyn
- The Patty Duke Show
1962
- David and Lisa as Mrs. Clemens
- The Spiral Road as Louise Kramer
1961
1958
- Naked City as Miss Morley
- Too Much, Too Soon as Blanche Oehrichs / Michael Strange
1957
- An Affair to Remember as Lois Clark
- Desk Set as Miss Warriner
1956
- The Solid Gold Cadillac as Amelia Shotgraven
1954
- Satins and Spurs as Ursula
1953
- Taxi as Miss Millard
- General Electric Theater as Cora
1952
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Thelma
1949
- Suspense as Mrs. Haley
- Lights Out
1948
- Studio One as Ella Vining
- The Philco Television Playhouse