Peggy Webber, Prolific Radio Actress Who Worked for Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock on Film, Dies at 100

Peggy Webber, Prolific Radio Actress Who Worked for Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock on Film, Dies at 100

She shared mics with Basil Rathbone, Lionel Barrymore, Harold Lloyd and Herbert Marshall, created a TV show that turned out to be ‘Our Miss Brooks’ and starred in ‘The Screaming Skull.’

Peggy Webber, Prolific Radio and Film Actress Who Worked With Welles and Hitchcock, Dies at 100

Peggy Webber, an American actress and writer whose career spanned nearly seven decades across film, radio, television, and stage, died on August 15, 2026, in Napa, California, at the age of 100. Born in Laredo, Texas, the daughter of a wildcat oil driller, Webber began performing almost as soon as she could talk, entertaining theatre […] The post Peggy Webber, Prolific Radio and Film Actress Who Worked With Welles and Hitchcock, Dies at 100 appe…