Elizabeth Harrower

Known For

Acting

Born

May 28, 1918

Died

Dec 10, 2003

Place of Birth

Alameda, California, USA

Credits

49 titles

Elizabeth Harrower

Biography

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.

Known For

Filmography

1989

Generations

Writer

Tv
1974

I Love You...Good-bye

Mrs. Freeman

Movie
1973

A Brand New Life

Margaret Kalman

Movie
1972

The Waltons

Tv
1972

The Adventures of Nick Carter

Sister Effie

Movie
1971

Columbo

Board Member (uncredited)

Tv
1971

Shoot Out

Housekeeper

Movie
1971

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Reporter at Hotel (uncredited)

Movie
1971

Vanishing Point

Communications Officer

Movie
1970

The Immortal

Tv
1969

The Sterile Cuckoo

Landlady (uncredited)

Movie
1969

True Grit

Mrs. Ross

Movie
1968

Mayberry R.F.D.

Mrs. Meredith

Tv
1966

Shane

Myra Torrey

Tv
1966

That Girl

Tv
1966

Batman

Picnicking Woman (uncredited)

Movie
1966

Batman

Miss Prentice

Tv
1965

Cat Ballou

Townswoman (uncredited)

Movie
1965

Zebra in the Kitchen

Town Gossip

Movie
1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Mrs. Jones

Tv
1962

The Virginian

Mrs. Crandall

Tv
1962

The Wild Westerners

Martha Bernard

Movie
1962

Don't Knock the Twist

Ruth Emerson

Movie
1962

House of Women

Mrs. Potter

Movie
1962

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

French Prisoner (uncredited)

Movie
1961

Hazel

Edith

Tv
1960

Surfside 6

Tv
1960

The Andy Griffith Show

Customer

Tv
1960

I Passed for White

Woman in Employment Office

Movie
1959

Dennis the Menace

Tv
1959

The Twilight Zone

Woman (uncredited)

Tv
1959

The FBI Story

Clerk (uncredited)

Movie
1958

77 Sunset Strip

Tv
1958

Marjorie Morningstar

Miss Kimble (uncredited)

Movie
1958

Teacher's Pet

Clara Dibney (uncredited)

Movie
1958

Going Steady

Mrs. Armstrong

Movie
1957

Perry Mason

Woman Artist

Tv
1957

M Squad

Walls' Secretary

Tv
1955

The Great Gildersleeve

Tv
1955

Gunsmoke

Mrs. O'Roarke

Tv
1955

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Tv
1954

Father Knows Best

Librarian

Tv
1954

Thunder Pass

Mrs. Hemp

Movie
1953

Letter to Loretta

Miss Himbler

Tv
1952

Plymouth Adventure

Elizabeth Hopkins

Movie
1952

Four Star Playhouse

Nurse

Tv
1951

Does Christ Live in Your Home?

Movie
1951

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Tv
1949

The Pilgrimage Play

Woman of Samaria

Movie