{{Short description|American actress (1936–2024)}} {{for|the New Zealand actress|Elizabeth McRae}} {{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Elizabeth MacRae | image = File:Elizabeth MacRae Original.jpg | image_size = 240px | caption = MacRae in 1967 | birth_name = Elizabeth Hendon MacRae | birth_date = {{birth date|1936|2|22|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|5|27|1936|2|22|mf=yes}} | death_place = Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. | other_names = | years_active = 1958–2011 | spouse = {{plainlist| * Amos Morehead Stack, Jr.<br>({{abbr|m.|married}} 1955; {{abbr|div.|divorced}} 19??)<br>{{marriage|Nedrick Young|1965|1968|end=died}} * {{marriage|Charles Day Halsey, Jr.|1969}} }} }}
'''Elizabeth Hendon MacRae''' (February 22, 1936 – May 27, 2024) was an American actress who performed in dozens of television series and in nine feature films, working predominantly in productions released between 1958 and the late 1980s. Among her more widely recognized roles was her recurring character Lou-Ann Poovie on the sitcom ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.'', which was originally broadcast from 1964 to 1969.<ref name="etvs">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|pages=402–403|edition=2nd}}</ref>
==Early life and drama training== Born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1936, Elizabeth MacRae was the middle child of three children of Alabama native Dorothy (née Hendon) and James C. MacRae of North Carolina.<ref name="Stack-MacRae55">"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979", database with digital image of original marriage license and certificate, Amos Morehead Stack, Jr. and Elizabeth Hendon MacRae, August 12, 1955; Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina; microfilm copy (FHL 540,286) from the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh. Retrieved via FamilySearch archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 18, 2022.</ref><ref>"Certificate of Death", Dorothy Hendon MacRae (1910{{endash}}1981), North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Division of Health Services, Raleigh, N.C.; microfilm image of original document, death date February 2, 1981, issued in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C. Retrieved via FamilySearch, August 4, 2022.</ref> Her father, an attorney, moved the family before April 1940 to Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he opened a law practice and later served as a superior court judge.<ref name="1940Census">"Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940", digital image of original enumeration page, "Elizabeth H" in household of James and Dorothy MacRae, Cross Creek Township, Fayetteville City Ward 7, Cumberland County, North Carolina. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790{{endash}}2007, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, D.C. Retrieved via FamilySearch, July 19, 2022.</ref><ref name="MacRaeSHC">[https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04952/ "Collection Number: 04952 / Collection Title: Elizabeth MacRae Papers, 1958-1989"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419145015/https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04952/ |date=April 19, 2022 }}, finding aid with biographical profile, Southern Historical Collection, Special Collections, Louis Round Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved July 17, 2022.</ref> Growing up in Fayetteville, Elizabeth received her primary education there, and her parents sent her to Washington, D.C. to finish her secondary education at Holton-Arms, an independent college-preparatory school for girls.<ref name="MacRaeSHC"/>
Following her graduation from Holton-Arms, MacRae decided to pursue an acting career and in 1956 traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to audition for a part in director Otto Preminger's production ''Saint Joan''.<ref name="Hyams59">Hyams, Joe. "Elizabeth MacRae Has No Regrets", syndicated column, ''New York Herald Tribune'', April 9, 1959, p. 17. {{ProQuest| }}.</ref> She failed to be cast in the film, but in a 1959 newspaper interview with syndicated Hollywood columnist Joe Hyams, MacRae credited Preminger for encouraging her not to abandon her career plans and instead to seek intensive, professional performance training. "'Mr. Preminger'", she recounted to Hyams, "'told me then to keep in touch with him and advised me to go to New York and study because I had intuitive talent'".<ref name="Hyams59"/> Heeding Preminger's advice, MacRae in October 1956 moved to New York City, where for two years she studied with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio and gained stage experience playing assorted characters in off-Broadway and summer-stock productions. She also resumed her artistic training, attending classes on drawing and painting at the Art Students League in Manhattan.<ref name="MacRaeSHC"/><ref name="FayObPeterson">Peterson, Stacy (2002). "Full circle", transcription of newspaper article originally published in ''The Fayetteville Observer'', March 12, 2002, "Life-Family" section, no page number. Retrieved via public library subscription to NewsBank, Inc., August 10, 2022.</ref>
==="Actress and artist"=== During her childhood and throughout her teenage years, MacRae was encouraged by her mother to develop and refine her artistic talents, especially in drawing and painting portraits.<ref name="Wilson58">Wilson, Earl (1958). "Fayetteville Girl Has Dual Career As Actress, Artist", syndicated column published in ''The News & Observer'' (Raleigh, North Carolina), November 2, 1958, p. 4–IV. Retrieved via NewsBank|NewsBank, August 10, 2022.</ref> Later, when she was in New York studying acting, the aspiring stage performer supported herself with money she earned through commissions for her artwork. Earl Wilson, another syndicated newspaper columnist, recounted in a 1958 article that MacRae "started drawing because my older brother did. I always did everything he did...", taking lessons from childhood through to adulthood. She started making money after doing some portraits for a local church bazaar, which led to overwhelming demand from people who "commissioned me to draw their children", supporting herself through her acting classes and the early days of her career.<ref name="Wilson58"/>
==Television== By the latter half of 1958, MacRae was in Los Angeles, California and auditioning again for a film role as well as in television productions.<ref name="Hyams59"/><ref name="MacRaeSHC"/> There she also continued her studies in theatre at the California Institute of the Arts and resumed her training in drawing and painting by attending classes at the Otis College of Art and Design.<ref name="LAT69">{{cite news |title=Actress Wed to C. D. Halsey Jr. in Palm Springs |date=December 21, 1969 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=G16 |id={{ProQuest| }} }}</ref> She tested again with Otto Preminger for the role of Mary Pilant in the crime film ''Anatomy of a Murder'' (1959). Kathryn Grant was chosen for that part by Preminger; but, as noted by newspaper columnist Earl Wilson, MacRae soon was cast in her first television role, playing a witness in the courtroom series ''The Verdict Is Yours''.<ref name="Hyams59"/><ref name="IMDbMacRae">[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534281/?ref_=tt_cl_t_7 "Elizabeth MacRae"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812212426/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534281/?ref_=tt_cl_t_7 |date=August 12, 2022 }}, filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), subsidiary of Amazon, Seattle, Washington. Retrieved August 11, 2022.</ref> Over the next several years, MacRae began to perform increasingly in more substantive, credited roles in televised dramas and sitcoms, ultimately appearing in a wide variety of popular weekly series, most of which are productions from the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the programs from that period include ''77 Sunset Strip''; ''Hawaiian Eye''; ''Surfside 6''; ''Harrigan and Son''; ''Burke's Law''; ''Dr. Kildare''; ''The Andy Griffith Show''; ''The Untouchables''; ''Death Valley Days''; ''Rawhide''; ''General Hospital''; ''Gunsmoke'' (in a short recurring role as "April"); ''The Fugitive''; ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.''; ''I Dream of Jeannie''; ''The Virginian''; ''Rhoda''; ''Barnaby Jones''; ''Kojak''; ''Mannix''; and ''Petrocelli''.<ref name="MacRaeSHC"/><ref name="Barabas">Barabas, SuzAnne and Barabas, Gabor (1990). ''Gunsmoke: A Complete History and Analysis of the Legendary Broadcast Series''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1990; MacRae cited in five episodes.</ref>
MacRae continued to perform on television through the 1980s, but by then in parts almost exclusively on other daytime soap operas, such as ''All My Children'' (1980), ''Guiding Light'' (1983), and ''Another World'' (1980, 1989).<ref name="MacRaeSHC"/><ref>Several annotated scripts used by MacRae in episodes of the cited soap operas are preserved in the Southern Historical Collection at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library. Refer to "Career records" on this page.</ref>
