
Virginia Christine
Acting • Born 1920-03-05 – Died 1996-07-24
Biography
Virginia Christine Ricketts (March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996) was an American character actress and voice actress of Swedish descent. She had a long career on the screen, stage, and radio and appeared in more than 170 feature films and TV-productions. She is best remembered for her role in a string of television commercials for Folgers Coffee during the 1960s and 1970s.
Filmography
171 credits
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Movie • 1967
Hilary St. George

The Prize
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Bergh, Chaperon

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Movie • 1956
Wilma Lentz

Women in the Night
Movie • 1948
Claire Adams

The Killers
Movie • 1964
Miss Watson

The Gangster
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Karty

Nightmare
Movie • 1956
Sue Bressard

The Mummy's Curse
Movie • 1944
Princess Ananka

The Killers
Movie • 1946
Lilly Harmon Lubinsky

Johnny Tremain
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Lapham

The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Movie • 1946
Lola Carson

The Invisible Wall
Movie • 1947
Mildred Elsworth

4 for Texas
Movie • 1963
Brunhilde

The Inner Circle
Movie • 1946
Rhoda Roberts

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Movie • 1966
Eva Oster

The Cobweb
Movie • 1955
Sally

Good Morning, Miss Dove
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Rigsbee (uncredited)

Women at War
Movie • 1943
Mary Sawyer

Flaming Star
Movie • 1960
Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)

Truck Busters
Movie • 1943
Eadie Watkins

A Rage to Live
Movie • 1965
Emma

Murder Is My Business
Movie • 1946
Dora Darnell

Raiders of Ghost City
Movie • 1944
Countess Elsa von Merck, alias Trina Dressard

Special Agent
Movie • 1949
Mabel Rumpler

Incident in an Alley
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Connell

Cattle King
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Ruth Winters (Brassfield's Housekeeper)

The Careless Years
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Vernon

The First Time
Movie • 1952
Nurse

Dragnet
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Caldwell

Three Brave Men
Movie • 1956
Helen Goldsmith

The Scarlet Horseman
Movie • 1946
Carla Marquette / Matosca

Phantom of the Plains
Movie • 1945
Celeste

One Man's Way
Movie • 1964
Anna Peale

Woman of the Year
Movie • 1976
Alma

Cover Up
Movie • 1949
Margaret Baker

The Killer Is Loose
Movie • 1956
Mary Gillespie

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Movie • 1970
Miss Cummings

Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Halbestadt

Woman They Almost Lynched
Movie • 1953
Jenny

Idea Girl
Movie • 1946
Eveline

Girls of the Big House
Movie • 1945
Bernice Meyers

The Hired Man
Movie • 1957
Beverly

High Noon
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)

The Spirit of St. Louis
Movie • 1957
Secretary (uncredited)

House of Horrors
Movie • 1946
Lady of the Streets

Daughter of the Mind
Movie • 1969
Helga

The Old Texas Trail
Movie • 1944
Queenie Leone

Hail, Hero!
Movie • 1969
Eleanor Murchiston

In Enemy Country
Movie • 1968
Frau Gulden

Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie • 1950
Sister Marthe

Never Wave at a WAC
Movie • 1953
Lt. Myles

Not as a Stranger
Movie • 1955
Bruni

Night Wind
Movie • 1948
Jean Benson

The Wife of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1946
Florice Michaud

Edge of Darkness
Movie • 1943
Hulda (Stensgard maid)

Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
Maria - Beautician (uncredited)

