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Virginia Christine was an American stage, radio, film, television, and voice actress. Though Christine had a long career as a character actress in film and television, she is probably best remembered as "Mrs. Olson" in a number of television commercials for Folgers Coffee during the 1960s and '70s.
Birth Name
Virginia Christine Kraft
Born
Friday, 05 March 1920
Died
Wednesday, 24 July 1996
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Princess Ananka | 2007 |
The Puppy's Further Adventures | (voice) (credit only) | 1983 |
Kojak | Mrs. Yankowski | 1973 |
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Miss Cummings | 1970 |
Nanny and the Professor | Mrs. Wilson | 1970 |
Daughter of the Mind | Helga | 1969 |
Hail, Hero! | Eleanor Murchiston | 1969 |
Lancer | Hannah Sickles | 1968 |
In Enemy Country | Frau Gulden | 1968 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Hilary St. George | 1967 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Princess Ananka | 2007 |
The Puppy's Further Adventures | (voice) (credit only) | 1983 |
Kojak | Mrs. Yankowski | 1973 |
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Miss Cummings | 1970 |
Nanny and the Professor | Mrs. Wilson | 1970 |
Daughter of the Mind | Helga | 1969 |
Hail, Hero! | Eleanor Murchiston | 1969 |
Lancer | Hannah Sickles | 1968 |
In Enemy Country | Frau Gulden | 1968 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Hilary St. George | 1967 |
Ironside | Esther Hawkins | 1967 |
Judd for the Defense | Alice Lindsay | 1967 |
The Invaders | Mrs. Thorne | 1967 |
Jericho | Frau Luders | 1966 |
The Felony Squad | Cleaning Woman | 1966 |
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula | Eva Oster | 1966 |
A Rage to Live | Emma | 1965 |
Laredo | Agnes Halsey | 1965 |
The F.B.I. | Mrs. Ferguson / Lucille Fortier / Eugenia Sayres | 1965 |
The Big Valley | Margaret Coleman | 1965 |
A Man Called Shenandoah | Fran Macauley | 1965 |
Daniel Boone | Martha / Mrs. Brewster | 1964 |
Broadside | Wave Commander Peabody | 1964 |
The Killers | Miss Watson | 1964 |
One Man's Way | Anna Peale | 1964 |
The Prize | Mrs. Bergh / Mrs. Bergh, Chaperon | 1963 |
4 for Texas | Brunhilde | 1963 |
Mr. Novak | Mrs. Payne | 1963 |
The Fugitive | Alma Mercer / Cora | 1963 |
Cattle King | Ruth Winters / Mrs. Ruth Winters (Brassfield's Housekeeper) | 1963 |
The Eleventh Hour | Mrs. Drury | 1962 |
Going My Way | Mrs. Randall | 1962 |
Stoney Burke | Flora Hill | 1962 |
The Virginian | Nora Claypool / Margaret Conlan / Leora Tressider / Judith Briscoe | 1962 |
Incident in an Alley | Mrs. Connell | 1962 |
Judgment at Nuremberg | Mrs. Halbestadt | 1961 |
The New Breed | Annabelle | 1961 |
Ben Casey | Rose Evans / Alice Cabot | 1961 |
Target: The Corruptors | Lorraine | 1961 |
Hazel | Mrs. McGuire | 1961 |
The Dick Powell Theatre | Joey's Mother | 1961 |
The Asphalt Jungle | Miss Brandt | 1961 |
Mister Ed | Margaret | 1961 |
Flaming Star | Mrs. Phillips | 1960 |
Thriller | Marge | 1960 |
Coronado 9 | Sarita / Margaret Hammock | 1960 |
Happy | Janice | 1960 |
Shotgun Slade | Melissa Haggerty | 1959 |
The Man from Blackhawk | Mary Schuler | 1959 |
The Twilight Zone | Ethel Bedeker | 1959 |
The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Mother | 1959 |
Riverboat | Aunt Samantha Dexter | 1959 |
Bonanza | Mary Johnson / Martha Hale | 1959 |
The Deputy | Molly Baker | 1959 |
The Lawless Years | Mrs. Pavlock | 1959 |
The Untouchables | Dora Mizo / Stella Barber | 1959 |
Rawhide | Ada Covey / Sarah Tenney | 1959 |
77 Sunset Strip | Grace Thorn / Greta Haggman | 1958 |
Behind Closed Doors | Julie | 1958 |
The Rifleman | Mrs. Hardy / Mrs. Dalrymple | 1958 |
Frontier Doctor | Hester Gray, Stan's Sister | 1958 |
The Donna Reed Show | Margaret Lang | 1958 |
Rescue 8 | Millie Wilde | 1958 |
Bronco | Martha Gant | 1958 |
Peter Gunn | Nancy Davis | 1958 |
Steve Canyon | Mary Moore | 1958 |
Wanted: Dead or Alive | Mrs. Logan / Harriet Meecham | 1958 |
Buckskin | Miss Emily Pringle | 1958 |
Shirley Temple's Storybook | Rebecca Baines | 1958 |
Mike Hammer | June Earl | 1958 |
Man Without a Gun | Sarah Carver | 1957 |
Casey Jones | Doris Jones | 1957 |
