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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 1, 1926
Died
May 21, 2018
Place of Birth
Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada
Also Known As
- Allyn McLerie
Allyn Ann McLerie
0.8 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
5.0
Katie Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)
Legends
2006
7.5
Brooklyn Bridge
1991
6.0
Florence Bickford
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
4.3
Shirley Hunter
Stranger in My Bed
1987
0.0
Edna McCauley
The Comedy Factory
1985
7.3
Punky Brewster
1984
6.0
Skip's Mother
The Duck Factory
1984
6.0
Aunt Emily
Two Kinds of Love
1983
6.0
Audrey Williams
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983
5.6
Roxanne Reed
St. Elsewhere
1982
Credits
Legends
as Katie Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
5.0
Brooklyn Bridge
1991
7.5
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
as Florence Bickford
1987
6.0
Stranger in My Bed
as Shirley Hunter
1987
4.3
The Comedy Factory
as Edna McCauley
1985
0.0
Punky Brewster
1984
7.3
The Duck Factory
as Skip's Mother
1984
6.0
Two Kinds of Love
as Aunt Emily
1983
6.0
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
as Audrey Williams
1983
6.0
St. Elsewhere
as Roxanne Reed
1982
5.6
Knight Rider
as Marietta Mattheson
1982
7.5
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
as Aunt Polly
1982
5.0
Fantasies
as Shirley
1982
2.7
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Dynasty
1981
6.4
Beulah Land
as Edna Davis
1980
7.0
To Find My Son
as Mrs. Braggs
1980
5.3
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Mrs. Hampton
1980
4.0
A Shining Season
as Polly Baker
1979
3.0
And Baby Makes Six
as Dora Finley
1979
0.0
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
Return Engagement
as Florence
1978
6.0
WKRP in Cincinnati
1978
7.6
🎬
Sister Terri
as Mother Superior Helen
1978
0.0
The Love Boat
as Cynthia Parker
1977
6.3
Lou Grant
as Betty Newman
1977
7.3
Lou Grant
as Martha Emmett
1977
7.3
The Tony Randall Show
as Janet Reubner
1976
6.2
All the President's Men
as Carolyn Abbott
1976
7.7
The Entertainer
as Mrs. Pasko
1976
5.5
Born Innocent
as Emma Lasko
1976
6.3
Death Scream
as Alice Whitmore
1975
6.6
Medical Story
as Mrs. Tassman
1975
3.0
Someone I Touched
as Jean
1975
4.9
Barney Miller
as Harriet Shulton
1975
7.3
Baretta
1975
6.4
Kodiak
as Margaret
1974
5.0
France, Incorporated
as The American
1974
3.9
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Miss Martin
1974
0.0
Cinderella Liberty
as Miss Watkins
1973
6.6
The Way We Were
as Rhea Edwards
1973
7.0
🎬
Howzer
as Faye Carsell
1973
0.0
The Shadow of a Gunman
as Mrs. Grigson
1972
0.0
Delphi Bureau
as Ginny
1972
0.0
The Waltons
1972
7.2
Jeremiah Johnson
as Crazy Woman
1972
7.3
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
as Mrs. Donavan
1972
5.5
The Cowboys
as Ellen Price
1972
7.1
Nichols
as Maggie
1971
5.0
Cannon
1971
6.6
Monte Walsh
as Mary Eagle
1970
6.2
The Reivers
as Alison
1969
6.3
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
as Shirl
1969
7.6
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Medical Center
as Jan
1969
6.1
My World and Welcome to It
1969
5.5
The F.B.I.
as Marie Vale
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Dorothy Harnolds
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Helen Porter
1965
5.4
40 Pounds of Trouble
as Blanchard's Secretary
1962
5.2
Bonanza
as Charity Moffet
1959
7.5
🎬
Music For A Summer Night
1959
0.0
Battle Cry
as Ruby - Waitress in Diner
1955
5.6
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
as Yvonne (as Allyn McLerie)
1954
6.4
Calamity Jane
as Katie Brown
1953
7.0
The Desert Song
as Azuri
1953
6.5
Where's Charley?
as Amy Spettigue (as Allyn McLerie)
1952
10.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Florence
1951
8.6
Words and Music
as Singer in Garrick Gaeities
1948
5.7
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8