Anne Jackson in The Shining
Anne Jackson (1925-2016) was an actor in Broadway plays and film, often co-starring with her husband Eli Wallach. When their son, animator Peter Wallach, produced segments for Sesame Street season 11, she narrated the stop-motion "Rain Dance" insert, first aired in 1980 (First: Episode 1403). The same year, she had a supporting role in The Shining, as the doctor who examines Danny and asks about the Torrence's home situation.
Jackson began acting on Broadway in 1944, appearing in the ensemble Sigmund Romberg's The New Moon, her only musical. She spent the rest of her stage career in straight plays and dramas. A student of the Actors Studio with future spouse Eli Wallach, the pair first worked together in American Repertory Theatre productions between 1946 and 1947. They continued to appear together frequently, with Wallach supporting Jackson when she took over the lead in Major Barbara (1956) and both co-starred with Zero Mostel in the original 1961 production of Rhinoceros. Their stage collaborations continued for six later plays, ending with 1994's The Flowering Peach. Solo, Jackson received a Tony Award nomination for her supporting role in 1956's Middle of the Night (with Edward G. Robinson).
On-screen, while acting in early TV anthologies, Jackson made her film debut in 1950s So Young, So Bad (with Rita Moreno) and starred with Wallach in the 1960s movies The Tiger Steps Out and How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life and joint supporting roles or cameos in others. She played Abigail Adams in the bicentennial featurette Independence (with Pat Hingle as John Adams and Wallach as Ben Franklin). Apart from The Shining, her solo films included Lovers and Other Strangers, Dirty Dingus Magee, and Folks! (as Tom Selleck's mother). On TV, she guest starred on Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D., Rhoda, Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales & Legends (as Mother Nature), and Reading Rainbow (as guest reader of Stellaluna).