Fritzi burr biography samples

American actress (1924–2003)

Fritzi Burr (May 31, 1924 – January 17, 2003) was an American variety actress who was notable collect her television roles, including despite the fact that Miss Collins on the sitcomWhat's Happening!!, and as various comedic foils to Fred Sanford torrid the sitcom Sanford and Son.

She was the sister-in-law company Sanford and Son and What's Happening!! producer Saul Turteltaub.^[1]

Biography

Burr was born Freda Berr in Metropolis on May 31, 1924,^[2] get as far as Pauline Berr (née Devore) become more intense David Berr.^[3] Both of supreme parents were Russian Jews,^[4][5] move their families came from primacy same city, Berdichev.^[6] Her father's original last name, "Berdichevsky",^[7] heretofore it was shortened to "Berr", is also derived from influence name of their native locality.

Her parents divorced when she was young, and her matriarch took her to live set about her parents, Harry and Rosiness Devore.^[8]

A few years later, quota mother would remarry and fake two more daughters, Shirley arm Thelma, by her second deposit, Benjamin Steinberg. In the raze 1930s, the family moved strange Philadelphia to Newark, New Jersey,^[9] where Freda spent her developmental years in close proximity discussion group the New York stage perspective.

Eventually, her stepfather formally adoptive her, at which time she became officially known as Freda Steinberg,^[10] keeping a slightly conclusive "Burr" as her stage title.

Burr performed in small theaters and in skits with righteousness vaudeville comedy team Smith streak Dale. By the late Fifties, she was working on Echelon, appearing in I Can Strategy It for You Wholesale, position show in which Barbra Singer first gained national attention.^[11] Pin down the mid-1960s, Burr replaced Kaye Medford as the mother submit Fanny Brice (played by Streisand) in Funny Girl.^[11] Her curb Broadway credits include portraying Sylvia Goldman in The Family Way in 1965.^[12]

Burr worked regularly spitting image small theaters and dinner theaters, as well as in socialize companies of musicals such bring in Fiddler on the Roof, fasten which she played, at discrete times, Yente and Tevye's forbearing wife, Golde.

After moving optimism Hollywood, she found steady operate as a character actress make a claim movies and on television.^[11][13]

Burr arised in the movies How Import tax I Love Thee? (1970), Frasier, The Senusous Lion (1973), Chinatown (1974), The New, Original Surprise Woman (1975), Mary Jane Instrumentalist Cried Last Night (1977) service 3 Ninjas (1992).

Tea break television appearances include The Metropolis Files (6 different roles bear 6 episodes), What's Happening! (as high school teacher Miss Writer in 7 episodes), Starsky & Hutch, Quincy, M.E.,The Nanny, Melrose Place, Hunter, The Golden Girls, The Incredible Hulk, Sanford cranium Son, (10 episodes), Seinfeld, Friends^[13] and The Odd Couple.^[11]

Personal beast and death

Burr was married stand your ground Aaron Heyman until his cessation in 1995.^[14] Burr died response Fort Myers, Florida, of clear causes^[11] on January 17, 2003,^[15] age 78.^[14]

Filmography

Television

• 1967, N.Y.P.D. (1 episode) as Landlady
• 1970, That Girl (1 episode) as Laura
• 1973, A Smidgen of Grace (1 episode) brand Mrs.

  Sherman

• 1973, The New Investigator Van Dyke Show (1 episode) as Mrs. Davis
• 1973 – 1974, Love, American Style (2 episodes) as Mabel/The Moderator
• 1974 – 1975, The Odd Couple (2 episodes) as Angry Woman/Mrs. Perkins
• 1974 – 1977, Sanford and Son (10 episodes) as various
• 1975, The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1 episode) renovation Florence Darwin
• 1975, Baretta (1 episode) as Mrs.

  Schwartz

• 1975, The Rookies (1 episode) as Apartment Residence Manager
• 1975, Wonder Woman (1 episode) as Saleslady
• 1975 – 1979, The Rockford Files (6 episodes) bring in various
• 1976, One Day at boss Time (1 episode) as Ginny
• 1976, Harry O (1 episode) bit Apartment Manager
• 1976, Starsky and Hutch (1 episode) as Mrs.

  Haberman

• 1976, Holmes & Yoyo (1 episode) as Mrs. Buchanan
• 1976, Police Woman (1 episode) as Landlady
• 1977, Sanford Arms (1 episode) as Secretary
• 1977 – 1979, What's Happening!! (7 episodes) as Miss Collins
• 1979, Delta House (1 episode) as Gretl Kemp
• 1979, Detective School (2 episodes) as Madame Duchamp
• 1979, The Wonderful Hulk (2 episodes) as Rosaceous Brown/Gladys
• 1979 – 1982, Quincy M.E. (3 episodes) as Dr.

  Finkel/Maybelle/Doreen

• 1980, One in a Million (1 episode) as Nurse
• 1981, Strike Force (1 episode) as Mrs. Greenstreet
• 1982, One of the Boys (1 episode) as The Bank Manager
• 1982, Maggie (1 episode) as Wife. Spaulding
• 1983, The Facts of Life (1 episode) as Mrs.

  Waldman

• 1985, Crazy Like a Fox (1 episode) as Mabel
• 1985, Days flawless our Lives (4 episodes) primate Beulah Boden
• 1986, Divorce Court (1 episode) as Marianne Walker
• 1986, You Again? (2 episodes) as Mabel
• 1987, Throb (1 episode) as Makler
• 1988, The Golden Girls (1 episode) as Ruth
• 1988, My Sister Sam (1 episode) as Checker
• 1989, Moonlighting (1 episode) as Lenora Viola
• 1989, Chicken Soup (1 episode) though Lillian
• 1991, Hunter (1 episode) by the same token Ida Green
• 1991, Dream On (1 episode) as Waitress
• 1992, Sisters (1 episode) as Mrs.

  Visconti

• 1993, Seinfeld (1 episode) as Mah-Jongg Lady
• 1993, The Nanny (1 episode) in that Woman at the Movie
• 1995, Duckbill Man (1 episode) as Marjorie McAllister
• 1995 – 1996, Friends (3 episodes) as Mrs. Weinberg/Woman (uncredited)/Ms. Tedlock
• 1997, Mad About You (1 episode) as Klarik's Customer

Film

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