Pam Polifroni, a casting director who had a long stint on 'Gunsmoke,' spotted Michael Learned for 'The Waltons' and worked on films including the original 'Tron' and 'The Shootist,' has died. She was 90.
Polifroni died Thursday in Columbus, Ohio, her daughter-in-law, Rebecca Coleman-Polifroni, said.and was nominated three times for the Casting Society of America's Artios Award for her work on the NBC soap opera, winning in 1990.in 1966, she hired Bette Davis and gave Jon Voight one of his early television jobs in L.A. during her first season on the CBS Western.
, which starred Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton. When producers were unsure whether Neal would be up to the task of starring in the subsequentseries, she brought in Learned, whom she had seen on the stage in San Francisco, to play Olivia. Polifroni cast for the show from 1972-80., starring Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, and the Ray Bradbury adaptationas "a little strange since the people at Disney knew little about sci-fi and I knew even less.
, choosing 50 to 75 actors every week. As a result, she became familiar with the talents of a large pool of actors in a short period of time.
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