How to Marry a Millionaire | Alma | 1957 |
Trackdown | Millie / Mrs. Nancy Doan | 1957 |
The Restless Gun | Amy Durant | 1957 |
Maverick | Verna Lyme | 1957 |
Perry Mason | Helen Duncan / Edith Summers / Beth Sandover | 1957 |
M Squad | Mrs. Jake Fassard | 1957 |
The Thin Man | Mildred | 1957 |
Wagon Train | Mrs. Reed / Minna Collins / Elaine Gatsby / Clara Reynolds / Amanda Santee | 1957 |
The Careless Years | Mrs. Vernon / Mathilda Vernon | 1957 |
Johnny Tremain | Mrs. Lapham | 1957 |
The Spirit of St. Louis | Secretary | 1957 |
Code 3 | Beverly | 1957 |
Tales of Wells Fargo | Ovie Swenson / Ovie | 1957 |
Whirlybirds | Mrs. Salik / Mrs. Satik / Mrs. Thompson | 1957 |
Three Brave Men | Helen Goldsmith | 1956 |
Zane Grey Theatre | Julie Hart | 1956 |
Wire Service | Sigrid Jensen | 1956 |
Hey, Jeannie! | Mrs. Warren | 1956 |
The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Katrina Gottschalk | 1956 |
Nightmare | Mrs. Sue Bressard / Sue Bressard | 1956 |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Wilma Lentz | 1956 |
The Killer Is Loose | Mary Gillespie | 1956 |
State Trooper | Dorette Mason / Ethel Larkin / Rena Desmond | 1956 |
Good Morning, Miss Dove | Mrs. Rigsbee | 1955 |
Matinee Theatre | Julia | 1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Model / Secretary | 1955 |
Gunsmoke | Bess / Lila | 1955 |
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Martha Evans | 1955 |
Not as a Stranger | Bruni | 1955 |
The Cobweb | Sally | 1955 |
Science Fiction Theatre | Prof. Anna Adler / Dr. Eleanor Ballard | 1955 |
Stage 7 | Secretary | 1955 |
The Millionaire | Mrs. Barnett | 1955 |
Soldiers of Fortune | Bonnie | 1955 |
The Star and the Story | Alice | 1955 |
The Magical World of Disney | Mrs. Lapham | 1954 |
Father Knows Best | Grace Miller | 1954 |
Studio 57 | Jenny Pickett | 1954 |
Dragnet | Mrs. Caldwell | 1954 |
The Whistler | Helen | 1954 |
Public Defender | Mom Kennedy | 1954 |
The Loretta Young Show | Bertha Holt / Mrs. Brown / Mrs. Spencer | 1953 |
Woman They Almost Lynched | Jenny | 1953 |
I'm the Law | Elliot | 1953 |
Private Secretary | Maud | 1953 |
General Electric Theater | Head Nurse / Sarah | 1953 |
Never Wave at a WAC | Lt. Myles | 1953 |
The Abbott and Costello Show | Grateful Lady / Mrs. Jackson | 1952 |
The Ford Television Theatre | Mrs. Talbot | 1952 |
Cavalcade of America | Mrs. Sargent | 1952 |
Four Star Playhouse | Miss Chase / Clerk | 1952 |
Adventures of Superman | Mrs. Frank | 1952 |
High Noon | Mrs. Simpson | 1952 |
Death Valley Days | Kate Hanson | 1952 |
The First Time | Nurse | 1952 |
Dragnet | Helen Karsten / Mrs. Martin | 1951 |
Personal Appearance Theater | 1951 | |
Mark Saber | Ilga | 1951 |
Front Page Detective | Beatrice Hillmane / Shelly | 1951 |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Sister Marthe | 1950 |
The Men | Patient's Wife at Lecture | 1950 |
Dangerous Assignment | Carla Fabri | 1950 |
The Lone Ranger | Cecile Charron | 1949 |
Special Agent | Mabel Rumpler | 1949 |
Cover Up | Margaret Baker | 1949 |
Night Wind | Jean Benson | 1948 |
Women in the Night | Claire Adams | 1948 |
The Gangster | Mrs. Karty | 1947 |
The Invisible Wall | Mildred Elsworth | 1947 |
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine | Lola Carson | 1946 |
The Killers | Lilly Harmon Lubinsky | 1946 |
The Inner Circle | Rhoda Roberts | 1946 |
The Wife of Monte Cristo | Florice Michaud | 1946 |
House of Horrors | Lady of the Streets | 1946 |
Murder Is My Business | Dora Darnell | 1946 |
Idea Girl | Evelina | 1946 |
The Scarlet Horseman | Carla Marquette aka Matosca / Carla Marquette / Matosca | 1946 |
Girls of the Big House | Bernice Meyers | 1945 |
Phantom of the Plains | Celeste | 1945 |
Counter-Attack | Tanya | 1945 |
Front Row Center | Mrs. Graf / Eileen Grant | 1945 |
The Mummy's Curse | Princess Ananka | 1944 |
The Old Texas Trail | Queenie Leone | 1944 |
Raiders of Ghost City | Countess Elsa von Merck, alias Trina Dressard / Countess Elsa von Merck - alias Trina Dressard | 1944 |
Action in the North Atlantic | Pebbles | 1943 |
Mission to Moscow | Maria - Beautician | 1943 |
Edge of Darkness | Hulda | 1943 |
Truck Busters | Eadie Watkins | 1943 |