Mary Carver

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Mary Carver (born May 3, 1924 in Los Angeles , California - † October 18, 2013 ) was an American actress .

Life

Carver began her acting career in the early 1950s. She made her Broadway debut in 1951, and in the same year she also made her film and television debut. In 1953 she played a minor supporting role in the drama Damned in All Eternity , which won eight Academy Awards . The later director Joseph Sargent played an extra role in this film . Carver starred in 1955 in a series of Smoking Colts directed by Sargent , in 1958 they both stood together in Jack Shers Kathy O ' , followed in 1960 number or die . Both were married, from the marriage the actress Lia Sargent emerged, but the marriage ended in divorce and Sargent remarried in 1970.

Carver played mostly television roles in the 1960s and 1970s and was only occasionally seen in film roles. She is best known to German-speaking television audiences for her role as the mother of private detectives Rick and AJ Simon in the television series Simon & Simon , which was produced between 1981 and 1988 and continued in a television film in 1995. Carver had her last appearance in 2002 in the series Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme .

Carver died on October 18, 2013 after a brief illness at her home in Woodland Hills, California. She was 89 years old.

Filmography (selection)

Broadway

  • 1951: Out West of Eighth
  • 1977: The Shadow Box
  • 1980-1982: Fifth of July

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 'Simon & Simon' star Mary Carver Dies at 89
personal data
SURNAME Carver, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH 18th October 2013
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States