Mary Grace Canfield (b. September 3 1924, Rochester, New York) is an American actress who often played the role of a romance-starved spinster/wallflower.

In the 1961-1962 television season, Canfield played a housekeeper, Amanda Allison, in the ABC sitcom The Hathaways, starring Peggy Cass and Jack Weston as "parents" to the performing Marquis Chimps.

On the CBS seriesGreen Acres, Canfield played the all-thumbs carpenter who greeted her fellow Hootervillians with her signature, "Howdie Doodie!" As Thelma Lou's "plain" cousin in an episode of CBS's The Andy Griffith Show, she had an arranged blind date with Gomer Pyle, played by Jim Nabors. During the early 1970s, Canfield and actress Lucille Wall shared the role of nurse Lucille March (Audrey's sister) on General Hospital.

She guest starred the two-season NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour. In 1966, Canfield played Abner Kravitz' sister, Harriet, on three Bewitched episodes in the interim following the death of actress Alice Pearce, who played Mrs. Kravitz, from ovarian cancer; and before the hiring of Pearce's successor in the role, Sandra Gould.

She appeared in such films as Pollyanna,The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Something Wicked This Way Comes and South of Reno.

Last public appearance

In 2005, she attended Eddie Albert's funeral along with Green Acres's co-stars Sid Melton and Frank Cady.

External links

• 1930 US census showing 1924 as year of birth