Grace Matthews (Actor)

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(09-03-1910 - 05-15-1995) Age 85

Grace Matthews appeared as Claudia Dilman on the Edge of Night

 

She appeared in the following 21 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
Date Episode Title Plot
01/27/1974 0022 Time and Again A clockmaker comes across a mysterious clock that can give him an additional hour every day. All it needs is a little blood in return.
03/05/1974 0051 A Long Time to Die The grass is never greener on the other side and swapping lives is a dangerous practice. Unfortunately, a criminologist and an American Indian discover this too late as their swapped circumstances threaten to engulf them. One needs to depose before a tribal council and the other must do it in front of the Congress.
05/23/1974 0096 The Bleeding Statue A magician disappoints his heirs by leaving his properties with his daughter and also promises to safeguard her against all harm through a statue in his estate courtyard. On her arrival in the estate, she finds his promise true to his word.
07/18/1974 0120 The Dream Woman Convinced that a woman he met at the local bar is his soul mate, a man abandons his faithful and loyal wife in order to pursue her. He is soon plagued by visions of his death at his new lover's hands.
09/17/1974 0149 Thicker than Water A tired lawyer is made to take on a murder trial with the defendant adamantly professing his innocence. But the lawyer refuses to believe his client's claims and orders a series of tests to be run on the weapon allegedly used in the crime.
01/01/1975 0194 The Deadly Pearls A private detective tries to track two radioactive pearls that were used to murder two women. He travels to Hawaii disguised as a novelist and mixes with the inhabitants while thwarting the assassins sent to kill him.
01/08/1975 0199 The Oblong Box A man makes a voyage to the US from Europe and meets an old friend carrying a peculiar oblong box that apparently contains an obscure painting. The strange shape of the box influences the fellow passengers to think that the box contains something far from innocent.
04/10/1975 0254 The Death of Halpin Fraser A nightmare journey through purgatory is in order for a man who is beset by the voices of his mother, father-in-law and the former wife whom he had murdered.
05/23/1975 0279 Markheim: Man or Monster? Karl Markheim is the ultimate anti-hero as he manipulates and swindles everyone around him to get his ends. He is left out from the will of his rich uncle and decides to torture his wife and her father for money, blithely unaware of the strange figure who witnesses all from behind a mirror.
06/26/1975 0298 That Hamlet Was a Good Boy When the proprietor of a factory is murdered, his grieving son vows vengeance and sets out to entrap his greedy uncle and his faithless mother in this modern take on William Shakespeare's ‘Hamlet.'
08/29/1975 0335 Murder by Proxy Finally released from prison, Tim Cohain is out for revenge against the jury foreman that put him there in the first place- Ed Hunter.
10/24/1975 0367 The Summer People In search of a quiet place to work and improve on their respective crafts over the summer, an artistically gifted couple stumble upon Granville, an all-too perfect town that they have difficulty leaving - even when they want to.
09/20/1978 0895 The Beheading A woman called Joyce narrates her life experiences to another woman. She paints a grim picture of her family portrait and other incidents of her past and then goes on to calmly explain that she has signed a deal to be decapitated by her physician and become the subject of the world's first head transplant experiment.
11/15/1978 0918 The Conspiracy After having been abandoned by her lover, a vengeful model plots the downfall of a hapless photographer who just happens to be her first love.
01/24/1979 0949 The Burning Bough A woman is convinced that her son's life is tied to the existence of single tree bough in this ancient myth come to life. However, her son's misdeeds bring her despair; and like the Greek goddess of decades past, will she have the resolve to cast the branch into the fire and end his life?
02/12/1979 0953 The Sinister Shadow An unusual tale of how a timid woman chanced upon her doppelganger in a seedy bar, and how her double turned against her.
03/14/1979 0962 The Love God A spirited and opinionated woman alienates her intended with her brash and outspoken ways so she prays to the Indian god of love to remedy the situation.
04/11/1979 0970 The Charnel House To discover the truth about her father's death, a young woman becomes a staff member in the rest home in which he resided. There she uncovers a horrifying and gruesome secret.
09/03/1979 1009 Tomorrow Will Never Come The resident's of an old building band together to help their old elevator operator keep his job, and the love of his life, an elevator named “Nellie.”
11/05/1979 1027 The Terrorist Taken hostage in her own home by a pair of Muslim terrorists, an elderly authoress, her niece, and her publisher's nephew must outwith the extremists in order to escape with their lives!
02/27/1980 1063 The Intruder A scientist is shocked when his college son, fresh from spring break reveals that he is an alien being. He is then faced with a moral dilemma when he is asked to make a trade- his wife for the life of his real son, who is being held captive in another dimension.

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Grace Matthews (September 3, 1910 – May 15, 1995) was an actress in the era of old-time radio and the early years of television. She is perhaps best known for portraying Margo Lane in the radio program The Shadow. Matthews' theatrical work included stock theater in Manitoba, Canada, and Ontario, Canada,summer stock activities in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and the production of Dame Nature by the Theatre Guild in New York City. Matthews was seen in Road of Life and As the World Turns. She also spent three years in London, England, acting in programs on ITV and the BBC She appeared in 21 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater.

Adam

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Grace Matthews' early radio work garnered her the title of "Queen of the Soap Opera". Her radio credits include Big Sister, Cavalcade Of America, Suspense, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Theater Five, but she is best remembered for her longtime role of Margo Lane in The Shadow. In film she is remembered for her role in The King And I, and on television her credits include the daytime soap operas As The World Turns and her longtime role of Claudia Dillman on Guiding Light. Also, she was married to CBSRMT alumni Court Benson who appeared in 179 episodes of CBSRMT.

Charlie

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