Helen Shaw (actress)
Helen Shaw was an American actress. She is best known for playing a kindly old woman on such shows as Diff'rent Strokes and Highway to Heaven. She played Mrs. Dempsey in the 1983 film and Steve Martin's grandmother in the 1989 comedy Parenthood. She was a humorous guest during her first appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on 6 October 1989.
She died in 1997 at the age of 100.
