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Carmen Sylvia Mathews (May 8, 1911 β August 31, 1995) was an American actress and environmentalist. Mathews was born in Philadelphia. She studied first at Bennett Junior College and then in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She began her professional acting appearance with the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespearean Company before moving back to the United States.Her Shakespearean roles included Ophelia in Hamlet and the Queen in Richard II. She also starred as Theresa Tapper in the William Roos, Jack Lawrence, and Don Walker 1951 Broadway musical Courtin' Time. Her film credits include Butterfield 8 (1960), A Rage to Live (1965), Rabbit, Run (1970), Sounder (1972), Top of the Hill (1980) and Daniel (1983). On television she performed on a wide variety of series over a span of four decades. A few of those series include appearances on six episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955β65), as well as roles in a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone, a 1964 episode of The Fugitive, and a 1972 episode of Cannon. One of her more memorable televised performances is as Colonel Lilian Rayborn on Episode 150 of M*A*S*H. Toward the end of her career, in 1990, she was cast in the Last Best Year with Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters.
In 1975, Mathews set up and ran a residential summer camp for disadvantaged children on her 100-acre farm in Redding, Connecticut. Toward the end of her life, Mathews, a passionate environmentalist, made a perpetual donation of her 100-acre New Pond Farm to the Redding Land Trust, to ensure that it would retain its woods, fields, pond and marsh. The United Nations Association of the United States of America named Mathews one of Connecticut's outstanding women in 1987.
Filmography
all 27
Movies 18
TV Shows 9
The Last Best Year (1990)
In the Cards (1985)
Tales from the Darkside (1984)
Daniel (1983)
Gauguin the Savage (1980)
The Top of the Hill (1980)
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging (1977)
Widow (1976)
Intertect (1973)
Sounder (1972)
M*A*S*H (1972)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
They Call It Murder (1971)
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? (1971)
Rabbit, Run (1970)
A Rage to Live (1965)
The Fugitive (1963)
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958)
Bloomer Girl (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Studio One (1948)
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1911-05-08
Deathday1995-08-31 (84 years old)
Birth PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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