Lois Nettleton
Lois Nettleton was born in Oak Park, Illinois, United States on August 16th, 1927 and is the Soap Opera Actress. At the age of 80, Lois Nettleton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Lois June Nettleton (September 16, 1927-1927 – January 18, 2008) was an American film, stage, radio, and television actress.
She has three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Daytime Emmy Awards.
Early life
Lois Nettleton was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and Edward L. Nettleton and George Bernard Nettleton followed him. She was also raised by her maternal aunt's relatives. She attended Senn High School, where she was a classmate of Lee Stern, and the Art Institute of Chicago's Goodman School of Drama (now DePaul University). She was Miss Chicago of 1948 and a semifinalist at the Miss America 1948 Pageant. Geraldine Page, a professional actress in 1946 and 1950 with the Woodstock Players (Woodstock, Illinois), began in 1949 after appearing in good reviews with her in repertory theatre at the New Lake Zurich Playhouse (Lake Zurich, Illinois) and the Woodstock Players (Woodstock, Illinois), her professional acting career began in 1949. Barbara Bel Geddes was understudied in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and on television in a CBS network production of "Flowers From a Stranger" on Westinghouse Studio One in 1949.
Personal life and death
Nettleton was the first caller to Jean Shepherd's late-night radio station on WOR, later becoming his third wife. She became "the Listener," a term that has been associated with listening. They appeared together in Shepherd's off-Broadway performance piece Look, Charlie!, which opened in December 1958. In Tarrytown, New York, they married on December 3, 1960. In 1967, the couple married, according to reports. She never married or had children.
Nettleton made her last public appearance at the Twilight Zone Convention in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, in August 2007. She died in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 80 from a brain tumor five months earlier. She was laid to rest in Saint Raymond's Cemetery in New York City.
Career
Nettleton played Patsy in the soap opera The Brighter Day.
She performed in dozens of guest-starring roles on television shows. Early roles included The Twilight Zone (episode "The Midnight Sun", 1961); Naked City; Route 66; Mr. Novak; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (episode "The Dark Pool", 1963); The Eleventh Hour; Hawaii Five-O; Dr. Kildare; Twelve O'Clock High; The Fugitive; The F.B.I.; Cannon; Bonanza; Gunsmoke (starring in 1961 as the title character in season 7, episode 12’s "Nina’s Revenge," where she played an abused wife driven to murder after finally finding love); The Virginian; and Daniel Boone. In 1973, she appeared on The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Lou Grant's new boss, Barbara Coleman. She appeared in the pilot episode of The Eddie Capra Mysteries in 1978, as well as hit TV miniseries, such as Washington: Behind Closed Doors and Centennial, as the murderous Maude Wendell.
In 1987, she portrayed the role of Penny Vanderhof Sycamore on the TV series version of the Kaufman and Hart comedy play You Can't Take It with You with Harry Morgan and Richard Sanders. She was a regular celebrity guest on various versions of the game show Pyramid from the 1970s through 1991.
Nettleton won two Emmy Awards during her career. She won one for her role as Susan B. Anthony in the television film The American Woman: Profiles in Courage (1977), and for "A Gun for Mandy" (1983), which was an episode of the religious anthology Insight. She received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for the Golden Girls episode "Isn't It Romantic?." She also received Emmy nominations for her work in the TV movie Fear on Trial (1975) (Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special) and for a recurring role on the series In the Heat of the Night in 1989 (Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series). Nettleton appeared in a 2006 Christmas TV movie special titled The Christmas Card.
A life member of the Actors Studio, Nettleton made her Broadway debut in the 1949 production of Dalton Trumbo's play, The Biggest Thief in Town. She appeared in a short-lived off-Broadway production of Look Charlie, which was written by her future husband, humorist Jean Shepherd. It opened for three performances in late December 1958 and closed after several more the following February.
She received critical praise for her performance as Blanche DuBois in a 1973 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. Nettleton was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Amy in a 1976 revival of They Knew What They Wanted. Other stage credits include Broadway productions of Darkness at Noon and Silent Night, Lonely Night. She continued to act onstage into her 70s. Her final stage performance was in 2004, in an off-Broadway play, How to Build a Better Tulip.
Nettleton appeared in episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. In her later years, she did several voice roles for Disney, such as Disney's House of Mouse, Mickey's House of Villains (as Maleficent), and Herc's Adventures.