Virginia Gregg

Actor

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Also Known As

Virginia Burkett

Birth Place

Harrisburg, Illinois, USA

Born

March 06, 1916

Died

September 15, 1986

Cause of Death

Cancer

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Virginia Gregg was an American TV, film, and radio actor whose most notable role, as the voice of Norman Bates's mother in "Psycho," went uncredited for years. Gregg began her career as one of the most in-demand female radio actors of the 1940s. After appearing regularly on radio serials such as the western "Gunsmoke" and the comedy classic "The Jack Benny Program," Gregg initially tried...

Filmography

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Heidi's Song (1982)

Forbidden Love (1982)

Henny Brandywynne

Mortician'S Wife

Man From Atlantis (1977)

No Way Back (1976)

You Lie So Deep, My Love (1975)

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Big Hand For The Little Lady, A -- (Movie Clip) Homely As A Lemon

Two On A Guillotine (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Always A Greater Illusion

Biography

Virginia Gregg was an American TV, film, and radio actor whose most notable role, as the voice of Norman Bates's mother in "Psycho," went uncredited for years. Gregg began her career as one of the most in-demand female radio actors of the 1940s. After appearing regularly on radio serials such as the western "Gunsmoke" and the comedy classic "The Jack Benny Program," Gregg initially tried her luck with small film roles but found greater success on television, finding numerous bit parts in live TV plays and variety shows. By the 1950s and '60s, Gregg had steady work as a character actor, regularly playing wives of murder victims or stalwart frontierswomen on shows such as the minimalist police drama "Dragnet" and the western "Rawhide." In 1960, Gregg was one of three uncredited voice actors to play the role of Norma Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho." She went on to perform the voice by herself in the critically-derided sequels "Psycho II" and "Psycho II" before succumbing to lung cancer in 1986.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Heidi's Song (1982)

Forbidden Love (1982)

Henny Brandywynne

Mortician'S Wife

Man From Atlantis (1977)

No Way Back (1976)

You Lie So Deep, My Love (1975)

The Stranger (1973)

Wardrobe E Administrator

All My Darling Daughters (1972)

Emergency! (1972)

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill (1971)

Judge Virginia Adamson

A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)

Heaven With a Gun (1969)

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)

The Bubble (1966)

The Bubble (1966)

Two on a Guillotine (1965)

Joy in the Morning (1965)

Spencer's Mountain (1963)

Shoot Out at Big Sag (1962)

House of Women (1962)

Man-Trap (1961)

Voice of Norma Bates

All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Maj. Edna Hayward

Hound-Dog Man (1959)

The Hanging Tree (1959)

Torpedo Run (1958)

Voice of Tokyo Rose

Twilight for the Gods (1958)

The D.I. (1957)

Portland Exposé (1957)

Crime in the Streets (1956)

The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)

Terror at Midnight (1956)

I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

Flesh and Fury (1952)

The Gay Intruders (1948)

The Spiritualist (1948)

Gentleman's Agreement (1948)

Body and Soul (1947)

Lost Honeymoon (1947)

Notorious (1946)

Cast (Special)

The 25th Man (1982)

State Fair (1976)

Gentry's People (1959)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Evita Peron (1981)

Little Women (1978)

Attack on Terror (1975)

Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection (1973)

Voice Of Barbara Hightower

Life Events

Videos

Big Hand For The Little Lady, A -- (Movie Clip) Homely As A Lemon Jason Robards Jr. (as "Drummond") returning after his card game to find wife (Virginia Gregg), daughter (Louise Glenn) and bridegroom (William Cort), in a tour-de-force scene from A Big Hand For The Little Lady, 1966.

Two On A Guillotine (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Always A Greater Illusion Scary enough opening from director William Conrad (later TV’s “Cannon”), Cesar Romero stabs Connie Stevens, but wide shot reveals he’s a magician and she’s his assistant (and wife), Virginia Gregg the nanny etc. backstage, Parley Baer the PR man, in Two On A Guillotine, 1965, co-starring Dean Jones.

Crime In The Streets -- (Movie Clip) I Caught A Roach Little brother Richie (Peter Votrian) awakens his much admired thug brother Frankie (John Casavettes), mother (Virginia Gregg) soon joining them, in Don Siegel's Crime In The Streets, 1956.

Crime In The Streets -- (Movie Clip) So You Can Vote Gang breaks up for the evening, leaving social worker Ben (James Whitmore) chatting with leader Frankie (John Casavettes) and sidekick Lou (Mark Rydell), then Frankie's mother (Virginia Gregg), in Don Siegel's Crime In The Streets, 1956.

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - (Original Trailer) Eurasian doctor Jennifer Jones meets war correspondent William Holden and discovers Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955).

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