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Irene Tedrow (August 3, 1907 – March 10, 1995) was an American character actor in stage, film, television and radio. Tedrow is also the mother of actress Enid Kent Born in Denver, Colorado, Tedrow was a founding member of the Old Globe Theater and was cast as an ingenue in the beginning of her career. As she grew older, she found more work in films as the meddling old woman. However, shedid have an intermittently recurring role as Mrs. Elkins on the Dennis the Menace television sitcom in the 1950s where her character was a kind woman. Being a character actor she was never given substantial roles, despite appearing in many shows from The Twilight Zone to the Facts of Life. During the late 1940s, she was the voice of Dorothy Regent in the radio series Chandu the Magician. Theater offered a better outlet and Tedrow appeared on Broadway even through her eighties, in such productions as Our Town and Pygmalion. On March 10, 1995, Tedlow died of a stroke in Hollywood. Her grave is located at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.