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Jean Vander Pyl

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Actor
Born:
1920
Death:
April 10, 1999 in Dana Point, CA
Biography:Philadelphia-born Jean Vander Pyl was an actress with a 40-year career, but few people -- even fans of her work, and she had millions of them at various times -- ever knew what she looked like. Vander Pyl was a voice artist on radio and later on television, and became most famous in the 1960s as the voice of Wilma Flintstone on The Flintstones. Vander Pyl was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of a salesman, in 1919. The family moved several times during her childhood, and she lived in Memphis and Chicago, the New York communities of Larchmont and New Rochelle, and Long Beach, CA, before finally settling in Los Angeles in 1933. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1937 and attended UCLA as an acting student. While still an undergraduate, she got her first acting job, on the radio show Calling All Cars. In her earliest jobs, she portrayed women in danger and distress. She later joined... Full Biography
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