Judith Lowry was an American

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 actress.

Born as Judith Ives in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Lowry labored in occasional bit parts in film and television from the 1940s until she began to get more substantial roles in her eighties. Ms. Lowry also had an uncredited role in Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls is a novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966. The "dolls" within the title is a slang term for downers, barbiturates used as sleep aids....

as Aunt Amy. She had character parts in such films as The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 crime film. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and stars Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, and comedian Alan King. The screenplay was written by Frank Pierson, based upon a best-selling 1970 novel of the same name by Lawrence Sanders...

opposite Sean Connery

Sean Connery

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, and Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey (film)

Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical comedy film. It stars Dick Van Dyke plus a long list of comedic actors, several of whom are well known to North American television audiences...

alongside Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Her best remembered role was as the acid-tongued Mother Dexter on the 1970s sitcom Phyllis

Phyllis (TV series)

Phyllis is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 11, 1975 to March 13, 1977.Created by Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels. it was the second spin-off series from The Mary Tyler Moore Show . The show starred Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom, who was previously Mary Richards'...

, which starred Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award...

. This was Lowry's last major acting role because she died of a heart attack during the series' final season. One of the last episodes she filmed before her death, "Mother Dexter's Wedding", also marked the final appearance of veteran actor Burt Mustin

Burt Mustin

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 as her bridegroom, Arthur Lanson. By the time the episode aired in December of 1976, Lowry had already died and Mustin was too ill to see it. Mustin died in January, 1977. After the airing of "Mother Dexter's Wedding", five more episodes of Phyllis followed in which Judith Lowry appeared.

Lowry also appeared on stage, most notably off Broadway in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1964 play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher. Zindel received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the work. The play's world premiere was staged in 1964 at the Alley Theatre...

and on Broadway

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 in a small role in Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish

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's drama J.B.

Films

Title	Year	Role	Notes
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek The Miracle of Morgan's Creek The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall...	1944	Nurse	Uncredited
13 Rue Madeline	1947	Peasant Woman	Uncredited
The Miracle Worker	1962	1st Crone	Uncredited
Ladybug Ladybug Ladybug Ladybug (film) Ladybug Ladybug is a 1963 American motion picture, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Frank Perry. The film is a commentary about the psychological effects of the Cold War, the title deriving from the classic nursery rhyme...	1963	Grandmother
Andy	1965
The Trouble with Angels	1966	Sister Prudence
The Tiger Makes Out The Tiger Makes Out The Tiger Makes Out is a 1967 comedy film about a kidnapper and his unintended victim, starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson and directed by Arthur Hiller. This is Dustin Hoffman's film debut.-Plot:...	1967
Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls (film) The soundtrack was released in 1967. Dionne Warwick sang the title track; however, her version is not on the soundtrack. Warwick was signed to Scepter Records at the time and could not contractually appear...	1967	Aunt Amy	Uncredited
The Night They Raided Minsky's The Night They Raided Minsky's The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925...	1968	Mother Annie
Sweet Charity Sweet Charity (film) Sweet Charity, full title of which is Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved, is a 1969 American musical film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and with music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields...	1969	Old Lady on Park Bench	Uncredited
Popi Popi Popi is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Hiller. The screenplay by Tina Pine and Lester Pine focuses on a Puerto Rican widower struggling to raise his two young sons in the New York City neighborhood known as Spanish Harlem.-Plot:...	1969	Elderly Hospital Patient	Uncredited
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (film) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a 1970 American musical/romantic fantasy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adapted from his book for the 1965 stage production of the same name...	1970		Uncredited
Husbands Husbands (film) Husbands is a 1970 film written and directed by John Cassavetes. This ensemble film, which describes three middle class men in the throes of a midlife crisis, stars Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk and Cassavetes....	1970	Stuart's Grandmother
Cold Turkey Cold Turkey (film) Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical comedy film. It stars Dick Van Dyke plus a long list of comedic actors, several of whom are well known to North American television audiences...	1971	Odie Turman
The Anderson Tapes The Anderson Tapes The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 crime film. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and stars Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, and comedian Alan King. The screenplay was written by Frank Pierson, based upon a best-selling 1970 novel of the same name by Lawrence Sanders...	1971	Mrs. Hathaway
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (film) The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1972 American drama film produced and directed by Paul Newman. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title by Paul Zindel...	1972	Nanny
Superdad Superdad Superdad is a 1973 American comedy film by Walt Disney Productions and starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, and Kathleen Cody...	1973	Mother Barlow

Television

Show	Year	Role	Episode
1. Studio One Studio One (TV series) Studio One is a long-running American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by the 26-year-old Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC.-Radio:...	1954		1 Episode
2. The Phil Silvers Show The Phil Silvers Show The Phil Silvers Show is a comedy television series which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G...	1956	Josie	1 Episode
3. The Patty Duke Show The Patty Duke Show The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke...	1965	Miss Tansy	1 Episode
4. The Jackie Gleason Show The Jackie Gleason Show The Jackie Gleason Show is the name of a series of popular American network television shows that starred Jackie Gleason, which ran from 1952 to 1970.-Cavalcade of Stars:...	1966	Old Lady	1 Episode
5. Dark Shadows Dark Shadows Dark Shadows is a gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements...	1968	Hands of Cassandra	1 Episode
6. Maude Maude (TV series) Maude was an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978.Maude starred Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York with...	1974–1975	Aunt Polly	2 Episodes
7. Kojak Kojak Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...	1975	Lily Weed	1 Episode
8. Phyllis Phyllis (TV series) Phyllis is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 11, 1975 to March 13, 1977.Created by Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels. it was the second spin-off series from The Mary Tyler Moore Show . The show starred Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom, who was previously Mary Richards'...	1975–1977	Sally "Mother" Dexter	23 Episodes

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