Peggy Rea

Known for ActingBorn 1921-03-31Died 2011-02-05Los Angeles, California, USA

Peggy Jane Rea was a Los Angeles-born American actress known for her many roles in television, often playing matronly characters. Before she became an actress, Rea left UCLA to attend business school. She landed a job as a production secretary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s. Later, she was an assistant to writer-musician Kay Thompson until Thompson dropped her in April 1948. Some of the points of discord apparently included Rea's insistence on staying at the Algonquin Hotel (rather than Essex House, where Thompson was staying), and disappearing, on at least one occasion, on the eve of their New York opening to see Born Yesterday on Broadway without telling Thompson. The time had come for Peggy to make her mark as the character actress she was born to be. She quickly landed on her feet with a supporting role in the National Road Company production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (as Eunice Hubbell, 1948–1949) starring Anthony Quinn. Thompson severed ties with Rea, however the younger woman kept in touch with other members of Thompson's family, including Thompson's mother, brother and younger sister, with whom she enjoyed cordial relations.Read more

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Nothing But the Truth

Promise Him Anything

Hunter

The Cracker Factory

The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway

Win, Place or Steal

Step by Step

Blood Sport

MacGyver

The Odd Couple

All in the Family

The Golden Girls

I Love Lucy

Quincy, M.E.

A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion

The Wild Wild West

Ellery Queen

Mission: Impossible

Run, Buddy, Run

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Immortal

Monsters

The Red Skelton Show

The Waltons

Have Gun, Will Travel

Fun and Games

A Rainy Day

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Adam-12

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

77 Sunset Strip

The Night Stalker

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

Paper Moon

Bronk

The Magician

Ironside

Charlie's Angels

Devil in a Blue Dress

The Gift of Love

Mannix

The Learning Tree

Gidget

Family Affair

Here's Lucy

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Gunsmoke

ABC Afterschool Special