Louise Latham (born 1922) American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Bernice Edgar in Alfred Hitchcock's film Marnie (1964). Most of Latham's work, however, has been on television, appearing on episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O, Murder, She Wrote, Designing Women, (where she played Perky, the mother of Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker) and The X-Files. She has also appeared in the 1992 drama film Love Field.
Appeared on 1950s and '60s stage in such venues as the Arena Stage Theatre and made her Broadway debut as a maid in "Major Barbara" (1956).
Careworn-looking American character actress prominently on the 1950s stage who made an auspicious film debut in mid-career as Tippi Hedren's neurotic, secretive mother in Alfred Hitchcock (I)'s Marnie (1964). She went on to appear in hundreds of showy, dressed-down film and TV roles often playing small-town wife, drab landlady or opinionated townsperson.
