Eda Reiss Merin

Born: 1913-07-31, New York City, New York, USA

Died: 1998-03-31

Biography

Eda Reiss Merin (July 31, 1913 – March 31, 1998) was an American stage, film, television, and voice actress. With a career spanning over six decades, she appeared on Broadway, in regional and touring productions, and later in film and television. She was best known to modern audiences for her role as the babysitter Mrs. Sturak in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) and for voicing Orddu, one of the witches, in Disney's animated feature The Black Cauldron (1985).

Filmography

• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Hill Street Blues (1981)
• Cagney & Lacey (1982)
• St. Elsewhere (1982)
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
• Amazing Stories (1985)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• The Black Cauldron (1985)
• Turner & Hooch (1989)
• House (1985)
• Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
• The Frisco Kid (1979)
• National Lampoon's Last Resort (1994)
• Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
• Knock on Any Door (1949)
• Hester Street (1975)
• Flying Leathernecks (1951)
• Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
• Girls of the White Orchid (1983)
• The Prince of Central Park (1977)
• First, You Cry (1978)
• Once Upon a Halloween (2005)
• War and Love (1985)
• A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)
• Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's (1993)
• Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983)
• Man on a Bus (1955)
• A Rose for Emily (1983)
• The Garry Shandling Show: 25th Anniversary Special (1986)
• Leben des Galilei (1947)