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Elizabeth Harrower
Actor, Writer, Additional Credits
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
| 1974 | I Love You... Good-bye · as Mrs. Freeman |
| 1973 | The Young and the Restless (TV Series) · as Charlotte Ramsey (2003) |
| 1973 | A Brand New Life · as Margaret Kalman |
| 1972 | The Waltons (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Adventures of Nick Carter · as Sister Effie |
| 1972 | The Sixth Sense (TV Series) · as Maid |
| 1971 | Columbo (TV Series) · as Board Member (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Escape from the Planet of the Apes · as Reporter At Hotel (uncredited) |
| 1971 | |
| 1971 | Vanishing Point · as Communications Officer |
| 1969 | Night Gallery (TV Series) · as Maid |
| 1969 | The Sterile Cuckoo · as Landlady (uncredited) |
| 1969 | The Immortal (TV Series) |
| 1969 | Room 222 (TV Series) · as Nurse |
| 1969 | True Grit · as Mrs. Ross |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad (TV Series) · as Housekeeper |
| 1968 | Mayberry R.F.D. (TV Series) · as Mrs. Brandt |
| 1967 | Judd for the Defense (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hussman |
| 1966 | Shane (TV Series) · as Myra Torrey |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | Batman: The Movie · as Picnicking Woman (uncredited) |
| 1966 | Batman (TV Series) · as Drusilla |
| 1965 | Days of our Lives (TV Series) · as Mrs. Calder |
| 1965 | The Smothers Brothers Show (TV Series) · as Wedding Guest |
| 1965 | Hank (TV Series) · as Librarian |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Apartment Manager |
| 1965 | Cat Ballou · as Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1965 | Zebra in the Kitchen · as Town Gossip |
| 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 Eleventh Hour (TV Series) · as Mrs. Watson |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Mrs. Jones |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Mrs. Crandall |
| 1962 | It's a Man's World (TV Series) · as Mrs. Overhill |
| 1962 | House of Women · as Mrs. Potter |
| 1962 | Don't Knock the Twist · as Ruth Emerson |
| 1962 | The Wild Westerners · as Martha Bernard |
| 1962 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse · as French Prisoner (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Hazel (TV Series) · as Agnes |
| 1961 | The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series) · as Woman |
| 1960 | Joyful Hour · as Esther |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series) · as Customer |
| 1960 | SurfSide 6 (TV Series) |
| 1960 | My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Mrs. Baker |
| 1960 | National Velvet (TV Series) · as Ann Roberts |
| 1960 | I Passed for White · as Cast |
| 1959 | Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) · as Clerk |
| 1959 | Dennis the Menace (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Woman (uncredited) |
| 1959 | The FBI Story · as Clerk (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Al Capone · as Proprietress |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) |
| 1958 | Marjorie Morningstar · as Miss Kimble (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Teacher's Pet · as Clara Dibney (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Going Steady · as Mrs. Armstrong |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Woman Artist |
| 1957 | M Squad (TV Series) · as Mrs. Michaels |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Wagon Train Member |
| 1957 | Bernardine · as Telephone Company Supervisor |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Grace Lawson |
| 1956 | Telephone Time (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Mildred O'roarke |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) |
| 1955 | The Jane Wyman Show (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1955 | The Millionaire (TV Series) · as Gossipy Woman At Party |
| 1954 | The Great Gildersleeve (TV Series) · as Mrs. Howell |
| 1954 | Father Knows Best (TV Series) · as Librarian |
| 1954 | Thunder Pass · as Mrs. Hemp |
| 1954 | Annie Oakley (TV Series) · as Cousin Gladys |
| 1954 | Meet Corliss Archer (TV Series) · as Beautician |
| 1953 | The Man Behind the Badge (TV Series) · as Mrs. Lindsay |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) · as Miss Himbler |
| 1952 | Plymouth Adventure · as Elizabeth Hopkins |
| 1952 | Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre (TV Series) · as Miss Peck |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) · as Housekeeper |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Myra Pratt |
| 1951 | Sky King (TV Series) · as Miss Norris |
| 1951 | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (TV Series) |
| 1951 | The Range Rider (TV Series) · as Dora |
| 1951 | Front Page Detective (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | Racket Squad (TV Series) · as Miss Bronson |
| 1950 | The Gene Autry Show (TV Series) · as Abigail Smith |
| 1950 | Space Patrol (TV Series) · as Woman |
| 1949 | The Pilgrimage Play · as Woman Of Samaria |
| 1949 | Family Theatre (TV Series) · as Salome |