10 Facts About Clarice Blackburn

Clarice Blackburn was an American actress best-known for playing three characters on the cult series Dark Shadows.

Clarice Blackburn earned a Bachelor's Degree in speech and drama at the Texas State College for Women.

Clarice Blackburn appeared in an Equity Library Theater production of The Great Big Doorstep in 1950 before she understudied Eva Gabor in The Happy Time on Broadway.

Clarice Blackburn appeared in the CBS soap opera Love of Life in the early 1960s.

Clarice Blackburn played Theodora Rostand on NBC's soap opera The Doctors, then moved on to ABC's Dark Shadows in the fall of 1966 and over the course of the next four years would play three different characters: Mrs Sarah Johnson, Abigail Collins, and Minerva Trask.

Clarice Blackburn made a few additional appearances on Dark Shadows, making her final appearance in September 1970.

Clarice Blackburn guest starred in an episode of the late night TV series Directions.

In 1960, Clarice Blackburn appeared in the DuPont Show of the Month's production of "Ethan Frome".

Clarice Blackburn appeared in the motion pictures The Violators, Pretty Poison, Night of Dark Shadows, and Man on a Swing.

Clarice Blackburn was asked to bring her Dark Shadows character, Mrs Johnson, to the big screen in House of Dark Shadows, but at the time she was under contract to The Secret Storm and her schedule on the soap was too heavy for her to get away for the filming.