| Cathryn Damon | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 11, 1930 Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Died | May 4, 1987 (aged 56) Los Angeles, California, United States |
Cathryn Lee Damon (September 11, 1930 - May 4, 1987) was an American actress, best known for her roles on television sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works
Born in Seattle, Washington, Damon graduated from Tacoma's historic Stadium High School,[1] moved to New York City at sixteen to pursue ballet and ultimately appeared in several Broadway productions, including Shinbone Alley, Foxy, Flora, The Red Menace, The Boys from Syracuse,[2] The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Cherry Orchard. Stadium High School is a 100-year-old High school in Tacoma Washington and a Historic landmark. The City of New York Ballet is a formalized form of Dance with its origins in the French court further developed in France and Russia as a Concert dance Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Shinbone Alley is a musical with a book by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks, lyrics by Darion and music by George Kleinsinger Foxy is a musical with a book by Ian McLellan Hunter and Ring Lardner Jr Flora the Red Menace is a musical with a book by David Thompson music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare 's play The The Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a play by Neil Simon. At the comedy's core is Barney Cashman a middle-aged Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his home town with a faded movie The Cherry Orchard (Вишнëвый сад or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian Playwright Anton Chekhov 's last
Damon became familiar to television viewers as middle-class Mary Campbell on the primetime spoof of daytime soaps aptly entitled Soap from 1977 until 1981, followed by her role of Cassie Parker on Webster from 1984 until 1986. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic The middle class, in colloquial usage consists of those who have some economic independence but not a great deal of social Influence or power. A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Soap is an American Sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981 Webster is an American sitcom series that premiered on ABC on September 16, 1983, and ran on that network until Other TV credits included roles in Matlock, Mike Hammer and Murder, She Wrote. Mike Hammer is a fictional character created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I the Jury (made into a movie in 1953 and 1982 Murder She Wrote is a television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. [2]
Damon won an Emmy Award for Soap in 1980, but could not appear in person to receive the Award due to an actors' strike (which her former co-star Richard Mulligan actually referred to when he received his own Emmy more than a decade later for his role as Dr. Richard Mulligan ( November 13, 1932 – September 26, 2000) was an American Television and Film Actor Weston on the television series Empty Nest). Empty Nest is an American Television Sitcom that ran originally on NBC from 1988 to 1995
In 1986, Damon was diagnosed with cancer but continued acting in small roles up until shortly before her death. Cancer (medical term Malignant Neoplasm) is a class of Diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled Her final role, as Elizabeth McGovern's mother in the movie She's Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon, was released posthumously. Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an Academy Award -nominated American film and theater Actress, who later became a singer She's Having a Baby is an American movie released in 1988, which was directed by John Hughes. Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8 1958 is a Golden Globe - and Screen Actors Guild Award -nominated American Film and Theater
Damon was survived by her mother and sister. She claimed to have been married once, but offered no specifics. She is interred in Acacia Memorial Park in Seattle.