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Saline County Illinois

Virginia Gregg

Virginia Gregg (1916–1986): Born in Harrisburg, she was considered one of Hollywood’s greatest character and voice actresses. Gregg's career spanned radio, music, television, and film, with appearances in movies such as Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Operation Petticoat (1959), Spencer's Mountain (1963), Madigan (1968), Heaven with a Gun (1969), Quarantined (1970), and A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970). She also appeared in numerous television shows, including Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Lawman, Perry Mason, Maverick, Wanted Dead or Alive, The Virginian, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wagon Train, Mannix, Daniel Boone, The Waltons, Dragnet, and The Rockford Files. One of her most memorable roles was providing the voice of Norman Bates' mother in Psycho I, II, & III (1960, 1983, 1986). An Illinois State Historical Marker at 325 East Locust Street commemorates her birthplace.