Meet The Two Actors Who Played Danny Tanner's Mom On Full House!
2023/08/29

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Alice Hirson was Granny Tanny from the start, then Doris Roberts took over.

Before there ever was a , the family sitcom was just another unaired pilot.

In the never-aired pilot, the character of Danny Tanner is introduced right after losing his wife in a car accident.

The entire cast for the pilot was the same as the eventual sitcom, except that playing Danny Tanner was not Bob Saget, but a little-known actor named John Posey.

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In addition to the main cast, the pilot also featured an appearance by Danny Tanner’s mom, played by Alice Hirson.

Once the sitcom got green-lit, Saget got subbed in to star, and in the series premiere episode, they basically re-filmed the pilot with the new cast.

Although the actor playing Danny Tanner changed, in the sitcom premiere, the actor playing Danny’s mom Claire Tanner remained the same.

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Hirson was an actor who had been on TV since the 1950s, but then things seemed to falter and she took on only a few roles in the 1960s.

In the Seventies, her career picked up steam again, including recurring roles on 

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