Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 - May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus.  She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then created the role of Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where's Charley? (Theatre World Award).  Her other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty,  the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie also danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre during its 1950-51 European and South American tour. McLerie's best-known film appearances are as Amy in Where's Charley? (1952),  Katie Brown in Calamity Jane (1953), Shirley in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and as The Crazy Woman in Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Other film work includes Words and Music (1948) and The Desert Song (1952).  She enjoyed a long career as a character actress on television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as Bonanza, The Waltons, The Love Boat, Barney Miller, Benson, Hart to Hart, St. Elsewhere, and Dynasty, among many others. She played Miss Janet Reubner, Tony Randall's assistant, on The Tony Randall Show from 1976-1978.  McLerie played the recurring role of Arthur Carlson's wife, Carmen on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–82). She may be best-remembered as Florence Bickford, the title character's mother on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from 1987-1991. Her last role was on an episode of Brooklyn Bridge in 1993. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allyn Ann McLerie, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Legends — Katie Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Brooklyn Bridge
• 1987Stranger in My Bed — Shirley Hunter
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd — Florence Bickford
• The Comedy Factory — Edna McCauley
• Punky Brewster
• The Duck Factory — Skip's Mother
• 1983Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story — Audrey Williams
• The Thorn Birds — Mrs. Smith
• 1983Two Kinds of Love — Aunt Emily
• 1982Fantasies — Shirley
• Knight Rider — Marietta Mattheson
• 1982Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn — Aunt Polly
• St. Elsewhere — Roxanne Reed
• Dynasty
• Simon & Simon
• Beulah Land — Edna Davis
• 1980The Oldest Living Graduate — Mrs. Hampton
• 1980To Find My Son — Mrs. Braggs
• 1979A Shining Season — Polly Baker
• 1979And Baby Makes Six — Dora Finley
• Hart to Hart — Pearl Danko
• Trapper John, M.D.
• 1978Return Engagement — Florence
• 1978Sister Terri — Mother Superior Helen
• WKRP in Cincinnati
• Lou Grant — Betty Newman, Martha Emmett
• The Love Boat — Cynthia Parker
• 1976All the President's Men — Carolyn Abbott
• 1976Born Innocent — Emma Lasko
• 1976The Entertainer — Mrs. Pasko
• The Tony Randall Show — Janet Reubner, Miss Janet Reubner
• Baretta
• Barney Miller — Harriet Shulton
• 1975Death Scream — Alice Whitmore
• Medical Story — Mrs. Tassman
• 1975Someone I Touched — Jean
• 1974A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Miss Martin
• 1974France, Incorporated — The American
• Kodiak — Margaret
• 1973Cinderella Liberty — Miss Watkins
• 1973Howzer — Faye Carsell
• 1973The Way We Were — Rhea Edwards
• Delphi Bureau — Ginny
• 1972Jeremiah Johnson — Crazy Woman
• 1972The Cowboys — Ellen Price
• 1972The Magnificent Seven Ride! — Mrs. Donavan
• 1972The Shadow of a Gunman — Mrs. Grigson
• The Waltons
• Cannon
• Nichols — Maggie
• 1970Monte Walsh — Mary Eagle
• Medical Center — Jan
• My World and Welcome to It
• 1969The Reivers — Alison
• 1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — Shirl
• The F.B.I. — Marie Vale, Dorothy Harnolds, Helen Porter
• 196240 Pounds of Trouble — Blanchard's Secretary (uncredited)
• Bonanza — Charity Moffet
• Music For A Summer Night
• 1955Battle Cry — Ruby - Waitress in Diner
• 1954Phantom of the Rue Morgue — Yvonne (as Allyn McLerie)
• 1953Calamity Jane — Katie Brown
• 1953The Desert Song — Azuri
• 1952Where's Charley? — Amy Spettigue (as Allyn McLerie)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Florence
• 1948Words and Music — Singer in Garrick Gaeities

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self