Irene Ryan

Irene Ryan was an American actress and comedian who worked across vaudeville, radio, film, television and Broadway. Born in El Paso, Texas, she started performing at eleven, after winning an amateur singing contest at a San Francisco theater, and she toured in vaudeville before starring in short comedies for Educational Pictures during the 1930s. Her film credits included the country music feature O, My Darling Clementine (1943). On radio she spent two years on Bob Hope's program and later joined The Jack Carson Show, and on television she played Daisy May Moses, known as Granny, in The Beverly Hillbillies from 1962 to 1971, earning Emmy nominations in 1963 and 1964. She appeared in the comedy Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966) and in 1972 took the Broadway role of Berthe in Bob Fosse's Pippin, which brought a Tony nomination in 1973.