Meg Wyllie
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Wylie in a "The Golden Girls" episode from 1991
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| Born |
Margaret Gillespie Wyllie February 15, 1917 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Died | January 1, 2002 (aged 84) Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Meg Wylie |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1952-1995 |
Margaret Gillespie "Meg" Wyllie (February 15, 1917 – January 1, 2002) was an American actress who appeared primarily on television.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, she grew up in the Philippines, where her father worked as an engineer in sugar plantations on Negros Island near Bacolod. She attended the Brent School in Baguio for grammar school and high school then and moved to New York City in the 1940s.
Wyllie acted with the Pasadena Playhouse, in Visit to a Small Planet (1958),Two on an Island (1940) and All the Comforts of Home (1941). She had previously appeared in Dear Brutus and Morning Glory there.
She was in The Glass Menagerie's original production. On Broadway, she played in The First Gentleman.
Wyllie "appeared on nearly every popular TV series of the late 1950s and much of the 1960s."
In 1960, Wyllie appeared as a grandmother in the "Bullets and Ballet" episode of Tightrope! and in the "Night of the Meek" episode of The Twilight Zone. That same year, she was cast as Mrs. Shafer in the episode "The Captain's Dilemma" of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper as a United States Navy physician and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale.
Between 1962-1966 Wyllie made four guest appearances on Perry Mason. Her most substantial role of these was as Ninevah Stone in the episode, "The Case of the Nebulous Nephew" (1963). She also played Marguerite Keith the owner of a home in the path of a road in the 1964 episode "The Case of the Ruinous Road".
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