Mary Ellen Ray (3 January 1931 – 10 September 2004) was an American-born actress who had a career in the United Kingdom.
[1] In September 1970 she opened in Othello at the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and appeared with repertory companies in the United States and Britain.
[3] She made her first television appearance in Britain as Telephone Operator in Long Distance (1958) before acting in the 'Shadow of Heroes' episode of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1959).
She was in Theatre 625 (1966), voiced Mrs Dilber in the Oscar-winning animated television special A Christmas Carol (1971) and was Mary Crane in the short Some Kind of Hero (1972).
[4] She was Mrs. Abrams in the television series Tender Is the Night (1985); Aunt Hannah in Back Home (1989); Lynn Nesbit in Selling Hitler (1991); Landlady in Jeeves and Wooster (1992); Teacher in the episode 'I Don't Do Cuddles' of Unnatural Pursuits (1992); Rose Whitfield in The Bill (1994); Marie in the episode 'First Impressions' of Holby City (2000), and Eleanor Forsyth in Doctors (2004).