Betty McGuire passed away on October 8, 2026 at the age of 100 years old at The Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital located in Woodland Hills, CA.
Born in Bridgeport, CT on March 20, 1926, Betty began her career in the 1955 Plain and Fancy musical. Shortly afterwards, she performed in the musical Happy Hunting along with Ethel Merman from 1956-1957. The following year, 1958, she appeared in Oh Captain! with Tony Randall.
Betty's career spanned 70 years of Broadway and Hollywood. We GenX fans would recognize her rolls in the 1977 movie Heroes portraying Mrs. Munro alongside Henry Winkler and Sally Fields. She played Sister Mary Quacker in Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke in 1978 then appeared in Coma as a nurse.
We 1980s fans would likely recognize Betty McGuire from Grandmother Kate Malone from Growing Pains, however she had appeared in a number of television shows including: 7th Heaven, Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Charlie's Angels, Columbo, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and many more.
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