Irene Ryan

Irene Ryan plays Daisy 'Granny' Moses on The Beverly Hillbillies, the 1960s high-concept rural sitcom that struck oil, moved to Beverly Hills, and turned culture clash into a CBS ratings weapon. Buddy Ebsen's Jed, Jethro's glorious denseness, a mansion as a punchline. Granny is homemade artillery: a woman who makes the rube-versus-elites joke look like it has a cook and a shotgun. Ryan sells hill-country authority in a rocking chair. The habit became national because the old woman would not blink.

Daisy 'Granny' Moses is the listed job on The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962–1971). The essentials already named Ryan without needing a subplot tour. s01e01 — The Clampetts Strike Oil is the high-concept contract: Ozark millionaires, a mansion, and rube-versus-elites as a national habit. Then s01e04. The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale plants the neighbor engine — elites versus mountain manners, character hooks already folklore.

TV Flash files her as rural-comedy craft at full volume. On this desk Ryan is 1960s voltage: a Granny who photographs as the mascot and plays as the reason the Clampetts still had a matriarch the bank could not buy, high concept with a skillet.

s01e04 keeps the run from looking like a single still. The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale plants the neighbor engine — elites versus mountain manners, character hooks already folklore. Same Daisy 'Granny' Moses, same The Beverly Hillbillies, 1962–1971 still on the spine. The 1960s catalog uses that middle weather on purpose.

The Beverly Hillbillies's later coordinate for Ryan is s03e01. Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul — season-three opener stretching the oil-to-Hollywood joke without leaving the mansion. Same Daisy 'Granny' Moses, later weather. The 1960s catalog keeps the code because the hour still works.