Alice Ghostley: Summary

Recent Role:: Matilda Matthews on Passions

Gender:: Female

Birthday:: 8-14-1926

Death:: 0-0-0

Birthplace:: Eve, Missouri, USA

Birth Name:: Alicia Margaret Ghostley

AKA:: Alicia Ghostley---- Alice Ghostly

While essentially a comedic actress best known to her television audience as the shy, anxiety-ridden, supernatural housekeeper on the ABC sitcom, Bewitched, and as the batty Bernice Clifton (a role which earned her an Emmy nomination in 1992) on CBS' comedy series, Designing Women, Alice Ghostley was also an accomplished singer and Broadway performer who won a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Drama in 1965 for her portrayal of Mavis Parodus Bryson, the unconventional sister to Iris Patrodus Brustein, played by leading lady Rita Moreno in Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. While essentially a comedic actress best known to her television audience as the shy, anxiety-ridden, supernatural housekeeper on the ABC sitcom, Bewitched, and as the batty Bernice Clifton (a role which earned her an Emmy nomination in 1992) on CBS' comedy series, Designing Women, Alice Ghostley was also an accomplished singer and Broadway performer who won a Tony...