Marian Mercer
Birthday: Born in 1935-11-26 in Akron, Ohio, USA
Deathday: 2011-04-27
TV Credits
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Character: Wanda Jeeter
In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader’s Digest and TV commercials. Instead she finds herself suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: mass murders, low-flying airplanes and waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor....
St. Elsewhere
Character:
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions....
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Penelope Hope Daniels
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
The Golden Girls
Character: Magda
Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends....
Touched by an Angel
Character: Flo
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives....
Police Woman
Character:
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute....
It's a Living
Character: Nancy Beebe Miller
It's a Living is an American sitcom set in a restaurant at the top of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. The show aired on ABC from October 30, 1980 until June 11, 1982. After the series was cancelled, new episodes aired in first-run syndication from September 28, 1985 to April 8, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver, Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions, later in association with Golden West Television and Lorimar-Telepictures....
Dave's World
Character: Eric Jr.'s Girlfriend
Dave's World is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1993 to 1997. The series is based on the writing of Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry....
Sunday Dinner
Character: Martha Benedict
Sunday Dinner is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from June 2, 1991 until July 7, 1991. The series was produced by Norman Lear, and marked his return to television producing after an absence of several years. Lear's current wife Lyn Davis Lear served as co-producer on the series, which was the first official Lear show to be made under his latest production marquee Act III Productions....
Ace Crawford, Private Eye
Character:
Ace Crawford, Private Eye is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March to April 1983. The series parodied the “hard-boiled detective” genre....
Home Free
Character: Grace Bailey
Freelance journalist Matt Bailey's carefree life in his mother's home ends when his recently divorced sister Vanessa and her two children move in....
A Touch of Grace
Character: Myra Bradley
Shirley Booth stars as Grace Simpson, a woman older in years but considerably younger in spirit than her family — portrayed by Marion Mercer and Warren Berlinger. A warm, human comedy. A lively widow and her gravedigger boyfriend reach out for the joys of life—to the constant distress of her daughter and son-in-law. "A Touch of Grace" is based on the British series “For the Love of Ada”....
Tony Awards
Character: Self - Nominee
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre....
Harry and the Hendersons
Character: Monica
The Hendersons, an upwardly mobile Seattle family, bring home what they believe to be a dead Bigfoot. But he has only been wounded by a hunter, and the Hendersons offer the creature who they come to call Harry a temporary home until a recovers his health....
Providence
Character: Card Player #2
Providence is an American television drama series....
Suddenly Susan
Character: Mrs. Richmond
Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being single, and who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life....
Working
Character: Mrs. Richards
Working is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1999. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Davidoff and Bill Rosenthal....
Great Performances
Character: Masha
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries....
Movie Credits
Murder in Three Acts
Character: Daisy Eastman
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse....
John and Mary
Character: Mags Elliot
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other....
Oh, God! Book II
Character: Harriet Manley
God appears before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan 'Think God.' Naturaly, Tracy's divorced parents think Tracy's crazy, and plot to halt her 'heaven-sent' mission to spread God's word....
Out on a Limb
Character: Ann Campbell Van Der Haven
While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including his clothes and a business document worth millions of dollars. Bill eventually reunites with Marci, who is in a tizzy because she thinks their stepfather has been killed. While trying to determine if his sister is right, Bill must also get back his valuable paperwork....
The Cracker Factory
Character: Eleanor
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt....
Money Talks
Character: Self / Waitress
From Allen Funt, the creator of TV's "Candid Camera." The hidden camera is pointed at people dealing with money in all sorts of human and, often, hilarious circumstances....
Nine to Five
Character: Missy Hart
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage of the women who work with him in the grossest manner. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house, they assume control of his department, and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?...
Are You My Mother?
Character: Sister Regina
Teenage girl is stunned to discover that her mother is not deceased, but mentally ill living in an institution....
Sammy Stops the World
Character:
A man who sells coffee for a living gets his boss's daughter pregnant. This changes his life and eventually leads to his becoming a powerful business tycoon with no moral center. (TCM)...
The Seagull
Character: Masha
Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Nina (Blythe Danner). He arranges the first performance to take place at a country estate, but the presence of his self-absorbed mother (Lee Grant) and her novelist lover disrupts the production....