Alice Drummond - Biography

Veteran character actress Alice Drummond was born May 21, 1928 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to Sarah Irene (née Alker), a secretary, and Arthur Ruyter, an auto mechanic. She graduated from Pembroke College (Brown University) in 1950. She is best remembered as the frightened librarian at the beginning of S.O.S. fantômes (1984), Ray Finkle's eccentric mother in Ace Ventura, détective chiens et chats (1994) and Clara the quiet local in Extravagances (1995).