Helen Shaw

Active - 1980 - 1989  |   Birth - Jul 25, 1897  |   Death - Sep 8, 1997  |   Genres - Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction | Subgenres - Black Comedy Film, Comedy Drama, Time-Travel Film

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Helen Shaw was an American actress. She is best known for playing a kindly old woman on such shows as Diff'rent Strokes and Highway to Heaven. She played Mrs. Dempsey in the 1983 film Twilight Zone: The Movie and Steve Martin's grandmother in the 1989 comedy Parenthood. She was a humorous guest during her first appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on 6 October 1989.

She died in 1997 at the age of 100.

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