Mary Grace Canfield
Mary Grace Canfield was an actress known for roles in such television series as Green Acres, Bewitched, General Hospital and The Love Boat.
Born in Rochester, New York, she studied with renowned acting teacher Jason Deeter and got her start in the New York theater. She appeared in Broadway and off-Broadway plays before moving to California to pursue film and television work.
Her feature films included Pollyanna, Something Wicked This Way Comes, South of Reno and Young Goodman Brown.
Mary Grace Canfield was an actress known for roles in such television series as Green Acres, Bewitched, General Hospital and The Love Boat.
Born in Rochester, New York, she studied with renowned acting teacher Jason Deeter and got her start in the New York theater. She appeared in Broadway and off-Broadway plays before moving to California to pursue film and television work.
Her feature films included Pollyanna, Something Wicked This Way Comes, South of Reno and Young Goodman Brown.
She broke into television in 1954 with a role in the anthology series Goodyear Playhouse, and over the next 40 years appeared in dozens of series, including Robert Montgomery Presents, Thriller, The Hathaways, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hazel, The Andy Griffith Show, The Farmer's Daughter, Adam-12, Love, American Style, Family, Cagney and Lacey and many others.
In more than 40 episodes of Green Acres, she played Ralph Monroe, who, with her brother Alf, worked as carpenters in the rural town of Hooterville, home of transplanted Manhattanites Oliver and Lisa Douglas, played by Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor.
Canfield died February 16, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California. She was 89.
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