Peggy Rea

 ( 1921 Births ) 

Peggy Jane Rea (March 31, 1921 – February 5, 2011) was an American actress known for her many roles in television, often playing matronly characters." Peggy Rea, TV Actress With Matronly Aura, Dies at 89". The New York Times. February 11, 2011. Page B15.

She appeared in such television shows as I Love Lucy, The Wild Wild West, Hazel, Bonanza, Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke, The Phil Silvers Show; Ironside, Burke's Law, Marcus Welby, M.D., Emergency!, All in the Family, Maude, Hunter, The Odd Couple, Gidget, Busting Loose, MacGyver and The Golden Girls.

She appeared in feature films, including Norman Lear's Cold Turkey and Norman Jewison’s In Country.

Rea is probably best known for her role as Lulu Coltrane Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). Throughout the series' seven-year run, Rea appeared in 19 episodes as the wife of corrupt Hazzard County Commissioner Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg (played by Sorrell Booke).

After portraying a landlady in an earlier episode of The Waltons, Rea permanently joined the cast in 1979 in the role of Rose Burton, a cousin of Olivia Walton, a surrogate parental figure replacing Ellen Corby (Grandma), Michael Learned (Olivia), and the following year, Ralph Waite (John).

Rea remained with the series until the spring of 1981 when her character of Rose was proposed to by her beau Stanley Perkins (played by William Schallert) shortly before the show's cancellation. Rea's character of Rose appeared in the Walton's Thanksgiving Reunion in 1993. Rea later appeared as a regular on the first season of Step by Step from 1991 to 1992 and Grace Under Fire during the 1990s.

• Clubwoman and Nurse I Love Lucy (recurring various roles)
• The Red Skelton Show 1966–1971
• Peggy on Have Gun – Will Travel (8 episodes)
• Mrs. Roniger and other roles on Gunsmoke 1962–1971
• Cousin Bertha on All in the Family
• Martha Burkhorn on All in the Family
• Rose Burton on The Waltons
• Lulu Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard 1979–1985
• Ivy Baker on Step by Step 1991–1992
• Jean Kelly on Grace Under Fire 1993–1998 (51 episodes)