Ann Morgan Guilbert, an actress who played the next-door neighbor on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and who was seen recently on the CBS comedy “Life in Pieces,” died June 14 in Los Angeles. She was 87.
The cause was cancer, her daughter Nora Eckstein said.
Recent TV appearances included a starring role on the hospital comedy “Getting On” and a guest shot on “Grey’s Anatomy.” She was a regular as feisty Grandma Yetta on the 1990s sitcom “The Nanny,” and in the early 1960s, played Millie Helper, Laura Petrie’s gabby pal, on the acclaimed “Van Dyke” series.
She starred in Nicole Holofcener’s 2010 film, “Please Give.”
Ms. Guilbert had extensive theater credits, including the 2005 Broadway play, “A Naked Girl on the Appian Way,” and productions of “The Matchmaker,” “Arsenic and Old Lace,” ‘’Waiting for Godot,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Harvey.”
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She began her career in the Los Angeles musical variety cabaret act originated by composer Billy Barnes, which toured throughout California. In 1959, “The Billy Barnes Revue” opened in New York as an off-Broadway production, then moved to Broadway.
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Ms. Guilbert was born in Minneapolis on Oct. 16, 1928, and graduated from Stanford University’s Department of Speech and Drama, where she met producer-actor George Eckstein. They married and had two daughters, actress Hallie Todd (“Lizzie McGuire”) and Eckstein, a writer, actress and acting teacher.
After their 1966 divorce, she married actor Guy Raymond, who died in 1997. Survivors include her two daughters.
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