Selected filmography
Macbeth (1948) – Lady Macbeth
Words and Music (1948) – Mrs. Hart
Abandoned (1949) – Major Ellen Ross
No Sad Songs for Me (1950) – Mona Frene
Saddle Tramp (1950) – Ma Higgins
Kim (1950) – Foster Mother (uncredited)
The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) – Harriet Purcell
The Happy Time (1952) – Felice Bonnard
Hangman's Knot (1952) – Mrs. Margaret Harris
The Big Heat (1953) – Bertha Duncan
A Lawless Street (1955) – Mrs. Dingo Brion
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) – Mrs. L.A. Peterson
Everything but the Truth (1956) – Miss Adelaide Dabney
7th Cavalry (1956) – Charlotte Reynolds
The Halliday Brand (1957) – Nante
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) – Cora Melavan
April Love (1957) – Henrietta Bruce
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1961) (4 episodes)
(Season 3 Episode 9: "The Young One") (1957) – Aunt Mae
(Season 3 Episode 23: "The Right Kind of House") (1958) – Sadie Grimes
(Season 4 Episode 14: "The Morning After") (1959) – Mrs. Trotter
(Season 6 Episode 35: "Coming Home") (1961) – Edith Beggs
Gunsmoke (1957–1972) (8 episodes)
(Season 3 Episode 5: "Potato Road") (1957) – Ma Grilk
(Season 3 Episode 31: "Amy's Good Deed") (1958) – Amy
(Season 6 Episode 20: "Love Thy Neighbor") (1961) – Rose
(Season 10 Episode 13: "Aunt Thede") (1964) – Aunt Thede
(Season 16 Episode 23: "Pike: Part 1") (1971) – Sally Fergus
(Season 16 Episode 24: "Pike: Part 2") (1971) – Sally Fergus
(Season 17 Episode 15: "P.S. Murry Christmas") (1972) – Emma Grundy
(Season 17 Episode 19: "One for the Road") (1972) – Sally Fergus
Mr. Adams and Eve (TV series, 1958) (Season 2 Episode 34: "Command Performance") – Grand Duchess Maria
The Deep Six (1958) – Mrs. Austen
Wild Heritage (1958) – Ma (Janet) Bascomb
Have Gun – Will Travel (1958–1962) (4 episodes)
(Season 1 Episode 29: "Gun Shy") (1958) – Ma Warren
(Season 4 Episode 7: "The Tender Gun") (1960) – Sheriff Maude J. Smuggly
(Season 5 Episode 25: "The Trap") (1962) – Jeri
(Season 5 Episode 27: "Alice") (1962) – Alice Ferguson, aka Blue Dollar Alice
Perry Mason (1958–1965) (6 episodes)
(Season 1 Episode 22: "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse") (1958) – Mrs. Kirby
(Season 4 Episode 9: "The Case of the Nine Dolls") (1960) – Martha Benson
(Season 5 Episode 27: "The Case of the Counterfeit Crank") (1962) – Martha Blair
(Season 6 Episode 5: "The Case of the Hateful Hero") (1962) – Erna Norden
(Season 8 Episode 5: "The Case of the Betrayed Bride") (1964) – Nellie
(Season 9 Episode 12: "The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein") (1965) – Emma Ritter
The Rabbit Trap (1959) – Mrs. Colt
The Restless Gun (1959) (Season 2 Episode 25: "The Sweet Sisters") – Abigail Sweet
Psycho (1960) – Norma Bates (voice, uncredited)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960) (Season 3 Episode 14: "Witch Woman") – La Curandera
The Great Impostor (1961) – Ma Demara
Two Rode Together (1961) – Mrs. Mary McCandles
Wagon Train (1961–1965) (3 episodes)
(Season 4 Episode 35: "The Janet Hale Story") (1961) – Janet Hale
(Season 6 Episode 22: "Charlie Wooster - Outlaw") (1963) – Bella McKavitch
(Season 8 Episode 15: "The Chottsie Gubenheimer Story") (1965) – Chottsie Gubenheimer
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) – Nora Ericson
The Twilight Zone (1962–1963) (2 episodes)
(Season 3 Episode 19: "The Hunt") (1962) – Rachel Simpson
(Season 4 Episode 7: "Jess-Belle") (1963) – Granny Hart
Twilight of Honor (1963) – Amy Clinton
The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964) (25 episodes) – Repertory Cast Member
The Virginian (1963–1970) (27 episodes) – Holly Grainger / Helen Dwyer
Combat! (1964) (Season 2 Episode 31: "Infant of Prague") – Sister Therese
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964) (Season 3 Episode 9: "Triumph") – Mary Fitzgibbons
My Three Sons (1964–1966) (4 episodes)
(Season 5 Episode 4: "Dublin's Fair City: Part 1") (1964) – Aunt Kate
(Season 5 Episode 5: "Dublin's Fair City: Part 2") (1964) – Aunt Kate
(Season 6 Episode 10: "My Son, the Ballerina") (1965) – Madam Irina
(Season 7 Episode 14: "Grandma's Girl") (1966) – Grandma
My Blood Runs Cold (1965) – Aunt Sarah
Chamber of Horrors (1966) – Mrs. Ewing Perryman
The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) – Mrs. Fleming
Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968) – Ma Webb
Hawaii Five-O (1969) (Season 1 Episode 17: "One for the Money") – Aunt Martha
Night Gallery (1970–1971) (2 episodes)
(Season 1 Episode 1: "The Housekeeper") (1970) – Miss Wattle / Carlotta Acton
(Season 2 Episode 3: "Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay") (1971) – Ada Quigley
Peege (1973) – Peege
Columbo (1973–1978) (2 episodes)
(Season 2 Episode 8: "Double Shock") (1973) – Mrs. Peck
(Season 7 Episode 5: "The Conspirators") (1978) – Kate O'Connell
The Streets of San Francisco 1973 (1 episode)
(Season 2 Episode 12: "The Runaways") – Judge Millie Cox
Dirty Sally (1974) – Sally Fergus (14 episodes; 1 unaired)
The Sky's the Limit (1975) – Gertie
The Winds of Autumn (1976) – Ora Mae Hankins
The Rescuers (1977) – Ellie Mae (voice)
The Manitou (1978) – Mrs. Winconis
Avalanche (1978) – Florence Shelby
Charlie's Angels (1979) (with husband John McIntire, Season 3, episode 14, "Angel's on Vacation") as Lydia Danvers
The Incredible Hulk (1980) (Season 3 Episode 19: "A Rock and a Hard Place") – Lucy Cash
The Fox and the Hound (1981) – Widow Tweed (voice)
True Confessions (1981) – Mrs. Spellacy
Goliath Awaits (1981) – Mrs. Bartholomew
Cloak and Dagger (1984) – Eunice MacCready
The Golden Girls (1985) (Season 1 Episode 9: "Blanche and the Younger Man") – Alma Lindstrom
Night Court (1985) (Season 2 Episode 13) - Mucette Elmore
Cover Up (1985) (Season 1 Episode 5: "Nothing to Lose") – Virginia
Street Justice (1987) – Mrs. Chandler
Cagney & Lacey (1987) (Season 7 Episode 4: "Different Drummer") - Elnora Hendershot
The Horse Whisperer (1998) – Grandma Ellen Booker (final film role)
