As per our current Database, Catherine McLeod has been died on May 11, 1997(1997-05-11) (aged 75)\nLos Angeles, California.
When Catherine McLeod die, Catherine McLeod was 75 years old.
| Popular As | Catherine McLeod |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 75 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 02, 1921 ( Santa Monica, California, United States) |
| Birthday | July 02 |
| Town/City | Santa Monica, California, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
Catherine McLeod’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Catherine McLeod was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Her films included Frank Borzage's I've Always Loved You (1946), Courage of Lassie (1946), The Fabulous Texan (1947), Borzage's That's My Man (1947), Old Los Angeles (1948), My Wife's Best Friend (1952), A Blueprint for Murder (1953), william Witney's The Outcast (1954), Ride the Wild Surf (1964), and Lipstick (1976).
McLeod married Bill Gerds (30 January 1947 - 1949) (divorced), who was then a dental student in San Francisco. They eloped to Reno on January 3, 1947. McLeod's second husband was actor Don Keefer, 7 May 1950 until her death on 11 March 1997 having 3 children together.
McLeod made two guest appearances on Perry Mason: Lorraine Ferrell in "The Case of the Vagabond Vixen," (1957), and Nora Huxley in "The Case of the Glittering Goldfish." (1959) In both roles she played the wife of the murder victim, but was neither the defendant nor actual murderer.
McLeod appeared in dozens of other series including The Millionaire, Meet McGraw, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, 77 Sunset Strip, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Bronco, Colt .45, Lawman (in the 1961 episode "The Prodigal Mother", with child actor Billy Booth), Bonanza, Hazel, Hawaiian Eye, Have Gun - Will Travel, The Outer Limits, The Virginian, "Letty, Gunsmoke" and the Ten Thousand Horses Singing episode of Studio One opposite James Dean and John Forsythe.
McLeod's greatest impact upon American consciousness by far, however, was as purveyor of one of the most ubiquitous catchphrases of its era when she portrayed the woman in the 1963 headache remedy Anacin television commercial who plaintively but irritably said, "Mother, please! I'd rather do it myself!" The announcer's voiceover would then intone, "Sure you have a headache... tense, irritable.... but don't take it out on her."
