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Birthday:

06-18-1908

Deathday:

01-20-2003 (94 years)

Birthplace:

Montrose, Iowa, USA

Biography

An apple dumpling of a darling, character actress Nedra Volz had one of those slightly vacant, twinkly-eyed faces absolutely designed for light sitcoms and commercial work. Although she didn't come into her own until past retirement age, she enjoyed a solid two-decade ride delightfully amusing audiences all over.

The diminutive Iowa native was born in a trunk to vaudeville parents in 1908 and was immediately thrust onto the stage as "Baby Nedra" in tent shows and similar venues. A band singer and radio performer in her early adult years, maternal instincts took over after marrying her husband in 1944 and she raised two children. But the spark never completely died. In the 1950s she was performing again in community theater shows.

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Act like Mrs. Kissell

event1979 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

Mule Feathers

Act like Clamity Jane

event1977 star_border 1 top_panel_open

A drifter con artist, impersonating a parson, arrives in a small Wild West town with his mule and becomes embroiled in the lives of several townsfolk.

Betrayal of the Dove

Act like Old Woman

event1993 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

A divorced mother fears for her life after a friend gets her a blind date with a doctor.

Lust in the Dust

Act like Big Ed

event1985 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Assaulted by Third World outlaws, donkey-riding Rosie joins a silent drifter's search for gold.

Gridlock

Act like Mrs. Felcher

event1980 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system caught in a gridlock that John Beck, as a traffic expert, endeavors to unsnarl.

Moving Violations

Act like Mrs. Loretta Houk

event1985 star_border 5.5 top_panel_open

A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.

Last of the Great Survivors

Act like Gladys

event1984 top_panel_open

A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent the demolition of their apartment building and falls for the man she meets on a blind date at a punk rock club. She soon learns that he is the building inspector who condemned the seniors' decrepit home, forcing her to turn to her amorous lawyer ex-boyfriend to find the loophole that will save the building.

Mortuary Academy

Act like Helen

event1988 star_border 3.3 top_panel_open

"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the academy will fail, and all sorts of wacky hijinks ensue.

Little Miss Marker

Act like Mrs. Clancy

event1980 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.

The Great White Hype

Act like Old Lady

event1996 star_border 5.2 top_panel_open

When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Act like Old Lady ("Growing Yourself")

event1982 star_border 3.2 top_panel_open

A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.

They Only Come Out at Night

Act like Elderly Woman

event1975 top_panel_open

Jack Warden plays real-life Los Angeles detective John St. John in this pilot for the Jigsaw John television series. He and his Native American partner track a pervert serial killer of elderly women.

Alice

(2 ep.)

event1976 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.

Good Times

(1 ep.)

event1974 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.

Who's the Boss?

(1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

A former professional baseball player, along with his preteen daughter, moves into New York advertising executive Angela Bower's house to be both a housekeeper and a father figure to her young son. Tony 's laid-back personality contrasts with Angela's type-A behavior.

Rhoda

(1 ep.)

event1974 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

Rhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over five seasons, from 1974 to 1978. The show was a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 had played the role of Rhoda Morgenstern, a spunky, weight-conscious, flamboyantly fashioned Jewish neighbor and native New Yorker in the role of Mary Richards' best friend. After four seasons, Rhoda left Minneapolis and returned to her original hometown of New York City. The series is noted for breaking two television records, and was the winner of two Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards. Rhoda was filmed Friday evenings in front of a live studio audience at CBS Studio Center, Stage 14 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California.

The A-Team

Act like Babbette (1 ep.)

event1983 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

All in the Family

Act like Aunt Iola (1 ep.)

event1971 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.

Quincy, M.E.

(1 ep.)

event1976 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

Diff'rent Strokes

Act like Adelaide Brubaker (23 ep.)

event1978 star_border 7 top_panel_open

The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

(1 ep.)

event1983 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.

The Commish

(1 ep.)

event1991 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.

Step by Step

(1 ep.)

event1991 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

Step by Step is an American television sitcom with two single parents, who spontaneously get married after meeting one another during a vacation, resulting in them becoming the heads of a large blended family

Eight Is Enough

(1 ep.)

event1977 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name.

