 Virginia Lee Greg Burkett was born in Hairsburg, Illinois, on March 6, 1916, to Edward William Greg, a businessman, and Dewey Alphaleta Todd, a musician. She moved west with her parents at an early age and enrolled in the Frumont Grammar School in Long Beach, California. She played sports in school, and she excelled as a pitcher on the school's baseball team, with her specialty pitch being the fast curve. Trained as a musician herself, Virginia first appeared professionally as a member of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra. In 1937, she joined the Singing Strings musical group on KHJ, playing the double bass. She transitioned to radio acting in the 1940s, and her extensive radio career included roles in gun smoke, have-gun-well-travel, suspense, dragnet, the Lone Ranger, yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and let George do it. She was in significant demand, as she had the ability to play almost any role. As was the case with many of her contemporaries, she transitioned to movies and then to television as opportunities arose. Her first movie role was Uncredited in the 1946 Hitchcock thriller, Notorious. Her many subsequent appearances include the movie version of dragnet in 1954, The Fastest Gun Alive, 1956, Operation Petticoat in 1959, and Spencer's Mountain in 1963. She also played the voice of Norma Bates, Norman's mother, in the classic Psycho of 1960, as well as the sequels Psycho 2 in 1983 and Psycho 3 in 1986. However, she was uncredited for each of these roles. Virginia had a long and distinguished television career, commencing in 1952 with several episodes of dragnet and the Public Defender, and ending with Dynasty in 1983. In between, she performed in one or more episodes of most of the major hits series of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. These include 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, Ben Casey, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Bonanza, Atom 12, Emergency, Bewitched, Streets of San Francisco, The Waltons, and Charlie's Angels, to name just a few. Including voice over roles in animated series, the internet movie database gives Greg 228 credits for movies and television. In 1948, Greg married Air Force Major and Hollywood radio producer, director Jaime Delvalle. Virginia and Jaime had three sons, Greg, Jaime, and Ricardo. They would divorce in 1959, and Greg never remarried. Greg was of average height and build, listed at 5'7 and 129 pounds in 1949. She had light brown hair and blue eyes. Her favorite sports were tennis and swimming, and she enjoyed gardening in the symphony as hobbies. Greg would die from lung cancer on September 15, 1986, in Encino, California. She was 70 years old. Information for this biography was provided by Ed Sullhorst with updates by Brian Kavanaugh. For Old Time Radio Researchers, I'm your announcer, Patrick Andre. Thank you for listening.