Elena Angela Verdugo (April 20, 1925 – May 30, 2017) Actress who began in films at the age of five in Cavalier of the West (1931). Her career in radio, television, and film spanned six decades.
Verdugo had a flair for comedy, and she garnered much laughter and applause in the title role of the hit situation comedy Meet Millie on both radio and television (1952–1956). She guest starred on The Bob Cummings Show in a 1958 episode titled "Bob and the Ravishing Realtor", playing the part of the realtor. In 1963, she played Gerry in the short-lived NBC half-hour Western dramatic series Redigo, actually the second season of Egan's earlier hour-long Empire, in which she also played Gerry. Verdugo appeared as herself in 1963 on the NBC game show Your First Impression.
From February to June 1964, Verdugo played Audrey, the widowed sister of Phil Silvers' character of Harry Grafton, in Silvers' CBS sitcom The New Phil Silvers Show.
In the full 1964–1965 season, Verdugo played Lynn Hall, an employee of a complaint department at a Los Angeles department store in CBS's Many Happy Returns. In 1965–1966, she played Alice in Mona McCluskey.
She is perhaps best known for her role as office assistant/nurse Consuelo Lopez in the ABC series Marcus Welby, M.D., starring with Robert Young in the title role and James Brolin as the medical associate. The series aired from 1969 to 1976, (Wikipedia)
