Rest In Peace, Frances Bay (1919-2011)

Canadian actress, Frances Bay, passed away at age 92 on September 15, 2011. This sad news reached me an hour ago via TwinPeaksArchve.

Starting an acting career only in her late 50′s, her filmography lists over 150 titles. Cheers, Charmed, E.R., The X-Files, Happy Days, Seinfeld… name a popular TV series and Frances was in it. Of course, the actress was also a Lynch favorite, playing Mrs. Tremond (Chalfont) in Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, aunt Barbara in Blue Velvet and a madam in Wild At Heart.

May she rest in peace.

Here’s her memorable scene together with Lara Flynn Boyle and David Lynch’s son, Austin Jack Lynch.

Frances Bay on meeting David Lynch and small towns:

Frances Bay as Mabel Choate in the Seinfeld episode “The Rye“, which also starred Grace Zabriskie (Sarah Palmer), Warren Frost (Dr. Hayward) and Don Amendolia (Emory Battis)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5xbbQDTRM

Frances Bay, member of the Elder Wisdom Circle (“your grandparents in cyberspace”):

2 comments

brynababy says:

Nov 25, 2011

Twin Pie is right to be saddened by the loss of this wonderful actress but he’s mistaken that she started her career at age 50. She started her FILM and TV career at that point, but Fran was a stage actress from the time she was a kid in Canada. She studied with people like Madame Ospenskaya in New York and Canada and was an accomplished and respected stage actor when she was still quite young.