She is most famous for her roles on and off-Broadway, most notably in adaptations of plays written by Tennessee Williams. She has also portrayed roles in the Broadway productions of Candide and A Passage to India. She won two Best Actress Obie Awards, one for Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer (in 1958) and another for Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (in 1960).
On television, she was most famous for playing the eccentric Cory maid, Louise Goddard, on Another World. She played the role from 1972 to 1982. Meacham's character was most recognized for naming all of the Cory houseplants, which numbered well into the dozens.
The trademark of the Another World casting department was to hire heavily from the New York stage, and it was noted by author Annie Gilbert in the book All My Afternoons that Meacham was one of the many cast members taken from this genre in order to infuse strong acting performances into the show, due to her experience.
AnneMeacham, an actress whose notable stage appearances included roles in the original production of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer" and Eva Le Gallienne's 1964 Broadwaystaging of "The Seagull," died Jan. 12 at her home in Canaan, N.Y. She was 80.
Meacham appeared in Williams' "In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel," from 1969, and in a production of his 1966 play "The Gnadiges Fraulein." She also had a long friendship with the playwright.
Meacham made her film debut in "Lilith" in 1964 and made many television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s before joining the cast of "Another World" in 1972 as Louise Goddard, an oddball maid.
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