M'el Dowd

Mary Ellen Dowd (February 2, 1933 – September 26, 2012) was an American stage, musical theatre and film actress, and singer, whose career spanned half a century. Beginning in Shakespeare roles and films in the 1950s, Dowd continued to perform on stage, film and television into the 21st century. A frequent performer on Broadway in the 1960s, Dowd originated the role of Morgan le Fay in the musical Camelot.

In 1962, she married Henri G. Eudes, a native of France and restaurateur by vocation. The couple had one son, Richard. She also played in regional theatre and in more Off-Broadway roles, winning acclaim as Katherine of Aragon in The Royal Gambit. and continued to act until at least 2005, when she appeared in a guest role on the TV show Law & Order. The New York Daily News wrote in 2001 that she played Mme. Armfeldt in A Little Night Music "deliciously". In Goodspeed Musicals' 2003 production of Me and My Girl, according to Variety, "Dowd ... is the cement that holds this production together."

Death She died on September 26, 2012, at her home in Tarrytown, New York, aged 79.

Selected stage roles Macbeth – Lady Macbeth (1955; Off-Broadway, Jan Hus Theatre, NYC) A Midsummer Night's Dream – Titania, (1956; Jan Hus Theatre, NYC) Romeo and Juliet – Lady Capulet (1956; Jan Hus Theatre, NYC) Julius Caesar – Portia (1957; Jan Hus Theatre, NYC) Back to Methuselah – Lilith (1958; Ambassador Theatre and national tour) Sweet Bird of Youth – Understudy for Princess Kosmonopolis (1959–60; Martin Beck Theatre) Me and My Girl - Maria, Duchess of Dene (2003; Goodspeed Musicals)

Film and TV roles The Wrong Man – Miss O'Connor (Warner Bros., 1956) The Adventures of Jim Bowie – Nun in "The Bounty Hunter" (1957) This Could Be the Night - Mrs. Flint (MGM, 1957) Man on Fire – Rita (MGM, 1957) Flipper – Amy Field in "City Boy" (1964) The Best of Everything – Kate Farrow (1970) The 300 Year Weekend – Carole (Cinerama, 1971) The Adams Chronicles (1975 mini-series) The Prince of Homburg (1977) F/X (1986) – Joyce Lehman Murder, She Wrote - Sister Margaret-Mary in "Old Habits Die Hard" (1987) See You in the Morning (1989) – Real Estate Lady Third Watch "Black and Blue" (2004) Law & Order – Mrs. Haiduk in "License to Kill" (2005)