Alice Hirson
Acting • Born 1929-03-10 – Died 2025-02-14
Biography
Alice Hirson (March 10, 1929 – February 14, 2025) was an American actress best known for her roles on television. She began her career on stage, before roles on daytime soap operas. She was best known for her roles as Mavis Anderson in the CBS prime time soap opera Dallas and as Lois Morgan, the mother of the title character on the ABC sitcom Ellen.
Filmography
64 credits
Blind Date
Movie • 1987
Muriel Bedford
Being There
Movie • 1979
First Lady
Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
Movie • 1978
Psychiatrist
Psycho IV: The Beginning
Movie • 1990
Mother (voice)
Miss All-American Beauty
Movie • 1982
Marjorie Butterfield
Nightwing
Movie • 1979
Claire Franklin
Mass Appeal
Movie • 1984
Mrs. Hart
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Movie • 1971
The Mayor's Wife
Bride of Boogedy
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Hooter
Psyko Ferret
Movie • 2000
Old Lady Veinous (voice)
Stepmonster
Movie • 1993
Shirley
Revenge of the Nerds
Movie • 1984
Mrs. Lowe
Private Benjamin
Movie • 1980
Mrs. Thornbush
The Big Picture
Movie • 1989
Mrs. Chapman
Starstruck
Movie • 2010
Grandma Olson
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Movie • 1978
Beth Dozier
Particular Men
Movie • 1972
The Lost
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Griffith
Having Babies II
Movie • 1977
Mimi
Diary of a Perfect Murder
Movie • 1986
Hazel
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
Movie • 1977
Judge White
The Death of Richie
Movie • 1977
Mrs. Blair
If Things Were Different
Movie • 1980
Karen Evans
The Glass House
Movie • 2001
Mrs. Morgan
The Rules of Marriage
Movie • 1982
Eva Hewlitt
Determination of Death
Movie • 2001
Edith
Judging Amy
TV • 1999
Alison Loomis
Cold Case
TV • 2003
Judy McShane
The Ropers
TV • 1979
Mancuso, F.B.I.
TV • 1989
Full House
TV • 1987
Claire Tanner
Dallas
TV • 1978
Mavis Anderson
The Edge of Night
TV • 1956
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
TV • 2008
Mimsy
7th Heaven
TV • 1996
Jenny Jackson
ER
TV • 1994
Mrs. Anderson
Paris
TV • 1979
Mrs. Dalton
When the Whistle Blows
TV • 1980
Home Fires
TV • 1992
Grandma
Just Shoot Me!
TV • 1997
Helen Korsh
Taxi
TV • 1978
Woman Customer
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Jewel
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Mrs. Hooter
Ellen
TV • 1994
Lois Morgan
Dear John
TV • 1988
Mrs. Morris
Murphy Brown
TV • 1988
Bootsie Sherwood
If Tomorrow Comes
TV • 1986
Mrs. Stanhope
Will & Grace
TV • 2017
Justice Ginsburg (voice)
A Woman Called Moses
TV • 1978
Miss Rodham
Barney Miller
TV • 1975
Dorothy St. Clair
Trauma Center
TV • 1983
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Jane Stephens
Starman
TV • 1986
Ida Schwartzman
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Anne Overland
Crossings
TV • 1986
Eleanor Roosevelt
NYPD Blue
TV • 1993
Karen Redding
Matlock
TV • 1986
Hazel
Hotel
TV • 1982
Helen Riley
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Jane Davis
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Mrs. Foyt
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Professor Emerson
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Emily Warren
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Judge Rosenstiel
Loose Change
TV • 1978
Rosemary