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Cara Williams (born Bernice Kamiat; June 29, 1925 – December 9, 2021) was an American film and television actress.She was best known for her role as Billy's Mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her role as Gladys Porter on the 1960–62 CBS television series Pete and Gladys, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy. At the time of her death, Williams was one of the ...
Cara Williams. Actress: The Defiant Ones. Perky, talented, blue-eyed redhead Cara Williams had acting aspirations from the get-go. She was born in Brooklyn on June 29, 1925, as Bernice Kamiat, to an Austrian Jewish father, Benjamin Kamiat, and a mother of Romanian Jewish descent, Flora (Schwartz). Cara began performing as a child and continued into her teens. After her parents' divorce, she relocated with her mother to Hollywood where she...
Dec 11, 2021 · Cara Williams, the perky redhead who received an Oscar nomination for her performance in The Defiant Ones before starring in a pair of CBS sitcoms in the 1960s, has died. She was 96. Williams died ...
Dec 12, 2021 · Cara Williams, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age and an Oscar nominee for her performance in 1958’s “The Defiant Ones,” died on Thursday.She was 96 years old. ...
Cara Williams. Actress: The Defiant Ones. Perky, talented, blue-eyed redhead Cara Williams had acting aspirations from the get-go. She was born in Brooklyn on June 29, 1925, as Bernice Kamiat, to an Austrian Jewish father, Benjamin Kamiat, and a mother of Romanian Jewish descent, Flora (Schwartz). Cara began performing as a child and continued into her teens. After her parents' divorce, she relocated with her mother to Hollywood where she...
Dec 14, 2021 · Cara Williams, an Oscar and Emmy nominee and one of the few remaining actresses from Hollywood's Golden Age, has died, according to reports. She was 96.
Dec 13, 2021 · Cara Williams, Oscar nominee for “The Defiant Ones,” died Thursday of a heart attack at her home in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 96.
Dec 13, 2021 · "The Defiant Ones" star Cara Williams died on Thursday due to a heart attack. She was 96. One of the last stars of Hollywood's Golden Age has passed away.
Dec 12, 2021 · Cara Williams, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age and an Oscar nominee for her performance in 1958's The Defiant Ones, died on Thursday.She was 96 years old.
Dec 11, 2021 · Cara Williams, an Oscar nominee and '60s TV star, died Thursday of a heart attack in her Beverly Hills home, THR reports.. Born Bernice Kamiat June 29, 1925, in Brooklyn, she began her Hollywood ...
