{"id":77,"date":"2026-06-20T15:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/?p=77"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:23:32","slug":"nedra-volz-94-tv-actress-played-many-old-lady-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/nedra-volz-94-tv-actress-played-many-old-lady-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nedra Volz, 94; TV Actress Played Many ‘Old Lady’ Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By\u00a0Myrna Oliver Jan. 29, 2003 12 AM PT<\/div>\n
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Nedra Volz, a character actress remembered for her early 1980s roles as housekeeper Adelaide Brubaker on the popular television comedy \u201cDiff\u2019rent Strokes\u201d and postmistress Miz Emma Tisdale on \u201cThe Dukes of Hazzard,\u201d has died. She was 94.<\/p>\n

Volz, who played her customary \u201cold lady\u201d role in her final film, \u201cThe Great White Hype,\u201d which was released in 1996, died Jan. 20 in Mesa, Ariz., of complications of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

Born in Montrose, Iowa, to vaudeville parents, she hit the boards as \u201cBaby Nedra\u201d and sang with a band as a young woman. But she did little acting until she became a senior citizen, making her film debut as \u201cthe Free Press Lady\u201d in the 1973 comedy \u201cYour Three Minutes Are Up,\u201d starring Beau Bridges and Ron Leibman.<\/p>\n

Volz gained more attention when she concentrated on roles as elderly women for television sitcoms beginning in an episode of \u201cGood Times\u201d first shown in 1975.<\/p>\n

That put her in great demand for grandmother and old-lady parts, especially after she appeared in regular roles in two of producer Norman Lear\u2019s summer television series: as Grandma Belle Durbin in \u201cA Year at the Top\u201d in 1977 and as Bill Macy\u2019s housekeeper Pinky Nolan in \u201cHanging In\u201d in 1979.<\/p>\n

By the 1980s, the diminutive, white-haired Volz had arrived. She appeared on the small screen almost weekly, sometimes more frequently, from 1980 through 1986.<\/p>\n

First came \u201cDiff\u2019rent Strokes,\u201d when she stepped in to care for Conrad Bain\u2019s mixed Drummond family household featuring pixieish Gary Coleman. She remained on the show through 1982, although she also was the postmistress of Hazzard from 1981 through 1983.<\/p>\n

In the 1982-83 season, Volz also took on the dotty matriarch role in the \u201cFilthy Rich\u201d series spoofing prime-time soap opera epics such as \u201cDallas,\u201d \u201cDynasty\u201d and \u201cFalcon Crest.\u201d Volz\u2019s main activity as Winona \u201cMother B\u201d Beck, the discarded first wife of cryogenically frozen Big Guy Beck (Slim Pickens and, after his death, Forrest Tucker), was constantly trying to escape from the nursing home to return to the family mansion, Toad Hall.<\/p>\n

Volz ended her regular sitcom series run as the bail bondswoman giving assignments to Lee Majors\u2019 stunt- man detective character on \u201cThe Fall Guy\u201d from 1985 until the series ended in 1986.<\/p>\n

But she remained a popular guest star for nearly 20 years on such series as \u201cAlice,\u201d \u201cMaude,\u201d \u201cOne Day at a Time,\u201d \u201cNight Court,\u201d \u201cCoach,\u201d \u201cThe Commish\u201d and \u201cBabes.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also appeared in such films as \u201cMoving Violations\u201d and \u201cEarth Girls Are Easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Volz is survived by a son, Edward Volz of Mesa, Ariz., and a daughter, Linda Deffenderfer of Chandler, Ariz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Myrna Oliver Jan. 29, 2003 12 AM PT 3-3 minutes Nedra Volz, a character actress remembered for her early 1980s roles as housekeeper Adelaide Brubaker on the popular television comedy \u201cDiff\u2019rent Strokes\u201d and postmistress Miz Emma Tisdale on \u201cThe Dukes of Hazzard,\u201d has died. She was 94. Volz, who played her customary \u201cold lady\u201d role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chua-phan-loai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}