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Bea Arthur: Summary

Recent Role:: Self on Back to the Grind

Birthday:: 5-13-1923

Birthplace:: New York, New York

Birth Name:: Bernice Frankel

Beatrice Arthur, is an American actress and comedienne with a distinctive deep voice, acid wit, and height, standing almost 5 ft 10 in. Her notable television roles include the title role on the popular sitcom Maude in the 1970s and a starring role on The Golden Girls in the 1980s. In the former she played Maude Findlay, an outspoken "limousine" liberal living in Tuckahoe, Westchester...

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TV Hall of Fame welcomes four
Bea Arthur, Merv Griffin, Brady Bunch creator, M*A*S*H developer part of this year's class.
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Bea is probably best known by the public for his starring roles as the title character on Maude and as Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls.(edit)
The role of Dorothy on The Golden Girls was specifically written as a "Bea Arthur type," long before Bea even came and got the part.(edit)
Bea was the only regular cast member from the show The Golden Girls who didn't go on to star in the spinoff series The Golden Palace.(edit)
Bea is close friends with actress Angela Lansbury. (edit)
One of Bea's acting classmates at Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research was Marlon Brando. (edit)

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port5170
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The Bottom Line: "One of the all-time greats"
a true great ...Continue »
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vectorlyme
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The Bottom Line: "Original"
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