Mary Jackson

Mary Jackson was an American character actress whose nearly fifty-year career began in 1950 and was spent almost entirely on television. She is best known for the role of the lovelorn Emily Baldwin in The Waltons and was the original choice to play Alice Horton in the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives. She in fact played the part in the unaired pilot although the role was subsequently taken by Frances Reid. Many do not know that Mary Jackson also had a role in Barnaby Jones as a landlady; episode titled "Requiem for a Son"(01/28/1973).