Frances Bay, the sweet, gentle housewife who became a successful actress in middle age, appearing in more than 50 motion pictures and 100 television shows, including roles as the "marble rye lady" on "Seinfeld" and the grandmother in Adam Sandler's "Happy Gilmore," has died. She was 92.
Bay, also popular as a stage actress in local theaters, died Thursday at Providence Tarzana Medical Center, said her cousin Marly Zaslov of Vancouver. Bay had been ill with various infections.
The actress, whose right leg was amputated below the knee after she was struck by a car in Glendale in 2002, had been active until recently, appearing regularly as Aunt Ginny in the ABC sitcom "The Middle."
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... Beginning with the 1978 motion picture "Foul Play" starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase, and moving into television a couple of years later with appearances on "The Jeffersons," "Dukes of Hazzard" and indelibly as Fonzie's Grandma Nussbaum in "Happy Days," Bay was never again in want of work.
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She was a regular character actress for director David Lynch, who cast her in "Blue Velvet," "Wild at Heart," "Twin Peaks" and "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me."
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Bay's husband died in 2002, and their son died when he was 23. She has no immediate survivors.
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