Mae Mercer
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Mae Mercer (June 12, 1932 – October 29, 2008) was an American blues singer and actress. She was born in the Temperance Hall community of Edgecombe County. Mercer lived in North Carolina through age 15. She spent eight years in the 1960s singing in a blues bar in Paris, the Blues Club, owned by publisher Maurice Girodias and touring Europe. She eventually came to own and operate a blues club in the city. Mercer returned to the United States in the early 1970s to begin a career as an actress in ...
Known For
Filmography
L.A. Dragnet
2003
as Mother
The Shield
2002
as Selma
ER
1994
as Margeret
Homer and Eddie
1989
as Ellen
Cindy
1978
as Sara Hayes
Pretty Baby
1978
as Mama Mosebery
A Woman Called Moses
1978
as Aunt Juba
Widow
1976
as Social Security Woman
The Swinging Cheerleaders
1974
as Jessica Thorpe
Frogs
1972
as Maybelle
Kung Fu
1972
as Elizabeth Brown
Dirty Harry
1971
as Mrs. Russell
The Beguiled
1971
as Hallie
Medical Center
1969
The Hell with Heroes
1968
as Chanteuse
Mannix
1967
Ironside
1967
The Sword and the Balance
1963
Mondo Sexuality
1962
as Singer