Naomi Stevens


Naomi Ruth Stevens was an American character actress of film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s. She appeared in almost 100 roles over the years, usually depicting mothers, landladies, gossips, or neighbors.
Stevens began entertaining in vaudeville at age 2. She had expanded into radio, film, and theater by age 5. She appeared on a radio program on KNX in Los Angeles and was featured in Paramount Pictorials. Stevens attended the Grace Waugh Bowman School of Theatricals.
Her most frequent characterizations were Italian, Jewish, Latin, or East European, and usually with a comic touch. She appeared in many television series and in such feature films as Valley of the Dolls; Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell; and The Apartment. She portrayed Sgt. Bella Archer in the ABC crime drama Vegas. She made guest appearances on numerous television series. Her last role was on Days of Our Lives as Mrs. Nazareo in 1989. On old-time radio, Stevens portrayed Daphne Royce on Brenthouse and Irene Barbour on One Man's Family.
Stevens died on January 13, 2018, in Reseda, Los Angeles, California, aged 92.

Partial filmography

  • Have Gun-Will Travel as Marga / Ma Kafka / Maria
  • The Black Orchid as Guilia Gallo
  • Rescue 8 as Angela
  • The Apartment as Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
  • The Twilight Zone as Washroom Attendant
  • The Lawless Years as Rose
  • Perry Mason as Agnes / Fanny Werbler / Mrs. Kransdorf
  • Dr. Kildare as Mrs. Gast / Aunt Kasia / Mrs. Mendoza / Mrs. Gitlin
  • Convicts 4 as Resko's Mother
  • McHale's Navy as Mrs. Gruber
  • The Farmer's Daughter as Mrs. Golden
  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Mrs. Goldy
  • Honeymoon Hotel as Woman at Garbage Dump
  • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Aunt Clara / Maria Pia
  • Joy in the Morning as Mrs. Ridinski
  • The Art of Love as Mrs. Sarah Fromkis
  • Frankie and Johnny as Princess Zolita
  • Hogan's Heroes as Nadya
  • Valley of the Dolls as Miss Steinberg
  • The Flying Nun as Sister Teresa / Mrs. Emanuel / Señora Rosales
  • The Shakiest Gun in the West as Squaw
  • To Die in Paris as Mama Dendier
  • Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell as Rosa
  • The Doris Day Show as Juanita
  • My Three Sons as Mama Rossini
  • Love, American Style as Hazel / Mildred / Rosa / Mrs. Straub aka Mother / Annie Ellsworth
  • The Hawaiians as Queen Liliuokalani
  • Room 222 as Rose
  • Fly Me as Toby's Mother
  • Superdad as Mrs. Levin
  • Hard Times as Madam
  • The Montefuscos as Rose Montefusco
  • Hustle as Woman Hostage
  • The Practice as Mrs. Friedman
  • Opening Night as Crying Mourner
  • Vega$ as Sgt. Bella Archer
  • The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal as Mrs. Goldstein
  • Hotel as Mrs. Tomasino
  • Taxi as Aunt Lucia