Ruby Holbrook(1923-2018)

Ruby Holbrook was born on 28 August 1923 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. She was an actress, known for The Goodbye Girl (1977), Stage on Screen (2000) and All My Children (1970). She was married to Hal Holbrook. She died on 8 December 2018 in Bloomsbury, New Jersey, USA.

Known for

TV Series

7.4

6.8

TV Series

6.6

TV Series

Love, Ludlow
6.5
- Ms. Fernster
- 2005
Stage on Screen
TV Series
- Harriet Stanley
- 2000
Guiding Light
6.6
TV Series
- Mrs. Paulson
- 1994
Another World
7.1
TV Series
- Mrs. Marks
- Registrar
- 1982–1985
The Doctors
7.0
TV Series
- Mrs. Herrick
- 1978
The Goodbye Girl
7.4
- Woman in Audience
- 1977
George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
TV Special
- Grandma Armstrong
- 1974
All My Children
6.8
TV Series
- Wilma Marlowe (#2) (1986-1987)
- 1970–2011

Official site
- Theater_org
Born
- August 28, 1923
- St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Died
- December 8, 2018
- Bloomsbury, New Jersey, USA(undisclosed)
Spouse
- Hal HolbrookSeptember 21, 1945 - 1964 (divorced, 2 children)
Children
Other works
She acted in the musical, "Daarlin' Juno," based on Sean O' Casey's play, "Juno and the Paycock," at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut with Geraldine Fitzgerald and Joyce Ebert in the cast. Joseph Stein wrote the book. Marc Blitzstein was composer and lyricist. Richard Maltby and Fitzgerald were adapters. Arvin Brown was director. David Jenkins was set designer. Bill Walker was costume designer. Ronald Wallace was lighting designer.

Trivia
On September 14, 1945, Ruby Johnston migrated from Newfoundland to New York City to join her American fiancé , actor Hal Holbrook, whom she married at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City. She was 22 years old and he was 20. The couple had two children, Victoria and David Holbrook, before divorcing, and later two grandchildren, Abigail and Will Holbrook. Ruby Holbrook developed breast cancer not long after her divorce from Hal Holbrook. She survived the disease as well as a later recurrence.

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