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Marion Ross

Born 1928-10-25

📍 Watertown, Carver County, Minnesota, USA

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Marion Ross (born October 25, 1928) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Cunningham on the ABCtelevision series, Happy Days from 1974 to 1984.Born Marian Ross in Watertown in Carver County in southern Minnesota, the daughter of Ellen (née Hamilton) and Gordon Ross,she lived in Waconia and then moved to Willmar and eventually to Albert Lea, Minnesota.At the age of 13, she changed the spelling of her name from "Marian" to "Marion" because she thought it would look better on a marquee. After completing her sophomore year in high school, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and worked as an au pair while studying drama at the MacPhail Center for the Arts, and attending Southwest High School. A year later, her family moved to San Diego, California.She graduated from Point Loma High School in San Diego.Ross enrolled in San Diego State University,where she was named the school's most outstanding actress. After graduation in 1950, she performed in summer theater in La Jolla, California. The director was impressed by her talent, and recommended that she try for work in films.

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Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story

Senior Entourage

More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story

Viral Vignettes

The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

My Music: A Classic Christmas

Best Friends Whenever

as Rita McCallister

A Perfect Christmas List

Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas

Sweet Surrender

as April's Granmother

as Aunt Irene Hilgrim

I Know That Voice

as Marion Cunningham

as Agnes Whitehead

as Grandma (voice)

Anger Management

Keeping Up with the Randalls

as Grandma Dorie

Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster

as Hilda Trowburg

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

as Grandma Moonbeam (voice)

Hot in Cleveland

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

as Renata Thurber

Childrens Hospital

as Elderly Nurse

Superhero Movie

as Aunt Lucille

Holly Hobbie and Friends: Best Friends Forever

as Annabelle Crow (voice)

Brothers and Sisters

as Mrs. Lopart (voice)

Where There's a Will

as Leslie Clyde Onstott

The New Adventures of Old Christine

Out of Practice

as Betty Donahue

Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002

as Marion Cunningham ("Buddy Holly") (archive footage)

Two and a Half Men

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Celebrities Uncensored

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Ladies and The Champ

as Margaret Smith

as Trix Gilmore

as Marilyn Gilmore

as Mrs. Richardson

SpongeBob SquarePants

as Grandma SquarePants (voice)

as Marion Cunningham (voice)

as Grandma Rose McCaffrey

The Wild Thornberrys

as Rebecca the Elephant Queen (voice)

as Grandma Forman

Love Boat: The Next Wave

as Judy Glacken

as Lila Ferrami

King of the Hill

as Ms. Wakefield (voice)

The Evening Star

as Rosie Dunlop

as Eunice Fadiman

Superman: The Animated Series

as General Richter (voice)

Hidden in Silence

as Mrs. Diamant

The Drew Carey Show

as Beulah Carey

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

as Flavia (voice)

Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart

as Maureen Collier

Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel

A Perfect Stranger

as Charlotte Brandon

as Frances Farnsworth

Intimate Portrait

The John Larroquette Show

Brooklyn Bridge

as Sophie Berger

as Mother Superior

American Experience

as Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Margaret Sturdevant

as Sister Robin

Sins of the Father

Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?

as Nora Wheeler

Midnight Offerings

as Natalie Ward

The Survival of Dana

as Madeline Lee

as Emily Heywood

as Emily Stubing

as Mrs. Jenny Heller

as Amy Scofield

as Gladys Johnson

as Mary Hammond

Grand Theft Auto

as Vivian Hedgeworth

as Janet Williamson

as Marion Cunningham

The Weekend Nun

The Streets of San Francisco

The Streets of San Francisco

O'Hara, U.S. Treasury

The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children

as Mrs. Pilgrim

Colossus: The Forbin Project

as Angela Fields

as Joan Myers (uncredited)

Love, American Style

as Marion Cunningham

The Brady Bunch

Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Dr. Helen Cartwright

as Louise Johnson

as Edith Lavallo

as Muriel Enright

as Gloria Bosner

as Mrs. Bartell

as Shirley Petrizzi

Mission: Impossible

The Great Adventure

as Sister Marcella

The Great Adventure

as Etta Wheeler

as Nurse Bromfield

as Marian Eckhardt

The Outer Limits

as Agnes Benjamin

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Mike Douglas Show

as Nurse Ann Patterson

as Laura Harding

Blueprint for Robbery

The Brothers Brannagan

The Brothers Brannagan

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

The Slowest Gun in the West

as Elsie May Slocum

Operation Petticoat

as 2nd Lieutenant Colfax

The Untouchables

as Vera Schultz

It Started with a Kiss

as Diane (uncredited)

as Pricilla Brewer

Some Came Running

as Sister Mary Joseph (uncredited)

The Donna Reed Show

The Walter Winchell File

as Helen Harvey

God Is My Partner

as Frances Denning

Around the World in 80 Days

as Extra (uncredited)

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Mollie O'Brien

as Sister Clothilde (uncredited)

The Proud and Profane

as Greek (uncredited)

The Millionaire

as Cathy Hardin

Father Knows Best

as Spiller's Girlfriend (uncredited)

as Mrs. Crockett (uncredited)

Secret of the Incas

as Miss Morris (uncredited)

The Glenn Miller Story

as Polly Haynes (uncredited)

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta

General Electric Theater

The Red Skelton Show

as Patricia Winterbrook

The Red Skelton Show

as Patricia Westerbrook

The Red Skelton Show

as Elizabeth - Sir Reginald's daughter

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

as Dixie the Manicurist

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee