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 CrickettWuthering Heights as Isabel Linton
Filmography
My Sister Eileen as Receptionist Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Amy Wallace The Girl of the Limberlost as Jessie ReedJust Before Dawn as Connie Day The Brute Man as Mrs. Obringer Railroaded! as Marie WestonRusty Leads the Way as Mrs. WatersThe Devil's Henchman as ConnieFather Is a Bachelor as Genevieve CassinBorderline as Suspect Questioned The Family Secret as Sybil BradleyMiss Sadie Thompson as Mrs. Margaret DavidsonThey Rode West as Mrs. Martha WaltersDrum Beat as Mrs. Ulysses S. GrantThe Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as JaneCity Detective as JaneCavalcade of America as Mrs. Alice LloydThe Loretta Young Show as Louella RyanStudio 57 You Are There as Clara BartonTelephone Time Panic! as Mrs. Oliver Perry Mason (TV series) as Myrtle NorthrupDay of the Badman as Mrs. QuaryThe Thing That Couldn't Die as Flavia McIntyreVoice in the Mirror as Mrs. Harriet CunninghamMike Hammer as Margaret ReedAlfred Hitchcock Presents as Mrs. Lyons Perry Mason (TV series) as Sybil BassetMister Ed as Mrs. BagbyThe Danny Thomas Show as Fred's WifeInsight (TV series) as MotherFuture Cop (TV series) as HousekeeperCops and Robin as HousekeeperTurnabout (TV series) as HannahThe Ropers as Mrs. Hollingsworth The Best Place to Be as Jean CallahanThe Chisholms as Mrs. GilroyDays of Our Lives as Mother SuperiorGeneral Hospital as Mrs. CalhounThis Is the Life (TV series) as Mrs. CaldwellSmall Wonder (TV series) as Grandma LawsonThe Accidental Tourist as Mrs. Barrett