Carmen Mathews

Carmen Mathews
Born Carmen Sylvia Mathews
(1911-05-08)May 8, 1911
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died August 31, 1995(1995-08-31) (aged 84)
Redding, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation Actress, environmentalist
Years active 1943–1992

Carmen Sylvia Mathews (May 8, 1911 – August 31, 1995) was an American actress and environmentalist.[1]

Biography

Carmen was born in Philadelphia. She studied first at Bennett Junior College and then in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[2] She began her professional acting appearance with the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespearean Company before moving back to the United States.[1]

Her Shakespearean roles included Ophelia in Hamlet and the Queen in Richard II.[1] Her film credits include Butterfield 8 (1960), A Rage to Live (1965), Rabbit, Run (1970), Sounder (1972), Top of the Hill (1980) and Daniel (1983).[3] She appeared on television in six episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65).[4] She also appeared in the 1963 TV series The Fugitive and a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone. One of her more famous roles was as Colonel Lilian Rayborn on Episode 150 of M*A*S*H. Her last role was in the Last Best Year (1990) with Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters.[3]

In 1975, Mathews set up and ran a residential summer camp for disadvantaged children on her 100-acre farm in Redding, Connecticut.[3] Toward the end her of life, Mathews, a passionate environmentalist, made a perpetual donation of her 100-acre New Pond Farm to the Redding Land Trust,[5] to ensure that it would retain its woods, fields, pond and marsh. The United Nations Association of the United States of America named Mathews one of Connecticut's outstanding women in 1987.[6][1]

Death

Mathews died at her farm in Redding, Connecticut in 1995, aged 84, from undisclosed causes.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Staff (1995-09-03). "Carmen Mathews, Environmentalist And an Actress, 84". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  2. ↑ "New Pond Farm, Redding, CT - NPF's Founder, Carmen Mathews". Newpondfarm.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-29. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  3. 1 2 3 "Carmen Mathews profile". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
  4. ↑ "The Hitchcock Zone". Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Redding Land Trust, Inc:: Redding, Connecticut". Reddingctlandtrust.org. 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
  6. ↑ "U.N. Group to Honor 110 Connecticut Women". The New York Times. AP. October 11, 1987. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Carmen Mathews, Environmentalist And an Actress, 84". The New York Times. AP. September 3, 1995. Retrieved March 11, 2017.


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