===Multiple appearances on series=== During MacRae's many years working on television, there are six series in which she performed in three or more episodes. She was cast as different characters in four episodes of the adventure crime drama ''Route 66'' and in three episodes of ''Surfside 6'', another crime drama about a Miami-based detective agency.<ref name="MacRaeSHC"/>
MacRae was also cast multiple times on the long-running ''Gunsmoke'', appearing once in the role of Fanny in the 1962 episode "Half-Straight" and then, between 1962 and 1965, appearing four times as April, the girlfriend of Festus Haggen, one of the series' main characters.<ref name="Barabas"/> MacRae performed too in numerous installments of two daytime soap operas: as two characters{{endash}}Barbara Randolph and Phyllis Anderson{{endash}}over 13 episodes of ''Days of Our Lives'' in 1976 and 1977 and as Jozie in 11 episodes on ''Search for Tomorrow'' in 1985. In her television career, however, MacRae gained her widest recognition among audiences for her performances as a recurring character on the 1960s sitcom ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C''.<ref name="MacRaeSHC"/><ref name="IMDbMacRae"/>
====''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C''==== From 1966 to 1969, MacRae was repeatedly cast on the sitcom ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C'' in the role of Lou-Ann Poovie, the girlfriend of the series' title character. Her first of 15 appearances on that show is in the 1966 episode "Love's Old Sweet Song". Hal Humphrey, a reporter for the ''Los Angeles Times'', featured MacRae in his 1968 article about ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C'' in which he explained that she was hired to play a very lousy singer for just one episode, cast because she was indeed a bad singer, and because of her true-bred Southern accent. The characters{{snd}}and MacRae and actor Jim Nabors{{snd}}got along so well onscreen, "it was decided to make her [Gomer's] more or less permanent girlfriend".<ref name="Humphrey68">{{cite news |title=Gomer's girl friend, Poovie |first=Hal |last=Humphrey |date=March 10, 1968 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=2 |id={{ProQuest| }} }}</ref>
==Films== Although the great majority of MacRae's acting work was on television, she was also cast in nine feature films. Her earliest credited screen role is in the comedy ''Love in a Goldfish Bowl'', released by Paramount Pictures in the summer of 1961 and co-starring Tommy Sands and Fabian.<ref>[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/21507-LOVE-INAGOLDFISHBOWL?sid=1246ae8f-8a7c-4594-8137-9e20be72d687&sr=14.329382&cp=1&pos=0 "Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722191529/https://catalog.afi.com/Film/21507-LOVE-INAGOLDFISHBOWL?sid=1246ae8f-8a7c-4594-8137-9e20be72d687&sr=14.329382&cp=1&pos=0 |date=July 22, 2022 }}, catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved via August 9, 2022.</ref> MacRae later that year performed as a supporting character in ''Everything's Ducky'', a screenplay about a talking duck produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Mickey Rooney.<ref>"'Mysterious Island' and 'Everything's Ducky'", reviews, ''New York Herald Tribune'' (Manhattan), December 21, 1961, p. 15. {{ProQuest| }}</ref> Described in 1961 by ''Los Angeles Times'' critic Geoffrey Warren as a "nonsense comedy", MacRae plays Susie Penrose. Then, from 1962 through 1964, while her television career continued to develop, MacRae acted in four more Hollywood films: ''The Wild Westerners'', ''Wild Is My Love'', ''For Love or Money'', and in the live-action animated comedy ''The Incredible Mr. Limpet''.<ref name="AFIlimpet">[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/22715-THE-INCREDIBLEMRLIMPET?sid=ff7b18c2-9342-44a2-b274-adedea0e3bf2&sr=0.14089817&cp=1&pos=0 "The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815182613/https://catalog.afi.com/Film/22715-THE-INCREDIBLEMRLIMPET?sid=ff7b18c2-9342-44a2-b274-adedea0e3bf2&sr=0.14089817&cp=1&pos=0 |date=August 15, 2022 }}, catalog, AFI. Retrieved August 14, 2022.</ref> In the latter film, starring Don Knotts, she provided the voice of the character Ladyfish.<ref name="AFIlimpet"/>
