
Alice Hirson
Department: Acting
Biography
Alice Hirson (March 10, 1929 – February 14, 2025) was an American actress best known for her roles on television. She began her career on stage, before roles on daytime soap operas. She was best known for her roles as Mavis Anderson in the CBS prime time soap opera Dallas and as Lois Morgan, the mother of the title character on the ABC sitcom Ellen.
Known For

Blind Date
1987

Being There
1979

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
1978

Psycho IV: The Beginning
1990

Miss All-American Beauty
1982

Nightwing
1979

Mass Appeal
1984

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
1971

Bride of Boogedy
1987

Psyko Ferret
2000

Stepmonster
1993

Revenge of the Nerds
1984

Private Benjamin
1980

The Big Picture
1989

Starstruck
2010

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978

Particular Men
1972

The Lost
2006

Having Babies II
1977

Diary of a Perfect Murder
1986

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
1977

The Death of Richie
1977

If Things Were Different
1980

The Glass House
2001

The Rules of Marriage
1982

Determination of Death
2001

Judging Amy
1999

Cold Case
2003

The Ropers
1979

Mancuso, F.B.I.
1989

Full House
1987

Dallas
1978

The Edge of Night
1956

The Secret Life of the American Teenager
2008

7th Heaven
1996

ER
1994

Paris
1979

When the Whistle Blows
1980

Home Fires
1992

Just Shoot Me!
1997

Taxi
1978

Law & Order
1990

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Ellen
1994

Dear John
1988

Murphy Brown
1988

If Tomorrow Comes
1986

Will & Grace
2017

A Woman Called Moses
1978

Barney Miller
1975

Trauma Center
1983

The Waltons
1972

Starman
1986

St. Elsewhere
1982

Crossings
1986

NYPD Blue
1993

Matlock
1986

Hotel
1982

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Barnaby Jones
1973

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Loose Change
1978