Actress. She will be best remembered for her role as 'Minnie Huxley' in the cult horror classic, "The Changeling" (1980). The film which was directed by Peter Medak and stars George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, John Colicos, and Melvyn Douglas, tells the story of a music professor and composer who after the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, is staying at an old mansion and while there is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic. The horror film was based on actual paranormal events that musician and writer Russell Hunter had experienced at a house in Denver, Colorado, that he was living in during the late 1960s. She is also remembered for her role of the crone-like version of 'Liza' in Muppets creator Jim Henson's television drama, "The Cube" in 1969, and as secretary 'Doris Webster' in 110 episodes of the Canadian television program, "Hangin' In" (a television series about teen counselors who deal with a myriad of problems affecting young people at a downtown youth drop-in center, a young up and coming actor named Keanu Reeves also guest-starred in an episode of the television series in 1984), from 1981 to 1987. She was born Margaret Ruth Springford in Toronto, Ontario, in September of 1921 (exact date unknown), to Walter Springford and his wife Elspeth Peacock Murray Springford. She was educated locally and she pursued an acting career which began when was nine years old. She made her television debut playing the accused murderess 'Lizzie Borden' in an episode entitled, "Lizzie Borden Took An Axe" of the television series, "Playbill" in 1955. Besides, "Playbill," "The Cube," and "Hangin' In," her many other television credits include, "Folio," "Hawkeye And The Last Of The Mohicans," "On Camera," "Cannonball," "R.C.M.P.," "First Person," "Encounter," "Scarlett Hill," "Time Of Your Life," "Playdate," "The Wednesday Play," "Festival," "Seaway," "Wojeck," "The Mystery Maker," "NBC Experiment In Television," "McQueen," "Corwin," "Programme X," "Police Surgeon," "Sidestreet," "The Frankie Howerd Show," "King Of Kensington," "A Gift To Last," "The Great Detective," "The Littlest Hobo," "Trying Times," "T And T," and "Friday The 13th: The Series." She made her actual film debut in the role of 'Emma' in the television movie "The Conquest Of Cobbletown" (1961). The film which was written for the screen by Leslie McFarlane also stars Ted Follows, Hugh Webster, and Cosette Lee. Besides, "The Conquest Of Cobbletown" (1961), and "The Changeling" (1980), her many other film credits include, "Jake And The Kid: Political Dynamite" (1962), "5 Card Stud" (1968), "Sunday In The Country" (1974), "Nellie McClung" (1978), "Voice Of The Fugitive" (1978), "An American Christmas Carol" (1979), "Improper Channels" (1981), "The July Group" (1981), "Hot Paint" (1988), and "Biographies: The Enigma Of Bobby Bittman" (1988). Besides, her television and film work she also lent her voice to animated cartoons and features including, "Maggie Muffins" in 1955, "Just Mary" in 1960, "Noah's Animals" in 1976, "King Of The Beasts" in 1977, "Lady Of The Red-Hot Dragons" in 1980, and "C.O.P.S." in 1988. She also appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or (CBC) radio programs and in stage productions at the Crest and Royal Theatres. A longtime member of ACTRA (or The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) she was awarded the Andrew Allan Award, the John Drainie Award, an ACTRA Award, and the Dora Mavor Moore Award for her many contributions to Canadian Entertainment. She passed away following a brief illness on November 20, 2010, at the age of 89, at the Etobicoke General Hospital in Etobicoke, Ontario, and she was buried with her parents at Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario. Not much information was known about her personal life but it appears she never married nor had any children.