Neva Patterson
Birth : 1920-02-10, Nevada, Iowa, USA
Death : 2010-12-14
History
Neva Louise Patterson(10 February 1920 – 14 December 2010) was an American character actress.
Born on a farm near Nevada in Story County in central Iowa, she and her parents moved to New York City in 1938. She made her Broadway debut in 1947's The Druid Circle. In 1952, she played "Helen Sherman" in The Seven Year Itch. Her first feature movie was the 1953 film Taxi; other film credits include The Buddy Holly Story, All of Me, and as Cary Grant's fiancee in An Affair to Remember.
Her television credits included Nichols, starring with James Garner, The Governor & J.J., with Dan Dailey, and as Eleanor Dupres in V, which she reprised in V: The Final Battle. She made guest appearances on Appointment with Adventure, The Defenders, Ironside, Barnaby Jones, The Dukes of Hazzard, and St. Elsewhere.
Patterson died from complications from a broken hip at age 90.
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Andy
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Lady Judith Eason
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Gretchen
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Playboy Executive
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Mrs. Farrow
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Mrs. Kirby
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Eliza Farinpour
The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.
Mrs. Holly
A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.
Marian's Mother
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Gaddis
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Mrs. Buchanan
The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.
CRP Woman
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Alice Collingwood
A story about a teenage boy who runs away from his foster home after wrongly being accused of theft and soon crosses paths with a young leopard which has escaped from a wild-animal compound during a lightning storm.
Mrs. Denver
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.
Mrs. Oliver
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Mary Forman
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Mrs. Claggart
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Dorothy
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Connie
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Mrs. Clemens
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Louise Kramer
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Blanche Oehrichs / Michael Strange
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Miss Warriner
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
Lois Clark
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Amelia Shotgraven
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Ursula
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Miss Millard
A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.
