Canfield Family History & Genealogy

Mary Grace Canfield (3 September 1924 – 15 February 2014), character actor. OBITUARIES Mary Grace Canfield dies at 89; character actress was on ‘Green Acres’ Actress Mary Grace Canfield dies at 89 Mary Grace Canfield, an actress best known for her role as Ralph the carpenter on TV’s “Green Acres,” has died in Santa Barbara. She was 89. (Orion Television Entertainment) By STEVE CHAWKINS FEB. 18, 2014 12 AM Mary Grace Canfield, a character actress best known as part of the daffy Ralph-and-Alf brother-sister carpenter team on the TV comedy “Green Acres,” died Saturday in a Santa Barbara hospice. She was 89. The cause was lung cancer, her daughter Phoebe Alexiades said. On “Green Acres,” Canfield was Ralph Monroe, who, with her brother Alf, was perennially working on the bedroom of a city slicker couple (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) at their newly acquired farm near Hooterville. She was a down-home gal in bib overalls and a white painter’s cap worn backward, a funny, plain-spoken woman doing “man’s work” before feminism made the term quaint. The show ran from 1965 to 1971. Looking back at it, Canfield had mixed feelings. “To be remembered for Ralph kind of upsets me — only in the sense that it was so easy and undemanding,” she said in a 2006 interview with the Bangor Daily News in Maine, where she lived for many years. “It’s being known for something easy to do instead of something you worked hard to achieve.” Canfield also appeared on TV in “Bewitched,” “General Hospital,” “The Love Boat” and other shows. In a memorable 1963 episode of “The Andy Griffith Show,” she was Gomer Pyle’s blind date; the two socially awkward, lovable bumpkins defied everyone’s expectations and had a wonderful time, jitterbugging. Born in Rochester, N.Y., on Sept. 3, 1924, Canfield attended an acting school run by famed teacher Jason Deeter in Rose Valley, Pa. “I didn’t want to go to college because I knew exactly what I wanted to do,” she said. “Later, when I asked my parents what they thought of this little skinny girl wanting to be an actress, they said they were so relieved that I wanted to do something.’' Canfield appeared in Broadway and off-Broadway plays before heading to Hollywood. Her early TV shows included “The Hathaways,” a 1961-62 sitcom about a Los Angeles couple and their three performing chimps. Canfield played the housekeeper. Her film work includes a role as the ironically named Angelica, a sourpuss upstairs maid in “Pollyanna” (1960). In “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” a 1983 adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story, she plays a seventh-grade teacher whose world is shattered by a diabolical traveling circus. Canfield lived in Montecito from 1968 to 1984 and then moved to Sedgwick, Maine. She had fallen in love with the state during summer stock productions there years before, her daughter said. She relocated to Santa Barbara in 2011, when her health was declining. Her first marriage, to Charles Carey, ended in divorce in 1955. In addition to daughter Phoebe, Canfield is survived by John Bischof, her husband of 25 years; daughter Alison Carey; and three grandsons. [contact link]

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Barbara (Canfield) Bailey .

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary (Canfield) Sherrill.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Carrie Canfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Donna Canfield.

Kim (Canfield) Bailey was born on March 21, 1965 in Butte, Montana United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Kim (Canfield) Bailey.

Maurice Archie Canfield of Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho United States was born on April 3, 1948 in Wendell, Gooding County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Maurice Archie Canfield.

Steven Carl Canfield of hagerman, gooding county, Idaho us was born on July 18, 1950 in American Falls, Power County, and died at age 60 years old on November 2, 2010 in Twin Falls, Twin Falls County. Steven Canfield was buried on November 6, 2010 in American Falls, Power County.

Edward L Canfield of Portland, Clackamas County, OR was born on December 10, 1929, and died at age 75 years old on July 2, 2005.

Edith Margaret Shupp Canfield was born on March 3, 1929 at Pittston, PA to Elton Shupp and Margaret Anna Sickler Shupp, and had a brother Elton Neal Shupp, Jr.. Edith Margaret Canfield died at age 84 years old on May 30, 2013 at New York State Veterans Home in Oxford, Chenango County United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Edith Margaret Shupp Canfield.

Archie Dean Canfield of Power County, Idaho United States was born circa 1919, and died at age 70 years old circa December 21, 1990 in American Falls. Archie Canfield was buried circa December 23, 1990 in American Falls.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marion Patchel-Gaston-Canfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Howard Dale Canfield.

Carol (Canfield) was born to Fredrick Odell Canfield and Ruth Sue (Farley) Canfield, and has siblings Howard Dale Canfield, Milton Canfield, and Paula (Canfield). Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Carol (Canfield).

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Daniel Canfield.

Arletta L Canfield of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California was born on July 14, 1911, and died at age 97 years old on February 24, 2009 in Pasadena.

Edna (Chaplow) Canfield was born on November 14, 1895. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Edna (Chaplow) Canfield.

Helen A Canfield of Azle, Tarrant County, TX was born on March 18, 1911 at Union in Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts United States, and died at age 91 years old on July 19, 2002 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX. Helen Canfield was buried on July 24, 2002 in Fall River, Bristol County, MA.

Clayton Canfield of Mukilteo, Snohomish County, WA was born on December 30, 1917, and died at age 85 years old on October 2, 2003.

Archie D Canfield was born on June 30, 1919, and died at age 72 years old on December 21, 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Archie D Canfield.