Acting

Elvia Allman

Born September 19, 1904 · Enochville, North Carolina, USA

Died March 6, 1992 · aged 87

Elvia Beatrice Allman was an American actress in Hollywood films and television programs for over 50 years. She is best remembered for her semi-regular roles on The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction and for being the voice of Walt Disney's Clarabelle Cow.

Known For

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's · 1961

Breakfast at Tiffany's

MovieComedyRomance

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor · 1963

The Nutty Professor

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

Bone Trouble

Bone Trouble · 1940

MovieAnimationComedy

Pluto is on the run after stealing a bone from Butch the bulldog and finds refuge in a carnival Hall of Mirrors.

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1 · 2003

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1

MovieAnimationFamily

Two animated fables from the Disney studios. In 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Ichabod Crane is besotted by the lovely Katrina but has to contend with Brom Bones, the town bully. Their rivalry leads Crane to the legend of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman. In 'The Prince and the Pauper' Mickey, Goofy, Donald and Pluto star in Disney's re-working of the Mark Twain classic.

The Old Mill

The Old Mill · 1937

MovieAnimationThriller

Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper · 1990

The Prince and the Pauper

MovieAnimationComedy

Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.

In Society

In Society · 1944

MovieComedyAction

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.

Johnny Cool

Johnny Cool · 1963

MovieCrimeDrama

A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.

Filmography

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's · 1961

Breakfast at Tiffany's

MovieComedyRomance

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

Librarian

The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor · 1963

The Nutty Professor

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

Edwina Kelp

Bone Trouble

Bone Trouble · 1940

MovieAnimationComedy

Pluto is on the run after stealing a bone from Butch the bulldog and finds refuge in a carnival Hall of Mirrors.

Belly Dancer (voice) (uncredited)

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1 · 2003

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1

MovieAnimationFamily

Two animated fables from the Disney studios. In 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Ichabod Crane is besotted by the lovely Katrina but has to contend with Brom Bones, the town bully. Their rivalry leads Crane to the legend of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman. In 'The Prince and the Pauper' Mickey, Goofy, Donald and Pluto star in Disney's re-working of the Mark Twain classic.

Clarabelle Cow (voice) (archive footage)

The Old Mill

The Old Mill · 1937

MovieAnimationThriller

Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.

Birds / Singer (voice) (uncredited)

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper · 1990

The Prince and the Pauper

MovieAnimationComedy

Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.

Clarabelle Cow (Voice)

In Society

In Society · 1944

MovieComedyAction

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.

Hysterical Widow (uncredited)

Johnny Cool

Johnny Cool · 1963

MovieCrimeDrama

A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.

Beauty Salon Receptionist

Halloween with the New Addams Family

Halloween with the New Addams Family · 1977

Halloween with the New Addams Family

MovieComedyHorror

The original TV Addams Family members prepare for Halloween.

Mother Frump

The Noose Hangs High

The Noose Hangs High · 1948

The Noose Hangs High

Two window washers are mistaken for crooks by gangsters who are missing money.

Woman (uncredited)

You Can't Run Away from It

You Can't Run Away from It · 1956

You Can't Run Away from It

MovieRomanceComedy

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Ma, Vernon's Wife

Road to Singapore

Road to Singapore · 1940

Road to Singapore

MovieComedyMusic

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.

Homely Girl (uncredited)

Donald's Ostrich

Donald's Ostrich · 1937

Donald's Ostrich

MovieAnimationComedy

Donald is the baggagemaster at a remote railway station. Part of the latest cargo shipment is Hortense the Ostrich, who is a bit too friendly with Donald, and who eats everything in sight, whether it's food or not (mostly not): a concertina, an alarm clock, some balloons, all of which start reacting when Hortense gets the hiccups.

Lady Chef on Radio (voice) (uncredited)

Honeymoon Hotel

Honeymoon Hotel · 1964

Honeymoon Hotel

A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.

Mrs. Sampson

The Pleasure of His Company

The Pleasure of His Company · 1961

The Pleasure of His Company

Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marry a California rancher. Though Pogo's ex-wife remains unimpressed, Jessica quickly falls for her father's charismatic offensive. Soon, however, his reappearance causes complications for the bride-to-be, and she must decide whether or not to go ahead with the wedding.

