Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as 'Mabel,' 'Sylvia,' and 'Nona Barnes' in the popular Tom Selleck and John Hillerman detective television series, "Magnum, P.I" from 1981 to 1988. She later guest-starred as 'Lady Agatha Chumley' the lady friend to actor John Hillerman's character of 'Jonathan Quayle Higgins III' in an episode entitled, "Black On White" which aired on October 28, 1982. The television audience enjoyed her character so much that she was made a regular on the show and she went on and appeared in another thirty-one episodes as 'Lady Agatha Chumley' on "Magnum, P.I." from 1982 to 1988. Besides, "Magnum, P.I" from 1982 to 1988, she also made a guest appearance in the role of 'Gertrude Firth' in the Jack Lord and James MacArthur police drama, "Hawaii Five-O" in 1980. Her one and only film role was as 'Mary Jane' in the television movie "Gidget's Summer Reunion" (1985), which was directed by Bruce Bilson and told the story of former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine "Gidget" Lawrence (played by Caryn Richman and not by Sandra Dee who had played her previously) who is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff "Moondoggie" Griffin. She deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own travel agency, running interferences with her teenage niece, and trying to arrange a reunion of her husband's old surfing friends. Meanwhile, Jeff works as an architect and must fend off romantic advances from his beautiful and lascivious boss. Gidget's niece wants to learn how to surf and gets too much when she sneaks out to see a suave, self-serving beach bum behind the back of her nerdy boyfriend. She was born one of two children in Battersea, Wandsworth, London, England, to Harold Augustus Wells and his wife Phyllis Alice Pullen Wells on May 8, 1929. She later moved to Canberra, Australia, where she began working with the Canberra Repertory Society as a prompter. Her work took her to Washington, D.C., until she moved to Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in 1975. She then met her future husband Marvin Irvin Dobb who was an American serviceman from New Jersey and who was stationed in Hawaii at the time. The couple married on December 12, 1959, and later settled in Honolulu, Hawaii. The couple who had no children divorced in 1977. She became a Naturalized United States Citizen and worked as a legal secretary as well as concentrating on an acting career. She performed with the Honolulu Community Theatre and the Hawaii Performing Arts Company in Honolulu, Hawaii. She eventually appeared in the television series, "Magnum, PI" from 1982 to 1988, "Hawaii Five-O" in 1980, and in the television movie, "Gidget's Summer Reunion" in 1985. She later relocated to New York State. She passed away in Lancaster, New York, on March 31, 2001, at the age of 71, and was buried in Carlisle United Church Cemetery in Carlisle, Ontario, Canada, with her mother Phyllis Alice Pullen Wells Dobb (1900-1976), and her sister Valerie Dobb Davies (1928-2004).