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Phyllis Thaxter

Acting

Born November 20, 1919 · Portland, Maine, USA

Died August 14, 2012

Also known as Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter

Biography

Phyllis Thaxter was an American stage, screen, and television actress.

Awards & recognition

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography29 titles

The Twilight Zone

1959

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962as Mrs. Logan

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955as Miss Dent

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Emily Weymouth

Bonanza

1959as Ruth Manning

The Fugitive

1963as Enid Langer

Superman

1978as Ma Kent

Rawhide

1959as Pauline Cushman

Fort Worth

1951as Flora Talbot

The Breaking Point

1950as Lucy Morgan

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

as Rebecca Nurse

No Man of Her Own

1950as Patrice Harkness

Act of Violence

1949as Ann

Thriller

1960as Ursula Sommerville

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

1944as Ellen Lawson

Lux Video Theatre

as Julie

Wagon Train

1957as Christine Elliot

Letter to Loretta

as Laurie

Jim Thorpe -- All-American

1951as Margaret Miller

Springfield Rifle

1952as Erin Kearney

Week-End at the Waldorf

1945as Cynthia Drew

Blood on the Moon

1948as Carol Lufton

The Sea of Grass

1947as Sara Beth Brewton

Operation Secret

1952as Maria

Living in a Big Way

1947as Peggy Randall

The World of Henry Orient

1964as Mrs. Avis Gilbert

The F.B.I.

1965as Valerie Hendricks

Bewitched

1945as Joan Alris Ellis

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985as Rebecca Nurse