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 Veteran actress Irene Tedrow made two guest appearances on Three's Company. | ||||
| Personal Information | ||||
| Born: | 3 August 1907 | |||
| Birthplace: | Denver, Colorado | |||
| Died | 10 March 1995 (aged 87) | |||
| Career/Family Information | ||||
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Actress | |||
| Years active: | 1940 to 1989 | |||
| Character information | ||||
| Appeared on: | Three's Company in guest appearances | |||
| Character played: | Helen's Aunt Martha in the episode titled "The Older Woman" in Season 3 as Miss Arlington in the episode "The Brunch" in Season 6 | |||
Irene Tedrow (3 August 1907 – 10 March 1995) appeared as Aunt Martha, Helen Roper's aunt, in the Three's Company episode titled "The Older Woman" in Season 3, and as Miss Arlington, a Santa Monica Community Church board member, in episode 9 of Season 7, "The Brunch".
A veteran character actress in stage, film, television and radio. Irene is also the mother of actress Enid Kent, who played the part of Nurse Bigelow on the CBS-TV series, M*A*S*H.
Career[]
Irene was born in Denver, Colorado. She earned a BA degree in drama from Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1929. Tedrow was a founding member of San Diego's Old Globe Theater and was cast as an ingenue in the beginning of her career. As she grew older, she found more work in films as the meddling old woman. However, she did have an intermittently recurring role as Mrs. Elkins on the Dennis the Menace TV sitcom series in the 1950s where her character was a dignified, yet domineering woman, who was a nemesis to the pompousness of George Wilson, played by Joseph Kearns. Being a character actor she was never given substantial roles, despite having appeared in many shows, including The Twilight Zone, Dundee and the Culhane, CBS-TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and NBC-TV's Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life.
During the late 1940s, she was the voice of Dorothy Regent in the radio series Chandu the Magician. Theater offered a better outlet and Tedrow appeared on Broadway, even through her eighties, in such productions as Our Town and Pygmalion. In 1955, she appeared on The Jack Benny Program as a contestant with Jack Benny on a mock You Bet Your Life segment with Groucho Marx.[1]
Death[]
On 10 March 1995, Tedrow died of a stroke in Hollywood, California. Her grave is located at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
References[]
External Links[]
Irene Tedrow at the Internet Movie Database- Irene Tedrow at Find a Grave
- Irene Tedrow article at Wikipedia
