Biography
Betty Louise Foss was born during the final days of World War I in Alameda, California as the country plagued by a flu epidemic. Within six weeks, her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around. As babies were thought to draw the deadly flu, Betty was eventually placed in a San Francisco orphanage where she was later adopted by Scottish immigrants William and Jessie Harrower and raised in Berkeley and Los Angeles. During the Great Depression her adoptive father's salary was cut in half and her adoptive mother decided to take Betty out of school and off to Hollywood to begin an acting career. After trying out several alter egos in the hopes of making an impression on someone in the industry, Betty Foss eventually settled on the identity of Elizabeth Harrower. Elizabeth Harrower appeared in "Becky Sharp (1935)", the first feature-length color film in 1935. She would continue to appear in hundreds of radio, television, film and stage productions over the next decades, most notably "True Grit (1969)". In 1942, Harrower married Harry Seabold, an Air Force cadet she had met in fifth grade. Their daughter, actress Susan Seaforth Hayes, was born in 1943. Her husband was called into war even before that and the marriage subsequently did not last. By the 1970s Elizabeth Harrower had met soap opera scribe William J. Bell and she would eventually start her writing career and became head writer of "Days of Our Lives (1965)" from 1979-1980. She went on to write for Bell's "The Young and the Restless (1973)" in the 1980s. Her last writing stint was on the short-lived soap opera "Generations (1989)" in 1991. In 2003, already while taking chemotherapy she had a prominent limited run as Charlotte Ramsey on "The Young and the Restless (1973)". She died shortly thereafter at age 85.
Filmography
all 46
TV Shows 23
Movies 23
Writer 1
Generations (1989)
I Love You...Good-bye (1974)
A Brand New Life (1973)
The Waltons (1972)
The Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)
Columbo (1971)
Shoot Out (1971)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Vanishing Point (1971)
The Immortal (1970)
The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
True Grit (1969)
Mayberry R.F.D. (1968)
Shane (1966)
That Girl (1966)
Batman (1966)
Batman (1966)
Cat Ballou (1965)
Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
The Virginian (1962)
The Wild Westerners (1962)
Don't Knock the Twist (1962)
House of Women (1962)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Surfside 6 (1960)
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Dennis the Menace (1959)
The Twilight Zone (1959)
The FBI Story (1959)
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Going Steady (1958)
Perry Mason (1957)
M Squad (1957)
The Great Gildersleeve (1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)
Thunder Pass (1954)
Letter to Loretta (1953)
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
Four Star Playhouse (1952)
Does Christ Live in Your Home? (1951)
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951)
The Pilgrimage Play (1949)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1918-05-28
Deathday2003-12-10 (85 years old)
Birth PlaceAlameda, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsBetty Louise Foss
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