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Gwen Van Dam 1928 - 2024

Gwen Van Dam was born in November 1928 at San Francisco, CA, and died at age 96 years old on December 22, 2024 in Los Angeles, California United States.

Gwen Van Dam

Gwen G. Smillie

November 1928

San Francisco, CA

December 22, 2024

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Introduction

Gwen Van Dam - November 1928 - December 22, 2024 Husband Bill Smillie - actor - deceased. Son - Dirk Smillie Daughter - Claudia Smillie Married Bill Smillie in `959.
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1928

Birthday

November 1928

Birthdate

San Francisco, CA

Birthplace

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Professional Career

Acting — Winters' Garden as Hortense Pollard 2024 Blood Star as Ma 2024 Interior Chinatown (2 episodes) as Hazel Carrey 2022 Diamond in the Rough as Elderly Lady 2021 Home as Nancy 2021 Me You Madness as Grandma Betty 2020 Good Mourning as Grandma Leanne 2019 Big Boy Pants as Stella 2019 Storm as Woman at Restaurant 2019 Pocket as Grandma 2018 Homecoming (4 episodes) as Mrs. Trotter 2018 Dead Night as Crone 2018 Sleepwalk as Lady at the House 2017 The Ugly Christmas Sweater as Edna 2017 Mercy Christmas 2017 The Orville (1 episode) as Grandmother 2016 Insecure (1 episode) as Old Lady 2016 Angie Tribeca (1 episode) as Kindly Old Woman 2015 Grace and Frankie (1 episode) as Marie 2012 Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (1 episode) as Great Aunt Agnes 2011 New Girl (1 episode) as Docent 2011 Wilfred (1 episode) as Patient #2 2011 Shameless (1 episode) as Erma 2010 Burlesque as Curler Woman at Grundy Bus Stop 2010 Flexing with Monty as Granny 2009 The League (1 episode) as Margaret 2009 Modern Family (1 episode) as Grams 2008 Fall of Hyperion as Elderly Woman 2007 Matters of Life and Death as Grandma Barbara 2006 Long Lost Son as Travel Agent 2004 Joey (1 episode) as Grandma 2002 Without a Trace (1 episode) as Emma 2001 Legion of the Dead as Old Woman 2000 Gilmore Girls (1 episode) as Mrs. Van Wyck 1996 Big Bad BeetleBorgs (1 episode) as Norma Desdoom 1994 ER (1 episode) as Etta 1988 Take My Daughters, Please as Margaret 1987 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1 episode) as Mrs. Feldman 1985 Shadow Chasers (1 episode) 1985 Moonlighting (1 episode) as Waitress 1984 A Touch of Scandal as White Woman 1983 The Awakening of Candra as Mrs. Stern 1983 Second Thoughts 1982 Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain as Nurse 1982 T. J. Hooker (1 episode) as Woman Hostage 1982 Help Wanted: Male as Dr. Quinn 1981 The Two Lives of Carol Letner as Matron 1981 True Confessions as Mrs. Fazenda 1981 Stand by Your Man as Mrs. Sims 1981 The Best Little Girl in the World as O.R. Nurse 1981 Second-Hand Hearts as Waitress at Frankie's 1980 Stir Crazy as Mrs. Beatty 1980 The Jayne Mansfield Story as Vivian 1980 Gideon's Trumpet as Mrs. Lawrence 1979 Knots Landing (1 episode) as Sales Clerk 1979 The French Atlantic Affair (3 episodes) as Barney's Wife 1979 Joni as Nurse Pauline 1978 Terror Out of the Sky as Ms. Logan 1978 Lassie: The New Beginning as Mrs. Waldrup 1978 Coming Home as Mrs. Harris 1977 The Incredible Hulk (1 episode) as Mayor Claire Murphy 1975 Teenage Seductress as Emily Nelson 1971 Pinocchio as Madame Suburbia 1970 Husbands as Gwen
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2024

Death

December 22, 2024

Death date

Unknown
Cause of death

Los Angeles, California United States
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Obituary

Liza Standish Very Sad, Gwen Van Dam, a Wonderful Character Actress, Friend, and Colleague, Passed! Last Night! December 22, 2024. Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA November 1928. El-Aurian survivor Gwen Van Dam is an actress who played an El-Aurian survivor in Star Trek Generations. Van Dam married the late actor Bill Smillie in 1959, and they were together until he died in 2003. They appeared together on screen in several productions. They had two children, Dirk Smillie and Claudia Smillie. Among her acting credits are films such as Lilith (1964, with René Auberjonois), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977, with Henry Gibson and Manny Perry), Coming Home (1978, starring Jon Voight, with Bruce French and Jonathan Banks), The Ladies Club (1986, with Karen Austin, Bruce Davison, Nicholas Worth, Tina Lifford, James Avery, and Biff Yeager), Legion of the Dead (2001, with Matthias Hues), Viagra Falls (2006), and the short comedy Have a Nice Death (2007, still photography by Kyla Kuhner). Van Dam has also appeared in television series such as Dark Shadows (1966, with Kathryn Leigh Scott), Mannix (1970 and 1972), The Incredible Hulk (1978, with Lance LeGault and William Lucking), T. J. Hooker (1985, starring William Shatner and James Darren, with Eric Server), Knots Landing (1990), ER (2000, starring Eriq La Salle, with Jenette Goldstein, Scott MacDonald, Joanna Miles, Skip Stellrecht, Bruce Wright, Megan Cole, Derek Mears, and Christopher Michael), Without a Trace (2002, with Enrique Murciano), Charmed (2003), and Joey.

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Gwen Van Dam lived 23 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 96.

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