Lillian Bronson

Acting • Born 1902-10-21 – Died 1995-08-02

Acting1Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lillian Bronson (October 21, 1902 - August 2, 1995) was an American character actress. She performed in over 80 films, 60 of the films from 1939 to 1964, and appeared in over one hundred television productions from 1949 to 1975. Bronson was born Lillian Rumsey Bronson in Lockport, New York, the daughter of a carriage builder, and attended the University of Michigan. She began her artistic career by performing plays at Broadway. During the Great Depression, Bronson and her late sister, Dorothy, opened the Bronson Studio in New York, designing and making toy animals and pillows. In 1943, Bronson appeared in the movie Happy Land as Mattie Dyer and on television in the episode "The Druid Circle" of The Philco Television Playhouse, that aired on March 6, 1949, in the role of Miss Dagnall. She then appeared in a long series of minor characters for many television series episodes from the early days of television until the mid-1970s, including many western genres. She became widely known for her role as the grandmother in the Kings Row television series. Bronson's final appearance on the small screen was as "Grandma Nussbaum", Fonzie's grandmother, in the episode "Fonzie Moves In" of the ABC-TV sitcom series Happy Days, which aired on September 9, 1975. Her final big screen appearance was in the film Kisses for My President (1964), in which she plays the part of Miss Currier.

Filmography

135 credits

In the Good Old Summertime

Movie • 1949

Aunt Addie

The Pearl of Death

Movie • 1944

Maj. Harker's Housekeeper (uncredited)

Christmas in Connecticut

Movie • 1945

Secretary (uncredited)

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Movie • 1944

Norma, the Maid (uncredited)

Rose of Cimarron

Movie • 1952

Emmy Anders

The Next Voice You Hear...

Movie • 1950

Aunt Ethel

The Suspect

Movie • 1945

Miss Crevy (uncredited)

The Sword of Monte Cristo

Movie • 1951

Pepite

Spencer's Mountain

Movie • 1963

Grandma Spencer

Marnie

Movie • 1964

Mrs. Maitland (uncredited)

Sleep, My Love

Movie • 1948

Helen

Family Honeymoon

Movie • 1948

Aunt Jo

Road to Alcatraz

Movie • 1945

Dorothy Stone

Welcome Stranger

Movie • 1947

Miss Lennek

No Room for the Groom

Movie • 1952

Aunt Elsa

Enter Arsène Lupin

Movie • 1944

Wheeler

Kisses for My President

Movie • 1964

Miss Currier (uncredited)

Here Come the Nelsons

Movie • 1952

Miss Tompkins

So This Is Love

Movie • 1953

Mrs. Green

The Hucksters

Movie • 1947

Miss Hammer - Secretary

What a Man!

Movie • 1944

Constance

Mademoiselle Fifi

Movie • 1944

Mme. Follenvie

First Love

Movie • 1939

Violin Player

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Movie • 1945

Librarian (uncredited)

The Judge Steps Out

Movie • 1947

Harriett (uncredited)

Foxfire

Movie • 1955

Mrs. Potter (uncredited)

Gaslight

Movie • 1944

Lady (uncredited)

Sentimental Journey

Movie • 1946

Miss Benson (uncredited)

In the Meantime, Darling

Movie • 1944

Mrs, Dalrymple

Battle at Bloody Beach

Movie • 1961

Delia Ellis

Dressed to Kill

Movie • 1946

Minister's Wife (uncredited)

Room for One More

Movie • 1952

Teacher (uncredited)

Happy Land

Movie • 1943

Mattie Dyer (uncredited)

Molly and Me

Movie • 1945

Perkins

Affair with a Stranger

Movie • 1953

Miss Crutcher

I've Always Loved You

Movie • 1946

Music Teacher 1

Rusty's Birthday

Movie • 1949

Carrie Simmons

Beauty on Parade

Movie • 1950

Mrs. Enfield-Hyphen-Hatch

Dakota Lil

Movie • 1950

Sheriff's Wife

Murder in the Music Hall

Movie • 1946

Cleaning Woman

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

Movie • 1970

Mrs. Louise Murphy

Father of the Bride

Movie • 1950

Schoolteacher (uncredited)

Over 21

Movie • 1945

Elsie - Paula's Secretary (uncredited)

Nocturne

Movie • 1946

Gotham Cashier (uncredited)

Junior Miss

Movie • 1945

Maid

Hollywood and Vine

Movie • 1945

Abigail Wrighthouse

Excuse My Dust

Movie • 1951

Mrs. Matilda Bullitt

The Brighton Strangler

Movie • 1945

Hotel Maid (Uncredited)

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

Movie • 1950

Prunella Pennyworth - Humphrey's Sister

They Won't Believe Me

Movie • 1947

Aunt Martha Hines (uncredited)

The Over the Hill Gang

Movie • 1969

Mrs. Louise Murphy

Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler

Movie • 1969

The Girl of the Limberlost

Movie • 1945

Miss Blodgett

The Andy Griffith Show

TV • 1960

Erma Bishop

77 Sunset Strip

TV • 1958

Cheyenne

TV • 1955

My Three Sons

TV • 1960

The F.B.I.

TV • 1965

Librarian

Mr. Lucky

TV • 1959

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

TV • 1964

Happy Days

TV • 1974

The Mod Squad

TV • 1968

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Clara

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Momma

Emergency!

TV • 1972

Leave It to Beaver

TV • 1957

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

TV • 1955

Neighbor

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Mrs. Lefever

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

The Millionaire

TV • 1955

Ann Trenner

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Mrs. McCleary

Thriller

TV • 1960

Adelaide Leggett

Yancy Derringer

TV • 1958

Carrie Meade

Peter Gunn

TV • 1958

Lux Video Theatre

TV • 1950

Mrs. Harold

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

TV • 1951

Miss Pringle

The Thin Man

TV • 1957

Climax!

TV • 1954

Pete and Gladys

TV • 1960

Matinee Theater

TV • 1955

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

TV • 1954

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

TV • 1956

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

TV • 1951

Wanted: Dead or Alive

TV • 1958

Mother Superior

Ben Casey

TV • 1961

The Detectives

TV • 1959

The Whistler

TV • 1954

Date with the Angels

TV • 1957

Hank

TV • 1965

Dr. Kildare

TV • 1961

Frances Neilson

Goodyear Theatre

TV • 1957

Granny

The Roaring 20's

TV • 1960

Mr. & Mrs. North

TV • 1952

Nichols

TV • 1971

Old Lady

The F.B.I.

TV • 1965

Mrs. Guthrie

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

TV • 1963

Widow

Studio 57

TV • 1954

The Gale Storm Show

TV • 1956

Miss Albright

Revlon Mirror Theatre

TV • 1953

Sister

Wagon Train

TV • 1957

Miss Phoebe

The Outsider

TV • 1968

Mrs. Buchanan

Omnibus

TV • 1967

Cissie Chandler

Dragnet

TV • 1967

Fay Sager

Funny Face

TV • 1971

Mrs. Morris

The Rifleman

TV • 1958

Elizabeth Favor

The Abbott and Costello Show

TV • 1952

Wife of Patient with Propeller

The Abbott and Costello Show

TV • 1952

Ruby Kent

Trackdown

TV • 1957

Maude Turley

The Gale Storm Show

TV • 1956

Miss Carter

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

Mrs. Kilmer

Chevron Theatre

TV • 1952

The Donna Reed Show

TV • 1958

Mrs. Butler

Studio One

TV • 1948

Miss Rathbone - Secretary

Arrest and Trial

TV • 1963

Irene Wolcott

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

TV • 1958

Mrs. Brewster