Anne Ramsey-Mobley was an American actress. She was best known for her film roles as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies and as Mrs. Lift in Throw Momma from the Train, the latter of which earned her nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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In the 1970s, Ramsey began a successful Hollywood career in character roles and appeared in such television programs as Little House on the Prairie, Wonder Woman, Three’s Company, and Ironside.
Ramsey’s somewhat slurred speech, a trademark of her later performances, was caused in part by having had some of her tongue and her jaw removed during surgery for esophageal cancer in 1984.
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In 1988, Ramsey’s cancer returned. She died on August 11 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Anne Ramsey parents: Meet Nathan Mobley & Eleanor Smith
Ramsey was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Eleanor (née Smith), the former national treasurer of the Girl Scouts of the USA, and Nathan Mobley, an insurance executive.
Her mother was a descendant of the Pilgrims (William Brewster), and her uncle was U.S. Ambassador David S. Smith.
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