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Mary Jackson

Acting

Born November 22, 1910 · Milford, Michigan, USA

Died December 10, 2005

Biography

Mary Jackson was an American character actress whose nearly fifty-year career began in 1950 and was spent almost entirely in television. She is best known for the role of the lovelorn Emily Baldwin in The Waltons and was the original choice to play Alice Horton in the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, playing the part in the unaired pilot. The role was instead given to Frances Reid.

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Filmography45 titles

The Twilight Zone

1959as Miss Pepper (uncredited)

Columbo

1971as Annie

The Outer Limits

1963as Mrs. McCrae

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955as Mrs. Wilson

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

1970as Mrs. Arnell

Hill Street Blues

1981

Our Time

1974as Miss Moran

The Andy Griffith Show

1960as Miss Vogel

Quincy, M.E.

1976

Highway to Heaven

1984

The Fugitive

1963as Ellie Parker

Magnum, P.I.

1980as Grandmother MacKenzie

The Jeffersons

1975

Family Ties

1982as Edna

The Waltons

1972as Emily Baldwin

L.A. Law

1986as Mildred Weedon

Hunter

1984as Clara

Targets

1968as Charlotte Thompson

Cagney & Lacey

1982

The Bionic Woman

1976

The Streets of San Francisco

1972

Kid Blue

1973as Mrs. Evans

The Rookies

1972

Hart to Hart

1979

Stoney Burke

1962

Hazel

1961

Route 66

1960

Friendly Persuasion

1956as Country Woman (uncredited)

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

1983

Fun with Dick and Jane

1977as Jane's Mother

A Family Thing

1996as Carrie

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

1989

Hardcastle and McCormick

1983as Sarah Wicks

Airport

1970as Felice

The Exorcist III

1990as Mrs. Clelia

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

1959as Mrs. Kenny

Wild Rovers

1971as Sada's Mother

Leap of Faith

1992as Emma Schlarp

Blume in Love

1973as Louise

Audrey Rose

1977as Mother Veronica

Some Kind of Hero

1982as Frances

The F.B.I.

1965as 3rd Floor Desk Nurse

Skinned Alive

1990as Crawldaddy

Big Top Pee-wee

1988as Mrs. Dill

Ozone

1994as Cleaning Lady