Augusta Dabney (Actor)

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(10-23-1918 - 02-04-2008) Age 90

Augusta Dabney is best known for her roles in day time TV as well as appearing in several TV anthology programs.

 

 

 

She appeared in the following 10 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
Date Episode Title Plot
01/29/1974 0024 The Man Who Heard Voices Can euthanasia ever be completely willed by the sufferer? A well-respected lawyer's life is disrupted by the voice of his wife whom he had killed in mercy and threatens the affair he had started after his wife took sick
04/23/1974 0079 The Ghost Driver A driver killed the proprietors of a country inn. Now his ghost is after the present proprietors along with the residents of the inn.
08/22/1974 0138 The Case of M.J.H. A professional swindler seduces a lonely unmarried woman who works as a psychiatrist's assistant. He persuades her to pilfer her employer's patient files in order to extort money from them.
09/25/1974 0152 The Deadly Blind Man's Bluff In a terrible mishap, a riveter loses his eyesight. While he keeps up his physical strength, he slowly goes on a downward spiral emotionally. Besides that, his apartment is within earshot of his former construction site, making him feel much worse. The police warn the riveter and his wife about an escaped murder convict in their area, and a meeting between the two is preordained.
11/18/1974 0175 The Strange Voyage of the Lady Dee While on a boat trip, a young couple and their daughter become lost in the dense fog. The spirit of a woman lures them to a strange island whose sole inhabitant proves to have questionable motives.
02/27/1975 0230 Them! A vigilante lawyer takes the matters into his own hands and locks up murder suspects in his mansion. But he goes too far when he imprisons an innocent man.
03/21/1975 0243 The Man Must Die The son of a court judge is tremendously angered when his father sentences a convicted killer to two decades of life imprisonment instead of death. He then plans to meet the convict to clear things out.
08/13/1975 0325 The Master Computer In a fully automated world, a couple come home from vacation to find that their existence has been wiped clean from society's records. The culprit that disrupted their lives is later revealed to be a computer glitch.
02/06/1976 0427 Straight from the Horse's Mouth Mistakenly thinking it is a race horse, a timid young man purchases a work horse at an auction. Little does he know that the pony hides an enormous secret that will change his life forever.
11/10/1977 0738 A Tale of Two Worlds An actor gets so involved with his character on a soap opera that he is inconsolable when the character is killed off according to the diktats of the script. His co-actors try to help him bargain in a losing dialogue with the arrogant producer.

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Augusta Keith Dabney (October 23, 1918 – February 4, 2008) was an American actress known for her roles on many soap operas, most notably as the wealthy but kindly matriarch Isabelle Alden on the daytime series Loving. She played the role from 1983 to 1987, from 1988–91, and again from 1994–95, returning to the part after Celeste Holm and Patricia Barry played the role but did not stay with the part for various reasons. She appeared in numerous episodes of such anthology drama series as Studio One, Kraft Television Theatre, and Robert Montgomery Presents. She also had roles on numerous other daytime soaps, including Young Dr. Malone as leading character Tracey Malone, Another World, As the World Turns in two different roles, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Guiding Light as the original Barbara Norris (1970), A World Apart as leading character Betty Kahlman Barry (1970-1971), General Hospital as Lee Baldwin's second wife, Caroline Chandler (1975-1976), One Life to Live as Pat Kendall's mother, Helena Ashley (1979) and The Doctors as Theodora Van Allen (1980-1981).

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Augusta Dabney had roles in a dozen Broadway productions and appeared in over 50 films and television programs including the daytime soap operas, Guiding Light, the Doctors, General Hospital, Another World, As the World Turns, One Life to Live and Loving.

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