Nancy Malone (born Anne Josefa Maloney March 19, 1935 â€" May 8, 2014) was an American television actress from the 1950s to 1970s, who later moved into producing and directing in the 1980s and 1990s.
She played Libby on the television series Naked City from 1960 to 1963. During the same period, she played Robin Lang Bowden Fletcher on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light. She subsequently played Clara Varner on the television series The Long Hot Summer, which ran for one season on ABC, and appeared in The Outer Limits (episode "Fun and Games") and The Twilight Zone (episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town"). She played Dr. Edith Gibson, the love interest of Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), on the last original episode of the television series The Andy Griffith Show ("A Girl for Goober," which aired March 25, 1968).
In 1976, she became the first female vice-president of television at 20th Century Fox. In 1977, she was awarded one of the first Crystal Awards by Women in Film for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.
Malone won an Emmy Award for producing Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (1993) (TV) and was nominated for Emmy Awards for directing episodes of Sisters in (1991), and The Trials of Rosie O'Neill in (1992). She was a board member for The Alliance Of Women Directors, composed of female directors who are alumnae of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. She was also a Lifetime member of The Actors Studio.
She died of pneumonia while battling leukemia on May 8, 2014, aged 79.
Filmography as director
- The Guardian (TV series)
- Resurrection Blvd (TV series)
- Judging Amy (TV series)
- The Fugitive (TV series)
- Star Trek: Voyager (TV series)
- Fame L.A. (TV series)
- Central Park West (TV Series)
- Touched by an Angel (1994; TV series)
- Diagnosis: Murder (1993; TV series)
- Melrose Place (1992; TV series)
- The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (TV series)
- Sisters (1991; TV series)
- Beverly Hills, 90210 (TV series)
- Hotel (1983; TV series)
- Dynasty (1981; TV series)
- Merlene of the Movies (1981; movie)
- Knots Landing (1979; TV series)
- The Bionic Woman (1977; producer for two episodes)
References
External links
- Nancy Malone interview video at the Archive of American Television