In 1961, she gave birth to a son, who died 24 hours later. Personal life īartlett met William Daniels, at Northwestern University. Awards and honors īartlett was added to the Hall of Honor at her alma mater, Moline High School in Moline, Illinois. As of Mashe has accepted the role of QUEEN MARGARET in director Christopher Carter Sanderson's third feature film, William Shakespeare's RICHARD III starring Filipino actor Joshua Spafford and a cast of over 50 other actors including her husband William Daniels as GHOST OF KING HENRY VI.īartlett and Daniels both served on the Screen Actors Guild's board of directors. Bartlett had a feature-film role to in Valediction. Elsewhere ended in 1988, Bartlett's career moved to a wide variety of guest-starring appearances, including major roles on Wiseguy as a tough and corrupt matriarch of a sewage business as Andrea Drey, secretary general of the United Earth Oceans Organization on seaQuest DSV on Home Improvement as Lucille Taylor (Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor's mother) and on ER as Ruth Katherine Greene.
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They later acted together again when she played a college dean who employed her husband's character, in a season of Daniels's ABC series Boy Meets World, and their characters later married. Bartlett and Daniels won for their portrayals of Dr. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne first accomplished the feat in 1965.
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Her acting career picked up considerably in the 1980s, including the TV miniseries V and North and South: Book II, as well as the pivotal role as the mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito's characters in the 1988 film, Twins.īartlett and husband William Daniels made Emmy Awards history in 1986 when they became the second real-life married couple to win acting awards on the same night. Further difficult material included Ellen and Mark's divorce and slow reconciliation following the loss of their granddaughter in a custody dispute with her birth mother.įor many years, Bartlett accepted only small guest appearances on such programs as The Golden Girls, Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, and The Waltons. Bartlett won back-to-back Emmys, and was made a contract player. The storyline deepened in the next season when their son was killed and they had to raise their granddaughter. Elsewhere, she took on greater prominence in the 1984–1985 season when the storyline included Ellen and Mark's marital problems. As Grace Snider Edwards, her character's prominence in the series gradually increased from 1975-1977 following the courtship by and marriage to Isaiah Edwards, played by Victor French. Each role began as infrequently recurring characters. Her two most widely known roles were as Grace Snider Edwards on Little House on the Prairie from 1974-1977 and as Ellen Craig on St. She then moved on to night-time roles in the 1960s. She also had a previous role on the program, in which she briefly played the character of Ellie Crown, a role which was played for several years by Hildy Parks. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.īartlett studied acting with Lee Strasberg, and first got her start in television playing the heroine Vanessa Dale Raven on the soap opera Love of Life from 1955 to 1959, replacing actress Peggy McCay. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. This section relies largely or entirely on a single source. In 1947, she graduated from Moline High School.
Her father had been an actor in stock productions across the country, but he gave up acting because her mother wanted to settle in Wisconsin. Mark Craig, and they both won Emmy Awards on the same night in 1986-becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965.īartlett was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, the daughter of Carrie Archer and Elwin Earl Bartlett, and was raised in Moline, Illinois. Her husband, actor William Daniels, played her fictional husband Dr. Bartlett is known for her role as Grace Snider Edwards on the Michael Landon television series Little House on the Prairie and as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Her career spans seven decades, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. Bonnie Bartlett (born June 20, 1929) is an American actress.
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