Anne Seymour (actress)

Anne Seymour
Seymour as Lucia Garret in Empire in 1962.
Born	Anne Seymour Eckert (1909-09-11)September 11, 1909 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	December 8, 1988(1988-12-08) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1944–1988

Anne Seymour (née Anne Seymour Eckert; born September 11, 1909 in Manhattan, NYC – December 8, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television character actress.

Born in Manhattan to William Stanley and May (née Davenport) Eckert, Seymour was the seventh generation of a theatrical family traceable to 18th century Ireland.

Seymour, her mother (May Davenport Seymour), and her brother (Bill Seymour) were all active in radio concurrently. Her great-uncle was character actor Harry Davenport, and her cousins were writer James Seymour and actor John Seymour.

After attending St. Mary's for "her conventional education," Seymour studied at the American Laboratory Theatre.

Seymour never married, and had no children. She died at age 79 in Los Angeles, and is interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Seymour's first professional activity as an entertainer came with the Jitney Players, for which she earned $15 per week.

She was in four Broadway productions. She played in At the Bottom and Puppet Show, both in 1930, and in The School for Scandal in 1931. Almost three decades later, she played Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello.

Seymour debuted on radio in Cincinnati in 1932. In the early 1940s, she played Prudence Dane, the leading female role in the "historic serial" A Woman of America and starred as Mary Marlin in The Story of Mary Marlin, both on NBC. She also was a member of the casts of Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, Tom Bradley, Against the Storm, and King Arthur, Junior.

Seymour's first venture in television was a three-month role in Follow Your Heart, an NBC soap opera. "I hated every minute of it," she said. She also "had a running part on a CBS soap operal called The First Hundred Years." She later starred in Empire, a 1962-63 series set in the modern American West. Turning her talents to comedy, she was a regular in The Tim Conway Show in 1970.