Betty Harford, 1927 – 2025

Stage, screen, and TV character actress Betty Harford, 97, died on Nov. 2. Harford started her career onstage with the UCLA Theater Group. She had continuing roles in The Paper Chase (as old pal John Houseman’s secretary) and Dynasty (as the Carringtons’ cook), and voiced Gumby’s mother, Gumba, on The Gumby Show. She also played Natalie Wood’s sister in the delightfully awful Inside Daisy Clover, and had small roles in such movies and TV shows as The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The China Syndrome, The Big Valley, Room 222, and September 30, 1955, among many others. Harford was married to sculptor Oliver Andrews (who died in a 1978 diving accident) and Hungarian actor Sándor Naszódy (who died in 1996).