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Peggy Wood
Deceased

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Life & Death

Died aged 86
Also known asMary Margaret Wood, Mary Margaret "Peggy" WoodGenderFemaleNationalityUnited StatesBorn09/02/1892Born inBrooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USADied18/03/1978Died inStamfordCausestrokeWikidataQ266445TMDb#77895

Mary Margaret Wood was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (1960); and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (1965), for which she received nominations for both an Acad

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Filmography15 titles

Importing filmography…
YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
1968The Dick Cavett ShowSeriesSelf - Guest76
1965The Sound of MusicMovieMother Abbess73
1962The Merv Griffin ShowSeriesSelf70
1961Dr. KildareSeriesKatie Harris69
1961The Mike Douglas ShowSeriesSelf69
1960The Story of RuthMovieNaomi68
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeriesSarah Jolland64
1953Main Street to BroadwayMovieSelf (uncredited)61
1948The Philco Television PlayhouseSeriesMrs. Oliver Jordan56
1948The Ed Sullivan ShowSeriesSelf56
1946Magnificent DollMovieMrs. Payne54
1939The Housekeeper's DaughterMovieOlga47
1937Call It a DayMovieEthel Francis45
1935JalnaMovieMeg Whiteoaks43
1929Wonder of WomenMovieBrigitte37