After MacRae's voice work for ''The Incredible Mr. Limpet'', a decade passed before she performed in another film, the mystery thriller ''The Conversation'', released in April 1974.<ref name="AFIcon">[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53857-THE-CONVERSATION?sid=4365e59d-df3b-4838-bba0-264b6a70b818&sr=7.4735394&cp=1&pos=0 "The Conversation (1974)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808174740/https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53857-THE-CONVERSATION?sid=4365e59d-df3b-4838-bba0-264b6a70b818&sr=7.4735394&cp=1&pos=0 |date=August 8, 2022 }}, catalog, AFI. Retrieved August 8, 2022.</ref> The production, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, proved to be the most critically acclaimed picture of her career.<ref name="AFIcon"/> It won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, received two British Academy Film Awards, and was nominated for three Academy Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|title=THE CONVERSATION|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/the-conversation|access-date=2021-07-16|website=Festival de Cannes|language=en|archive-date=April 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418175044/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/the-conversation|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Oscars1975">{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975 |title=The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 8, 2022 |work=oscars.org |date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402004005/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975 |archive-date=2015-04-02}}</ref> MacRae's association with ''The Conversation'' in her role as Meredith drew considerable attention to the veteran actress from moviegoers and critics, partly because the role required her to remove all of her clothing in a shadowed long shot. Film stills of her scenes with Hackman are featured prominently in 1974 previews and in other contemporary coverage of the drama by ''The Washington Post'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', and other major American newspapers.<ref>"Americans Winning at Cannes", ''The Washington Post'', May 25, 1974, p. D7; "Elizabeth MacRae uses her wiles on Gene Hackman...", ''Chicago Tribune'', June 8, 1974, p. B18. {{ProQuest| }}</ref> In a 2002 newspaper interview for ''The Fayetteville Observer'', MacRae reflected on her involvement in the award-winning production. She described Coppola as an "intense" director and one who was "kind and open to actors' building their characters".<ref name="FayObPeterson"/> She also shared her experiences traveling to France to attend the ceremonies in Cannes, where she and other members of the cast were being "treated like royalty".<ref name="FayObPeterson"/>
Following her performance in ''The Conversation'', MacRae continued to work predominantly in television, while she was cast in only two more feature films over the next fifteen years. She portrays Mrs. Lumquist in the 1978 horror film ''The House of the Dead'' and a news reporter in the 1989 production ''Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Willis|first=Donald C.|year=1984|title=Horror and Science Fiction Films III|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/horrorsciencefic0000will_f8a2/page/7 7]|url=https://archive.org/details/horrorsciencefic0000will_f8a2/page/7|isbn=978-0810817234}} ''The House of the Dead'' (1978) was also distributed and marketed at the time under an alternate title, ''Alien Zone''.</ref><ref>[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58039-EDDIE-ANDTHECRUISERSIIEDDIELIVES?sid=3fa52a60-533e-4a83-a964-9c65c9a327d8&sr=21.452133&cp=1&pos=0 "Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022075602/https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58039-EDDIE-ANDTHECRUISERSIIEDDIELIVES?sid=3fa52a60-533e-4a83-a964-9c65c9a327d8&sr=21.452133&cp=1&pos=0 |date=October 22, 2023 }}, cast credits and special appearances, Elizabeth MacRae, catalog, AFI. Retrieved August 8, 2022.</ref>
==Archives== In 1999 and 2002, MacRae donated assorted records relating to her acting career to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These items are preserved on campus in the Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Library and include letters, scrapbooks with newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, audio and videotapes, as well as her working scripts from various films, television series, and stage productions in which she performed.<ref name="MacRaeSHC"/>
