Alice Drummond

Acting · Born 1928-05-21 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

Biography

Alice Elizabeth Drummond (née Ruyter; May 21, 1928 – November 30, 2016) was an American actress. A veteran Off-Broadway performer, she was nominated in 1970 for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mrs. Lee in The Chinese by Murray Schisgal. She may be best known as Alice, the librarian, in the opening scenes of the 1984 horror-comedy Ghostbusters.

Filmography

• Ghostbusters as Librarian
• Awakenings as Lucy Fishman
• Doubt as Sister Veronica
• Synecdoche, New York as Actress Playing Frances
• Running on Empty as Mrs. Powell
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Clara
• Pieces of April as Grandma Dottie
• In & Out as Aunt Susan
• Motherhood as Edith
• Nobody's Fool as Hattie

TV

• Boston Legal as Lydia Tuffalo
• Night Court as Alice Beeker
• Kate & Allie
• Law & Order as Zelda
• Ed as Mrs. Shroeder
• Spin City as Sondra Spencer
• The Equalizer as Kind Woman
• The Jury
• Where the Heart Is
• Lenny