Barbara Berjer - model, biography; photo wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org: Barbara Berjer (June 12, 1920 - October 20, 2002) was a well-known American television actress born in Seattle, Washington. Among her many soap opera credits were her roles as alcoholic actress Lynn Franklin on From These Roots (1958-1961); Claire English Lowell Cassen Shea #4 on As The World Turns (1965-1971); Barbara Norris Thorpe #2 on Guiding Light (1971-1981); and Bridget Connell on Another World (1985-1996). Because her name was often mispronounced as "burger," she changed her last name to "Berjer." At the time of her death, in 2002 in New York City, she was ill with pneumonia.