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2 unusual facts about Fran Ryan


Fran Ryan

The same season she was offered the replacement role on the series Green Acres as Doris Ziffel from 1969 to 1971.

Ryan's first supporting cast television role was as Aggie Thompson in the first several episodes of The Doris Day Show.


The Dave Thomas Comedy Show

Anson Downes, Teresa Ganzel, Don Lake, Julie Fulton and David Wiley made up the supporting cast of various characters in the sketches, while veteran character actress Fran Ryan had a recurring role as a wise-cracking waitress also named Fran Ryan.

Zerelda James

Fran Ryan played Zerelda in the 1980 film The Long Riders, which was a more or less accurate film about the last years of the James-Younger gang after the Civil War


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