Nancy Walker Filmography

Nancy Walker was an American actress and comedienne of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director . During her five-decade long career, she may be best remembered for her long-running role of Ida Morgenstern, who first appeared on several episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later became a prominent recurring character on the spinoff series Rhoda. Walker was born as Anna Myrtle Smoyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1922, the elder of two daughters of vaudevillian Dewey Barto . Both she and her father stood 4'11" . Her mother died when her younger sister... Betty Lou was an infant. She and Betty Lou, who would also have a musical career, were raised "in-a-trunk" by their father . Barto was a vaudeville entertainer in the comedic and acrobatic dance act, Barto and Mann. Walker made her Broadway debut in 1941 in Best Foot Forward.
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