Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
6/7/1896
Place of Birth
Mattoon, Illinois, USA
Hope Summers
Biography
Hope Summers could portray a friendly neighbor or companion as she did for Frances Bavier's Aunt Bee character on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) or a seemingly amiable Satanist in Rosemary's Baby (1968).
Born in Mattoon, Illinois, she developed an early interest in the theater. Graduating from Northwestern School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois, she subsequently taught speech and diction there. This, in turn, led to her the head position in the Speech Department at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, teaching students privately on the side as well. In the 1930s Hope began ...
Known For
Parrish
as Mary (uncredited)
Evil Town
as Alice Wylie (as Hope Summer)
Charley Varrick
as Mess Vesta
Penelope
as Shop Lady (uncredited)
Homicidal
as Martha Adrims (Uncredited)
Our Time
as Biology Teacher
Foul Play
as Ethel
Zero Hour!
as Older Woman
Rosemary's Baby
as Mrs. Gilmore
The Couch
as Mrs. Quimby
Edge of Eternity
as Motel Attendant
The Hallelujah Trail
as Mrs. Hasselrad
Angel Baby
as Woman at Revival Meeting (uncredited)
Spencer's Mountain
as Mother Ida
The Children's Hour
as Agatha
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
as Susanna Blush
Death Sentence
as Emily Boylan
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Celia
Claudelle Inglish
as Ernestine Peasley (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
as Mrs. Krebs - Righteous Townswoman
Career Timeline
1974
1972
1968
1966
1964
1963
1961
The Children's Hour
as Agatha
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Role unknown
The New Breed
as Mrs. McCurtin
Dr. Kildare
as Madge
Claudelle Inglish
as Ernestine Peasley (uncredited)
Homicidal
as Martha Adrims (Uncredited)
Angel Baby
as Woman at Revival Meeting (uncredited)
Parrish
as Mary (uncredited)