Frances Bavier

Frances Bavier

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frances Elizabeth Bavier (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American stage and television actress. Originally from New York theatre, Bavier worked in film and television from the 1950s. She is best known for her role of Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. from 1960–70. Aunt Bee logged more Mayberry years (ten) than any other character. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actress for the role in 1967. Bavier had roles in more than a dozen films, as well as playing a range of supporting roles on television. Career highlights include her turn as Mrs. Barley in the classic 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. In 1955, she played the rough and tough "Aunt Maggie" Sawtelle, a frontier Ma Barker-type character, in the Lone Ranger episode "Sawtelle's Saga End". In the episode, she fights with Tonto while the Lone Ranger battles with her nephew. At the conclusion, Tonto says that he would like to trade opponents next time. In 1957, she played Nora Martin, mother to Eve Arden's character on The Eve Arden Show, despite the fact that Arden was only 6 or 7 years younger than Bavier. That same year, Bavier guest-starred in the eighth episode of Perry Mason as Louise Marlow in "The Case of the Crimson Kiss". She was in an episode of Make Room for Daddy, which featured Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor and Ron Howard as Opie Taylor. She played a character named Henrietta Perkins. The episode led to The Andy Griffith Show, and Bavier was cast in the new role of Aunt Bee. Bavier had a love-hate relationship with her famous role during the run of the show. As a New York City actress, she felt her dramatic talents were being overlooked, yet after playing Bee for eight seasons, she was the only original cast member to remain with the series in the spin-off, Mayberry R.F.D., for two additional seasons.

  • Title : Frances Bavier
  • Popularity : 3.719
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1902-12-14
  • Place of Birth : Manhattan, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As : Frances Elizabeth Bavier
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Frances Bavier Movies

  • 1951
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    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    7.5 1951 HD

    An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

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  • 1974
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    Benji

    Benji

    6.2 1974 HD

    Benji is a stray who has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of a number of the townspeople, who give him food and attention whenever he stops...

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  • 1953
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    Man in the Attic

    Man in the Attic

    5.5 1953 HD

    London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys,...

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  • 1952
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    Horizons West

    Horizons West

    5.7 1952 HD

    Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire....

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  • 1952
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    Bend of the River

    Bend of the River

    6.856 1952 HD

    Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

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  • 1951
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    The Stooge

    The Stooge

    6.6 1951 HD

    Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned...

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  • 1952
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    The Lady Says No

    The Lady Says No

    4.5 1952 HD

    The feminist author of a national best-seller titled The Lady Says No meets a sexist magazine photographer and decides she'd rather say yes.

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  • 1958
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    A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

    A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

    3.3 1958 HD

    Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.

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  • 1952
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    Sally and Saint Anne

    Sally and Saint Anne

    8 1952 HD

    An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.

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  • 1959
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    It Started with a Kiss

    It Started with a Kiss

    5.3 1959 HD

    While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out...

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  • 1952
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    My Wife's Best Friend

    My Wife's Best Friend

    5.4 1952 HD

    When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan...

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  • 1956
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    The Bad Seed

    The Bad Seed

    7.107 1956 HD

    Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps...

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  • 1931
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    Girls About Town

    Girls About Town

    6.4 1931 HD

    A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

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  • 1956
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    The Blessed Midnight

    The Blessed Midnight

    5 1956 HD

    When a boy steals a cake for his beloved aunt on Christmas Eve, his young friend tries to set things straight.

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  • 1960
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    The Andy Griffith Show

    The Andy Griffith Show

    7.559 1960 HD

    The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed...

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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  • 1964
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    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

    7.1 1964 HD

    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff...

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  • 1951
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    Dragnet

    Dragnet

    6.5 1951 HD

    Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1968
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    Mayberry R.F.D.

    Mayberry R.F.D.

    5.7 1968 HD

    Mayberry R.F.D. is an American television series produced as a spin-off and direct continuation of The Andy Griffith Show. When star Andy Griffith...

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  • 1957
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    The Eve Arden Show

    The Eve Arden Show

    1 1957 HD

    The Eve Arden Show is a 26-segment American television sitcom which aired during the 1957-1958 season on CBS, alternately sponsored by Lever Brothers...

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7.1 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1957
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    The Thin Man

    The Thin Man

    7.6 1957 HD

    Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple,...

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  • 1957
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    Sugarfoot

    Sugarfoot

    4.8 1957 HD

    Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner...

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  • 1952
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    Cavalcade of America

    Cavalcade of America

    3.5 1952 HD

    Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an...

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  • 1953
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    City Detective

    City Detective

    1 1953 HD

    Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1954
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    It's a Great Life

    It's a Great Life

    1 1954 HD

    It's a Great Life is an American situation comedy which aired on NBC from 1954 to 1956. Frances Bavier, six years before being cast as Aunt Bee in...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1952
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    The Ford Television Theatre

    The Ford Television Theatre

    7 1952 HD

    This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses...

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  • 1953
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    The Danny Thomas Show

    The Danny Thomas Show

    6.2 1953 HD

    Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1953
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    Revlon Mirror Theatre

    Revlon Mirror Theatre

    1 1953 HD

    Also known as 'Mirror Theater', this was an American anthology drama television series.

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