One of those strikingly familiar matrons you just cant place, character actress Mary Jackson is probably best known for her recurring role as one of the delightfully eccentric bootlegging sisters, Miss Emily Baldwin, on the series The Waltons (1971) that ran for nine seasons. She was born November 22, 1910 in rural Milford, Michigan, and earned a bachelors degree from West Michigan University in 1932. A Depression-era school teacher for one year before pursuing her interest in theater, she returned to college (this time Michigan State University) in a fine arts program. She started out on the Chicago stage and in summer stock before migrating to the larger stages in New York and Los Angeles.Film and TV roles did not come her way until well into middle age. Guesting on such TV shows as The Andy Griffith Show, The Twilight Zone, My Three Sons, Hazel, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Barnaby Jones and Highway to Heaven, she usually appeared as ladylike small-town citizens. She was also part of the ensemble in Peter Bogdanovichs first low-budget film thriller Targets (1968), which was Boris Karloffs last feature. In the 70s she started gathering up character bits here and there, such as her nuns in the all-star epic Airport (1970) and the horror Audrey Rose (1977). A variety of pleasant, maternal parts came her way, including Lynn Carlins mother in the Blake Edwards western Wild Rovers (1971) and Jane Fondas in the comedy caper Fun with Dick and Jane (1977). She supported Fonda again in the Vietnam-era drama Coming Home (1978), was among the cast in the cultish Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and had a noticeable role in Steve Martins Leap of Faith (1992).As for The Waltons success, character actress Dorothy Stickney played the part of Emily in the initial TV pilot along with Josephine Hutchinson as older sister Mamie. When the series came to fruition, Mary and actress Helen Kleeb, another one of those Ive seen her before character faces, took over the spinster roles. Both she and Kleeb continued their sister act periodically in several Walton reunion TV-movies, which included assorted weddings and holiday gatherings. Both ladies made their final TV appearances in A Walton Easter (1997). Kleeb died of natural causes in 2003 at age 96. Mary passed away two years later at age 95 of complications from Parkinsons disease. - IMDb Mini Biography
Mrs. Dill
Film 1988
Sarah Biggens
Film 1978
Crawldaddy
Film 1990
Mother Veronica
Film 1977
Charlotte Thompson
Film 1968
Emily Baldwin
Film 1982
Emma Schlarp
Film 1992
Miss Moran
Film 1974
Esther Lovell-Mingott
Film 1988
Latin Teacher
Film 1971
Emily Baldwin
Film 1982
Jane's Mother
Film 1977
Felice
Film 1970
Grandmother Mary
Film 1981
Eddy Frazer
Film 1982
Mrs. Stone
Film 1967
Country Woman (uncredited)
Film 1956
Evelyn Smith
Film 1972
Cleaning Lady
Film 1994
Sada's Mother
Film 1971
Fleta Wilson
Film 1978
Carrie
Film 1996
Louise
Film 1973
Film 1989
Edna Miller
Film 1979
Mrs. Evans
Film 1973
Mrs. Rigsby
Tv 1960
Tv 1980
Edna
Tv 1982
Mrs. Kenny
Tv 1959
Tv 1972
Mrs. Weedon
Tv 1986
Mrs. Otto Foshay
Tv 1965
Tv 1976
Tv 1976
Tv 1975
Tv 1960
Tv 1984
Tv 1972
Tv 1981
Tv 1983
Tv 1970
Tv 1979
Tv 1982
Phyllis Barton
Tv 1953
Miss Pepper (uncredited)
Tv 1959
Tv 1971
Tv 1994
Clara
Tv 1984
Emily Baldwin
Tv 1972
Mrs. Wilson
Tv 1955
Nurse Oberhansly
Tv 1963
Carolyn Fletcher
Tv 1963
Tv 1968
Tv 1961
Aunt Edna
Tv 1948
Tv 1974
Tv 1966
Mrs. Gross
Tv 1950
Tv 1962
Tv 1981
Tv 1990
Tv 1980
Tv 1978
Ellie Parker
Tv 1963
Mrs. Krieger
Tv 1960
Mrs. Howard
Tv 1965
Mrs. Corman
Tv 1965
Mrs. Dreiser
Tv 1965
Nurse
Tv 1965
Miss Vogel
Tv 1960
Mrs. McCrae
Tv 1963
Sarah Wicks
Tv 1983
Grandmother
Tv 1982
Nurse
Tv 1967
Hattie Willis
Tv 1967
Annie
Tv 1971