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Elizabeth Harrower
Alameda, California, USA
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…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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1989
Generations
TV show Writer
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1974
I Love You...Good-bye
Movie Mrs. Freeman
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1973
A Brand New Life
Movie Margaret Kalman
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1972
The Waltons
TV show
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1972
The Adventures of Nick Carter
Movie Sister Effie
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1971
Columbo
TV show Board Member (uncredited)
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1971
Shoot Out
Movie Housekeeper
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1971
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Movie Reporter at Hotel (uncredited)
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1971
Vanishing Point
Movie Communications Officer
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1970
The Immortal
TV show
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1969
The Sterile Cuckoo
Movie Landlady (uncredited)
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1969
True Grit
Movie Mrs. Ross
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1968
Mayberry R.F.D.
TV show Mrs. Meredith
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1966
Shane
TV show Myra Torrey
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1966
That Girl
TV show
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1966
Batman
Movie Picnicking Woman (uncredited)
More credits
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1966
Batman
TV show Miss Prentice
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1965
Cat Ballou
Movie Townswoman (uncredited)
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1965
Zebra in the Kitchen
Movie Town Gossip
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV show Mrs. Jones
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Mrs. Crandall
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1962
The Wild Westerners
Movie Martha Bernard
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1962
Don't Knock the Twist
Movie Ruth Emerson
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1962
House of Women
Movie Mrs. Potter
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1962
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Movie French Prisoner (uncredited)
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1961
Hazel
TV show Edith
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1960
Surfside 6
TV show
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1960
The Andy Griffith Show
TV show Customer
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1960
I Passed for White
Movie Woman in Employment Office
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1959
Dennis the Menace
TV show
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1959
The Twilight Zone
TV show Woman (uncredited)
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1959
The FBI Story
Movie Clerk (uncredited)
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1958
77 Sunset Strip
TV show
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1958
Marjorie Morningstar
Movie Miss Kimble (uncredited)
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1958
Teacher's Pet
Movie Clara Dibney (uncredited)
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1958
Going Steady
Movie Mrs. Armstrong
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Woman Artist
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1957
M Squad
TV show Walls' Secretary
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1955
The Great Gildersleeve
TV show
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1955
Gunsmoke
TV show Mrs. O'Roarke
