Beverly Dixon is an American stage and screen actress who appeared as an irked Woman in the New York Delicatessen repeatedly afflicted by Jeanie's distracted serving in Season 2's Jeanie loves Mork.
Biography[]
Beverly Dixon was born in Los Angeles, California and attended, Garfield High School - East Los Angeles before studying at UCLA.
Along with her acting career she spent 10 years as a dialogue coach.
She is married to Lou Wills, and is mother to daughter Tracy, grandmother of Cameron and Kaila. Step-mother to Jamie and Stepgrandmother to Michael. She currently lives in Lake Placid Florida.[1]
Career[]
Beverly Dixon started her career on stage, compiling an impressive number of appearances both on and off Broadway and in stock and dinner theatres. She toured with Lauren Bacall in the screen stars Tony award winning musical, Applause. On and off-Broadway she appeared in Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Donnybrook, Lower Depths, A Street Car Named Desire and No Hard Feelings. She was also in the main cast for the run of Fiorello, which tied with The Sound of Music for Best New Musical at the Tony awards in 1960. She also played leading roles in Plaza Suite, Threepenny Opera, Anna Christie, Wonderful Town and starred with Edward Everett Horton in All for Mary. [2]
She also won an 'Andy' for her comic talents on TV commercials, while also appearing in film and in numerous TV series starting with the cult TV classic Dark Shadows in 1967.[3]
Filmography[]
| Year | TV Series | Episodes | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse | Episode #1.215
Episode #1.137 |
Blue Whale Customer |
| 1975 | Doctors' Hospital | But Who Will Bless Thy Daughter Norah? | Jackie Williams |
| 1975 | Kojak | Money Back Guarantee | Victoria Goss |
| 1976 | Police Story | The Other Side of the Fence | Mrs. Higby |
| 1979 | The Ropers | Baby Talk | Hortense Bell |
| 1980 | Mork & Mindy | Jeanie Loves Mork | Woman #1 |
| 1982 | The Facts of Life | Read No Evil | Woman 1 |
| 1982 | The Devlin Connection | Brian and Nick | Marianne |
| 1983 | Three's Company | Now You See It, Now You Don't | Evelyn |
| 1985 | Hotel | New Beginnings | Sylvia |
| 1988 | Murphy Brown | Murphy's Pony | Francine O'Donnell |
| 1989 | Roseanne | Mall Story | Bickering Wife |
| Year | Movie | Role | |
| 1972 | Encounter with the Unknown | Susan's Mother | |
| 1981 | Graduation Day | Elaine Ramstead | |
| 1985 | Texas Godfather | Casino Victim | |
| Year | TV Movie | Role | |
| 1976 | Kiss Me, Kill Me | Dorothy | |
| 1981 | Isabel's Choice | Mae Parker | |
| 1983 | Missing Pieces | Receptionist | |
Mork & Mindy[]
Beverly played the woman who along with her daughter is eating at the NY Delicatessen at a time when Jeanie is undergoing a personal crisis of self-esteem and loneliness and is stuck with the abstract repercussions. Having to attract Jeanie's distracted attention while intent on paying. Coming out of her daydream though, Jeanie thinks she wants more coffee and promptly pours some in her cup...only for the customer to wryly lift the tea bag out of her cup, demonstrating it wasn't what she was having. When Jeanie offers her a fresh bag she declines and asks for the check, Jeanie handing out the two checks, only to see the woman and her daughter promptly look at them and swap. Leaving their money for her, it's pretty clear they won't be repeat customers.
Note:[]
Beverly was a fellow cast member with Conrad Janis (and a young Stockard Channing) of 1973's No Hard Feelings on Broadway.