Meredith MacRae

Meredith MacRae was born on May 30, 1944 in USA. Meredith MacRae's big-screen debut came with By the Light of the Silvery Moon directed by David Butler in 1953. Meredith MacRae is known for The Next Step Beyond directed by John Newland, John Newland stars as Self - Host and Henry Brandon as The Prosecuting Attorney. The most recent award Meredith MacRae achieved is Women in Film Lucy Awards. The upcoming new movie Meredith MacRae plays is The Killers Within which will be released on Jan 01, 1995.

Meredith Lynn MacRae was born on May 30, 1944, in Houston, Texas. She was born on a military base where her father was stationed.Meredith was bitten by the show business bug at an early age. Her father, Gordon MacRae was a singer and movie idol of the 1950s (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956)), and her mother, Sheila MacRae, is an actress/comedienne and author, who is probably best known as Alice Kramden (1966-1970), during the 2nd incarnation of Jackie Gleason's The Jackie Gleason Show (1966) (aka "The Honeymooners").At the age of eight, Meredith started her own acting career and appeared in the film La maîtresse de papa (1953), which starred her father.She attended UCLA and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. In 1964, she married Richard Berger, former president of MGM. They divorced four years later.Meredith went on to starring roles in two of television's heyday family sitcoms: Petticoat Junction (1963) and My Three Sons (1960). She also guest starred in many other television shows including: L'île fantastique (1977), Magnum (1980), Deux cent dollars plus les frais (1974), and Webster (1983) (the highest rated episode ever). She also appeared in several movies and had a brief singing career.In 1969, Meredith married actor Greg Mullavey (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976) and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973). They had one daughter, Allison, born in 1974. Greg and Meredith divorced in 1992 but remained friends.In 1995, Meredith married Philip Neal, Chairman and CEO of Avery-Dennison.In 1999, she was diagnosed with cancer. In 2000, due to complications from multiple surgeries and allergic reactions to medications (which caused her brain to swell), Meredith Lynn MacRae departed this life.