Doris Grau was an American actress and script supervisor from Brooklyn.
17 Facts About Doris Grau
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Doris Grau continued to do this until the 1990s and worked on films such as Point Blank and King Kong and television shows such as Cheers and The Tracey Ullman Show.
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Doris Grau was born on October 12,1924, in Brooklyn, New York.
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Doris Grau moved to the Hollywood district in Los Angeles, California, as a teenager in 1940.
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Doris Grau supervised the script of the 1967 crime film Point Blank, which revolves around a man named Walker who sets out to find his friend who betrayed him during a robbery that they performed together and left with all the money for himself.
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Doris Grau was the script supervisor of the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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Doris Grau then supervised the scripts of the films The Champ, The Frisco Kid, The Hunter, The Pursuit of D B Cooper, Caveman, Clue, Marie, and No Way Out.
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In 1986, Doris Grau played a role in the television series All Is Forgiven.
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Doris Grau worked as a script supervisor on Fox Broadcasting Company's The Tracey Ullman Show, a variety show that featured among many things the first appearance of the fictional animated Simpson family.
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Doris Grau worked on that show as a script supervisor as well.
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Doris Grau is best known for lending her voice to Lunchlady Doris, who speaks with a "gruff voice" according to The Journal Gazette editor Dean Robinson.
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Doris Grau worked as an actress on the animated series The Critic that was created by writers of The Simpsons in 1994.
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Doris Grau voiced the chain-smoking character Doris Grossman, who is the make-up artist for the main character of the show.
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In 1992, Doris Grau appeared in the supporting role of Hattie Rifkin in the film The Distinguished Gentleman.
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Doris Grau worked as a script supervisor on the sitcom Good Advice in 1993, and played characters in the sitcoms Phenom and The George Carlin Show in 1994.
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Doris Grau appeared as the character Rose in the 1995 film Coldblooded that tells the story of a member of the Mob who is promoted to hitman against his will.
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On December 30,1995, aged 71, Doris Grau died from respiratory failure at a hospital in Hollywood.