Alice Backes

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Biography

American actress

  • Primary profession
  • Actress
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 17 May 1923
  • Place of birth
  • Salt Lake City
  • Death date
  • 2007-03-15
  • Death age
  • 84
  • Place of death
  • Virginia Beach· Virginia

Movies

TV

Trivia

First TV appearance was as a contestant on Groucho Marx s "You Bet Your Life" .

Served in the WAVES during WWII and arrived in Hollywood in post-war years.

Played numerous dark-haired, matronly support roles on radio, stage, film and TV.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch).

Appeared in a pilot for an hour-long Kingston Trio "dramedy" shot in Phoenix AZ in the early Sixties.

Graduated from the University of Utah. A talented violinist, she was concert mistress for the University Symphony Orchestra.

Active in many charities, including UNICEF and The Childrens Fund.

Served on the boards of AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), SAG (Screen Actors Guild), Theater West and Pioneer Broadcasters.

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