Ronnie Claire Edwards

Ronnie Claire Edwards
Born	(1933-02-09) February 9, 1933 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1963–2007

Ronnie Claire Edwards (born February 9, 1933) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the TV show The Waltons.

Edwards was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She has been acting professionally since 1963 and is best known for the role of the domineering Corabeth Walton Godsey, the wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey played by Joe Conley, in the CBS television series The Waltons, created by Earl Hamner, Jr. She also appeared as Charlene Frazier Stillfield's mother, Ione Frazier, in an episode of CBS's Designing Women.

Edwards played Aunt Dolly in Hamner's series Boone, which aired on NBC from 1983–1984. Her principal costars were Tom Byrd as Boone Sawyer, an aspiring singer, and Barry Corbin as Boone's skeptical father, Merit Sawyer. She also co-starred in the 1985 NBC series Sara opposite Geena Davis.

Edwards also briefly appeared on an episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow (2008) from Dallas, Texas, when she brought in for appraisal a chair formerly owned by P. T. Barnum.

She also appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Thine Own Self" and the 1999 remake of Inherit The Wind.

Filmography

• The Dead Pool (1988)

Further reading

• Ronnie Claire Edwards, The Knife Thrower's Assistant: Memoirs of a Human Target, Hawk Publishing Group, (October 2000), ISBN 978-1-930709-16-4
• "Q&A with Ronnie Claire Edwards", by Thomas Korosec, D Magazine, July 22, 2009.
• "Swiss Ave. Church, Now Actor's Home and Artists Residence, Almost a City Landmark", by Robert Wilonsky, Unfair Park blog, Dallas Observer, January 25, 2010.

External links

• Ronnie Claire Edwards at the Internet Movie Database