Allyn Ann McLerie
Born: 1926-12-01 in Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada
Died: 2018-05-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 - May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus. She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then created the role of Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where's Charley? (Theatre World Award). Her other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty, the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie also danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre during its 1950-51 European and South American tour. McLerie's best-known film appearances are as Amy in Where's Charley? (1952), Katie Brown in Calamity Jane (1953), Shirley in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and as The Crazy Woman in Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Other film work includes Words and Music (1948) and The Desert Song (1952). She enjoyed a long career as a character actress on television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as Bonanza, The Waltons, The Love Boat, Barney Miller, Benson, Hart to Hart, St. Elsewhere, and Dynasty, among many others. She played Miss Janet Reubner, Tony Randall's assistant, on The Tony Randall Show from 1976-1978. McLerie played the recurring role of Arthur Carlson's wife, Carmen on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–82). She may be best-remembered as Florence Bickford, the title character's mother on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from 1987-1991. Her last role was on an episode of Brooklyn Bridge in 1993. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allyn Ann McLerie, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2006
- Legends as Katie Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
1987
- The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Florence Bickford
- Stranger in My Bed as Shirley Hunter
1985
- The Comedy Factory as Edna McCauley
1984
- Punky Brewster
- The Duck Factory as Skip's Mother
1983
- The Thorn Birds as Mrs. Smith
- Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story as Audrey Williams
- Two Kinds of Love as Aunt Emily
1982
- Knight Rider as Marietta Mattheson
- St. Elsewhere as Roxanne Reed
- Fantasies as Shirley
- Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as Aunt Polly
1981
1980
- Beulah Land as Edna Davis
- The Oldest Living Graduate as Mrs. Hampton
- To Find My Son as Mrs. Braggs
1979
- Hart to Hart
- Trapper John, M.D.
- And Baby Makes Six as Dora Finley
- A Shining Season as Polly Baker
1978
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- Sister Terri as Mother Superior Helen
- Return Engagement as Florence
1977
- The Love Boat as Cynthia Parker
- Lou Grant as Betty Newman
1976
- The Tony Randall Show as Janet Reubner
- All the President's Men as Carolyn Abbott
- Born Innocent as Emma Lasko
- The Entertainer as Mrs. Pasko
1975
- Barney Miller as Harriet Shulton
- Baretta
- Medical Story as Mrs. Tassman
- Death Scream as Alice Whitmore
- Someone I Touched as Jean
1974
- Kodiak as Margaret
- France, Incorporated as The American
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as Miss Martin
1973
- The Way We Were as Rhea Edwards
- Cinderella Liberty as Miss Watkins
- Howzer as Faye Carsell
1972
- The Waltons
- Jeremiah Johnson as Crazy Woman
- The Cowboys as Ellen Price
- The Magnificent Seven Ride! as Mrs. Donavan
- Delphi Bureau as Ginny
- The Shadow of a Gunman as Mrs. Grigson
1970
- Monte Walsh as Mary Eagle
1969
- Medical Center
- My World and Welcome to It
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Shirl
- The Reivers as Alison
1965
- The F.B.I. as Marie Vale
1962
- 40 Pounds of Trouble as Blanchard's Secretary (uncredited)
1959
- Bonanza as Charity Moffet
- Music For A Summer Night
1955
- Battle Cry as Ruby - Waitress in Diner
1954
- Phantom of the Rue Morgue as Yvonne (as Allyn McLerie)
1953
- Calamity Jane as Katie Brown
- The Desert Song as Azuri
1952
- Where's Charley? as Amy Spettigue (as Allyn McLerie)
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Florence
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Words and Music as Singer in Garrick Gaeities