GH: Actress Peggy Converse dies at 95
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Carolyne in TX
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Actress Peggy Converse dies at 95
03/20/2001
New York Times News Service
Peggy Converse, a character actress whose seven-decade career in
show business included films, television and more than 100 roles in more
than 1,000 theaters across the United States and Canada, died on March
2 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 95.
She enjoyed playing to an audience and was at her busiest in theater.
Born on Oregon City, Ore., she was onstage at 3. A 1927 graduate of
Stanford University, she was a sought-after ingenue in the 1920s and
'30s, appearing in Broadway productions such as Infernal Machine with
Lloyd Bridges and Comedy of Good and Evil with Mildred Dunnock.
Ms. Converse played feature roles in plays such as Othello, Wuthering
Heights, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Corn Is Green in
companies from Tarrytown, N.Y., and Weston, Conn., to Santa Fe,
N.M., and Carmel, Calif. She and her husband, actor Don Porter,
appeared together in the national touring companies of Any Wednesday,
The Best Man and Love and Kisses.
Her film career included minor roles in everything from Father Is a
Bachelor (1950) with William Holden, Sadie Thompson (1953) with
Rita Hayworth and The Accidental Tourist (1988) with Geena Davis
and William Hurt.
Active in television from its infancy, Ms. Converse appeared in episodes
of Perry Mason and on soap operas such as The Young and the
Restless, General Hospital and Days of Our Lives.
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Mary Pelis
whodunit wrote:
> This obituary says she was on GH--anyone know who she played?
>
Given her age, could she have been Stella, the lady that went into the relish
business with Lila? I'm guessing that the woman who played Lucille Weeks,
Audrey's sister, died long before now. But those are the only two people I can
think of.
Mary "seems her only other claim to fame was being married to Gidget's dad"
Pelis
Kathleen Lenkeit
The Pickle-lila business was started by Lila Q
and her maid, Stella, in 1986. The only "Stella"
that I could find in the GH Scrapbook was the
character Stella Fields, who first aired in 1980.
The actor's name that's listed for that character
is Jeff Donnell. The woman who portrays the
pediatrician on ER is Michael Michelle, and the
woman who portrayed John Boy's mom Olivia Walton
is Michael Learned, so I'm not particularly thrown
by a "man's" name for an apparently female character,
but I don't remember Lila's maid Stella as being on
in 1980... but I'm suffering more and more of those
pesky senior moments lately....
I found no actors named Peggy Converse listed at
the back of the GH Scrapbook, but they only list
the characters who were at least somewhat integral
to the storylines, and if Peggy Converse just had
a bit part, she wouldn't be listed.
Lucille Wall portrayed Nurse Lucille March Weeks.
Kathleen