Anne Ramsey (September 1, 1929 - August 11, 1988) was an American actress who is probably most famous for her roles as Mama Fratelli in Richard Donner's The Goonies, and as Mrs. Lift, the mother of Danny DeVito's character in Throw Momma from the Train.
Ramsey was born Anne Mobley in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of an insurance executive and a descendant of Pilgrims. She attended Bennington College and became interested in the theatre. She perfo...
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Anne Ramsey (September 1, 1929 - August 11, 1988) was an American actress who is probably most famous for her roles as Mama Fratelli in Richard Donner's The Goonies, and as Mrs. Lift, the mother of Danny DeVito's character in Throw Momma from the Train.
Ramsey was born Anne Mobley in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of an insurance executive and a descendant of Pilgrims. She attended Bennington College and became interested in the theatre. She performed in several Broadway productions in the 1950s and married actor Logan Ramsey in 1954, moving to Philadelphia, where they formed Philadelphia's Theatre of the Living Arts.
In the early 1970s, Ramsey began a career as a character actor in Hollywood. She appeared with her husband in five films, including The Sporting Club and Meet the Hollowheads, her first and last movie roles. Ramsey's slurred speech, a trademark of her later performances, was caused in part from having some of her tongue and jaw removed during a cancer operation shortly...
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