# Lieux Dressler

Lieux Dressler (born Louise Aldrich; February 27, 1930 – February 8, 2018) was an American film and television actress.

## Life and career

Before becoming known as an actress, Dressler worked as a nightclub singer in Dallas. During this time, she was married to trombonist Morris Repass, with whom she had two sons. In the 1960s, her marriage ended, and she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She operated an acting workshop, the Patio Playhouse, where she developed techniques that continue to be taught at acting classes.
During the 1970s, she appeared on various television series, including Columbo, Gunsmoke, Kolchak: the Night Stalker, and The Rockford Files. She was mostly recognized as Alice Grant, the long-suffering mother of Heather Grant Webber on the long-running daytime drama General Hospital from 1978-1983. She also appeared in feature films, most notably Truck Stop Women (1974), Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), and Point of No Return (1993), after which she retired from acting.
Lieux Dressler Repass died on February 8, 2018, at the age of 87.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1970 | That Girl | Secretary | Season 4 Episode 20: "Stocks & the Single Girl" |
| 1970 | The Young Lawyers | Maria Morusco | Season 1 Episode 7: "The Glass Prison" |
| 1970 | Room 222 | Waitress / Mrs. Barnaby | 2 episodes |
| 1971 | The Bold Ones: The Senator | Mrs. Ford | Season 1 Episode 6: "Some Day, They'll Elect a President" |
| 1971 | Columbo | Ceil Gentry | Season 1 Episode 2: "Death Lends a Hand" |
| 1971 | Sarge | Wanda Harris | Season 1 Episode 5: "A Push Over the Edge" |
| 1971–1973 | Gunsmoke | Victoria / Susie / Liz | 5 episodes |
| 1972 | The New Centurions | Orville's Wife (uncredited) | |
| 1972 | Grave of the Vampire | Olga | |
| 1973 | The Red Pony | Dearie | TV Movie |
| 1973 | Love, American Style | Ruthie | Season 5 Episode 3: "segment: Love and the Golden Memory" |
| 1974 | Truck Stop Women | Anna | |
| 1974 | Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love | Mrs. Hastings (segment "Epicac") | TV Movie |
| 1974–1975 | Police Woman | Mrs. Kelso / Arlene DeWitt | 2 episodes |
| 1975 | A Shadow in the Streets | Lila | TV Movie |
| 1975 | A Cry for Help | Mae Dowd | TV Movie |
| 1975 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Minerva Musso | Season 1 Episode 18: "The Knightly Murders" |
| 1975 | The Blue Knight | Waitress | Season 1 Episode 0: "Pilot" |
| 1976 | Rich Man, Poor Man | Elsa | Miniseries (episode "Part II: Chapters 3 and 4") |
| 1976 | Medical Center | Belle | Season 7 Episode 20: "A Touch of Sight" |
| 1976 | The Return of the World's Greatest Detective | Mrs. Slater | TV Movie |
| 1976 | Hunter | Desk Clerk | Season 1 Episode 0: "Hunter" |
| 1976 | Baretta | Minnie | Season 3 Episode 3: "Runaway Cowboy" |
| 1976 | The Rockford Files | Margaret Raucher | Season 3 Episode 7: "So Help Me God" |
| 1977 | The Bob Newhart Show | Lady on Elevator | Season 5 Episode 19: "Death Be My Destiny" |
| 1977 | Eight Is Enough | The Waitress | Season 1 Episode 4: "Women, Ducks and the Domino Theory" |
| 1977 | Kingdom of the Spiders | Emma Washburn | |
| 1977 | Rafferty | Fran Milligan | Season 1 Episode 2: "Brothers & Sons" |
| 1977 | The Storyteller | Housewife | TV Movie |
| 1978–1983 | General Hospital | Alice Grant | 191 episodes |
| 1986 | Moonlighting | Molly's Landlady | Season 2 Episode 11: "The Bride of Tupperman" |
| 1988–1989 | Days of Our Lives | Mabel | 5 episodes |
| 1989 | TV 101 | Secretary | Season 1 Episode 7: "The Last Temptation of Checker: Part 1" |
| 1993 | Point of No Return | Johnny's Mom | |