So often it seems impossible to separate an actor from their most famous character, and that is certainly true of Irene Ryan, who filled viewers with laughter throughout the 1960s as Granny on the CBS ...
Irene Ryan, left, as Daisy May ‘Granny’ Moses, with the woman she beat out for the role, Bea Benaderet, playing ‘Cousin’ Pearl Bodine, in ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ (1962-71). After losing out on the ...