Mrs. Mooney

Shanghaied

Shanghaied · 1934

Pirate Pete has kidnapped Mickey and Minnie and has them tied up. As Pete prepares to have his way with Minnie, Mickey escapes and gets a swordfish off the wall; a swordfight with Pete ensues. Mickey gets out of the cabin and on deck; he hoists Minnie up onto the mast. Pete summons his crew, and Mickey fights them off with a cannon, shooting pots and pans, a stove, and ultimately a harpoon before winning Minnie and the ship back for good.

Girly-Voice Pirate (voice) (uncredited)

More Kittens

More Kittens · 1936

MovieAnimationFantasy

Thrown out of the house into the backyard, the three kittens are sheltered by a giant Saint Bernard and are tormented by a turtle and a bluebird.

Cat Meows (voice) (uncredited)

Three Hearts for Julia

Three Hearts for Julia · 1943

Three Hearts for Julia

MovieRomanceComedy

When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.

Eva (uncredited)

Week-End with Father

Week-End with Father · 1951

Week-End with Father

MovieRomanceComedy

Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.

Housekeeper

Little Red Walking Hood

Little Red Walking Hood · 1937

Little Red Walking Hood

MovieAnimationComedy

Red walks past a pool hall; the wolf sees her and pursues her, but, she is oblivious to his come-ons.

Little Red Walking Hood / Granny (voice) (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1981

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

MovieAdventureTV Movie

The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.

Aunt Sally

Goofy Groceries

Goofy Groceries · 1941

Goofy Groceries

Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.

Cow / Can Can Dancers (voice) (uncredited)

Woodland Café

Woodland Café · 1937

MovieAnimationMusic

Bugs of all kinds convene on a jazz club for an evening of fun.

Singer (voice) (uncredited)

Porky's Moving Day

Porky's Moving Day · 1936

Porky's Moving Day

A woman's house, on the side of the cliff, is about to fall into the sea, due to waves washing away the cliff. In a panic, she call's Porky's moving company. Porky's assistant, a former boxer, starts swinging when he hears a bell until hit on the head, when he stops and says, "Okay, boss." They get to the house and have various adventures while moving the furniture, mostly because the entire house keeps tilting back and forth on the shaky ground.

Homeowner (voice) (uncredited)

Perry Mason

Perry Mason · 1957

SeriesMysteryDrama

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Julia Slovak

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote · 1984

Murder, She Wrote

SeriesMysteryCrime

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Elderly Lady

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show · 1960

The Andy Griffith Show

SeriesComedyFamily

Andy Taylor is the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life.

Henrietta Swanson

Bewitched

Bewitched · 1964

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.

Adam-12

Adam-12 · 1968

SeriesCrimeDrama

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.

Mrs. Lazwell

Petticoat Junction

Petticoat Junction · 1963

Petticoat Junction

SeriesComedyFamily

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

Mrs. Stroud

Love, American Style

Love, American Style · 1969

Love, American Style

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.

Mrs. Saffron

Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E. · 1976

SeriesCrimeDrama

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies · 1962

The Beverly Hillbillies

SeriesComedyFamily

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.

Elverna Bradshaw

My Three Sons

My Three Sons · 1960

SeriesComedyFamily

A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.

Green Acres

Green Acres · 1965

Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

Alice

SeriesComedyDrama

Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.

I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy · 1951

SeriesComedyFamily

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

Forewoman

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show · 1961

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.

Mrs. Glimscher

The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show · 1962

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.

Miss Allman

The Munsters

The Munsters · 1964

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family · 1964

The Addams Family

SeriesComedyFamily

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.

Princess Millicent

Mister Ed

Mister Ed · 1961

SeriesComedyFamily

Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.

Hazel

Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 28, 1961 until April 11, 1966 and was produced by Screen Gems. The show aired on NBC for its first four seasons, and then on CBS for its final season. The first season, except for one color episode was in black and white, the remainder in color. The show was based on the popular single-panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

Gertrude

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple · 1970

Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts.

Mrs. Madison

Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace · 1959

Dennis the Menace

SeriesComedyFamily

This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.

December Bride

December Bride · 1954

December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.

Gimme a Break!

Gimme a Break! · 1981

SeriesComedyFamily

Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.

The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show · 1953

The Danny Thomas Show

Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.

Maid