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Alice Ghostley Biography (1928-)

Full name, Alice Margaret Ghostley; born August 14, 1928 (some sources say 1926), in Eve, MO; daughter of Harry Francis and Edna Muriel (maiden name, Rooney) Ghostley; married Felice Orlandi. Career: Actress, singer, and comedienne. Awards, Honors: Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best supporting or featured actress in a dramatic role, 1963, for The Beauty Part; Antoinette Perry Award, best supporting or featured actress in a dramaticrole, Saturday Review Award, and New York Critics Circle Award, best performance, 1965, all for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Addresses: Agent: Agency for the Performing Arts, 9000 Sunset Blvd., Suite 1200, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress, singer, comedienne

Birth Details

August 14, 1928

Eve, Missouri, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Regular performer, Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine,1962-64
• Agnes, "Agnes and Arthur," The Jackie Gleason Show, CBS, 1962-65
• Mrs. Nash, Captain Nice, NBC, 1967
• Esmerelda, Bewitched, ABC, 1969-72
• Alice, Mayberry R.F.D., CBS, 1970-71
• The Golddiggers,1971
• The Julie Andrews Show, ABC, 1972-73
• Edwina Moffitt, The New Temperatures Rising Show(also known as Temperatures Rising), ABC, 1974
• Bernice Clifton, Designing Women, CBS, 1987-93
• Ida Mae Brindle, Small Wonder, syndicated, 1988-89
• Irma Wallingsford, Evening Shade, CBS, 1992-94
• Voice of Pandora Rickets, Channel Umptee-3(animated), 1997
• Voice of Miss Cassiopeia, Disney's Hercules(animated), ABC andsyndicated, 1998
• Also appeared in The Jonathon Winters Show.
• Specials
• Portia, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, CBS, 1957
• The Jud Strunk Show,1972
• Mrs. Taylor, Who's Happy Now?,1975
• Mildred Cosgrove,'Twas the Night before Christmas, ABC, 1977
• Merry Christmas ... with Love, Julie,1979
• Madame in Manhattan, Showtime, 1981
• Come Blow Your Horn, Showtime, 1981
• Elfreda, Sutters Bay,1983
• The Designing Women Special: Their Finest Hour, CBS, 1990
• The 61st Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade,1992
• The All New Circus of the Stars and Side Show XVII(also known as The 17th Annual Circus of the Stars and Side Show), CBS, 1992
• Bewitched: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1999
• Also appeared in The Art Carney Television Special.
• Movies
• Mrs. Kramer, Two on a Bench,1971
• Mrs. Parkinson, "Night Train" (also known as "B. L. Stryker"), The ABCSaturday Mystery, ABC, 1990
• Sarah McDevitt, Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer, NBC,1990
• Also appeared in Everybody's Doin' It.
• Episodic
• Freedom Rings,1953
• "The Showoff," Best of Broadway, CBS, 1955
• "Twelfth Night," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1957
• "The Datchet Diamonds," Dow Hour of Great Mysteries, NBC, 1960
• "Shangri-La," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1960
• "The Chutney Caper," The Tom Ewell Show, CBS, 1961
• "I Don't See It," The Tom Ewell Show, CBS, 1961
• Bonita Calsheim, "Love Finds Muldoon," Car 54, Where Are You?, NBC, 1961
• Bonita Calsheim, "Christmas at the 53rd," Car 54, Where Are You?,NBC, 1961
• "One, Two, Three Rita Rahakowski," Naked City, ABC, 1963
• "The Trouble with Archie," Trials of O'Brien, CBS, 1965
• Naomi, "Maid to Order," Bewitched, ABC, 1965
• "Move Over, Mozart," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, NBC, 1966
• Head of the Russian swimming team, "The Last One in Is a Rotten Spy," Get Smart, NBC, 1966
• The Jonathan Winters Show, CBS, 1967
• "What's in the Kitty?," He and She, CBS, 1968
• "Watts Made Out of Thread," Insight, syndicated, 1968
• Naomi Frakas, "The Frakas Fracus," Get Smart, NBC, 1968
• Gertrude Linkmeier, "Watch the Trains Go By," Hogan's Heroes,CBS, 1969
• Mrs. Wiley, "And Baby Makes Four," Mothers-in-Law, NBC, 1969
• "Make Me a Match," Ghost and Mrs. Muir, NBC, 1969
• "Love and the Unlikely Couple," Love, American Style, ABC, 1969
• "The Second Time Around," It Takes a Thief, ABC, 1969
• Mimi Grechner, "The Break Up," The Odd Couple, ABC, 1970
• "Curious Cousins," Ghost and Mrs. Muir, ABC, 1970
• Mrs. Mannheim, "That's No Lady, That's My Spy," Hogan's Heroes, CBS, 1971
• "Love and the Boss," Love, American Style, ABC, 1971
• Bertha, "Peanuts and Crackerjacks," Nichols(also known as JamesGarner as Nichols), NBC, 1971
• "Love and the Mixed Marriage," Love, American Style, ABC, 1971
• "Love and the High School Sweetheart," Love, American Style, ABC,1972
• "Time of Terror," Ghost Story, NBC, 1972
• "Love and the Bonded Separation," Love, American Style, ABC, 1973
