Allyn Ann McLerie
ActingAlso Known As
Allyn McLerie
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.
Movies
(35 total)
All the President's Men
as Carolyn Abbott
Jeremiah Johnson
as Crazy Woman
The Way We Were
as Rhea Edwards
The Cowboys
as Ellen Price
Calamity Jane
as Katie Brown
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
as Mrs. Donavan
Monte Walsh
as Mary Eagle
Born Innocent
as Emma Lasko
The Reivers
as Alison
Cinderella Liberty
as Miss Watkins
Battle Cry
as Ruby - Waitress in Diner
Words and Music
as Singer in Garrick Gaeities
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
as Yvonne (as Allyn McLerie)
40 Pounds of Trouble
as Blanchard's Secretary (uncredited)
France, Incorporated
as The American
Stranger in My Bed
as Shirley Hunter
Someone I Touched
as Jean
Death Scream
as Alice Whitmore
TV Shows
(36 total)
Knight Rider
as Marietta Mattheson
Bonanza
as Charity Moffet
The Love Boat
as Cynthia Parker
St. Elsewhere
as Roxanne Reed
Barney Miller
as Harriet Shulton
Lou Grant
as Betty Newman
Lou Grant
as Martha Emmett
The F.B.I.
as Marie Vale
The F.B.I.
as Dorothy Harnolds
The F.B.I.
as Helen Porter
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
