1. Lisa Gerritsen was born on Lisa Orszag; December 21,1957 and is an American former child actress.
11 Facts About Lisa Gerritsen
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Lisa Gerritsen is most famous for her role as Bess, the independent-minded daughter of Phyllis Lindstrom on the 1970s television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off Phyllis.
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Lisa Gerritsen was born Lisa Orszag in Los Angeles and is the granddaughter of child actor and screenwriter True Eames Boardman, and the great-granddaughter of silent film actors True Boardman and Virginia True Boardman.
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Lisa Gerritsen's acting career began when she was eight years old.
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Lisa Gerritsen appeared in several episodes of Gunsmoke, which helped to land her first regular role as Lydia Monroe, the precocious daughter of William Windom's character, John Monroe, a Thurber-like writer and cartoonist, in the 1969 NBC comedy series My World and Welcome to It.
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In 1970, Gerritsen appeared as Hannah Carson on the TV western The Men From Shiloh in the episode "Hannah".
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Also that year, Lisa Gerritsen was cast as Bess Lindstrom, the quick-witted daughter of landlord Phyllis Lindstrom, a mother who believed in progressive parenting, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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Bess was a recurring character throughout the length of the series and Lisa Gerritsen continued playing the role in the spinoff, Phyllis.
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Lisa Gerritsen made her first big-screen appearance in Airport, playing the role of Libby Bakersfeld.
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Lisa Gerritsen appeared as Linda in The War Between Men and Women, starring Jack Lemmon and Barbara Harris.
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Lisa Gerritsen left acting at the age of 20, shortly after the show Phyllis was cancelled.