Collin Wilcox ( actress ) - wikipedia Collin Wilcox ( actress ) Collin Wilcox Wilcox in 1958 ( 1935 - 02 - 04 ) February 4, 1935 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. October 14, 2009 ( 2009 - 10 - 14 ) ( aged 74 ) Highlands, North Carolina, U.S. Occupation Film, stage, and television actress Years active 1953 -- 2003 Spouse ( s ) Walter Beakel ( divorced ) Geoffrey Horne ( divorced ) Scott Paxton ( 1979 -- 2009 ; her death ) Children Collin Wilcox ( February 4, 1935 -- October 14, 2009 ) was an American film, stage and television actress. Over her career, she was also credited as Collin Wilcox - Horne or Collin Wilcox - Paxton. Wilcox may be best known for her role in To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962 ), in which she played Mayella Violet Ewell, whose false claim of being raped sparks the trial at the center of the film. Contents 1 Life and career 2 Civil rights activism 3 Death 4 Filmography 5 Selected television appearances 6 References 7 External links Life and career This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2016 ) She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved with her family to Highlands, North Carolina, as a baby. Her interest in theater was sparked by her parents, Jack H. and Virginia Wilcox, who founded the Highlands Community Theatre ( now known as the Highlands Playhouse ) in 1939. She made her professional debut in Chicago as part of the improvisational group, The Compass Players, which included Mike Nichols, Elaine May, and Shelley Berman. Playing opposite Richard Basehart, Kevin McCarthy, and William Hansen, Wilcox won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance in The Day The Money Stopped by Maxwell Anderson and Brendan Gill, which lasted only three nights on Broadway in 1958. She starred in the 1961 play Look, We 've Come Through with Burt Reynolds on Broadway. She replaced another actress in the 1963 revival of Eugene O'Neill 's Strange Interlude and then went on to do the 1965 play The Family Way, both on Broadway. A life member of The Actors Studio, Wilcox is perhaps best known for her role in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, in which she played Mayella Violet Ewell, who falsely accuses Tom Robinson ( Brock Peters ) of raping her. Following that cinematic acting success, she performed two very memorable roles for television in 1964 : The Twilight Zone episode `` Number 12 Looks Just Like You '' and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode `` The Jar '', based on the Ray Bradbury short story. She appeared as Bess Frye in a 1972 episode of `` Gunsmoke '' titled `` Jubilee ''. In 1974, she co-starred with Peter Falk and Robert Conrad in the Columbo episode An Exercise in Fatality as Ruth Stafford. She remained active performing both on television and in films. Her final role was that of Mrs. Kline in the movie A Touch of Fate, which was released in 2003, six years before her death. Civil rights activism She recalled receiving `` unfriendly looks '' when she showed up at a NAACP conference in Monterey, California, where an official had to remind participants that, `` Collin is here at this conference because she believes in the cause. She is not the character in the film ''. This was due to the fact that she played a racist white woman who falsely accused Tom Robinson, a black man, of raping her. Death On October 14, 2009, Wilcox died from brain cancer, aged 74, at her home in Highlands, North Carolina. Filmography Twice Upon a Time ( 1953 ) - Ian To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962 ) - Mayella Violet Ewell The Name of the Game Is Kill ! ( 1968 ) - Diz Terry The Sound of Anger ( 1968, TV Movie ) - Ann Kochek Catch - 22 ( 1970 ) - Nurse Cramer The Revolutionary ( 1970 ) - Ann The Baby Maker ( 1970 ) - Suzanne Jump ( 1971 ) - April Mae The Man Who Could Talk to Kids ( 1973, TV Movie ) - Honor Lassiter The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman ( 1974, TV Movie ) - Mistress Bryant A Cry in the Wilderness ( 1974, TV Movie ) - Bess Millard The Lives of Jenny Dolan ( 1975, TV Movie ) - Mrs. Owens September 30, 1955 ( 1977 ) - Jimmy J. 's Mother Jaws 2 ( 1978 ) - Dr. Elkins Under This Sky ( 1979, TV Movie ) - Susan B. Anthony Marie ( 1985 ) - Virginia Foxfire ( 1987, TV Movie ) - Madge Burton Wildflower ( 1991, TV Movie ) - Bessie Morgan The Portrait ( 1993, TV Movie ) - Chancellor Fluke ( 1995 ) - Bella The Journey of August King ( 1996 ) - Mina Twisted Desire ( 1996, TV Movie ) - Rose Stanton Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ( 1997 ) - Woman at Party A Touch of Fate ( 2003 ) - Mrs. Kline ( final film role ) Selected television appearances The Untouchables : Season 3, Episode 77 - Takeover ( March 3, 1962 ) Route 66 : Season 4 episode 15 - `` Is it True There Are Poxies At The Bottom Of Landfair Lake ? '' ( January 1964 ) The Twilight Zone : `` Number 12 Looks Just Like You '' : Season 5, Episode 17 ( 1964 ) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour : `` The Monkey 's Paw : A Retelling '' ( episode aired originally on April 19, 1965 ) : `` The Jar '' ( episode originally aired February 14, 1964 ) The Fugitive : episodes `` The Good Guys and the Bad Guys '' ( 1965 ) and `` Approach with Care '' ( 1966 ) The F.B.I. : Season 2, Episode 16 - `` Passage Into Fear '' ( 1966 - 67 ) Death Valley Days : Season 17 Episode 4 ( 1968 ) `` The Sage Hen '' Columbo : Season 4, Episode 26 - `` An Exercise in Fatality '' ( 1974 ) The Streets of San Francisco ( episode `` Betrayed '' ; 1974 The Walton 's : Season 1 / Ep7, 1972 `` The Sinner '' References Jump up ^ Garfield, David ( 1980 ). `` Appendix : Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980 ''. A Player 's Place : The Story of The Actors Studio. New York : MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 278. ISBN 0 - 02 - 542650 - 8. Jump up ^ `` Collin Wilcox Paxton dies at 74 ; actress was Mayella in ' To Kill a Mockingbird ' ''. Los Angeles Times. October 23, 2009. Jump up ^ Fox, Margalit ( October 22, 2009 ). `` Collin Wilcox, Actress in ' To Kill A Mockingbird ', Dies at 74 ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2009 - 10 - 22. External links Biography portal Collin Wilcox on IMDb Collin Wilcox at the Internet Broadway Database Collin Wilcox at Find a Grave VIAF : 49463280 LCCN : n96050144 ISNI : 0000 0001 1472 2731 BNF : cb14550115x ( data ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Collin_Wilcox_(actress)&oldid=835633257 '' Categories : 1935 births 2009 deaths Actresses from North Carolina American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Deaths from cancer in North Carolina Deaths from brain tumor Westtown School alumni Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Articles needing additional references from September 2016 All articles needing additional references Pages using div col with deprecated parameters Articles with IBDb links Find a Grave template with ID same as Wikidata Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia تۆرکجه Deutsch فارسی Français Italiano Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 9 April 2018, at 21 : 16. 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Question: who played mayella in to kill a mockingbird
Answer: Collin Wilcox