{"id":2144926,"date":"2025-11-09T18:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2144926"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:52:35","slug":"betty-harford-actress-on-dynasty-and-the-paper-chase-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/betty-harford-actress-on-dynasty-and-the-paper-chase-dies-at-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Harford, Actress on \u2018Dynasty\u2019 and \u2018The Paper Chase,\u2019 Dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0362890\/\">Betty Harford<\/a>, who played Mrs. Nottingham, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002144\/\">John Houseman<\/a>\u2019s secretary, on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070509\/\">The Paper Chase<\/a> and Mrs. Gummerson, the Carrington family cook, on Dynasty, has died. She was 98.<\/p>\n<p>Harford died Nov. 2 in Santa Barbara, her friend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2119143\/\">Wendy Mitchell<\/a> told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0087279\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the big screen, Harford cared for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000364\/\">Sandra Dee<\/a>\u2019s Rosalie Stocker in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0053445\/\">The Wild and the Innocent<\/a> (1959) and portrayed the opportunistic older sister of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000081\/\">Natalie Wood<\/a>\u2019s unstable title character in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059314\/\">Inside Daisy Clover<\/a> (1965), the melodrama directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0612322\/\">Robert Mulligan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harford had acted in Houseman\u2019s UCLA Theatre Group in the 1960s and played a nurse for director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0108745\/\">James Bridges<\/a> in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001796\/\">Richard Thomas<\/a>-starring 1977 film September 30, 1955 \u2014 that\u2019s the day <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000015\/\">James Dean<\/a> died in a car crash \u2014 when she was cast as the secretary for law school professor Charles W. Kingsfield (Houseman) on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a> drama <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070509\/\">The Paper Chase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She showed up as the prickly but efficient Mrs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betty Harford, who played Mrs. Nottingham, John Houseman\u2019s secretary, on The Paper Chase and Mrs. Gummerson, the Carrington family cook, on Dynasty, has died. She was 98. Harford died Nov. 2 in Santa Barbara, her friend Wendy Mitchell told The Hollywood Reporter. 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