Hope Summers
Birthday
1896/06/07
Day of death
1979/06/22 (83 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Mattoon, Illinois, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Hope Summers could portray a friendly neighbor or companion as she did for Frances Bavier's Aunt Bee character on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) or a seemingly amiable Satanist in Rosemary's Baby (1968). Born in Mattoon, Illinois, she developed an early interest in the theater. Graduating from Northwestern School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois, she subsequently taught speech and diction there. This, in turn, led to her the head position in the Speech Department at Bradley Unive...Read more
Acting
(1968) Rosemary's Baby
as Mrs. Gilmore
(1961) The Children's Hour
as Agatha
(1968) The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Celia
(1978) Foul Play
as Ethel
(1964) One Man's Way
as Mrs. Elwood Thompson
(1973) Charley Varrick
as Mess Vesta
(1973) Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
as Laura
(1961) Homicidal
as Martha Adrims (Uncredited)
(1963) Spencer's Mountain
as Mother Ida
(1974) Indict and Convict
as Mrs. Potter
(1972) Where Does It Hurt?
as Nurse Throttle
(1972) Get to Know Your Rabbit
as Mrs. Beeman
(1974) Our Time
as Biology Teacher
(1961) Parrish
as Mary (uncredited)
(1966) The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
as Susanna Blush
(1957) Zero Hour!
as Older Woman
(1960) Inherit the Wind
as Mrs. Krebs - Righteous Townswoman
(1961) Claudelle Inglish
as Ernestine Peasley (uncredited)
(1961) Angel Baby
as Woman at Revival Meeting (uncredited)
(1959) Edge of Eternity
as Motel Attendant
(1966) Penelope
as Shop Lady (uncredited)
(1975) Dr. Shagetz
as Alice Wylie
(1965) The Hallelujah Trail
as Mrs. Hasselrad
(1987) Evil Town
as Alice Wylie (as Hope Summer)
(1959) Hound-Dog Man
as Jewell Crouch
(1978) Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws
as Marcie
(1962) The Couch
as Mrs. Quimby
(1958) I Want to Live!
as Ethel - Policewoman on Bus (uncredited)
(1974) Death Sentence
as Emily Boylan
(1969) The Learning Tree
as Mrs. Kiner
(1950) Better Use of Leisure Time
as Mrs. Michaels (uncredited)
(1954) Son of Man
as Miss Johnson
(1960) The Andy Griffith Show
as Clara Edwards
(1975) Welcome Back, Kotter
as ---
(1972) M*A*S*H
as Nurse Meg Cratty
(1966) Love on a Rooftop
as ---
(1960) My Three Sons
as ---
(1975) Starsky & Hutch
as ---
(1974) Little House on the Prairie
as Addie Bjornesen
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Minnie Leona Moroney
(1961) The Dick Van Dyke Show
as ---
(1966) That Girl
as ---
(1962) The Beverly Hillbillies
as ---
(1974) Chico and the Man
as ---
(1964) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as ---
(1963) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
as Mrs. Rutledge
(1963) Petticoat Junction
as Mabel Denton
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Ellen Cade
(1970) Night Gallery
as ---
(1964) Bewitched
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Elizabeth
(1963) Glynis
as ---
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Marie Tallendier
(1959) Dennis the Menace
as ---
(1958) Peter Gunn
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1957) The Thin Man
as ---
(1953) Private Secretary
as ---
(1966) The Pruitts of Southampton
as ---
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1959) Law of the Plainsman
as Mrs. Dodge
(1961) The New Breed
as Mrs. McCurtin
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Madge
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Nurse O'Brien
(1978) Another Day
as ---
(1957) Maverick
as ---
(1976) Snip
as Aunt Polly
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Della
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Jen
(1968) Mayberry R.F.D.
as Clara Edwards
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Mrs. Wagner
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Aunt
(1968) Adam-12
as Clara Fisher
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Old Lady
(1968) Mayberry R.F.D.
as Clara
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Maid
(1958) The Rifleman
as Hattie Denton
(1967) The Second Hundred Years
as Mrs. Hansen