Fran Ryan
Fran Ryan

Fran Ryan. Actress: Stripes. As an American character actress, Fran Ryan was a familiar face on stage, screen and television from her theatrical stage debut in the 1950s and continuing for nearly three decades. Ryan's similarity to actress Marjorie Main was soon noticed in the late 1960s, and she frequently played tough, mean-lipped, earthy and gruff-but-lovable female characters. One of Ryan's first major television roles was playing Aggie Thompson, the housekeeper...