| Full Name | Spring Byington |
| Net Worth | $11 Million |
| Date Of Birth | October 17, 1886 |
| Died | September 7, 1971, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA |
| Height | 1.6 m |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Profession | Actor |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Roy Carey Chandler |
| Children | Phyllis Chandler, Lois Chandler |
| Parents | Margaret Eddy, Edwin Lee Byington, Helene Maud Cleghorn Byington |
| Siblings | Helene Kimball Byington |
| Nicknames | Spring Byington, Byington, Spring |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0001981 |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Continuing Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Dramatic or ... |
| Movies | You Can't Take It with You, Little Women, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Heaven Can Wait, Meet John Doe, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Blue Bird, Dragonwyck, Mutiny on the Bounty, In the Good Old Summertime, Dodsworth, Roxie Hart, Ah, Wilderness!, When Ladies Meet, Werewolf of London, Rings on Her Fi... |
| TV Shows | Laramie, December Bride |
| Star Sign | Libra |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | She was a lifelong science fiction fan, and appeared in print ads for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction at the height of her TV popularity. |
| 2 | Became a grandmother for the 1st time at age 55 when her daughter Lois gave birth to a son, James Alexander Graham on October 30, 1941. |
| 3 | Longtime companions with actress Marjorie Main. |
| 4 | Acting mentor and friends with Harry Morgan. |
| 5 | Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen. |
| 6 | She and Lionel Barrymore played wife and husband in Ah, Wilderness! (1935). Three years later, they played daughter and father in You Can't Take It with You (1938). |
| 7 | Met Harry Morgan on the set of the period drama Dragonwyck (1946). Eight years later, he would co-star opposite Byington on December Bride (1954). |
| 8 | She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture at 6507 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6231 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. |
| 9 | Gave birth to her 2nd child, a daughter Lois Chandler, with her husband Roy Carey Chandler (1917). |
| 10 | Gave birth to her 1st child, a daughter Phyllis Chandler, with her husband Roy Carey Chandler (1916). |
| 11 | Acquired a small coffee plantation in South America in her later years. |
| 12 | In August 1955, she began flying lessons in Glendale, California; but the studio made her stop because of insurance problems. |
| 13 | Spring and Lionel Barrymore were initially cast as Ma and Pa Hardy in the Andy Hardy film series starring Mickey Rooney. However, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided to replace the couple with Fay Holden and Lewis Stone before the series started. |
| 14 | She performed in reference footage for Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959). |
| 15 | Following her death in 1971, her body was donated for medical research. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The Flying Nun | 1968 | TV Series | Mother General |
| I Dream of Jeannie | 1967 | TV Series | Mother |
| Batman | 1966 | TV Series | J. Pauline Spaghetti |
| Dr. Kildare | 1965 | TV Series | Mother Caritas |
| Kentucky Jones | 1965 | TV Series | Mrs. Jolly |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | Iris Fuchsia |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | 1964 | TV Series | Louise |
| Mister Ed | 1963 | TV Series | Miss Karen Dooley |
| Laramie | 1961-1963 | TV Series | Daisy Cooper Aunt Daisy Cooper |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1960 | TV Series | Alice Wagner |
| The Tab Hunter Show | 1960 | TV Series | Mollie Coburn |
| Goodyear Theatre | 1960 | TV Series | Melinda Gray |
| The Detectives | 1960 | TV Series | Maudie |
| Please Don't Eat the Daisies | 1960 | | Suzie Robinson |
| December Bride | 1954-1959 | TV Series | Lily Ruskin |
| The 20th Century-Fox Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Mrs. Miller |
| Strange Stories | 1956 | TV Series | |
| Studio 57 | 1956 | TV Series | Cora Gibbs |
| The Ford Television Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | Aunt Cordelia |
| The Rocket Man | 1954 | | Justice Amelia Brown |
| Make Room for Daddy | 1953 | TV Series | Eloise Adams |
| Because You're Mine | 1952 | | Mrs. Edna Montville |
| No Room for the Groom | 1952 | | Mama Kingshead |
| Bannerline | 1951 | | Mrs. Loomis |
| Angels in the Outfield | 1951 | | Sister Edwitha |
| The Bigelow Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
| According to Mrs. Hoyle | 1951 | | Mrs. Hoyle |
| Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | 1950-1951 | TV Series | Mrs. January |
| Walk Softly, Stranger | 1950 | | Mrs. Brentman |
| Devil's Doorway | 1950 | | Mrs. Masters |
| The Skipper Surprised His Wife | 1950 | | Agnes Thorndyke |
| Louisa | 1950 | | Louisa Norton |
| Please Believe Me | 1950 | | Mrs. Milwright |
| The Reformer and the Redhead | 1950 | | Kathy's Mother (voice, uncredited) |
