Frances Bay (January 23, 1919 - September 15, 2011) was a Canadian American character actress, best known for playing quirky, elderly women on film and television. She began her acting career in her late-50's.
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Frances Bay (January 23, 1919 - September 15, 2011) was a Canadian American character actress, best known for playing quirky, elderly women on film and television. She began her acting career in her late-50's.

Personal life [edit]
Bay was born Frances Goffman in Mannville, Alberta to a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant father, Max Goffman, and his wife, Ann (née Averbach), and raised in Dauphin, Manitoba. Her younger brother was the noted sociologist Erving Goffman. Before World War II she acted professionally in Winnipeg and spent the war hosting the Canadian Broadcasting Company's radio show, Everybody's Program, aimed at service members overseas.
She married and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, living in the Constantia and Camps Bay areas. She studied with Uta Hagen at this time. Charles and Frances Bay had one son, Josh (Eli Joshua; March 14, 1947 - June 6, 1970), who died at the age of 23.
She was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame on September 6, 2008, in large part thanks to a petition with 10,000 names which was submitted on her behalf. The selection committee also received personal letters from Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, David Lynch, Henry Winkler, Monty Hall and other celebrities.
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