Cathryn Damon

Cathryn Damon Biography

Cathryn Lee Damon (September 11, 1930 – May 4, 1987) was an American actress, best known for her roles on television sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life and career

Born in Seattle, Damon graduated from Tacoma, Washington's historic Stadium High School, moved to New York City at age 16 to pursue ballet and ultimately appeared in several Broadway productions, including Shinbone Alley, Foxy, Flora, The Red Menace, The Boys from Syracuse, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Cherry Orchard. During the 1967-68 season, she was the Mame and Vera understudy for the Angela Lansbury-led tour of Mame.

Damon became familiar to television viewers as middle-class Mary Campbell on the primetime spoof of daytime soaps aptly entitled Soap from 1977 until 1981, followed by her role of Cassie Parker on Webster from 1984 until 1986. In both of her regular television roles, she worked with Eugene Roche, who had the recurring role of Attorney E. Ronald Mallu during the latter three seasons of Soap before playing her on-screen husband, Bill Parker, on Webster. Damon's other TV credits included roles in Matlock, Mike Hammer and Murder, She Wrote.

Damon won an Emmy Award for Soap in 1980, but could not appear in person to receive the Award owing to an actors' strike (to which her former co-star Richard Mulligan actually referred when he received his own Emmy more than a decade later for his role as Dr. Weston on the television series Empty Nest).

In 1986, Damon was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but continued acting in small roles up until shortly before her death a year later. Her final role, as Elizabeth McGovern's mother in the movie She's Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon, was released posthumously.

Damon was survived by her mother, Mary Cathryn Springer, and a sister. She is interred in Acacia Memorial Park in Seattle.

Filmography

Producers' Showcase as Dancer (1 episode, 1957)
Calamity Jane (1963) as Adelaide Adams
Blansky's Beauties as Rose (1 episode, 1977)
Rafferty as Grace Hampton (1 episode, 1977)
Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979) as Martha
Getting There (1980) as Mary
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980) as Natalie
Midnight Offerings (1981) as Diane Sotherland
Soap as Mary Campbell (85 episodes, 1977-1981)
Not in Front of the Children (1982) as Sheila
The First Time (1983) as Gloria
Fantasy Island as Baronne LaRue (1 episode, 1983)
Who Will Love My Children? (1983) as Hazel Anderson
The Love Boat as Charlotte (2 episodes, 1978-1983)
Simon & Simon as Kate Franklin (1 episode, 1984)
Murder, She Wrote as Morgana Cramer (1 episode, 1984)
Matlock as Victoria Edwards (1 episode, 1987)
Mike Hammer as Aunt Dorothy Putnam (1 episode, 1987)
Webster as Cassie Parker (50 episodes, 1984-1986)
She's Having a Baby (1988) as Gayle Bainbridge

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