Nydia Westman
Acting
Born 1902-02-19
Died 1970-05-23
New York City, New York, USA
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Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television.
Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Children's School.
Her sisters, Lolita and Neville were actresses, and her brother, Theodore (d. November 20, 1927), was an actor and playwright.
Westman's career ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as That Girl and Dragnet and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films (such as Craig's Wife, which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of Little Women.
Westman's screen debut came in Strange Justice (1922). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s.
She appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962–1963 ABC series, Going My Way, which starred Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll as Roman Catholic priests in New York City.
Westman's first Broadway play was Pigs (1924); her last was Midgie Purvis (1961).
She broke ground on stage, debuting the role of Nell off-Broadway in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, for which she won one of the first Obie awards.
Westman was married to Robert Sparks, a producer, from 1930 until 1937; they had a daughter, actress Kate Williamson, born on September 19, 1931.
Westman died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight in Burbank, California.
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Acting
47 credits
Perry Mason
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Adam-12
Studio One
The Addams Family
Lux Video Theatre
Going My Way
The Chase
The Second Hundred Years
Little Women
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Captain Hurricane
For Love or Money
The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland
One Night of Love
Princess O'Rourke
The Gorgeous Hussy
Pennies from Heaven
When Tomorrow Comes
They All Kissed the Bride
Craig's Wife
The Velvet Touch
The Invisible Ray
The Swinger
The Cat and the Canary
Rose Bowl
Two Alone
Bondage
Silent Night, Lonely Night
The Reluctant Astronaut
Rabbit, Run
The Late George Apley
The Remarkable Andrew
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Cradle Song
The Bad Man
Bloomer Girl
Hullabaloo
Hers to Hold
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Her Primitive Man
The First Hundred Years
The Chocolate Soldier
Success at Any Price
Dressed to Thrill
Forty Little Mothers
Manhattan Love Song
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Bewitched
The Donna Reed Show
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Philco Television Playhouse
Ben Casey
Route 66
The Munsters
Family Affair
That Girl
F Troop
Lancer
The Farmer's Daughter
The Roaring 20's
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