When ABC first offered her a role on a upcoming prime-time television show about a warm family practitioner who still made house calls, Elena Verdugo ... the age of 92. Verdugo signed a contract ...

Verdugo has another connection with some of her relatives: acting. “There’s a whole slew of us,” she said, referring to cousins Elena Verdugo, who appeared in “Marcus Welby, M.D.,” and ...