Hi,

did you hear that actress Kathleen Freeman passed away the other day, she played Frank Sutton's mother on Gomer Pyle, she is best known as the Nun on the "Blue's Brothers" movies, she was in other classic TV & movie shows like "THE FLY", "Beverly Hillbillies", Green Acres" and too many more to name! She was great!

Yes, she was a truly great comedy actress. It seems like she appeared in just about every Jerry Lewis movie I can think of.

She also played another part on Gomer Pyle: the episode where Sgt. Carter 'taps' another car and the man comes after him looking for big $$. Turns out his wife was a bad driver, smashed the car, and let Sgt. Carter take the blame.

Kathleen Freeman.
I remember her best for her work on Dom DeLuise's sitcom, "Lotsa Luck" in the 70's. She passed in 2001 at the age of 82 and had an incredible career:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293466/

The funny part of her playing Sgt. Carter's mother, was that she was born in 1919 and Frank Sutton was born in 1923.

That IS funny.

They could get away with it many years ago though because the women used to look so matronly. She looked around 60 so she could have been his mother.

I might be wrong about this, but speaking of the episode of Gomer Pyle in which she plays Sergeant Carter's mother, the Carter's house (from the outside), looks a great deal like the same one used for the Taylor's on the Andy Griffith Show. Any of you birds ever noticed that? It even had the tree out front where the sidewalk curved around it just like the Taylor's on TAGS.:tiphat:

Yeah, I recognized it as the Taylor house too. That was a good episode and she and Frank Sutton were believable as mom and son. I liked them each having their own easy chair, Frank looking at his own real picture as a boy, and that their favorite show coming on was "Rollerderby"! Kathleen seemed to great in everything she did, no matter how small the role. I loved her as the maid in The Dick Van Dyke Show and her look as Laura (her toe stuck in the faucet) calls out "where's the stupid maid?!" and Kathleen mumbles about Rob and Laura on the way out. I was also surprised to read that Kathleen was called in to coach Samantha Eggar in The Collector in the mid 60s. And that Kathleen Freeman was in a hit Broadway play up until very near her death. She was great.