ALF

Act like Cat Woman (1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.

Filthy Rich

Act like Winona 'Mother B' Beck (15 ep.)

event1982 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Filthy Rich is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from August 1982 to July 1983. Starring Dixie Carter and Delta Burke, the series satirized prime-time soap operas such as Dallas and Dynasty.

The Fall Guy

(15 ep.)

event1981 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.

Hanging In

(4 ep.)

event1979 top_panel_open

Hanging In is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in 1979, executive produced by Norman Lear.

Babes

(22 ep.)

event1990 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Babes is an American situation comedy series that ran for one season on the Fox Television Network from September 13, 1990 to August 10, 1991. It was created by Gail Parent and executive produced by Dolly Parton and Sandy Gallin's Sandollar Productions for Twentieth Century Fox Television. Parton even guest starred as herself in episode 15, entitled "Hello, Dolly".

A Year at the Top

(5 ep.)

event1977 star_border 5 top_panel_open

A Year at the Top is an American sitcom which aired for five episodes on CBS in 1977. Produced by T.A.T. Communications Company, the series was created by Heywood Kling and co-executive produced by Don Kirshner and Norman Lear.

Carter Country

(1 ep.)

event1977 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

Carter Country is an American television sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1979 on ABC.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

(2 ep.)

event1989 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

In 1989 the two most famous plumbers from Brooklyn burst out of the Nintendo game world and onto television screens across America. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! aired weekday afternoons and brought Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and King Koopa more thrilling adventures as cartoon characters. And if that weren't enough, each episode also contained live-action segments featuring Mario and Luigi running their Brooklyn plumbing shop - all before they were flushed down a drainpipe into the Mushroom World.

The Tony Randall Show

(1 ep.)

event1976 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Walter Franklin is a somewhat less-than-magisterial Philadelphia judge put upon by an assortment of family and courtroom recidivists.

The Dukes of Hazzard

Act like Miz Emma Tisdale (13 ep.)

event1979 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.

WKRP in Cincinnati

Act like Mrs. Burstyn (2 ep.)

event1978 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with the station's burned-out veteran, Dr. Johnny Fever. Neurotic newsman Les Nessman, eager beaver Bailey Quarters, sleazy salesman Herb Tarlek, blonde bombshell Jennifer Marlowe, who serves as the station's ultra-capable receptionist, and station manager Arthur Carlson, whose domineering mother owns WKRP, round out the eccentric bunch.

Condominium

Act like Mrs. Conlaw (2 ep.)

event1980 star_border 3.7 top_panel_open

An impending hurricane threatens to destroy the Silver Sands Condominium in Fiddler Key, Florida.

Night Court

Act like Little Old Lady (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.

TV 101

Act like Momma Steadman (1 ep.)

event1988 star_border 5 top_panel_open

TV 101 is an American drama series that aired on CBS from 1988 until 1989. The series stars Sam Robards, Brynn Thayer, Leon Russom and Andrew Cassese. Other notable cast members include Stacey Dash, Teri Polo, Alex Désert and Matt LeBlanc. The music for this show was created and produced by Todd Rundgren.

Dear John

Act like Dotty (1 ep.)

event1988 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy ends up with everything in the divorce settlement, including custody of the couple's son, forcing John to move into an apartment in Ozone Park, Queens. John soon joins the One-2-One Club, a self help group for divorced, widowed or lonely people. The group is led by Louise (Jane Carr), a sex-obsessed British woman. Other members of the group include Kate McCarron (Isabella Hofmann), a sweet divorcée; Kirk Morris (Jere Burns), a cocky ladies' man; Ralph Drang (Harry Groener), a shy and neurotic tollbooth collector; Bonnie Philbert (Billie Bird), a feisty senior citizen; and Tom, Mrs. Philbert's quiet boyfriend (Tom Willett).

One Day at a Time

Act like Emily (2 ep.)

event1975 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

The misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and new building superintendent in Indianapolis.

Coach

Act like Gertrude (1 ep.)

event1989 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the ball.

Designing Women

(1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.

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