
Lillian Bronson
Born October 21, 1902 · Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lillian Bronson (October 21, 1902 - August 2, 1995) was an American character actress. She performed in over 80 films, 60 of the films from 1939 to 1964, and appeared in over one hundred television productions from 1949 to 1975. Bronson was born Lillian Rumsey Bronson in Lockport, New York, the daughter of a carriage builder, and attended the University of Michigan. She began her artistic career by performing plays at Broadway. During the Great Depression, Bronson and her late sister, Dorothy, opened the Bronson Studio in New York, designing and making toy animals and pillows. In 1943, Bronson appeared in the movie Happy Land as Mattie Dyer and on television in the episode "The Druid Circle" of The Philco Television Playhouse, that aired on March 6, 1949, in the role of Miss Dagnall. She then appeared in a long series of minor characters for many television series episodes from the early days of television until the mid-1970s, including many western genres. She became widely known for her role as the grandmother in the Kings Row television series. Bronson's final appearance on the small screen was as "Grandma Nussbaum", Fonzie's grandmother, in the episode "Fonzie Moves In" of the ABC-TV sitcom series Happy Days, which aired on September 9, 1975. Her final big screen appearance was in the film Kisses for My President (1964), in which she plays the part of Miss Currier.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Gaslight

Marnie

Father of the Bride

Dressed to Kill

They Won't Believe Me

In the Good Old Summertime

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Room for One More

The Pearl of Death

The Invisible Man's Revenge

No Room for the Groom

So This Is Love

Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: A Portrait of Raymond Chandler

Christmas in Connecticut

Sleep, My Love

Spencer's Mountain

Affair with a Stranger

Kisses for My President

I've Always Loved You

The Over the Hill Gang

The Hucksters

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

Family Honeymoon

The Judge Steps Out

Welcome Stranger

The Next Voice You Hear...

The Sword of Monte Cristo

Here Come the Nelsons

The Suspect

Murder in the Music Hall

In the Meantime, Darling

Mademoiselle Fifi

The Girl of the Limberlost

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

Excuse My Dust

First Love

Battle at Bloody Beach

Over 21

Nocturne

Rose of Cimarron

Enter Arsène Lupin

Foxfire

Sentimental Journey

Happy Land

The Brighton Strangler

Junior Miss

Hollywood and Vine

Road to Alcatraz

Dakota Lil

Molly and Me

What a Man!

Beauty on Parade
TV Shows

Have Gun, Will Travel

Dr. Kildare

Climax!

The F.B.I.

The Rifleman

Emergency!

Four Star Playhouse

The Virginian

Matinee Theater

The Untouchables

The Donna Reed Show

Happy Days

Cheyenne

Studio One

My Three Sons

Ben Casey

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Rawhide

Omnibus

Dragnet

Leave It to Beaver

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

77 Sunset Strip

Thriller

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

The Streets of San Francisco

Peter Gunn

The Detectives

The Mod Squad

Trackdown

The Millionaire

Arrest and Trial

Studio 57

The Deputy

The Abbott and Costello Show

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Yancy Derringer

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Nichols

Alcoa Theatre

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

The Gale Storm Show

Mr. Lucky

The Thin Man

Pete and Gladys

Dan August

The Roaring 20's

Medical Story

The Outsider

Mr. & Mrs. North

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin










