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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 25, 1928
Place of Birth
Watertown, Carver County, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As
- Marian Ellen Ross
Marion Ross
2.1 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marion Ross (born October 25, 1928) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Cunningham on the ABCtelevision series, Happy Days from 1974 to 1984.Born Marian Ross in Watertown in Carver County in southern Minnesota, the daughter of Ellen (née Hamilton) and Gordon Ross,she lived in Waconia and then moved to Willmar and eventually to Albert Lea, Minnesota.At the age of 13, she changed the spelling of her name from "Marian" to "Marion" because she thought it would look better on a marquee. After completing her sophomore year in high school, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and worked as an au pair while studying drama at the MacPhail Center for the Arts, and attending Southwest High School. A year later, her family moved to San Diego, California.She graduated from Point Loma High School in San Diego.Ross enrolled in San Diego State University,where she was named the school's most outstanding actress. After graduation in 1950, she performed in summer theater in La Jolla, California. The director was impressed by her talent, and recommended that she try for work in films.
Known For
9.3
Self
Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story
2021
2.0
Marion
Senior Entourage
2021
7.1
Self
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
2021
10.0
Mom
Viral Vignettes
2020
7.7
Self
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020
7.5
Self - Host
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
🎬
0.0
Self - Commentator
The Very Very Best of the 70s
2019
5.0
Waitress
Angels on Tap
2018
8.0
Rita McCallister
Best Friends Whenever
2015
5.8
Edna
The Odd Couple
2015
Credits
Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story
as Self
2021
9.3
Senior Entourage
as Marion
2021
2.0
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
as Self
2021
7.1
Viral Vignettes
as Mom
2020
10.0
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
2020
7.7
My Music: A Classic Christmas
as Self - Host
2019
7.5
🎬
The Very Very Best of the 70s
as Self - Commentator
2019
0.0
Angels on Tap
as Waitress
2018
5.0
Best Friends Whenever
as Rita McCallister
2015
8.0
The Odd Couple
as Edna
2015
5.8
A Perfect Christmas List
as Evie
2014
5.5
Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas
as Marion
2014
6.7
Sweet Surrender
as Grandma
2014
5.5
Chasing Life
as April's Granmother
2014
7.3
Chasing Life
2014
7.3
A Reason
as Aunt Irene Hilgrim
2014
4.3
I Know That Voice
as Self
2014
7.1
Heebie Jeebies
as Agnes Whitehead
2013
4.5
Dear Dracula
as Grandma (voice)
2012
8.5
Anger Management
as Dr. Murphy
2012
6.2
The Exes
as Pearl
2011
6.5
Up All Night
as Gammy
2011
6.0
Keeping Up with the Randalls
as Grandma Dorie
2011
6.6
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster
as Hilda Trowburg
2010
6.1
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
as Grandma Moonbeam (voice)
2010
8.2
Hot in Cleveland
as Olga
2010
7.4
Generator Rex
2010
8.5
Flower Girl
as Rose Durham
2009
5.9
The Middle
as Ms. Dunlap
2009
7.6
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
as Self
2009
10.0
Childrens Hospital
as Elderly Nurse
2008
7.2
Superhero Movie
as Aunt Lucille
2008
5.3
Smiley Face
as Shirley
2007
6.0
Holly Hobbie and Friends: Best Friends Forever
as Annabelle Crow (voice)
2007
10.0
Music Within
as Grandma
2007
6.5
Brothers and Sisters
as Ida Holden
2006
7.1
Where There's a Will
as Leslie Clyde Onstott
2006
6.7
The New Adventures of Old Christine
as Agnes
2006
7.0
The Boondocks
2005
8.1
Out of Practice
2005
7.5
Grey's Anatomy
as Betty Donahue
2005
8.2
Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002
as Marion Cunningham ("Buddy Holly") (archive footage)
2004
9.0
Two and a Half Men
as Margaret
2003
7.5
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
as Self
2003
5.1
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
2.5
Ladies and The Champ
as Margaret Smith
2001
0.0
Gilmore Girls
as Trix Gilmore
2000
7.9
Gilmore Girls
as Marilyn Gilmore
2000
7.9
Family Law
as Mrs. Richardson
1999
8.2
SpongeBob SquarePants
as Grandma SquarePants (voice)
1999
7.7
Family Guy
as Marion Cunningham (voice)
1999
7.4
About Sarah
as Grandma Rose McCaffrey
1998
6.0
The Wild Thornberrys
as Rebecca the Elephant Queen (voice)
1998
6.9
That '70s Show
as Grandma Forman
1998
7.9
Love Boat: The Next Wave
as Judy Glacken
1998
5.0
The Lake
as Maggie
1998
5.0
The Third Twin
as Lila Ferrami
1997
5.1
King of the Hill
as Ms. Wakefield (voice)
1997
7.3
The Evening Star
as Rosie Dunlop
1996
5.9
Early Edition
1996
7.3
Superman: The Animated Series
as General Richter (voice)
1996
7.6
Hidden in Silence
as Mrs. Diamant
1996
7.1
The Drew Carey Show
as Beulah Carey
1995
6.5
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
as Flavia (voice)
1995
6.5
Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart
as Maureen Collier
1995
5.7
Touched by an Angel
as Sophie
1994
7.2
Touched by an Angel
as Emma
1994
7.2
A Perfect Stranger
as Charlotte Brandon
1994
4.8
Burke's Law
as Frances Farnsworth
1994
6.7
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
The John Larroquette Show
as Ruth Eggers
1993
6.7
🎬
Vicki!
as Self
1992
5.0
Brooklyn Bridge
as Sophie Berger
1991
7.5
Dream On
as Mother Superior
1990
6.9
American Experience
as Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)
1988
7.4
🎬
The Kid Who Wouldn't Quit: The Brad Silverman Story
as Billie Silverman
1987
0.0
You Again?
1986
5.3
MacGyver
as Sister Robin
1985
7.7
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Margaret Sturdevant
1985
7.2
Sins of the Father
1985
0.0
Night Court
as Mrs. Daley
1984
7.4
Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?
as Mrs. Davies
1983
0.0
Hotel
as Nora Wheeler
1982
6.8
Midnight Offerings
as Emily Moore
1981
5.8
Skyward
as Natalie Ward
1980
6.9
The Survival of Dana
as Madeline Lee
1979
0.0
🎬
Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall
as Self
1979
0.0
Pearl
as Ellie North
1978
6.4
The Love Boat
as Emily Heywood
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Emily Stubing
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Mrs. Jenny Heller
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Amy Scofield
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Gladys Johnson
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Mary Hammond
1977
6.3
Grand Theft Auto
as Vivian Hedgeworth
1977
5.3
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Petrocelli
as Mary Sloan
1974
7.0
Petrocelli
as Janet Williamson
1974
7.0
Happy Days
as Marion Cunningham
1974
7.6
The Weekend Nun
as Mrs. Crowe
1972
6.3
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
6.9
The Streets of San Francisco
as Mrs. Ross
1972
6.9
Emergency!
as Margaret
1972
7.8
Honky
as Mrs. Divine
1971
4.8
🎬
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
1971
5.5
The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children
as Mrs. Pilgrim
1970
0.0
Colossus: The Forbin Project
as Angela Fields
1970
6.9
Airport
as Joan Myers (uncredited)
1970
6.4
Love, American Style
as Marion Cunningham
1969
6.0
The Brady Bunch
1969
6.7
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Dr. Helen Cartwright
1969
6.5
Any Second Now
as Mrs. Hoyt
1969
6.7
The Mod Squad
as Louise Johnson
1968
6.3
Hawaii Five-O
as Edith Lavallo
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Anita
1968
7.1
Mannix
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Muriel Enright
1967
6.7
Ironside
as Gloria Bosner
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Mrs. Bartell
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Shirley Petrizzi
1967
6.8
Mission: Impossible
as Mrs. Foster
1966
7.6
Felony Squad
1966
6.4
🎬
Paradise Bay
1965
0.0
The Great Adventure
as Sister Marcella
1963
0.0
The Great Adventure
as Etta Wheeler
1963
0.0
Mr. Novak
as Nurse Bromfield
1963
6.5
The Fugitive
as Marian Eckhardt
1963
7.2
The Outer Limits
as Agnes Benjamin
1963
7.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
🎬
The Gertrude Berg Show
1961
9.0
Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Ann Patterson
1961
5.5
Cain's Hundred
as Laura Harding
1961
4.7
Blueprint for Robbery
as Young Woman
1961
5.3
Route 66
1960
6.3
Route 66
as Nora Belden
1960
6.3
Insight
as Ethel Cambridge
1960
6.0
The Brothers Brannagan
as Kate
1960
0.0
The Brothers Brannagan
as Susan
1960
0.0
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Dottie Moll
1960
6.2
Thriller
as Kay Forrest
1960
6.4
🎬
The Chevy Mystery Show
as Ann Bell
1960
6.3
The Slowest Gun in the West
as Elsie May Slocum
1960
2.0
Operation Petticoat
as 2nd Lieutenant Colfax
1959
7.2
The Detectives
as Stacey
1959
5.6
The Untouchables
as Vera Schultz
1959
7.9
Philip Marlowe
1959
5.0
Rawhide
as Flora
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Pricilla Brewer
1959
7.2
Some Came Running
as Sister Mary Joseph (uncredited)
1958
6.9
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.2
Teacher's Pet
as Katy Fuller
1958
6.8
The Walter Winchell File
1957
5.0
Perry Mason
as Helen Harvey
1957
7.7
The Thin Man
1957
7.6
God Is My Partner
as Frances Denning
1957
5.0
Lizzie
as Ruth Seaton
1957
6.9
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Extra (uncredited)
1956
6.6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Mollie O'Brien
1956
5.5
Lust for Life
as Sister Clothilde (uncredited)
1956
7.2
The Proud and Profane
as Joan
1956
6.0
Blithe Spirit
as Edith
1956
8.0
🎬
Ford Star Jubilee
1955
7.0
The Millionaire
as Cathy Hardin
1955
5.0
Father Knows Best
1954
6.5
Sabrina
as Spiller's Girlfriend (uncredited)
1954
7.5
Pushover
as Mrs. Crockett (uncredited)
1954
6.5
Secret of the Incas
as Miss Morris (uncredited)
1954
5.8
The Glenn Miller Story
as Polly Haynes (uncredited)
1954
6.9
Forever Female
as Patty
1953
6.7
🎬
Life With Father
1953
0.0
Letter to Loretta
as Nurse
1953
6.5
Letter to Loretta
as Peg Santos
1953
6.5
General Electric Theater
as Mrs. Wilson
1953
6.3
The Red Skelton Show
as Patricia Winterbrook
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Patricia Westerbrook
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Elizabeth - Sir Reginald's daughter
1951
7.4
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
as Dixie the Manicurist
1950
6.9