==Personal life== On August 12, 1955, MacRae married Amos Morehead Stack, Jr., the son of a prominent North Carolina judge, in Fayetteville, N.C. The duration of their marriage and the circumstances of its dissolution are undetermined by available official records.<ref name="Stack-MacRae55"/> She married for the second time in 1965, then to Hollywood actor and screenwriter Nedrick Young.<ref name="Humphrey68"/><ref name="no">{{cite news |last1=Beale |first1=Lewis |title='Defiant One' sheds light on Hollywood blacklists |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/movies-news-reviews/article26743720.html |access-date=16 June 2018 |work=The News & Observer |date=July 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180616234551/http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/movies-news-reviews/article26743720.html |archive-date=16 June 2018}}</ref> The couple remained together until 54-year-old Young died of a "heart ailment" just three years later.<ref>"Nedrick Young, 54, Defied Blacklist", obituary, ''The New York Times'', September 18, 1968, p. 44. {{ProQuest| }}</ref> The following year, in 1969, MacRae wed Wells Fargo executive Charles Day Halsey, Jr. in Palm Springs, California.<ref name="LAT69"/><ref name="FayObPeterson"/>
===Return to North Carolina and the stage=== During the 1990s, MacRae devoted much of her time to what she described as her "second career", providing support and counseling individuals suffering from alcohol and drug abuse.<ref name="FayObPeterson"/> Then, in 1998, she and her husband Charles retired and moved to western North Carolina, where they settled initially in the town of Cashiers.<ref name="FayObPeterson"/> MacRae still remained involved in various organizations, sharing her acting knowledge and experiences working in stage, television, and film productions. In November 2000, for example, she was a guest panelist at the Asheville Film Festival (now the Western North Carolina Film Festival) in Asheville, North Carolina, appearing with fellow professional actors Julie Parrish, Pat Priest, Pamela Sue Martin, Rhodes Reason, and Soupy Sales.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_fYHm1Oz90 "Asheville Film Festival Celebrity Panel, 2000, with Moderator Tim Neeley"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811220016/https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=R_fYHm1Oz90 |date=August 11, 2022 }}, video of discussions by MacRae (misspelled "Macray" in the given description of event), and other cited actors, originally posted on YouTube (San Bruno, California) by St. Louis Flashback on May 18, 2020. Retrieved August 11, 2022.</ref> She also appeared periodically at other special events and in televised programs, such as in the ''CMT: The Greatest{{snd}}20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows'', which was hosted by actor John Schneider and originally broadcast on Country Music Television on May 27, 2006.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818658/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1 ''CMT: The Greatest{{snd}}20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817132215/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818658/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1 |date=August 17, 2022 }}, IMDb. Retrieved August 15, 2022.</ref><ref>[http://www.cmtpress.com/press-release/cmt-counts-down-the-most-hilarious-country-tv-shows-of-all-time-in-20-greatest-country-comedy-shows/ "CMT Counts Down The Most Hilarious Country TV Shows Of All Time In '20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022075602/http://www.cmtpress.com/press-release/cmt-counts-down-the-most-hilarious-country-tv-shows-of-all-time-in-20-greatest-country-comedy-shows/ |date=October 22, 2023 }}, press release, May 2, 2006, Country Music Television, Viacom Entertainment Group, MTV Networks. Retrieved August 16, 2022.</ref>
===Later life and death=== The couple moved again in August 2001, moving east in North Carolina to Elizabeth's childhood neighborhood of Haymount in Fayetteville. In March 2002, MacRae co-starred in a stage production of ''Picnic'' at the local Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Her performances in that play as the schoolteacher Rosemary marked the first time in nearly four decades that MacRae had performed in live theatre.<ref name="FayObPeterson"/>
After living in Fayetteville for several years, MacRae and her husband moved to the town of Glenville, North Carolina, where they remained.<ref name="MacRaeSHC"/> MacRae was also inducted into the Fayetteville Hall of Fame, in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Fayetteville Performing Arts Hall of Fame : Community Concerts |url=https://www.community-concerts.com/the-fayetteville-performing-arts-hall-of-fame/ |website=community-concerts.com |access-date=2 June 2024 |language=en |archive-date=May 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529070416/https://www.community-concerts.com/the-fayetteville-performing-arts-hall-of-fame/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Fayetteville natives return home for honors in Performing Arts Hall of Fame |url=https://www.cityviewnc.com/stories/fayetteville-natives-return-home-for-honors-in-performing-arts-hall-of-fame/ |website=CityView NC |access-date=2 June 2024 |date=2 April 2023 |archive-date=June 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603014048/https://www.cityviewnc.com/stories/fayetteville-natives-return-home-for-honors-in-performing-arts-hall-of-fame/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She died in Fayetteville on May 27, 2024, at the age of 88.