Frances Bay

Frances Bay

1919-01-23 Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada 63 Credits

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...

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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

2014

as Mrs. Tremond (Chalfont)

7.3
Acting

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

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

2011

as Aunt Barbara

6.4
Acting

Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.

Pickin' and Grinnin'

2010

as Grandma Johnson

2.0
Acting

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

Bare Knuckles

2010

as Rosie Mcintyre

3.3
Acting

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

Repo Chick

2009

as Granma De La Chasse

3.2
Acting

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

Ring Around the Rosie

2006

as Nanna

4.4
Acting

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

Edmond

2005

as Fortune Teller

5.9
Acting

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

Annie's Point

2005

as Older Woman

6.0
Acting

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

The Movie Hero

2003

as Wise Old Woman

4.5
Acting

A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see.

Kiss The Bride

Kiss The Bride

2002

4.8
Acting

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

2.8
Acting

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

Finder's Fee

2001

as Mrs. Darmsetter

6.1
Acting

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

The Wedding Planner

2001

as Dottie

5.9
Acting

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

Stranger Than Fiction

2000

as Mrs. Steiner

5.5
Acting

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

The Operator

2000

as Mrs. Sloan

3.8
Acting

A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.

Inspector Gadget

Inspector Gadget

1999

as Thelma

4.5
Acting

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

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

1999

as Mrs. Lewis

5.8
Acting

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

Goodbye Lover

1999

as Old Woman

5.7
Acting

Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Forever Love

Forever Love

1998

as Martha Craddock

6.8
Acting

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

Krippendorf's Tribe

1998

as Edith Proxmire

4.5
Acting

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a h...

Sparkler

Sparkler

1997

as Raspy

2.5
Acting

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

Changing Habits

1997

as Midge

1.4
Acting

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

Never Too Late

1996

as Elisabeth Kronner

4.0
Acting

Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.

Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore

1996

as Grandma

6.6
Acting

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

Rossini's Ghost

1996

as Rosalie

Acting

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

In the Mouth of Madness

In the Mouth of Madness

1995

as Mrs. Pickman

7.2
Acting

An insurance investigator begins discovering the impact a horror writer's books has on his fans is more than inspirational.

The Paperboy

The Paperboy

1994

as Mrs. Rosemont

4.5
Acting

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

The Neighbor

1993

as Aunt Sylvia

5.2
Acting

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

Inside Monkey Zetterland

1992

as Grandma

3.2
Acting

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

Single White Female

1992

as Elderly Neighbor

6.3
Acting

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

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

as Mrs. Tremond (Chalfont)

7.4
Acting

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

Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive

1992

as Iva Ruth McKinney

4.6
Acting

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

Critters 3

1991

as Mrs. Menges

5.3
Acting

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

The Pit and the Pendulum

1991

as Esmeralda

5.7
Acting

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

Wild at Heart

1990

as Madam

7.0
Acting

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

The Grifters

1990

as Arizona Motel Clerk

6.5
Acting

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

Arachnophobia

1990

as Evelyn Metcalf

6.4
Acting

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

Class Cruise

1989

as Grandma

4.2
Acting

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

The Karate Kid Part III

1989

as Mrs. Milo

5.9
Acting

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

Twins

1988

as Mother Superior

6.0
Acting

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

Big Top Pee-wee

1988

as Mrs. Haynes

4.9
Acting

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

Medium Rare

1987

as Gertrude

5.0
Acting

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

Blue Velvet

1986

as Aunt Barbara

7.6
Acting

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

Nomads

1986

as Bertril

4.9
Acting

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

Amos

Amos

1985

as Lydia

7.0
Acting

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

Movers & Shakers

1985

as Betty Gritz

3.7
Acting

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

Acting

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

The Karate Kid

1984

as Lady with Dog

7.2
Acting

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

Second Sight: A Love Story

1984

as Old Woman

5.5
Acting

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

Little Red Riding Hood

1983

as Granny

6.3
Acting

A sheltered but adventurous young woman finds trouble when she encounters a wolf.

A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily

1983

as Miss Wyatt

6.0
Acting

Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.

Private School

Private School

1983

as Birdie Fallmouth

5.7
Acting

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

Wings

1983

as Mrs. Timmins

Acting

An elderly woman, a former aviatrix, is gradually recovering from a stroke.

Double Exposure

Double Exposure

1982

as Old Woman

4.2
Acting

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

Callie & Son

1981

as Mabel Simpson

6.7
Acting

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

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981

as Mrs. Lewenowski

5.2
Acting

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

Buddy Buddy

1981

as Female Patient

6.2
Acting

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

Amy

1981

as Mrs. Lindey

7.2
Acting

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

A Whale for the Killing

1981

7.0
Acting

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

The Attic

1980

as Librarian

4.6
Acting

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

Topper

1979

as Mrs. Quincy

5.0
Acting

A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven.

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Chilly Scenes of Winter

1979

as Mrs. Delillo

6.6
Acting

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

Foul Play

1978

as Mrs. Russel

6.3
Acting

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