Elizabeth Harrower
Known for Acting · 47 credits
- Born
- 1918-05-28
- Died
- 2003-12-10
- Place of birth
- Alameda, California, USA
- Also known as
- Betty Louise Foss
Biography
Betty Louise Foss was born during the final days of World War I in Alameda, California as the country plagued by a flu epidemic. Within six weeks, her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around. As babies were thought to draw the deadly flu, Betty was eventually placed in a San Francisco orphanage where she was later adopted by Scottish immigrants William and Jessie Harrower and raised in Berkeley and Los Angeles. During the Great Depression her adoptive father's salary was cut in half and her adoptive mother decided to take Betty out of school and off to Hollywood to begin an acting career. After trying out several alter egos in the hopes of making an impression on someone in the industry, Betty Foss eventually settled on the identity of Elizabeth Harrower. Elizabeth Harrower appeared in "Becky Sharp (1935)", the first feature-length color film in 1935. She would continue to appear in hundreds of radio, television, film and stage productions over the next decades, most notably "True Grit (1969)". In 1942, Harrower married Harry Seabold, an Air Force cadet she had met in fifth grade. Their daughter, actress Susan Seaforth Hayes, was born in 1943. Her husband was called into war even before that and the marriage subsequently did not last. By the 1970s Elizabeth Harrower had met soap opera scribe William J. Bell and she would eventually start her writing career and became head writer of "Days of Our Lives (1965)" from 1979-1980. She went on to write for Bell's "The Young and the Restless (1973)" in the 1980s. Her last writing stint was on the short-lived soap opera "Generations (1989)" in 1991. In 2003, already while taking chemotherapy she had a prominent limited run as Charlotte Ramsey on "The Young and the Restless (1973)". She died shortly thereafter at age 85.
Known For
TV Shows (23)
Columbo
1971
as Board Member (uncredited)
Perry Mason
1957
as Woman Artist / Woman Apartment Manager / Mrs. Mangan / Sadie Noymann
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
as Customer / Mrs. Hutchins
Batman
1966
as Miss Prentice / Drusilla
The Waltons
1972
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Mrs. Jones / Mrs. Masters
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Woman (uncredited)
The Virginian
1962
as Mrs. Crandall / Mrs. Grant
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Nurse / Housekeeper
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
as Mrs. O'Roarke / Mildred O'Roarke
That Girl
1966
Hazel
1961
as Edith
Dennis the Menace
1959
as Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
Surfside 6
1960
M Squad
1957
as Walls' Secretary / Mrs. Michaels
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968
as Mrs. Meredith / Mrs. Brandt
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Letter to Loretta
1953
as Miss Himbler / Mrs. Sims
Shane
1966
as Myra Torrey
The Immortal
1970
The Great Gildersleeve
1955
Movies (24)
True Grit
1969
as Mrs. Ross
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
as Reporter at Hotel (uncredited)
Batman
1966
as Picnicking Woman (uncredited)
Vanishing Point
1971
as Communications Officer
Cat Ballou
1965
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Shoot Out
1971
as Housekeeper
Thunder Pass
1954
as Mrs. Hemp
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962
as French Prisoner (uncredited)
The FBI Story
1959
as Clerk (uncredited)
Teacher's Pet
1958
as Clara Dibney (uncredited)
Plymouth Adventure
1952
as Elizabeth Hopkins
The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972
as Sister Effie
The Sterile Cuckoo
1969
as Landlady (uncredited)
Marjorie Morningstar
1958
as Miss Kimble (uncredited)
The Wild Westerners
1962
as Martha Bernard
I Love You...Good-bye
1974
as Mrs. Freeman
I Passed for White
1960
as Woman in Employment Office
House of Women
1962
as Mrs. Potter
A Brand New Life
1973
as Margaret Kalman
The Pilgrimage Play
1949
as Woman of Samaria
Zebra in the Kitchen
1965
as Town Gossip
Going Steady
1958
as Mrs. Armstrong
Don't Knock the Twist
1962
as Ruth Emerson
Does Christ Live in Your Home?
1951
About Elizabeth Harrower
Betty Louise Foss was born during the final days of World War I in Alameda, California as the country plagued by a flu epidemic. Within six weeks, her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around. As babies were thought to draw the deadly flu, Betty was eventually placed in a San Francisco orphanage where she was later adopted by Scottish immigrants William and Jessie Harrower and raised in Berkeley and Los Angeles. During the Great Depression her adoptive father's salary was cut in half and her adoptiv… With 47 credits spanning from 1949 to 1974, Elizabeth Harrower has appeared in 24 films and 23 TV shows.
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- True Grit (1969) — as Mrs. Ross
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) — as Reporter at Hotel (uncredited)
- Batman (1966) — as Picnicking Woman (uncredited)
- Vanishing Point (1971) — as Communications Officer
- Cat Ballou (1965) — as Townswoman (uncredited)
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