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tinoco |first1=Armando |title=Elizabeth MacRae Dies: 'General Hospital' & 'Gomer Pyle: USMC' Actor Was 88 |url=https://deadline.com/2024/05/elizabeth-macrae-dead-general-hospital-gomer-pyle-usmc-actor-1235943121/ |access-date=29 May 2024 |publisher=Deadline |date=28 May 2024 |archive-date=May 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529014905/https://deadline.com/2024/05/elizabeth-macrae-dead-general-hospital-gomer-pyle-usmc-actor-1235943121/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Filmography== {{more citations needed|date=October 2025}}
===Film appearances=== * ''Love in a Goldfish Bowl'' (1961) as Jackie<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=2024-05-29 |title=Elizabeth MacRae, Actress in 'Gomer Pyle: USMC' and 'The Conversation,' Dies at 88 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/elizabeth-macrae-dead-gomer-pyle-the-conversation-1235910543/ |access-date=2025-10-31 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> * ''Everything's Ducky'' (1961) as Susie Penrose<ref name=":0" /> * ''The Wild Westerners'' (1962) as Crystal Plummer * ''Wild is My Love'' (1963) as Queenie<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wild Is My Love |url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/wild-is-my-love/cast/2030028256/ |access-date=2025-10-31 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}</ref> * ''For Love or Money'' (1963) as Marsha<ref name=":0" /> * ''The Incredible Mr. Limpet'' (1964) (voice) as Ladyfish<ref name=":0" /> * ''The Conversation'' (1974) as Meredith<ref name=":0" /> * ''Alien Zone'' (1978) as Mrs. Lumquist<ref name=":0" /> * ''Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!'' (1989) as Reporter #3
===Television appearances=== * ''The Verdict Is Yours'' (1958) as Courtroom Witness<ref name=":0" /> * ''Naked City'' (1960)<ref name=":0" /> * ''Harrigan and Son'' (1961) as Cynthia * ''Maverick'' (1961) as Emily Todd<ref name=":0" /> * ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1961)<ref name=":0" /> * ''Surfside 6'' (1961, 1962) as Carla Wilson/Marcy Johnson/Margia Knight/Carla Wilson<ref name=":0" /> * ''77 Sunset Strip'' (1962) as Bette Otterman<ref name=":0" /> * ''Dr. Kildare'' (1962) as Carrie Palmer RN<ref name=":0" /> * ''Hawaiian Eye'' (1962) as Tina Billings<ref name=":0" /> * ''The Untouchables'' (1962) as Jean Colton aka Bunny<ref name=":0" /> * ''Gunsmoke'' (1962, 1962–1965) as Fanny Fields (1962),{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}} April Clomley (recurring)<ref name=":0" /> * ''Sam Benedict'' (1963) as Mrs. Jerome * ''Stoney Burke'' (1963) as Paula * ''Death Valley Days'' (1963) as Myra Engles * ''For Love or Money'' (1963) as Marsha<ref name=":0" /> * ''Burke's Law'' (1964) as Marcy<ref name=":0" /> * ''Route 66'' (1960, 1962, 1964) as Randy Spring/Betsy/Jean/Betty<ref name=":0" /> * ''Rawhide'' (1964) as Sally Ann Rankin<ref name=":0" /> * ''The Fugitive'' (1964) as Clara Braydon<ref name=":0" /> * ''The Virginian'' (1965) as Molly Weams<ref name=":0" /> * ''I Dream of Jeannie'' (1965) as Diane * ''The Andy Griffith Show'' (1967) as Betty Parker<ref name=":0" /> * ''Bonanza'' (1968) as Lila Holden * ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.'' (1966–1969) as Lou-Ann Poovie (recurring)<ref name=":0" /> * ''Judd for the Defense'' (1969) as Helen Barrett * ''General Hospital'' (1969–1970; 1972–1973), as Meg Bentley #2<ref name=":0" /> * ''Mannix'' (1972)<ref name=":0" /> * ''Petrocelli'' (1975) as Lucille Bates * ''Kojak'' (1975) as Betsy Vellon * ''Barnaby Jones'' (1976) as Lucy Thornburgh<ref name=":0" /> * ''Rhoda'' (1977) as Adele<ref name=":0" /> * ''Days of Our Lives'' (1977) as Barbara Randolph<ref name=":0" /> * ''Guiding Light'' (1983–1984) as Agatha Dobson<ref name=":0" /> * ''Search for Tomorrow'' (1985) as Josie<ref name=":0" /> * ''Another World'' (1988) as Aunt Rose<ref name=":0" />
===Other appearances=== * ''CMT: The Greatest - 20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows'' (2006) (TV) as Herself
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