Neva Patterson: Neva Patterson. Actress: David and Lisa. Lean-framed, arch, and edgy, somewhat hard-looking, dark-haired Neva Patterson, known better by face than by name, was a familiar presence in the heavily-styled drama of 1950s and 1960s radio, stage, film, and TV. Christened Neva Louise Patterson in 1920 (some sources incorrectly state 1922), she was born to a seamstress mother and mailman father and raised in Nevada, Iowa. She loved to put on...
