Frances Bay in 'Tales from the Crypt: Judy, You're Not Yourself Today'
Frances Bay (1919 - 2011)
Film Deaths:[]
- The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) [Esmeralda]: Burned alive by the executioner /explodes herself by explosive. She eats a barrel of gunpowder. The brute executioner lights her into the wood.
- The Paperboy (1994) [Mrs. Rosemont]: Dies of a heart attack after she believes that Marc Marut had beaten her dog to death with a baseball bat when in reality, it was a pair of ribs.
- Stranger than Fiction (2000) [Mrs. Steiner]: Dies of old age/natural causes.
- Ring Around the Rosie (2006) [Nanna]: Dies (off-screen) of old age/natural causes; we last see her in the hospital talking to her granddaughter (Gina Phillips), followed by a scene of her funeral. (Thanks to Stephen)
Television Deaths:[]
- Tales from the Crypt: Judy, You're Not Yourself Today (1990) [Witch]: Shot to death through the closet door by Brian Kerwin while she's locked inside; her body is shown afterwards when she falls out of the closet. She later comes back to life as a zombie to switch bodies with Carol Kane. (Note: The zombie was not played by Frances, but by Shari Stagliona Maier.)
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction: The Gift (1998) [Mildred Grayson]: Dies (off-screen) of old age/natural causes; we learn of her death during Charlotte Chatton's narration.
- Charmed: The Three Faces of Phoebe (2002) [Older Phoebe Halliwell]: Playing the older version of Alyssa Milano's character, she was impaled with a sword by Harry Van Gorkum while she tried to protect Julian McMahon, she dies in Alyssa's arms.
- The Middle: The Map (2012) [Aunt Ginny]: Dies (off-screen), presumably of illness or natural causes. Purposely invoked due to Frances's real life passing.