Carmen Sylva Mathews

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Carmen Sylva Mathews
On Television and in TV Movies

1. 1948 The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: episode “Once to Every Boy” (2/20/50)

2. 1951 Goodyear Television Play house: episode “The Room” (episode #2 .2, 9/28/52

3. 1951 Goodyear Television Playhouse: episode “The Old Beginning” (episode #2.6, 11/23/52)

4. 1951 Goodyear Television Playhouse: episode “Maestro” (episode #6.1, 9/23/56)

5. 1951, Goodyear Television Playhouse: episode “Ernie Barger is Fifty” (episode #2.21, 8/9/53)

6. 1953 The United States Steel Hour: episode “Above the World so High” (8/28/57)

7. 1953 The United States Steel Hour: episode “Welcome Home” (3/17/54)

8. 1953 You Are There: episode “The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots” (episode #2.33, 4/18/54)

9. 1953 You Are There: episode “The Trial of Susan B. Anthony” (episode #3.22, 1/23/55)

10. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: episode “Kerry Blue” playing Thelma Malley (episode #7.28, 4/12/62)

11. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: episode “The Festive Season” playing Celia (episode #3.31, 5/4/58)

12. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: episode “Conversation Over a Corpse” playing Joanna Enright (episode #2.8, 11/18/56)

13. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: episode “Kill With Kindness” playing Katherine Oldham (episode #2.4, 10/21/56)

14. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: episode “The Older Sister” playing Lizzie Borden (episode #1.71, 1/22/56)

15. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: episode “The Impossible Dream” playing Miss Hall (episode 4.28, 4/19/59)

16. 1956 Producers’ Showcase: episode “Bloomer Girl” parts I & II, NBC

17. 1958 Naked City: episode “Killer With a Kiss” (episode #2.6, 11/16/60)

18. 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame: episode “Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates”, NBC

19. 1959 Adventures in Paradise: episode “Vendetta” (episode #3.3, 10/15/62

20. 1959 The Twilight Zone: “Static” playing Vinnie Brown (episode #2.20, 3/10/61E

21. 1961 Way Out: episode “The Sister” (episode #1.3)

22. 1963 The Fugitive: episode “World’s End” playing Ada (episode 2.2, 9/22/64)

23. 1963 The Doctors playing Theodora Van Alen (episode #1, 1966)

24. 1964 Another World playing Bess Killworth (1983)

25. 1970 The Storefront Lawyers: episode “A Man’s Castle”, CBS

26. 1971 Cannon: episode “Cain’s mark” playing Mrs. Alexander (episode #1.23, 3/7/72)

27. 1971 Sam Hill, Who Killed Mr. Foster playing Abigail Booth

28. 1971 They Call It Murder playing Doris Kane

29. 1971 Alias Smith and Jones: episode “Six Strangers at Apache Springs” playing Mrs. Fielding (episode #2.7, 10/28/71)

30. 1972 The Streets of San Francisco , premier, parts 1 & 2 , playing Sally Caswell, ABC

31. 1972 M*A*S*H*: episode “Colonel Lil” playing Col. Lillian Rayburn with Henry Morgan and Alan Alda (episode #7.3, 10/2/78)

32. 1975 Ellery Queen : episode “Adventure of the Mad Tea Party” playingLetelia Allingham “a dowager-like species who makes crisp bon mots” (epidose #1.8, 10/30/75)

33. 1976 The Widow, a TV show based on a recent novel of the same name.

34. 1972 Charlie Cobb: “Nice Night For a Hanging” playing Miss Cumberland

35. 1980 Gauguin the Savage playing Madam Jeanette

36. 1983 Kennedy playing Mamie Eisenhower

37. 1984 Kate & Allie: episode “ Safe Caper” playing Lotte Simpson (episode #2.8, 1984)

38. 1984 Tales From the Dark Side: episode “In the Cards” playing Madame Marlene Marlene (episode 1.2, 1/2/85)

39. 1988 To Take A Stand playing the Judge written by Bruce Harmon, produced by Frank Doelger

40. 1990 Last Best Year of My Life with Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters, directed by John Erwin

41. 1990 The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling, written by Bruce Harmon, produced by Frank Doelger

* Tapes of shows at the Museum of T.V. and Radio in New York City. (List supplied by Ron Simon, Curator)

Tapes at Museum of T.V. and Radio in New York City we didn't know about:

1. Rainy Day in Proud Junction (need producer & year)

Carmen Sylva Mathews
In Feature Movies

1. 1960 Butterfield 8 playing Mrs. Jescott

2. 1965 Rage to Live playing Emily Caldwell

3. 1970 Rabbit Run playing Mrs. Springer

4. 1972 Sounder playing Mrs. Boatwright with Cecily Tyson and Paul Winfield, directed by Martin Ritt

5. 1983 Daniel by E.L. Doctrow playing Ed Begly, Jr.’s wife, with Timothy Hutton directed, by Sidney Lumet

Carmen Sylva Mathews
Additional TV Appearances

· Playhouse 90: episode “Verdict of Three” with Angela Lansbury, Michael Wilding, Yvonne de Carlo. Review “Carmen Mathews, who may have offered a bad acting job sometime, but we can’t remember it.” CBS

· Studio One, CBS - Voyager

· Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC

· Ben Casey, ABC

· The FBI, ABC

· NET Playhouse, played with Gary Merrill in one episode