Background
Jackson, Mary was born on November 22, 1910 in Milford, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Thomas E. and Lela (Stephens) Jackson.
Jackson, Mary was born on November 22, 1910 in Milford, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Thomas E. and Lela (Stephens) Jackson.
Western Michigan University. Michigan State University.
She is best known for the role of the lovelorn Emily Baldwin in The Waltons and was the original choice to play Alice Horton in the long-running daytime soap Days of Our Lives. She in fact played the part in the unaired pilot although the role was subsequently taken by Frances Reid. Born in the village of Milford, a rural locality in Michigan"s Oakland County, Mary Jackson earned a bachelor"s degree from Western Michigan University in 1932.
She was a schoolteacher during the Great Depression for one year before pursuing her interest in the theater.
She returned to college, enrolling in Michigan State University"s fine arts program and, subsequently, began her performing career on Chicago stage, in summer stock and, at the start of the period referenced as the Golden Age of Television, in New York City and, as the 1960s began, in Hollywood.
Member Los Angeles advising committee Actors Fund American. Member Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy television Arts and Sciences, Actors Equity Association.
Married Griffing Bancroft, Junior, July 4, 1937.