Margaret Field, Prolific Actress and Mother of Sally Field
In addition to a lead role in the sci-fi movie The Man from Planet X, she appeared in dozens of TV series before withdrawing from performing to devote herself to her family.
Margaret Field, a prolific film and television actress, and mother of Oscar-winning actress Sally Field, died November 6, 2011, in Malibu, California. She was 89.
According to news reports, the cause was cancer.
Field, a native of Houston, moved to California in the early 1940s with her then husband, Richard Dryden Field. The couple had two children, Sally and brother RIchard.
Signed to a contract by Paramount Pictures, she appeared in several movies for the studio, including My Friend Irma and The Paleface. One of her best known film credits was the 1951 sci-fi drama The Man from Planet X, in which she had a starring role.
In the 1950s she began to find work in television, and appeared in dozens of shows over the year, including Alcoa Theater, The Dick Powell Theater, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Bonanza, The Untouchables, Adam-12, My Three Sons, The FBI, It Takes a Thief and Yancy Derringer, which starred her second husband, actor Jock Mahoney.
Both of her marriages ended in divorce. In addition to her two children with her first husband, survivors include a daughter from her marriage to Mahoney, seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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