Nydia Westman

Known for ActingBorn 1902-02-19Died 1970-05-23New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television. Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Children's School. Her sisters, Lolita and Neville were actresses, and her brother, Theodore (d. November 20, 1927), was an actor and playwright. Westman's career ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as That Girl and Dragnet and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films (such as Craig's Wife, which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of Little Women. Westman's screen debut came in Strange Justice (1922). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s. She appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962–1963 ABC series, Going My Way, which starred Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll as Roman Catholic priests in New York City. Westman's first Broadway play was Pigs (1924); her last was Midgie Purvis (1961). She broke ground on stage, debuting the role of Nell off-Broadway in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, for which she won one of the first Obie awards. Westman was married to Robert Sparks, a producer, from 1930 until 1937; they had a daughter, actress Kate Williamson, born on September 19, 1931. Westman died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight in Burbank, California.Read more

Movies & web series

Bloomer Girl

When Love Is Young

Cradle Song

Dressed to Thrill

The Addams Family

The Munsters

Bewitched

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The First Hundred Years

The Way to Love

Perry Mason

From Hell to Heaven

Silent Night, Lonely Night

Her Primitive Man

The Remarkable Andrew

Adam-12

The Chase

Two Alone

Pennies from Heaven

The Late George Apley

Hers to Hold

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Family Affair

Rose Bowl

A Feather in Her Hat

Bondage

Route 66

The Cat and the Canary

Lux Video Theatre

The Second Hundred Years

Little Women

Going My Way

The Philco Television Playhouse

Sweet Adeline

The Chocolate Soldier

The Donna Reed Show

Princess O'Rourke

F Troop

Hullabaloo

Forty Little Mothers

That Girl

Craig's Wife

For Love or Money

The Velvet Touch

The Invisible Ray

The Reluctant Astronaut

Strange Justice

The Farmer's Daughter