Bettye Ackerman
Television actress Bettye Ackerman, a frequent supporting player on procedural dramas of the 1960s and '70s, is best known for her role as Dr. Maggie Graham on "Ben Casey." Ackerman started in television with a minor spot on "The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse" in 1953. She married actor Sam Jaffe three years later--he was 65 years old at the time. In 1961, she played Dr. Graham on "Ben Casey," an ABC medical drama that lasted six seasons. Jaffe played veteran doctor David Zorba on the show. She also did a 10-episode stint on the showbiz drama "Bracken's World." Later, Ackerman played Constance MacKenzie, made famous in the primetime soap "Peyton Place" by Dorothy Malone, in the melodrama's daytime incarnation "Return to Peyton Place." In addition to her acting, Ackerman was an artist with exhibits in Beverly Hills, and in Columbia, South Carolina. Ackerman's husband died of cancer in 1984. The couple had no children together. In 1998, she moved back to her native South Carolina and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She died of a stroke at age 82.
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Bettye Ackerman
Filmography
Movies
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Prehysteria 2 | Miss Winters (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ted and Venus | Poetry Award Presenter (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain | Belle Tucker (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Yeagers | Mrs. Lomax (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Never Con a Killer | Dorothy (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder or Mercy | Nurse Cantelli (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heat of Anger | Stella Galvin (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Rascal | Miss Whalen (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Companions in Nightmare | Sara Nicholson (Character) | - | 1968 |
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Face of Fire | Grace Trescott (Character) | - | 1959 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Ruby (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Helen Fletcher (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CHiPs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
100% | 82% | Wonder Woman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry O | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Dr. Hamill (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story | Unknown (Character) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rookies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Zisha Gorofsky (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sixth Sense | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Columbo | Miss Sherman (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Rita Claman (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Laura Brandon (Guest Star) | 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Dr. Maggie Graham (Character) | 1961-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mrs. Inkel (Character) | 1959 |