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Elizabeth Harrower
Actor, Writer
Died December 10, 2003 (85 years)
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.
Filmography
| 1973 | The Young and the Restless (TV Series) · as Charlotte Ramsey (2003) |
| 1972 | The Waltons (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | Vanishing Point · as Communications Officer |
| 1971 | Shoot Out · as Housekeeper |
| 1971 | Columbo (TV Series) · as Board Member |
| 1971 | Escape from the Planet of the Apes · as Reporter at Hotel (uncredited) |
| 1969 | The Sterile Cuckoo · as Landlady |
| 1969 | Night Gallery (TV Series) · as Maid |
| 1969 | True Grit · as Mrs. Ross |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad (TV Series) · as Housekeeper |
| 1968 | Mayberry R.F.D. (TV Series) · as Mrs. Brandt |
| 1966 | Batman · as Picnicking Woman (uncredited) |
| 1966 | That Girl (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1966 | Batman (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Cat Ballou · as 1st Lady |
| 1965 | Zebra in the Kitchen · as Town Gossip |
| 1965 | Days of Our Lives (TV Series) · as Mrs. Calder |
| 1965 | Hank (TV Series) · as Librarian |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Apartment Manager |
| 1964 | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Thrush Dowager |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial (TV Series) · as Studio Club Woman |
| 1962 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse · as French Prisoner |
| 1962 | House of Women · as Mrs. Potter |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Mrs. Masters |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Mrs. Grant |
| 1961 | The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series) · as Woman |
| 1961 | Hazel (TV Series) · as Agnes |
| 1960 | I Passed for White · as Undetermined Secondary Role |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1960 | National Velvet (TV Series) · as Ann Roberts |
| 1960 | My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Mrs. Baker |
| 1959 | Al Capone · as Proprietress |
| 1959 | The FBI Story · as Clerk |
| 1959 | Dennis the Menace (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Woman (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Marjorie Morningstar · as Miss Kimble |
| 1958 | Teacher's Pet · as Clara Dibney (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Going Steady · as Mrs. Armstrong - Faculty Member |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | M Squad (TV Series) · as Mrs. Michaels |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Woman Apartment Manager |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Grace Lawson |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Wagon Train Member |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Mrs. O'Roarke |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1954 | Thunder Pass · as Mrs. Hemp |
| 1954 | Meet Corliss Archer (TV Series) · as Beautician |
| 1954 | Father Knows Best (TV Series) · as Librarian |
| 1954 | Annie Oakley (TV Series) · as Cousin Gladys |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) · as Mrs. Sims |
| 1952 | Plymouth Adventure · as Elizabeth Hopkins |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Myra Pratt |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) · as Nurse |
| 1951 | The Range Rider (TV Series) · as Dora |
| 1951 | Sky King (TV Series) · as Miss Norris |
| 1950 | The Gene Autry Show (TV Series) · as Abigail Smith |
| 1950 | Racket Squad (TV Series) · as Miss Bronson |
| 1949 | The Pilgrimage Play · as Woman of Samaria |