Allyn Ann McLerie

Known for ActingBorn 1926-12-01Died 2018-05-21Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada

Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 - May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus. She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then created the role of Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where's Charley? (Theatre World Award). Her other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty, the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie also danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre during its 1950-51 European and South American tour. McLerie's best-known film appearances are as Amy in Where's Charley? (1952), Katie Brown in Calamity Jane (1953), Shirley in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and as The Crazy Woman in Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Other film work includes Words and Music (1948) and The Desert Song (1952). She enjoyed a long career as a character actress on television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as Bonanza, The Waltons, The Love Boat, Barney Miller, Benson, Hart to Hart, St. Elsewhere, and Dynasty, among many others. She played Miss Janet Reubner, Tony Randall's assistant, on The Tony Randall Show from 1976-1978. McLerie played the recurring role of Arthur Carlson's wife, Carmen on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–82). She may be best-remembered as Florence Bickford, the title character's mother on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from 1987-1991. Her last role was on an episode of Brooklyn Bridge in 1993. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allyn Ann McLerie, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

And Baby Makes Six

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Where's Charley?

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Shadow of a Gunman

Delphi Bureau

Brooklyn Bridge

All the President's Men

WKRP in Cincinnati

Knight Rider

Two Kinds of Love

Beulah Land

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Punky Brewster

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story

Bonanza

Return Engagement

Barney Miller

Lou Grant

The Thorn Birds

Jeremiah Johnson

The Waltons

The Cowboys

Howzer

The Way We Were

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Hart to Hart

Simon & Simon

Calamity Jane

Cinderella Liberty

Cannon

Trapper John, M.D.

Death Scream

The Desert Song

Dynasty

Baretta

The Ed Sullivan Show

Kodiak

To Find My Son

The Tony Randall Show

The Reivers

Born Innocent

Medical Center

The Love Boat

Nichols

My World and Welcome to It

Monte Walsh

The Duck Factory