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Edgar John Bergen (born Edgar John Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer. He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
The Walton family elder, The Grandfather/ Grandpa Walton (Pilot, Edgar Bergen; seasons 1–6, Will Geer), husband of grandma Esther Walton (née Morgan), and father of Benjamin Walton, who was also killed in World War I, John Walton Sr., and an unknown Walton child (early in the first season, Zeb is showing John Boy military medals stored in a ...
Frances Bergen (née Westerman; [1] September 14, 1922 – October 2, 2006) was an American actress and fashion model. [ citation needed ] She was the wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the mother of actress Candice Bergen and film and television editor Kris Bergen.
Bergen. Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wife, model and actress Frances Bergen (née Westerman), are the parents of actress Candice Bergen. Candice was married to French director Louis Malle. Berggren. Musician Jonas Berggren and his younger sisters, Malin (better known as Linn) and Jenny, are founding members of Ace of Base.
Ellen Hansen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress and screenwriter. She played the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards.
Candice Bergen and her mother, actress Frances Bergen, at the 62nd Academy Awards March 26, 1990 Bergen is a political activist who once accepted a date with Henry Kissinger . [ 41 ] In 1967, she participated in a Yippie prank when she, Abbie Hoffman , and others threw dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange , leading to its ...
Bergen was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to Lucy (née Lawhorne; 1909–1985) and William Hugh Burgin (1909–1982), a construction engineer. [1] Bill Bergen, as he was later known, had singing talent and appeared with his daughter in several episodes of her 18-episode comedy/variety show The Polly Bergen Show, which aired during the 1957–1958 television season to much fanfare.
[16] [17] While still married, she became romantically involved with Edgar Bergen in 1937 but divorced Burns in 1939. [18] Canova was briefly married to James Ripley in 1941. Her third marriage, to Chester B. England in 1943, ended in divorce by 1950. She married her final husband, musician Filberto Rivero, in 1950. [19]