One of those strikingly familiar matrons you just can’t place, character actress Mary Jackson is probably best known for her recurring role as one of the delightfully eccentric bootlegging sisters, “Miss Emily” Baldwin, on the series The Waltons (1971) that ran for nine seasons. She was born November 22, 1910 in rural Milford, Michigan, and earned a bachelor’s degree from West Michigan University in 1932. A Depression-era school teacher for one year before pursuing her interest in theater, she returned to college (this time Michigan State University) in a fine arts program. She started out on the Chicago stage and in summer stock before migrating to the larger stages in New York and Los Angeles.
Film and TV roles did not come her way until well into middle age. Guesting on such TV shows as “The Andy Griffith Show,” “The Twilight Zone,” “My Three Sons,” “Hazel,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Barnaby Jones” and “Highway to Heaven,” she usually appeared as ladylike small-town citizens. She was also part of the ensemble in Peter Bogdanovich’s first low-budget film thriller Targets (1968), which was Boris Karloff’s last feature. In the 70s she started gathering up character bits here and there, such as her nuns in the all-star epic Airport (1970) and the horror Audrey Rose (1977). A variety of pleasant, maternal parts came her way, including Lynn Carlin’s mother in the Blake Edwards’ western Wild Rovers (1971) and Jane Fonda’s in the comedy caper Fun with Dick and Jane (1977). She supported Fonda again in the Vietnam-era drama Coming Home (1978), was among the cast in the cultish Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and had a noticeable role in Steve Martin’s Leap of Faith (1992).
As for “The Waltons” success, character actress Dorothy Stickney played the part of Emily in the initial TV pilot along with Josephine Hutchinson as older sister Mamie. When the series came to fruition, Mary and actress Helen Kleeb, another one of those “I’ve seen her before” character faces, took over the spinster roles. Both she and Kleeb continued their sister act periodically in several Walton “reunion” TV-movies, which included assorted weddings and holiday gatherings. Both ladies made their final TV appearances in A Walton Easter (1997). Kleeb died of natural causes in 2003 at age 96. Mary passed away two years later at age 95 of complications from Parkinson’s disease. – IMDb Mini Biography
Mary Jackson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Mary Jackson |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Milford, Michigan, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1910-11-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 95 |
| Deathday | 2005-12-10 |
Mary Jackson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Skinned Alive | Crawldaddy | 1990-02-01 | Crawldaddy and her two kids are travelling across the country on the search for victims. The dysfunctional family has the disturbing habit of skinning… |
| My Town | Mrs. McDaniel | 1986-05-25 | A series of vignettes based upon an imaginative girl’s unique outlook on her community…. |
| Between Two Brothers | Eddy Frazer | 1982-03-09 | Bob Frazer is a prominent attorney who compulsively tries to make amends with his younger, less polished brother Russ who runs the family business and… |
| A Small Killing | 1981-11-24 | A policeman masquerades as a homeless alcoholic and teams up with a bag lady, who is really a college professor, to bring a drug lord’s assassin to ju… | |
| Terror at Red Wolf Inn | Evelyn Smith | 1972-09-27 | College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she’s won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can ev… |
| A Family Thing | Carrie | 1996-03-29 | Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mothe… |
| Letters from Frank | Edna Miller | 1979-11-22 | When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes… |
| The Failing of Raymond | Latin Teacher | 1971-09-27 | On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her…. |
| Targets | Charlotte Thompson | 1968-08-15 | The fate of a washed-up horror actor intersects with a psychotic sniper on a killing spree…. |
| Fun with Dick and Jane | Jane’s Mother | 1977-03-18 | When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation…. |
| Kid Blue | Mrs. Evans | 1973-01-31 | Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He’s … |
| Big Top Pee-wee | Mrs. Dill | 1988-07-22 | Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front ya… |
| Ozone | Cleaning Lady | 1994-01-04 | While on a stakeout, hardboiled cop Eddie Boone gets injected with a dangerous new designer drug causing nightmarish side effects. As he searches for … |
| Blume in Love | Louise | 1973-06-17 | Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife… |
| Meet the Munceys | Esther Lovell-Mingott | 1988-05-22 | A maid is left a huge inheritance. She moves in her low-class family, upsetting the relatives of the deceased. They plot to get rid of the entire clan… |
| The Exorcist III | Mrs. Clelia | 1990-08-17 | Fifteen years after the original film, the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgeto… |
| Audrey Rose | Mother Veronica | 1977-04-06 | A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two … |
| A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain | Emily Baldwin | 1982-11-22 | Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton’s Mountain begging with… |
| A Wedding on Waltons Mountain | Emily Baldwin | 1982-02-02 | Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his … |
| Our Time | Miss Moran | 1974-04-10 | Drama about students at a girls’ school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy…. |
| A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion | Emily Baldwin | 1993-11-21 | The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwh… |
| Coming Home | Fleta Wilson | 1978-02-15 | The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin,… |
| Wild Rovers | Sada’s Mother | 1971-06-23 | Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman’s R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he’s too ol… |
| Some Kind of Hero | Frances | 1982-04-02 | A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in … |
| Leap of Faith | Emma Schlarp | 1992-12-18 | Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting ‘miracle… |
| Airport | Felice | 1970-05-29 | Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved…. |
| The Case of the Hillside Stranglers | 1989-04-02 | The chilling true story of the “two of a kind” killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers…. | |
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