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Selma Archerd

Actress

Born - 26 February 1925, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died - 14 December 2023

Together with Alma Beltran (1919-2007), this diminutive, vivacious, fluffily blonde, slightly woebegone-looking character player pretty much cornered the market in ethnic housewives, domestics and mothers over three decades. Born Selma Fenning, she divorced her first husband after 25 years, married columnist Army Archerd and turned to an acting career, mostly on TV. Movies include Airport 1975 (1974), The Big Bus (1976), Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976), Fun With Dick and Jane (1977), New York, New York (1977), The Concorde...Airport '79 (1978), Meteor (1979), Can't Stop the Music (1980), Mommie Dearest (1981), The Kid from Nowhere (1982), Hard to Hold (1984), The Ladies Club (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), Die Hard (1988), Scrooged (1988), Taking Care of Business (1990), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), Born Yesterday (1993) and The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), her last, Her husband died in 2009 after 40 years of mrruage.