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Allyn Ann McLerie

Allyn Ann McLerie

Actor · 1926 – 2018 · Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada

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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.7

    All the President's Men

    1976 · 2.2K votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Way We Were

    1973 · 531 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Jeremiah Johnson

    1972 · 727 votes

  • Movie7.6
  • Movie7.1

    The Cowboys

    1972 · 277 votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie7.0

    Calamity Jane

    1953 · 199 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie6.4

    The Reivers

    1969 · 59 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Battle Cry

    1955 · 27 votes

  • Movie5.7

    40 Pounds of Trouble

    1962 · 21 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie5.8

    The Entertainer

    1976 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Monte Walsh

    1970 · 67 votes

  • Movie4.0
  • Movie5.8

    Words and Music

    1948 · 21 votes

  • Movie5.3
  • Movie6.7

    Cinderella Liberty

    1973 · 31 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Born Innocent

    1976 · 59 votes

  • Movie4.2

    Fantasies

    1982 · 4 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Two Kinds of Love

    1983 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Desert Song

    1953 · 5 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Stranger in My Bed

    1987 · 11 votes

  • Movie10.0

    And Baby Makes Six

    1979 · 1 votes

Series23

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV7.5

    Knight Rider

    1982 · 1.5K votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Waltons

    1972 · 106 votes

  • TV6.5

    Dynasty

    1981 · 135 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV7.3

    Barney Miller

    1975 · 62 votes

  • TV6.7

    Cannon

    1971 · 42 votes

  • TV6.7

    Simon & Simon

    1981 · 99 votes

  • TV6.9

    Hart to Hart

    1979 · 133 votes

  • TV6.4

    Medical Center

    1969 · 14 votes

  • TV6.6

    Trapper John, M.D.

    1979 · 23 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.4

    Lou Grant

    1977 · 32 votes

  • TV6.5

    Baretta

    1975 · 42 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV7.6

    WKRP in Cincinnati

    1978 · 98 votes

  • TV7.2

    Punky Brewster

    1984 · 100 votes

  • TV5.0

    Legends

    2006 · 1 votes

  • TV6.3

    Nichols

    1971 · 3 votes

  • TV6.4

    The Tony Randall Show

    1976 · 5 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Thorn Birds

    1983 · 135 votes