Mister Ed
TV • 1961
Margaret

The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Mrs. Ferguson

Kojak
TV • 1973
Mrs. Yankowski

Dragnet
TV • 1951

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Bess

Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Beth Sandover

General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Head Nurse

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Ethel Bedeker

Laredo
TV • 1965
Agnes Halsey

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Model

Target: The Corruptors!
TV • 1961

Going My Way
TV • 1962

Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Cleaning Woman

Rawhide
TV • 1959

Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
Mrs. Wilson

The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Alma Mercer

Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Martha

The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Mrs. Barnett

The Virginian
TV • 1962
Leora Tressider

Lancer
TV • 1968
Hannah Sickles

Thriller
TV • 1960
Marge

Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Nancy Davis

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Martha Evans

The Thin Man
TV • 1957

The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Margaret Coleman

M Squad
TV • 1957
Mrs. Jake Fassard

Bronco
TV • 1958
Martha Gant

Matinee Theater
TV • 1955

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956

Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Mrs. Logan (uncredited)

Frontier Doctor
TV • 1958

Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Mrs. Payne

Racket Squad
TV • 1951

Riverboat
TV • 1959
Aunt Samantha Dexter

The New Breed
TV • 1961
Annabelle

The Whistler
TV • 1954

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Julie Hart (uncredited)

Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Mrs. Sargent

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
TV • 1958
June Earl

I'm the Law
TV • 1953

State Trooper
TV • 1956

Dangerous Assignment
TV • 1952
Carla Fabri

The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Cora

Jericho
TV • 1966
Frau Luders

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Mother

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mrs. Brown

The Star and the Story
TV • 1955

Behind Closed Doors
TV • 1958
Julie Hollister

Casey Jones
TV • 1957
Doris Jones

The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Mrs. Jackson

The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Mrs. Talbot

The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Dora Mizo

Hey, Jeannie!
TV • 1956
Mrs. Warren

The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Grateful Lady

Hazel
TV • 1961
Mrs. McGuire

The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Lucille Fortier

The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Eugenia Sayres

The Virginian
TV • 1962
Judith Briscoe

The Virginian
TV • 1962
Nora Claypool

The Virginian
TV • 1962
Margaret Conlan

The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Stella Barber

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Bertha Holt

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mrs. Spencer

Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Clerk

Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Miss Chase

Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Mrs. Brewster

Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Harriet Meecham

Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Helen Duncan

Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Edith Summers

Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Minna Collins

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Secretary

Maverick
TV • 1957
Verna Lyme

Trackdown
TV • 1957
Millie

Adventures of Superman
TV • 1952
Mrs. Frank

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951

Studio 57
TV • 1954

Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Amanda Santee

The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Margaret Lang

The Invaders
TV • 1967
Mrs. Thorne

Ironside
TV • 1967
Esther Hawkins

Bonanza
TV • 1959
Martha Hale

Studio 57
TV • 1954
Jenny Pickett

Rawhide
TV • 1959
Sarah Tenney

Passport to Danger
TV • 1954

Chevron Theatre
TV • 1952

Broadside
TV • 1964
Wave Commander Peabody

State Trooper
TV • 1956
Dorette Mason

The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Mrs. Hardy

Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Flora Hill

Father Knows Best
TV • 1954
Grace Miller

Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Clara Reynolds

Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Alice Cabot

Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Rose Evans

Coronado 9
TV • 1960
Sarita

Coronado 9
TV • 1960
Margaret Hammock

The Asphalt Jungle
TV • 1961
Miss Brandt

Bonanza
TV • 1959
Mary Johnson

Rawhide
TV • 1959
Ada Covey

The Deputy
TV • 1959
Molly Baker

State Trooper
TV • 1956
Ethel Larkin

Steve Canyon
TV • 1958
Mary Moore

77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Grace Thorn

77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Greta Haggman

The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Mrs. Dalrymple

Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Elaine Gatsby

Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Mrs. Reed

The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Amy Durant

Trackdown
TV • 1957
Mrs. Nancy Doan

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Lila

Public Defender
TV • 1954
Mom Kennedy

General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Sarah

The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952

Dragnet
TV • 1951
Mrs. Martin

Dragnet
TV • 1951
Helen Karsten

The Lone Ranger
TV • 1949
Cecile Charron