# Barbara Perry (actress)

Barbara Perry (June 22, 1921 – May 5, 2019) was an American actress, singer and dancer who worked for 84 years in Hollywood and on Broadway.

## Career

Perry began her film career in 1933, when she appeared in Counsellor at Law. She also had a small part in The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1935.
Perry performed on Broadway in various productions, including playing Anna in Rumple in 1957. In 1950 she was Mrs. Larry in Happy as Larry on Broadway.
By the mid-1950s to the early-1960s, she had studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, while performing opposite George Formby, Warde Donovan, and Sara Gregory in Zip Goes a Million at the Hippodrome and Palace Theatres, and upon her return to the USA had started appearing in numerous television series such as Perry Mason,The Donna Reed Show, The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, and The Dick Van Dyke Show, where she played Buddy Sorrell's wife Pickles, before being replaced by Joan Shawlee.
In 1981, Perry wrote and performed in Passionate Ladies, a one-woman Broadway show at the Bijou Theatre. Her other Broadway plays included Swan Song (1946), If the Shoe Fits (1946), Happy as Larry (1950), and Rumple (1957).
She also played Thelma Brockwood on The Hathaways.
Perry's last known role was in the television series Baskets.

## Personal life

Her second marriage was to animator Art Babbitt on April 14, 1967, in Hollywood, California, until his death in 1992. They had no children.
Perry died on May 5, 2019, in Los Angeles at the age of 97.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1933 | Counsellor at Law | Dorothy Dwight | |
| 1935 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Schoolgirl | Uncredited |
| 1944 | Hi, Beautiful | Specialty dancer | Uncredited |
| 1945 | An Angel Comes to Brooklyn | Barbara | |
| 1949 | I Was a Male War Bride | Tall WAC | |
| 1960 | From the Terrace | Blonde | Uncredited |
| 1962 | Period of Adjustment | Cherylynn Anderson | Uncredited |
| 1963 | Shock Corridor | | Uncredited |
| 1964 | The Naked Kiss | Edna | |
| 1965 | Mirage | Dr. Broden's Receptionist | Uncredited |
| 1971 | Thief | Mrs. Risman | Television film |
| 1973 | Tom | Jim's Mother | |
| 1978 | Operation Room | | Television film |
| 1980 | Marilyn: The Untold Story | | Television film |
| 1983 | I Take These Men | Professor Ann Bromfield | Television film |
| 1984 | Trancers | Mrs. Santa Claus | |
| 1989 | Trust Me | Severe Woman | |
| 1989 | Tap | Milly | |
| 1989 | Wedding Band | Margot | |
| 1990 | Polly Comin' Home! | Mrs. Clayton | |
| 1991 | Father of the Bride | Female Factory Worker | |
| 1993 | Double Deception | Lil Paxton | |
| 1997 | Just Write | Mildred | |
| 2007 | Mr. Woodcock | Old Woman | |
| 2010 | The Back-up Plan | Wedding Singer | |
| 2011 | Let Go | Sweet Old Lady | |
| 2012 | The Tango Singer | Bertha Gardes | |
| 2015 | Everybody Does It | Grandma | |
| 2017 | The Extra | Herself | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1948 | Rooftop Rendezvous | Herself | Season 1, Ep. 5 |
| 1955 | The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse | Herself | 1 episode |
| 1957 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Herself | Season 11, Ep. 12 |
| 1959 | The Thin Man | Binky | 1 episode |
| 1959 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Phronsie LaTour | 1 episode |
| 1960 | The Twilight Zone | Blonde Woman | Episode: The Chaser |
| 1960 | The Jim Backus Show | Lollypop | 1 episode |
| 1960 | The Donna Reed Show | Buffie | Season 3 - Episode 13 |
| 1961 | Thriller | Babs Dawson | 1 episode |
| 1961-1962 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Pickles Sorrell | 2 episodes |
| 1961-1962 | The Hathaways | Thelma Brockwood / Thelma Blackwood | 6 episodes |
| 1962 | Pete and Gladys | Betty / Carol | 2 episodes |
| 1963 | The Joey Bishop Show | Shopper | Episode: Two Little Maids Are We |
| 1963-1966 | The Andy Griffith Show | Floss / Doris Williams / Lavinia / Mary Lee Becktel | 4 episodes |
| 1964-1972 | My Three Sons | Mrs. Thompson / Mrs. Hoover | 3 episodes |
| 1964 | The Fugitive | Woman in hall | Episode: Rat in a Corner |
| 1964 | The Farmer's Daughter | Connie | Episode: The Turkish Delight |
| 1964 | Arrest and Trial | Clara | Episode: Those Which Love Has Made |
| 1964 | The Cara Williams Show | Miss Bertrand | Episode: The Wedding Rehearsal |
| 1965 | My Favorite Martian | Miss Hotchkiss | Episode: Martin of the Movies |
| 1965-1966 | Perry Mason | Girl Assistant / Beauty Operator | 2 episodes |
| 1966 | The Lucy Show | Blonde Customer / The Housewife | 2 episodes |
| 1966 | Family Affair | Bess Melville | Episode: Buffy |
| 1966 | Daniel Boone | Lydia Dorsey | Episode: The Loser's Race |
| 1967 | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Den Mother | Episode: Gomer, the Good Samaritan |
| 1968 | Bewitched | Mrs. Bentley / Mrs. MacLane | 2 episodes |
| 1970 | Room 222 | Pearl | Episode: The Whole World Can Hear You |
| 1970 | The Bill Cosby Show | Mrs. Perry | Episode: Open House |
| 1971 | Adam-12 | Wilma Engles | Episode: Log 26: LEMRAS |
| 1973 | Needles and Pins | Mrs. Martindale | Episode: It Was a Very Good Line |
| 1975 | Joe and Sons | Theresa | Episode: Joe's Date |
| 1980 | Barnaby Jones | Mitzi | Episode: The Final Victim |
| 1982 | Trapper John, M.D. | Registrar | Episode: Doctors and Other Strangers |
| 1982 | Benson | Mary Colton | Episode: Mary and Her Lambs |
| 1983 | St. Elsewhere | Dietician | Episode: Rain |
| 1984 | The Duck Factory | Aunt Pauline | Episode: The Annies |
| 1984 | Newhart | Tourist | Episode: Tickets, Please |
| 1989 | Quantum Leap | Theora Beaman | Episode: Good Morning, Peoria - September 9, 1959 |
| 1989 | The Magical World of Disney | Woman | Episode: Polly |
| 1989 | Dallas | Ms. Perkins | Episode: Sex, Lies and Videotape |
| 1989 | Murder, She Wrote | Party Guest | Episode: Town Father |
| 1990 | Murphy Brown | Secretary #39 | Episode: The Last Laugh |
| 1992 | Parker Lewis Can't Lose | Auntie Em | Episode: Civil Wars |
| 1992 | Married... with Children | Old Lady | Episode: Psychic Avengers |
| 1997 | Alright Already | Lillian | Episode: Again with the Funeral |
| 2000 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | | 1 episode |
| 2003 | The Guardian | Woman | Episode: Carnival |
| 2009 | The Unit | Old Woman | Episode: The Last Nazi |
| 2009-2014 | How I Met Your Mother | Mrs. Douglas | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Perfect Couples | Aunt Bertha | Episode: Perfect Wedding |
| 2013 | Work It | Elderly Woman #1 | Episode: My So-Called Mid-Life Crisis |
| 2014 | Review | | Episode: Making a Sex Tape; Being a Racist; Hunting |
| 2017 | Baskets | Gift Shop Employee | Episode: Ronald Reagan Library |