1. Eva Elizabeth "Eve" McVeagh was an American actress of film, television, stage, and radio.
24 Facts About Eve McVeagh
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Eve McVeagh's career spanned 52 years from her first stage role through her last stage appearance.
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Eve McVeagh's roles included leading and supporting parts as well as smaller character roles in which she proved a gifted character actress.
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In 1947, Eve McVeagh played a supporting role opposite Billie Burke and Grant Mitchell in the original play Accidentally Yours.
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Ms Eve McVeagh did not perform on Broadway again, but after returning to Los Angeles, and working in film and television for years, she traveled back to New York to perform in the play Scuba Duba in 1971.
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Eve McVeagh starred in West Coast premieres of Broadway shows at the Pasadena Playhouse, most notably the lead in Come Back Little Sheba.
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Eve McVeagh continued to act in small stage productions including several with the award-winning Theatre Forty Company in Beverly Hills.
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Eve McVeagh's first film appearance was a supporting role in the classic High Noon in which she played Mildred Fuller alongside Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly.
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Eve McVeagh was featured opposite Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall in The Cobweb as Shirley Irwin.
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Eve McVeagh's final co-starring film role was in the independent film Money to Burn as Vivian.
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Eve McVeagh's last onscreen appearance was a cameo role in Creator with Peter O'Toole.
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Eve McVeagh was featured in three episodes of Perry Mason and two episodes of The Twilight Zone, and was a regular guest on The Johnny Carson Show.
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Eve McVeagh was featured in four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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Eve McVeagh co-starred on the Hitchcock-directed episode, "Incident at a Corner", of the television series Startime.
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Eve McVeagh was a regular on The Red Skelton Show for its last season.
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Eve McVeagh guest starred in Love, American Style, and was featured in Little House on the Prairie, The Streets of San Francisco, The Virginian, The Bionic Woman, Charlie's Angels, The Jeffersons, Lou Grant, The Incredible Hulk, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Hunter, and Airwolf.
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Eve McVeagh rounded out the 1970s on a high note as socialite Helen Carrington in the 1979 critically acclaimed television movie Murder by Natural Causes with Hal Holbrook.
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Eve McVeagh guest starred in a 1985 episode of Cagney and Lacey as Dorothy Gantney, the grief-stricken mother of a murder victim in "The Psychic".
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Eve McVeagh starred in "Hollywood Hostages", an episode of "Suspense", as Grace.
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Eve McVeagh was a principal performer on "Jeff Regan, Investigator", Jack Webb's radio noir series.
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Eve McVeagh played the lead in the role of convicted murderess Marie Lafarge in the 1953 episode of Crime Classics, "The Seven Layered Arsenic Cake of Madame Lafarge".
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Eve McVeagh was an acting and voice coach at the Film Actors Workshop at Warner Brothers Studios.
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Eve McVeagh was married to character actor and director Clarke Gordon at the time of her death and had four children and nine grandchildren.
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Eve McVeagh Gordon died on December 10,1997, from natural causes in Los Angeles.