Somerville's screen roles included The Big C, NYPD Blue, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, Actress Phyllis Somerville attends the premiere of"Stoker" at Walter Reade Theatre in New York.Phyllis Somerville, whose scores of stage, television and film roles included a cranky bigot in the 2018 Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and a cranky neighbor of the main character in the Showtime series “The Big C,” died Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 76.
She also had a recurring role on the WGN America series “Outsiders,” which ran for two seasons beginning in 2016. Somerville graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1966 and, having been involved in theater since high school, eventually made her way to Manhattan and settled in the West Village.She became a favorite of director Tom Moore, who after casting her in “Over Here!” also gave her a role in “Once in a Lifetime,” the 1978 Broadway revival of a Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman comedy, starring John Lithgow.
Somerville’s only other Broadway credit was in “Mockingbird,” in which she played Mrs. Dubose, a virulent racist. She was better known off-Broadway and in regional theaters.
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