Peggy Converse


Peggy Converse born Velma Randall, was an American stage, film, and television actress whose lengthy career spanned seven decades.

Career

Converse began acting at the age of 16 in Los Angeles. She played ingénue parts in the 1920s and 1930s in Broadway productions of Infernal Machine and The Comedy of Good and Evil. She toured the country, playing 100 roles in productions in over 1000 theaters across the United States and Canada, often with her second husband, fellow actor Don Porter. Her film career started in 1942, with an uncredited part in My Sister Eileen, and concluded with 1988's The Accidental Tourist. She also made guest appearances on television shows from the 1950s to the 1980s, including the unaired pilot episode of Mister Ed.
She graduated from Stanford University in 1927.

Personal life

Her first husband was Edmund Converse, the founder of Bonanza Air Lines. After they divorced, she married Porter. Their marriage lasted 53 years, until his death in 1997. They had two children.

Stage credits

  • Infernal Machine
  • The Comedy of Good and Evil
  • Miss Quis as Crickett
  • Wuthering Heights as Isabel Linton

    Filmography

  • My Sister Eileen as Receptionist
  • Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Amy Wallace
  • The Girl of the Limberlost as Jessie Reed
  • Just Before Dawn as Connie Day
  • The Brute Man as Mrs. Obringer
  • Railroaded! as Marie Weston
  • Rusty Leads the Way as Mrs. Waters
  • The Devil's Henchman as Connie
  • Father Is a Bachelor as Genevieve Cassin
  • Borderline as Suspect Questioned
  • The Family Secret as Sybil Bradley
  • Miss Sadie Thompson as Mrs. Margaret Davidson
  • They Rode West as Mrs. Martha Walters
  • Drum Beat as Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant
  • The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Jane
  • City Detective as Jane
  • Cavalcade of America as Mrs. Alice Lloyd
  • The Loretta Young Show as Louella Ryan
  • Studio 57
  • You Are There as Clara Barton
  • Telephone Time
  • Panic! as Mrs. Oliver
  • Perry Mason as Myrtle Northrup
  • Day of the Badman as Mrs. Quary
  • The Thing That Couldn't Die as Flavia McIntyre
  • Voice in the Mirror as Mrs. Harriet Cunningham
  • Mike Hammer as Margaret Reed
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mrs. Lyons
  • Perry Mason as Sybil Basset
  • Mister Ed as Mrs. Bagby
  • The Danny Thomas Show as Fred's Wife
  • Insight as Mother
  • Future Cop as Housekeeper
  • Cops and Robin as Housekeeper
  • Turnabout as Hannah
  • The Ropers as Mrs. Hollingsworth
  • The Best Place to Be as Jean Callahan
  • The Chisholms as Mrs. Gilroy
  • Days of Our Lives as Mother Superior
  • General Hospital as Mrs. Calhoun
  • This Is the Life as Mrs. Caldwell
  • Small Wonder as Grandma Lawson
  • The Accidental Tourist as Mrs. Barrett