A New York native, Doris Belack began her acting career as an audio reader and lent her voice to the 1955 album "Poetry of the Negro" with 'Sidney Poitier' .
She was of Russian Jewish descent.
She had one sibling, an older sister.
Her favorite book was "Madame Bovary".
She and her husband are interred at New Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, New York, in a joint burial plot.
She never changed her hairstyle; she had her hairdresser dress it exactly the same every time she went to the beauty parlor.
She was a proud supporter of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
She endorsed John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
She was a close friend of Walter Matthau.
