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Lillian Bronson in The Andy Griffith Show (1960)

Biography

Lillian Bronson

Overview

  • Born
    October 21, 1902 · Lockport, New York, USA
  • Died
    August 2, 1995 · Los Angeles, California, USA (heart disease)
  • Birth name
    Lillian Rumsey Bronson

Biography

  • Lillian Bronson was born on October 21, 1902 in Lockport, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Spencer's Mountain (1963) and Front Row Center (1955). She was married to Henry Daniels Mygatt. She died on August 2, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Family

  • Spouse
      Henry Daniels Mygatt(January 1, 1936 - May 7, 1943) (divorced)

Trivia

  • She was the first woman to play a judge on Perry Mason (The Case of the Corresponding Corpse (1958)).
  • During the Depression, Miss Bronson and her late sister, Dorothy, opened the Bronson Studio in New York, designing and making toy animals and pillows.
  • Small-part actress, whose chief claim to fame was to have muralist Kent Twitchell paint a building-sized image of her near the Hollywood Freeway's downtown interchange.
  • At times, she played socialites or women of influence. More often, she portrayed maids, cleaning women, librarians, clerks, wives, governesses, neighbors, and grandmothers.
  • Lillian was cremated. Her ashes were given to her niece, Dorothy Wicker (née Bronson).

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