Bettye Ackerman(1924-2006)

Best known as Dr. Maggie Graham on the Ben Casey (1961), she met and married her "Ben Casey" co-star, actor Sam Jaffe, earlier in 1955 when they were both appearing on stage in a production of "Tartuffe". They married a year later. Despite their 33-year age difference the marriage lasted 28 years until his death of cancer in 1984 at age 93. They had no children.