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Reta Shaw

Acting

Born September 13, 1912 · South Paris

Died January 8, 1982

Also known as Reta M. Shaw

Biography

Reta Shaw was an American character actress known for playing strong, hard-edged, working women in film and on many of the most popular television programs of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. She may be best remembered as the housekeeper, Martha Grant, on the television series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and as the cook, Mrs. Brill, in the 1964 film Mary Poppins.

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Filmography32 titles

Emergency!

1972

Bewitched

1964as Bertha

The Odd Couple

1970as Claire Foster

I Dream of Jeannie

1965as Annie

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955as Martha Stone

The Dick Van Dyke Show

1961

The Andy Griffith Show

1960as Eleanora Poultice

Mary Poppins

1964as Mrs. Brill

The Red Skelton Show

1951as Myrtle's Mother

Lost in Space

1965as Aunt Clara Simms

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964as Miss Witherspoon

The Lucy Show

1962as Woman On Beach

Pollyanna

1960as Tillie Lagerlof

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

1966as Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell

Here's Lucy

1968as Mrs. Ryker

Thriller

1960as Celia Hooper Somers

My Three Sons

1960as Mrs. Bradshaw

Escape to Witch Mountain

1975as Mrs. Grindley

Picnic

1955as Irma Henderson

That Funny Feeling

1965as Woman at Phone Booth

The Patty Duke Show

1963

Bachelor in Paradise

1961as Mrs. Brown

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

1959as Laurabelle Ellingboe

All Mine to Give

1957as Mrs. Runyon

The Pajama Game

1957as Mabel

That Girl

1966

The Loved One

1965as Manager of The Zomba Cafe

The Real McCoys

1957

The F.B.I.

1965as Shoe Store Customer

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

1971as Head Nurse

Murder Once Removed

1971as Nurse Regis

Made in Paris

1966as American Bar Singer