---
name: "Kay Medford"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kay-medford"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 September 1919"
died: "10 April 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T04:59:18.188421+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kay Medford

Actor. Born 14 September 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 10 April 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 September 1919, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 10 April 1980
- **Also known as:** Margaret Kathleen Regan
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Medford, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q468634, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575552/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89841

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Funny Girl*](https://film.one/film/funny-girl.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Funny Girl* (1968), Fi1m 70, as Rose Brice — [page](https://film.one/film/funny-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Windows* (1980), as Ida Marx
- *More Than Friends* (1978), as Gertie
- *Flying High* (1978), series, Actor
- *Fire Sale* (1977), as Ruth Fikus
- *Starsky & Hutch* (1975), series, as Edna Zelinka
- *Barney Miller* (1975), series, as Irene Schuman, Mrs. Mitzi Kamen, Lila Wakeman
- *Kojak* (1973), series, as Bernice M. Sandler — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md)
- *No Place to Run* (1972), as Landlady
- *But I Don't Want to Get Married!* (1970), as Hallie
- *The Partridge Family* (1970), series, as Gloria Neugast
- *Twinky* (1970), as Mrs. Wardman-Scott's mother
- *Love, American Style* (1969), series, as Mrs. Adams
- *To Rome with Love* (1969), series, as Harriet Endicott
- *Medical Center* (1969), series, Actor
- *Angel in My Pocket* (1969), as Racine
- *That's Life* (1968), series, as Mrs. Quigley
- *Funny Girl* (1968), as Rose Brice — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/funny-girl.md)
- *The Busy Body* (1967), as Ma Norton
- *A Fine Madness* (1966), as Mrs. Fish
- *The Dean Martin Show* (1965), series, Actor
- *Ensign Pulver* (1964), as Head Nurse
- *Vacation Playhouse* (1963), series, as Mrs. Piper
- *Two Tickets to Paris* (1962), as Aggie
- *Ben Casey* (1961), series, Actor
- *Girl of the Night* (1960), as Rowena Claiborne
- *BUtterfield 8* (1960), as Happy
- *Route 66* (1960), series, as Woman
- *The Rat Race* (1960), as Soda Gallo
- *Adventures in Paradise* (1959), series, as Willie Foster
- *Jamboree!* (1957), as Grace Show
- *Decoy* (1957), series, as Georgia
- *A Face in the Crowd* (1957), as First Mrs. Rhodes
- *Singing in the Dark* (1956), as Luli
- *Mr. Walkie Talkie* (1952), as Marge
- *La bisarca* (1950), as Anna Paperiska
- *Guilty Bystander* (1950), as Angel
- *The Undercover Man* (1949), as Gladys LaVerne
- *Suspense* (1949), series, Actor
- *Studio One* (1948), series, as Mrs. Sweeney
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, as Betty Winston
- *Tap Roots* (1948), as Caller (uncredited)
- *Adventure* (1945), as Red (uncredited)
- *Return from Nowhere* (1944), as Waitress (uncredited)
- *Mrs. Parkington* (1944), as Minnie (uncredited)
- *Swing Shift Maisie* (1943), as Ann Wilson
- *Slightly Dangerous* (1943), as Girl getting off bus (uncredited)
- *Northwest Rangers* (1942), as Girl in Casino
- *The War Against Mrs. Hadley* (1942), as Flossie Jones
- *Maisie Gets Her Man* (1942), as Woman in Audience (Uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Kay Medford](https://film.one/media/person/1243331/gallery-39ac84e96a19.jpg) Kay Medford — Photo by Friedman-Abeles, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Kay_Medford_1963.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kay Medford](https://film.one/media/person/1243331/gallery-3b123c995eef.jpg) Kay Medford — Image via TMDB
- ![Kay Medford](https://film.one/media/person/1243331/gallery-bb96a0764c47.jpg) Kay Medford — Image via TMDB
- ![Kay Medford](https://film.one/media/person/1243331/gallery-0de3f26b0a6c.jpg) Kay Medford — Image via TMDB
- ![Kay Medford](https://film.one/media/person/1243331/gallery-61df7e7eeae1.jpg) Kay Medford — Image via TMDB
- ![Kay Medford](https://film.one/media/person/1243331/gallery-6c1d6a0cc758.jpg) Kay Medford — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1969: Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *Funny Girl*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Theatre World Award 1954: Theatre World Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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