Biography
Frances Evelyn Bay (née Goffman; January 23, 1919 – September 15, 2011) was a Canadian-American character actress known for playing a variety of quirky elderly women on film and television. In a career that spanned 35 years, she acted in a variety of roles both in film and television. After initial success in radio and stage plays, she became "The Girlfriend to the Canadian Forces" on CBC Radio during World War II, boosting troops' spirits. Marriage and a move to the U.S. led to a hiatus, durin...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014
as Mrs. Tremond (Chalfont)
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of ...

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
2011
as Aunt Barbara
Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010
as Grandma Johnson
Johnny and Milo love music, just not the corn dog jingles they've resorted to performing to make ends meet. Facing failure, they decide to travel cros...

Bare Knuckles
2010
as Rosie Mcintyre
Women will go to extreme lengths for those they love and single mother Samantha Rogers is no exception. Along with her young daughter, Milla, Sam stru...

Repo Chick
2009
as Granma De La Chasse
As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens to wipe out the city of Los Angeles...

Ring Around the Rosie
2006
as Nanna
While spending time at her grandparent's secluded summerhouse to clean up the place after her grandmother's death, a young woman is plagued by horribl...

Edmond
2005
as Fortune Teller
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is ...

Annie's Point
2005
as Older Woman
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Poi...

The Movie Hero
2003
as Wise Old Woman
A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see.

Kiss The Bride
2002
Sibling drama overshadows the impending nuptials of Danni Sposato and her longtime boyfriend, Geoff Brancato. Television actress Niki brings her manag...
Oh, Baby
2001
as Edna Winchester
The story of two babies who are able to telepathically communicate and try to marry their parents by help of mortal combat with the robbers.

Finder's Fee
2001
as Mrs. Darmsetter
Friends Tepper, Quigley, Fishman, and Bolan get together for a weekly poker night with two simple rules: Everyone contributes a lottery ticket to the ...

The Wedding Planner
2001
as Dottie
San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he ...

Stranger Than Fiction
2000
as Mrs. Steiner
Nothing is as it seems when four friends agree to cover up a killing. When they begin to doubt who among them is telling the truth, they find that lif...

The Operator
2000
as Mrs. Sloan
A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.

Inspector Gadget
1999
as Thelma
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a labo...

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999
as Mrs. Lewis
In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the...

Goodbye Lover
1999
as Old Woman
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Forever Love
1998
as Martha Craddock
Lizzie and Alex Brooks are a young couple in love and parents of a little girl, Emma. A stroke puts Lizzie into a coma. Alex takes her home, providing...

Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
as Edith Proxmire
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a h...

Sparkler
1997
as Raspy
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel ...

Changing Habits
1997
as Midge
An aspiring artist runs from men as a result of an early life problem that has left her relationship with her father strained. She decides to move int...

Never Too Late
1996
as Elisabeth Kronner
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.

Happy Gilmore
1996
as Grandma
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — ...

Rossini's Ghost
1996
as Rosalie
Nine-year old Reliana witnesses Rossini's efforts to salvage his seemingly cursed new opera, the Barber of Seville.

In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Mrs. Pickman
An insurance investigator begins discovering the impact a horror writer's books has on his fans is more than inspirational.

The Paperboy
1994
as Mrs. Rosemont
A homicidal twelve-year-old paperboy becomes obsessed with a woman and her daughter next-door, and he'll do anything to make his fantasy of the "perfe...

The Neighbor
1993
as Aunt Sylvia
A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What ...

Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992
as Grandma
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.

Single White Female
1992
as Elderly Neighbor
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boy...

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
as Mrs. Tremond (Chalfont)
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The...

Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
1992
as Iva Ruth McKinney
Jean and Shag Williams locate a newly built house and decide it's perfect for them to buy. One thing the developers forgot to tell them about was that...

Critters 3
1991
as Mrs. Menges
As fanged, furious furballs viciously invade an L.A. apartment building and sink their teeth into the low-rent tenants, Josh leads the battle to beat ...

The Pit and the Pendulum
1991
as Esmeralda
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror a...

Wild at Heart
1990
as Madam
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a te...

The Grifters
1990
as Arizona Motel Clerk
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own a...

Arachnophobia
1990
as Evelyn Metcalf
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider...

Class Cruise
1989
as Grandma
A few pupils from County High are selected to be the first to go on a study cruise, a privilege that formerly was reserved for members of private scho...

The Karate Kid Part III
1989
as Mrs. Milo
Despondent over the closing of his karate school, Cobra Kai teacher John Kreese joins a ruthless businessman and martial artist to get revenge on Dani...

Twins
1988
as Mother Superior
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proporti...

Big Top Pee-wee
1988
as Mrs. Haynes
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front ya...

Medium Rare
1987
as Gertrude
Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic g...

Blue Velvet
1986
as Aunt Barbara
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a ...

Nomads
1986
as Bertril
One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words ...

Amos
1985
as Lydia
Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here ...

Movers & Shakers
1985
as Betty Gritz
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment....
The Eagle and The Bear
1985
After a defecting KGB agent on the run kidnaps a Santa Monica detective, the two become friends and slowly form an unbeatable partnership.

The Karate Kid
1984
as Lady with Dog
New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target ...

Second Sight: A Love Story
1984
as Old Woman
Alexandra McKay is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so ...

Little Red Riding Hood
1983
as Granny
A sheltered but adventurous young woman finds trouble when she encounters a wolf.

A Rose for Emily
1983
as Miss Wyatt
Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.

Private School
1983
as Birdie Fallmouth
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Chris...

Wings
1983
as Mrs. Timmins
An elderly woman, a former aviatrix, is gradually recovering from a stroke.

Double Exposure
1982
as Old Woman
A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in ...

Callie & Son
1981
as Mabel Simpson
A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to weal...

Honky Tonk Freeway
1981
as Mrs. Lewenowski
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not ...

Buddy Buddy
1981
as Female Patient
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants ...

Amy
1981
as Mrs. Lindey
A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal tra...

A Whale for the Killing
1981
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a t...

The Attic
1980
as Librarian
A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at altar. She fantasizes his death and finds jo...

Topper
1979
as Mrs. Quincy
A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven.

Chilly Scenes of Winter
1979
as Mrs. Delillo
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker w...

Foul Play
1978
as Mrs. Russel
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.