Frances Bay, the veteran character actress who worked with everyone from Jerry Seinfeld to David Lynch, died on Thursday, Sept. 15, according to the Los Angeles Times. She was 92.

Bay, born in Mannville, Canada on Jan. 23, 1919, started off as a stage actress in Toronto but put her acting career on hold to become a homemaker after her husband's business career took them to the United States. Bay caught the acting bug again in the 1970s and started auditioning for film and television.

Bay went on to become Hollywood's go-to character actress for grandmotherly characters, appearing as Fonzie's Grandma Nussbaum on "Happy Days," Aunt Hortense on "The Dukes of Hazzard," Granny on Faerie Tale Theatre's rendition of "Little Red Riding Hood" and, of course, Grandma in "Happy Gilmore." She also proved herself as a gifted comedian with her turn as Mabel Choate, who clashed with Jerry over the last loaf of marble rye bread on "Seinfeld."

She didn't always play the "nice" grandmother types, though -- Bay also had a knack for the sinister, especially when she worked with David Lynch. She played Mrs. Tremond on "Twin Peaks" and in the feature film, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me," the Madam in "Wild at Heart" ("We're here to make Mr. Reindeer happy!") and Aunt Barbara in "Blue Velvet."

One of our favorite Frances Bay roles is most definitely Mrs. Pickman, the seemingly kindly hotel manager who kept her whimpering naked husband chained to her leg underneath the front desk in John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness."

Recently, Frances Bay had appeared as Aunt Ginny on the ABC sitcom, "The Middle."