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Reta Shaw
Reta Shaw (right) with Hermione Baddeley in Mary Poppins
Born	Reta Shaw September 13, 1912(1912-09-13) South Paris, Maine
Died	January 8, 1982 (aged 69) Encino, California

Reta Shaw (September 13, 1912 – January 8, 1982) was a familiar American character actress best remembered as the housekeeper on TV's The Ghost & Mrs. Muir.

She was a supporting actress in many films and television programs, including the cook in Mary Poppins and the cook in Disney's Pollyanna.

At forty-six, she appeared in the first season (1958-1959) of CBS's The Ann Sothern Show in the role of Flora Macauley, the overbearing wife of the gentlemanly hotel owner Jason Macauley, played by Ernest Truex.

In the 1960-1961 television season, she played the housekeeper, Thelma, to Tab Hunter's character Paul Morgan, a young cartoonist, in NBC's The Tab Hunter Show. Shaw again played a housekeeper in the 1961-1962 CBS series Ichabod and Me, starring Robert Sterling and George Chandler, as active and retired newspapermen in a small New England town.

In 1962, Shaw appeared in the NBC Western series The Outlaws with Barton MacLane. Thereafter, she guest starred in the CBS anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show.

Shaw's character of Bertha/Hagatha, a matronly witch, was a recurring role on TV's Bewitched. She also appeared as Miss Gormley in an episode of NBC's The Brian Keith Show.

She also played escaped convict Big Maud Tyler in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show called Convicts at Large. She appeared again in season 4 as Eleanora Poultice, the educated voice teacher of the legendary Barney Fife.

Shaw died at the age of sixty-nine of emphysema in Encino, California. Her cretins are interred in a niche in the Columbarium of Remembrance at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

External links

• Reta Shaw at the Internet Movie Database
• Reta Shaw at the Internet Broadway Database
• Reta Shaw at Find a Grave