This edgy, somewhat hard-looking character actress, known by face perhaps as opposed to name, was a familiar presence in heavily-styled drama of the 1950s and '60s. Born in 1920 (some sources say 1922) and raised in Nevada, Neva Patterson's father was a mailman. She loved putting on plays at home (along with her brother, Harlon) and eventually worked as an usher at Nevada's Circle Theatre. She graduated from high school in 1937 and found secretarial jobs to make do until moving to New York t ...[Read Story]