Bonnie Bartlett Bio, Age, Waltons, Career, Movies & TV Shows

BIOGRAPHY OF BONNIE BARTLETT

Bonnie Bartlett is an American television and film actress. Her career spanned over 60 years, with her first major role in a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere for her role as Ellen Craig. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played the fictional husband of Dr. Mark Craig, won the 1986 Emmy Awards the same night, becoming the first married couple to achieve the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965.

BONNIE BARTLETT AGE

Bonnie was born on June 20, 1929 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, United States. She turns 89 in 2018.

BONNIE BARTLETT WIFE

Bartlett met her husband, actor William Daniels at Northwestern University. They married on June 30, 1951.

In 1961, she gave birth to a son, who died 24 hours later. They later adopted two children: Michael, who became an assistant director and stage manager in Los Angeles, and Robert, who became an artist and graphic designer based in New York.

BONNIE BARTLETT EARLY LIFE

The daughter of Carrie Archer and Elwin Earl Bartlett was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, and raised in Moline, Illinois. Her father was an insurance salesman and failed actor, and she was determined to live her dream. She graduated from Moline High School in 1947.

BONNIE BARTLETT THE WALTONS

Played the role of Martha Rudge.

CAREER OF BONNIE BARTLETT

Bartlett studied acting with Lee Strasberg and began playing the heroine “Vanessa Dale Raven” on the soap opera Love of Life from 1955 to 1959 for actress Peggy McCay on television. She also had a previous role on the program in which she briefly played the character of Ellie Crown, a role that Hildy Parks played for several years. Then, in the 1960s, she moved on to tonight roles.

Her most popular role was on St. Elsewhere as Ellen Craig. She took on greater prominence in the 1984–85 season when the storyline included Ellen and Mark’s marital problems. The following season, the storyline deepened when their son was killed and their granddaughter had to be raised. Bartlett won back-to-back Emmys and became a contract actor. Ellen and Mark’s divorce and slow reconciliation after losing their granddaughter in a custody dispute with her birth mother included other difficult elements.

Bartlett only accepted small guest appearances on programs such as The Golden Girls, Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files and The Waltons for many years, as well as a recurring role as Grace Snider Edwards on Prairie Little House. 1974 to 1977. In the 1980s, her acting career picked up significantly, including the miniseries V and North and South: Book II.

Bartlett and her husband, William Daniels, made Emmy history in 1986 by becoming the second true married couple to win the awards on the same night. The feat was first performed by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Bartlett and Daniels won the television series St. Elsewhere for their portrayals of Dr. Mark and Mrs. Ellen Craig. They later acted together again in a season of the ABC series Daniels Boy Meets World when she played a college dean who employed her husband’s character, and their characters later married.

When St. Elsewhere ended in 1988, Bartlett’s career shifted to a wide range of guest appearances, including major roles in Wiseguy as the tough and corrupt sewage industry matriarch; as Andrea Drey, Secretary General of the United Nations Earth Ocean Organization (WEU) on SeaQuest DSV; on home improvement as Lucille Taylor’s mother; and in the ER as the mother of Ruth Katherine Greek Taylor; Bartlett’s last feature film role to date was in the movie Valediction.

MOVIES THE BONNIE BARTLETT

2012-Valediction as Anabell
2006-Saving Shiloh as Mrs. Wallace
1998-Primary Colors as Martha Harris
1996-Ghosts of Mississippi as Billie DeLaughter
1995-The Grass Harp as Mrs Buster
1993-Dave as Wife Senator
1988-Twins as Mary Ann Benedict
1979-California Dreaming as Melinda Brooke
1979-Promises in the Dark as Nurse Farber
1976-The Last Tycoon as Brady’s Secretary

BONNIE BARTLETT NET WORTH

Bartlett made money by acting niche. For all time, so far, year 2019, Bonnie Bartlett has earned $58 million. The exact sum is $58,000,000.

BONNIE BARTLETT TV SHOWS

2017-Better Call Saul as Helen
2013-Parks and Recreation as Paula Horke
2012-Of Two Minds as Kathleen
2008-Grey’s Anatomy as patient Rosie Bullard
2006-Boston Legal as Marguerite Hauser
2006-General Hospital as as Miriam Spinelli
2005-Huff as Margaret
2004-NCIS as Dr. Sylvia Chalmers
2003-Touched by an Angel as Loretta
2002-Firefly as Patience
2002-Strong Medicine as Edna Carlyle
2000-Touched by an Angel as Lucy Scribner
1999–2002-Once and Again as Barbara Brooks
1998-Stargate SG-1 as Linea
1997–1999-Boy Meets World as Dean Bolander
1997–1999-The Practice as Joanne Oz
1997–1998-ER as Ruth Greene
1997-Touched by an Angel as Emily
1997-Sleeping with the Devil as Stasha Dubrovnikich
1996-The Faculty as Katherine
1995–1998-Home Improvement as Lucille Taylor
1994-SeaQuest DSV as WEU Secretary General
1992-LA Law as Gloria Lee
1992-Room for Two as Francine Luboff
1992-I’ll Fly In as Beth Lekatzis
1990-The Great Los Angeles Earthquake as Anita Parker
1990-Wiseguy as Harriet Weiss
1989-Matlock as Lorraine Maslin
1989-Murder She Wrote as Marilyn North
1988-The Golden Girls as Barbara Thorndyke
1986-The Deliberate Stranger as Louise Bundy
1985-Hotel as Olga Petrovsky
1983-V as Lynn Bernstein
1982–1988-St. Elsewhere as Ellen Craig
1982-Barney Miller as Emily Loftis
1982-Lou Grant as Claire
1981-ABC Afterschool Specials Miriam Scott
1981-Knots Landing as Dr. Ruth West
1980-Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case as Norma Joyce
1979-Hart to Hart as Myra Bensinger
1979-Salem’s Lot as Ann Norton
1977-Washington: Behind Closed Doors as Joan Bailey
1977-Killer on Board as Debra Snowden
1976-The Rockford Files as Casey Patterson
1975-Kojak Joan as Milner
1974-1979-Little House on the Prairie as Grace Snider Edwards
1974-Gunsmoke as Maylee Baines
1974-The Waltons as Martha Rudge
1974- Gunsmoke as Agnes Benton
1973-Emergency! as Eunice Evans
1969-The Jackie Gleason Show as Donna Douglas
1965-The Patty Duke Show as Miss Castle
1955-1959-Love of Life as Vanessa Dale Raven
1951-Love of Life as Ellie Crown

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