Peggy Webber
Peggy Webber (born September 15, 1925 in Laredo , Texas ) is an American actress and radio producer.
Life
Peggy Webber was born in 1925 as the daughter of a wildcatter in Laredo, Texas. At the age of three, she was already entertaining audiences at local cinemas during break times. The family moved several times due to the father's job. Webber spent her childhood in her hometown of Laredo, San Antonio , Tucson and Los Angeles . While in Tucson, she went to Magnet High School and attended an acting class there before graduating from high school in 1942.
In 1946 Webber got her first film role in Her Adventurous Night . Her best-known role was played two years later as Lady Macduff in Orson Welles' adaptation of Macbeth - The Kingslayer . This was followed by other film appearances, including a small supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man in 1956 . Webber has also appeared as a guest star in a variety of television series. Among other things, she was seen over a period from 1952 to 1970 in a total of twelve episodes of Police Report. In the 1970s and 1980s, guest appearances in well-known series such as The Waltons , Notruf California and Quincy followed . In 2005 Webber ended her film career with an appearance on the television series The Inside .
In addition to her acting career, Peggy Webber also worked as a radio producer, having worked in radio plays since the age of twelve. In the course of her career, Webber wrote around 250 radio programs and radio plays. She was also the producer of the television series Treasures of Literature . Webber is still active as an actress and producer at the California Artists Radio Theater , which she founded in 1984.
In 2014 Peggy Webber received the Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theater for her life's work. She was the first woman to receive this award.
Filmography (selection)
Movies
- 1946: Her Adventurous Night
- 1948: Macbeth - The Kingslayer ( Macbeth )
- 1951: U-cruiser Tigerhai ( Submarine Command )
- 1956: The Wrong Man ( The Wrong Man )
- 1958: The Mystery of the Screaming Skull ( The Screaming Skull )
- 1958: The Space Children
TV Shows
Unless otherwise mentioned, one episode each
- 1952–1970: Police report ( Dragnet ; twelve episodes)
- 1956: Cheyenne
- 1957: Smoking Colts ( Gunsmoke )
- 1957/1960: Dezernat M ( M Squad ; two episodes)
- 1959: Josh ( Wanted: Dead Or Alive )
- 1962: At the foot of the blue mountains ( Laramie )
- 1967: Tennis rackets and cannons ( I Spy )
- 1969: Dr. med. Marcus Welby ( Marcus Welby, MD )
- 1971/1973: Adam-12 (two episodes)
- 1976: The Waltons ( The Waltons )
- 1977: Emergency Call California ( Emergency! )
- 1982: Quincy ( Quincy, ME )
- 1983/1984: The Smurfs ( The Smurfs ; two episodes, dubbing)
- 2005: The Inside
Web links
- Peggy Webber in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry on Peggy Webber at California Artists Radio Theater (English)
- Report on the 90th birthday on laweekly.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dennis Simanaitis: CELEBRATING PEGGY WEBBER. In: Simanaitis Says. May 12, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .
- ^ Dale Reynolds: Can Peggy Webber's CART Keep Rolling Along? In: This Stage. August 9, 2013, accessed October 6, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Webber, Peggy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress and radio producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laredo , Texas , United States |