Mabel Albertson
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No one played supercilious, judgmental mothers-in-law with as much enthusiasm as Mabel Albertson. The sister of comic actor Jack Albertson, Albertson made a few tentative stabs at a film career in the 1920s and 1930s, but chose instead to concentrate on stage work. Returning to Hollywood in 1953, she became a semi-regular on several television series, and also contributed sharply honed character performances in films like Home Before Dark (1958) (as Jean Simmons' disastrously well-meaning stepmother) and The Gazebo (1959) (as a garrulous real estate agent). She hit her stride in the 1960s playing the self-pitying mother and mother-in-law of such TV actors as Tom Ewell, Dick Van Dyke, and Bewitched's Dick York and Dick Sargent. Though the roles may have been stereotyped, she always managed to make them hilariously -- and sometimes disturbingly -- real. Mabel Albertson died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 81.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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91% | What's Up, Doc? |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The House That Would Not Die |
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— | 1970 |
100% | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever |
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— | 1970 |
84% | Barefoot in the Park |
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— | 1967 |
33% | A Fine Madness |
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— | 1966 |
71% | Period of Adjustment |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | All in a Night's Work |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | All the Fine Young Cannibals |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Don't Give Up the Ship |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | The Hangman |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | The Gazebo |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | Home Before Dark |
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— | 1958 |
89% | The Long, Hot Summer |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Female Animal |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Ransom! |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Forever, Darling |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki |
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— | 1955 |
71% | The Cobweb |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Black Widow |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | About Mrs. Leslie |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | So This Is Love |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | She's Back on Broadway |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | My Pal Gus |
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— | 1952 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970-1977
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Bewitched
1964-1972
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
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83% |
The Munsters
1964-1966
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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No Score Yet |
The Adventures of Superman
1952-1958
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