Most Recent Role: Loretta Spiegel on Murder, She Wrote
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Lynn, Massachusetts
Birthday: 12-22-1922
Birth Name: Norma Roman
Date of Death: 9-9-1999
Cause of Death: Natural causes
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Lynn, Massachusetts
Birthday: 12-22-1922
Birth Name: Norma Roman
Date of Death: 9-9-1999
Cause of Death: Natural causes
Actress who happened on the scene in the mid-1940's and appeared in such films as Champion and Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train . When her film career died down she did a lot of television work appearing in shows such as Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Kung Fu, Tarzan , and The Untouchables . In the 1980's Roman had recurring roles on Knot's Landing and Murder, She Wrote before retiring...
Most Recent Appearance
Town Father
Sunday 17 December 1989 on CBS
The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young woman claiming he is the father of her five children. Julie Adams, Gloria De Haven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman return as gossips Eve, Phyllis, Idal and Loretta.
After her death Ruth was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.
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Had a bit part in the 1946 Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca.
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Co-starred with Milton Berle in the 1949 film Always Leave Them Laughing.
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Ruth Roman appeared in only three films during the 1960's preferring to concentrate on TV work and raising her son.
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Was among many contract players released by Universal studio in 1957. The same thing had happened or would happen at nearly every studio in Hollywood.
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Other Appearances
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Long Hot Summer
Minnie Littlejohn |
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Knots Landing
Sylvia |
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Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
The Candidate Mrs. Hite |
Bonanza
The Magnificent Adah Adah Isaacs Menken |
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Breaking Point
Who is Mimi, What is She? Alicia Howard |
Burke's Law
Who Killed Harris Crown? Elinor Albrick |
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Bus Stop
Turn Home Again Louisa |
Cannon
Flashpoint Laura |
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Long Hot Summer
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