Mary Adams

Mary Marguerite Adams aka June Mary Adams (1910–1973) was an American actress. She is best known as a television character actor from the 1950s. She was a regular, usually cast as a dowdy nurse or wife, and is best remembered as the day nurse in The Twilight Zone: "Twenty Two".

Life

She was born on June 27, 1910, in Ogden, Utah.

She began acting late in life (38) but was a popular choice in supporting roles throughout the 1950s to the degree that she could be called a "familiar face". Her career faded in the early 1960s.

She died on November 30, 1973, in Los Angeles. She is buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

Career

Television

• Stars Over Hollywood: "The Ageless" (1951)
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (195+1⁄2)
• Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (three episodes, 1952) various roles
• Life With Father (pilot episode 1953)
• I Led 3 Lives (1953) as Mrs Ives
• Big Town (1955)
• The Father Who Had No Sons (TV movie, 1955)
• Front Row Center (1955) as Miss Jenny
• Medic (two episodes, 1955) as Sister Benedict
• Captain Midnight (1955) as Mrs Harper
• Matinee Theatre: "Statute of Limitations" (1956) as Mom
• Gunsmoke (1956) as Nettie
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1956) as Mrs Mack
• Crusader (1956) as Vera Nelson
• Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1956) as Alice Burns
• Father Knows Best (2 episodes 1956)
• Lux Video Theatre (4 episodes, 1955–1957)
• The O. Henry Playhouse: "Christmas By Injunction" (1957)
• Have Gun - Will Travel (1957) as Maggie
• Decision (1958) as Sara Radford
• The Donna Reed Show (1958) as nurse
• M Squad (2 episodes 1958–59)
• Playhouse 90 (1959) as Mrs Haywood
• Adventure Showcase: "Doctor Mike" (1959) as Mary Barker
• Hawaiian Eye (1959) as Esther
• Riverboat (1959) as Mrs Wilkins
• Dennis the Menace (1960) as Helen Forbes
• The Twilight Zone: "Twenty Two" (1961) as nurse
• The Loretta Young Show (two episodes 1959–61) as mother
• Wagon Train (1961) as Julia
• Whispering Smith (1961) as Mrs Landers
• Window on Main Street (5 episodes, 1961) as Lavinia Webster
• It's a Man's World (1962) as Mrs Meredith
• The Untouchables (1962) as Kate Brannon
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Lonely Hours" (1963) as the nurse
• My Three Sons (2 episodes, 1961 and 1964)
• The File on Devlin (1969) as the maid

Film

• Hazard (1948) as Matron Sergeant
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) as Miss Hendricks
• For the Love of Mary (1948) as Marge
• Starlift (1951) as Sue Wayne (uncredited)
• Bugles in the Afternoon (1952) (uncredited)
• Executive Suite (1954) as Sara Asenith Grimm
• Her Twelve Men (1954) as Martha the school nurse (uncredited)
• Rebel in Town (1956) as Grandma Ackstadt
• Blood of Dracula aka Blood is My Heritage (1957) as Mrs Thorndyke
• Diary of a Madman (1963) as Louise the Cook (with Vincent Price)
• The Day They Gave Babies Away (1957) as Mrs Roscoe (uncredited)
• The Clown and the Kid (1961) as Mother Superior (uncredited)
• Doctors' Wives (1971) as nurse (uncredited)