| The Big Wheel | 1949 | | Mary Coy |
| In the Good Old Summertime | 1949 | | Nellie Burke |
| B.F.'s Daughter | 1948 | | Gladys Fulton |
| It Had to Be You | 1947 | | Mrs. Martha Stafford |
| Cynthia | 1947 | | Carrie Jannings |
| Singapore | 1947 | | Mrs. Bellows |
| Living in a Big Way | 1947 | | Mrs. Minerva Alsop Morgan |
| Little Mister Jim | 1947 | | Mrs. Starwell |
| My Brother Talks to Horses | 1947 | | Mrs. 'Ma' Penrose |
| Faithful in My Fashion | 1946 | | Miss Mary Swanson |
| Dragonwyck | 1946 | | Magda |
| A Letter for Evie | 1946 | | Mrs. McPherson |
| Meet Me on Broadway | 1946 | | Sylvia Kane Storm |
| Captain Eddie | 1945 | | Mrs. Frost |
| Thrill of a Romance | 1945 | | Nona Glenn |
| Salty O'Rourke | 1945 | | Mrs. Brooks |
| The Enchanted Cottage | 1945 | | Violet Price |
| I'll Be Seeing You | 1944 | | Mrs. Marshall |
| Reward Unlimited | 1944 | Short | Peggy's Mother |
| The Heavenly Body | 1944 | | Nancy Potter |
| Heaven Can Wait | 1943 | | Bertha Van Cleve |
| Presenting Lily Mars | 1943 | | Mrs. Mars |
| The War Against Mrs. Hadley | 1942 | | Cecilia Talbot |
| The Affairs of Martha | 1942 | | Sophia Sommerfield |
| Rings on Her Fingers | 1942 | | Mrs. Maybelle Worthington |
| Roxie Hart | 1942 | | Mary Sunshine |
| The Vanishing Virginian | 1942 | | Rosa Yancey |
| When Ladies Meet | 1941 | | Bridget Drake |
| Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime | 1941 | | Carlotta Emerson |
| The Devil and Miss Jones | 1941 | | Elizabeth |
| Meet John Doe | 1941 | | Mrs. Mitchell |
| Arkansas Judge | 1941 | | Mary Shoemaker |
| Lucky Partners | 1940 | | Aunt |
| My Love Came Back | 1940 | | Mrs. Malette |
| On Their Own | 1940 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Young as You Feel | 1940 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Laddie | 1940 | | Mrs. Stanton |
| The Blue Bird | 1940 | | Mummy Tyl |
| A Child Is Born | 1939 | | Mrs. West |
| Too Busy to Work | 1939 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Quick Millions | 1939 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Chicken Wagon Family | 1939 | | Josephine Fippany |
| The Jones Family in Hollywood | 1939 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | 1939 | | Mrs. Hubbard |
| Everybody's Baby | 1939 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Down on the Farm | 1938 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | | Penny Sycamore |
| Safety in Numbers | 1938 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| A Trip to Paris | 1938 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Jezebel | 1938 | | Mrs. Kendrick |
| Love on a Budget | 1938 | | Mrs. Louise Jones |
| Penrod and His Twin Brother | 1938 | | Mrs. Schofield |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 1938 | | Widow Douglas (uncredited) |
| The Buccaneer | 1938 | | Dolly Madison |
| The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble | 1937 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| It's Love I'm After | 1937 | | Aunt Ella Paisley |
| Hot Water | 1937 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Hotel Haywire | 1937 | | Mrs. Parkhouse |
| The Road Back | 1937 | | Ernst's Mother |
| Big Business | 1937 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| A Family Affair | 1937 | | Mrs. Emily Hardy |
| Penrod and Sam | 1937 | | Mrs. Schofield |
| Clarence | 1937 | | Mrs. Wheeler |
| Green Light | 1937 | | Mrs. Dexter |
| Off to the Races | 1937 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Theodora Goes Wild | 1936 | | Rebecca Perry |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | | Lady Octavia Warrenton |
| The Girl on the Front Page | 1936 | | Mrs. Langford |
| Dodsworth | 1936 | | Matey Pearson |
| Stage Struck | 1936 | | Mrs. Randall |
| Back to Nature | 1936 | | Mrs. Louise Jones |
| Palm Springs | 1936 | | Aunt Letty |
| Educating Father | 1936 | | Mrs. John Jones |
| Every Saturday Night | 1936 | | Mrs. Evers |
| The Voice of Bugle Ann | 1936 | | Ma Davis |
| The Great Impersonation | 1935 | | Duchess Caroline |
| Broadway Hostess | 1935 | | Mrs. Duncan-Griswald-Wembly-Smythe |
| Ah, Wilderness! | 1935 | | Essie |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | | Mrs. Byam |
| Way Down East | 1935 | | Mrs. Louisa Bartlett |
| Orchids to You | 1935 | | Alice Draper |
| Love Me Forever | 1935 | | Clara Fields |
| Werewolf of London | 1935 | | Miss Ettie Coombes |
| Little Women | 1933 | | Marmee |
| Papa's Slay Ride | 1930 | Short | Mama |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | 1956 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Make Room for Daddy | 1953 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| In the Good Old Summertime | 1949 | performer: "In the Good Old Summertime" | |
| The War Against Mrs. Hadley | 1942 | "Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64" 1888, uncredited | |
| The Vanishing Virginian | 1942 | performer: "In the Evening by the Moonlight", "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" 1902 - uncredited | |
| Little Women | 1933 | performer: "Abide with Me" 1861 - uncredited | |
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$11 Million
