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Elizabeth Harrower

Betty Louise Foss

Gender: Female

Place of Birth: Alameda, California, USA

Birthday: 28/05/1918

Death: 2003-12-10

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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Generations
27/03/19895.3
I Love You...Good-bye
Movie
I Love You...Good-bye
Mrs. Freeman
12/02/19740.0
A Brand New Life
Movie
A Brand New Life
Margaret Kalman
20/02/19730.0
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The Waltons
14/09/19727.1
The Adventures of Nick Carter
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The Adventures of Nick Carter
Sister Effie
20/02/19721.0
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Columbo
Board Member (uncredited)
15/09/19718.1
Shoot Out
Movie
Shoot Out
Housekeeper
02/07/19716.3
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Movie
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Reporter at Hotel (uncredited)
20/05/19716.4
Vanishing Point
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Vanishing Point
Communications Officer
15/01/19717.2
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The Immortal
24/09/19707.4
The Sterile Cuckoo
Movie
The Sterile Cuckoo
Landlady (uncredited)
22/10/19695.3
True Grit
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True Grit
Mrs. Ross
11/06/19697.4
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Mayberry R.F.D.
Mrs. Meredith
23/09/19685.7
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Shane
Myra Torrey
10/09/19666.0
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That Girl
08/09/19666.1
Batman
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Batman
Picnicking Woman (uncredited)
30/07/19666.4
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Batman
Miss Prentice
12/01/19667.3
Cat Ballou
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Cat Ballou
Townswoman (uncredited)
24/06/19656.4
Zebra in the Kitchen
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Zebra in the Kitchen
Town Gossip
01/06/19655.0
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mrs. Masters
20/09/19627.7
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The Virginian
Mrs. Crandall
19/09/19626.3
The Wild Westerners
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The Wild Westerners
Martha Bernard
06/06/19627.0
Don't Knock the Twist
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Don't Knock the Twist
Ruth Emerson
13/04/19624.7
House of Women
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House of Women
Mrs. Potter
11/04/19625.4
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
French Prisoner (uncredited)
07/02/19625.9
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Surfside 6
06/10/19605.0
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The Andy Griffith Show
Customer
03/10/19607.5
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Dennis the Menace
04/10/19596.7
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The Twilight Zone
Woman (uncredited)
02/10/19598.4
The FBI Story
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The FBI Story
Clerk (uncredited)
01/10/19596.0
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77 Sunset Strip
10/10/19586.7
Marjorie Morningstar
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Marjorie Morningstar
Miss Kimble (uncredited)
24/04/19586.2
Teacher's Pet
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Teacher's Pet
Clara Dibney (uncredited)
01/04/19586.8
Going Steady
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Going Steady
Mrs. Armstrong
01/02/19587.0
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Perry Mason
Woman Artist
21/09/19577.6
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M Squad
Walls' Secretary
20/09/19575.2
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The Great Gildersleeve
20/09/19550.0
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Gunsmoke
Mrs. O'Roarke
10/09/19556.5
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
06/09/19556.8
Thunder Pass
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Thunder Pass
Mrs. Hemp
20/09/19546.0
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Letter to Loretta
Miss Himbler
20/09/19535.8
Plymouth Adventure
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Plymouth Adventure
Elizabeth Hopkins
28/11/19525.4
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Four Star Playhouse
Nurse
25/09/19525.7
Does Christ Live in Your Home?
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Does Christ Live in Your Home?
05/07/19510.0
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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
15/04/19514.5
The Pilgrimage Play
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The Pilgrimage Play
Woman of Samaria
12/12/19493.5