• Dr. Agnes Temple, "Bad Medicine," Kolchak: Night Stalker, ABC, 1974
• The Cross-Wits, syndicated, 1975-80
• "Walter's Surprise Party," Maude, CBS, 1975
• Big Eddie, CBS, 1975
• Good Times, CBS, 1975
• "The Maid Did It," What's Happening, ABC, 1976
• "Homer and the Wacky Doughnut Machine," The ABC Short Story Special, ABC, 1977
• Miss Loring, "Barbara the Poet," One Day at a Time, CBS, 1977
• CHiPs, NBC, 1978
• "The Chief's Dressing Room," Carter Country, ABC, 1978
• "A Friend of the Family's," Family, ABC, 1978
• "Barbara: Friend or Fink?," One Day at a Time, CBS, 1978
• Mamie, "Rustling," CHiPs,1978
• Friends, ABC, 1979
• "Love Thy Neighbor," Gimme a Break, NBC, 1982
• "Steele Crazy after All These Years," Remington Steele, NBC, 1983
• Neta Cavelli, Mama Malone, CBS, 1984
• "The Fight," We Got It Made, NBC, 1984
• "The Fred Connection," Trapper John, M.D., CBS, 1984
• Doris Larson, Stir Crazy, CBS, 1985
• Elinor Callender, "Anniversary Dinner," Tales from the Darkside, syndicated, 1985
• Mrs. Schtepmutter, "Cindy," Highway to Heaven, NBC, 1985
• "Family Forecast," Simon and Simon, CBS, 1986
• "Passion for Fashion," The New Gidget, syndicated, 1986
• "Viva Las Vegas," Boys Will Be Boys, Fox, 1988
• Mrs. Zbornak, "Mother's Day," The Golden Girls, NBC, 1988
• Hearts Are Wild, CBS, 1992
• Mrs. Groviak, Diagnosis Murder, CBS, 1994
• Herself, Cybill, CBS, 1995
• Aunt Mabel, "Damned Yankees," The Client, CBS, 1995
• Mrs. Dewinter, Touched by an Angel, CBS, 1996
• Great-Granny, "Witch Trash," Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, ABC, 1997
• Mrs. Binns, "Dharma and Greg's First Romantic Valentine's Day Weekend," Dharma & Greg, ABC, 1998
• Voice of Mrs. Holkin, "Lady Luck," Rugrats(animated), Nickelodeon,1998
• Matilda Matthews, "Ep. #128," Passions,2000
• Matilda Matthews, "Ep. #129," Passions,2000
• Matilda Matthews, "Ep. #141," Passions,2000
• Matilda Matthews, "Ep. #143," Passions,2000
• Also appeared as Hazel M. Hathaway, "Walter's Stigma," Maude;Lorinda, "Lorinda," Cobra.
• Film Appearances
• New Faces of 1952,1952
• New Faces,1954
• Stephanie Crawford, To Kill a Mockingbird, Universal, 1963
• Selina, My Six Loves, Universal, 1963
• Mrs. Packard, The Flim-Flam Man(also known as One Born Every Minute), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967
• Mrs. Singleman, The Graduate, Embassy, 1967
• Housekeeper, With Six You Get Eggroll(also known as A Man in Mommy's Bed), National General Pictures, 1968
• Hattie Longstreet Daniel, Viva Max!, Commonwealth United, 1969
• Sister Lite, Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973
• Emmeline Cavanaugh, Gator, United Artists, 1976
• Record City,1977
• Nurse Tunn, Rabbit Test, Avco-Embassy, 1978
• Mrs. Murdoch, Grease, Paramount, 1978
• O'Malley's neighbor, Blue Sunshine,1978
• Doris Denver, Not for Publication, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984
• The Wrong Guys, New World Pictures, 1988
• Esther (The Whiner), The Odd Couple II(also known as Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II and Odd Couple 2: Travelin' Light), Paramount, 1998
• Granny, Addams Family Reunion, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
• Eleanor, Palmer's Pick-Up,1999
• Stage Appearances
• (Stage debut) New face, New Faces of 1952, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1952
• Sheela Cavanaugh, Sandhog, Phoenix Theatre, New York City, 1954
• Dinah, Trouble in Tahiti, Playhouse Theatre, New York City, 1955
• Miss Brinklow, Shangri-La, Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, 1957
• Aunt Polly, Livin' the Life, Phoenix Theatre, 1957
• Lois, Maybe Tuesday, Playhouse Theatre, 1958
• Jeannette Gaines, "She," and other roles, A Thurber Carnival, American National Theatre and Academy, New York City, 1960
• Octavia Weatherwax, Kitty Entrail, and Grace Fingerhead, The Beauty Part, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1962
• Player, Gentlemen Be Seated, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1963
• Mavis Parodus Bugson, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1964
• Miss Hannigan, Annie, Alvin Theatre, New York City, 1977
• Also appeared as Bunny Flingus, The House of Blue Leaves, Huntington Hartford Theatre, Los Angeles; in Come Blow Your Horn, Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre, Jupiter, FL; Nunsense, Bye Bye Birdie, and Arsenic and Old Lace; and in stock productions of Take Me Along, Do-Re-Mi, Rose Marie, The Boy Friend, Palm Tree in a Rose Garden, Dig We Must, and Stop Thief Stop.
• Major Tours
• New Faces, U.S. cities, 1953-54
• The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, U.S. cities, 1965
• Love Is a Ball,1975