Cloris Leachman
Acting • Born 1926-04-30 – Died 2021-01-26
Biography
Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Leachman's breakthrough role was the nosy and cunning landlady Phyllis Lindstrom in the landmark CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–75), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1974 and 1975; its spin-off, Phyllis (1975–77), earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy.
Filmography
289 credits
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Movie • 1969
Agnes
History of the World: Part I
Movie • 1981
Madame Defarge
Young Frankenstein
Movie • 1974
Frau Blücher
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Movie • 1996
Frau Blücher (archive footage)
Spanglish
Movie • 2004
Evelyn Wright
The Iron Giant
Movie • 1999
Mrs. Lynley Tensedge (voice)
Daisy Miller
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Ezra Miller
The Beverly Hillbillies
Movie • 1993
Granny
Love Takes Wing
Movie • 2009
Hattie Clarence
Scavenger Hunt
Movie • 1979
Mildred Carruthers
Sky High
Movie • 2005
Nurse Spex
Prancer
Movie • 1989
Mrs. McFarland
Herbie Goes Bananas
Movie • 1980
Louise Trends
The Last Picture Show
Movie • 1971
Ruth Popper
High Anxiety
Movie • 1977
Nurse Charlotte Diesel
Now and Then
Movie • 1995
Grandma Albertson
The Longest Yard
Movie • 2005
Lynette
Music of the Heart
Movie • 1999
Assunta
Beerfest
Movie • 2006
Great Gam Gam
Dillinger
Movie • 1973
Anna Sage
Walk Like a Man
Movie • 1987
Margaret Shand
A Troll in Central Park
Movie • 1994
Queen Gnorga (voice)
The Women
Movie • 2008
Maggie
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
Movie • 2002
Self
Lovers and Other Strangers
Movie • 1970
Bernice Henderson
The Mouse and His Child
Movie • 1977
Euterpe (voice)
Gen¹³
Movie • 2000
Helga (voice)
American Cowslip
Movie • 2009
Sandy
Expecting Mary
Movie • 2010
Annie
You Again
Movie • 2010
Helen (uncredited)
Death Sentence
Movie • 1974
Susan Davies
The North Avenue Irregulars
Movie • 1979
Claire
Alex & Emma
Movie • 2003
Grandmother
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
Movie • 1981
Performer
Kiss Me Deadly
Movie • 1955
Christina Bailey
WUSA
Movie • 1970
Philomene
The Croods
Movie • 2013
Gran (voice)
Miss All-American Beauty
Movie • 1982
Agatha Blaine
Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
Movie • 1977
Self
Picture This
Movie • 1991
Self
Texasville
Movie • 1990
Ruth Popper
The Rack
Movie • 1956
Caroline
The Californians
Movie • 2005
Eileen Boatwright
Hansel and Gretel
Movie • 1988
Griselda the Witch
Between Love and Honor
Movie • 1995
Anna Collura
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Movie • 1993
Aunt Agatha / Aunt Sofia
The Demon Murder Case
Movie • 1983
Joan Greenway
Manna from Heaven
Movie • 2002
Helen
Dying Room Only
Movie • 1973
Jean Mitchell
S.O.S. Titanic
Movie • 1980
Molly Brown
Gambit
Movie • 2012
Grandma Merle
The Fields
Movie • 2011
Gladys
Crazy Mama
Movie • 1975
Melba
Charley and the Angel
Movie • 1973
Nettie Appleby
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Movie • 1984
Mary Kovacs
The People Next Door
Movie • 1970
Tina Hoffman
Foolin' Around
Movie • 1980
Samantha
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
Movie • 2012
Dotty Rounder
Happy Mother's Day, Love George
Movie • 1973
Ronda
Haunts of the Very Rich
Movie • 1972
Ellen Blunt
It Happened One Christmas
Movie • 1977
Clara Oddbody
Buzz
Movie • 2005
In Broad Daylight
Movie • 1991
Ruth Westerman
The Chapman Report
Movie • 1962
Miss Selby
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Movie • 1990
Narrator / The Elder Amy
Someone I Touched
Movie • 1975
Laura Hyatt
Thursday's Game
Movie • 1974
Lois Ellison
The Amati Girls
Movie • 2001
Dolly Amati
Love Hurts
Movie • 1990
Ruth Weaver
The Wedding Ringer
Movie • 2015
Grandma Palmer
Suddenly Single
Movie • 1971
Joanne Hackett
A Brand New Life
Movie • 1973
Victoria Douglas
Without a Kiss Goodbye
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Samuels
The Acorn People
Movie • 1981
Nurse Betty Nelson
Being and Nothingness
Movie • 2019
Ivy
The Migrants
Movie • 1974
Viola Barlow
My Little Pony: The Movie
Movie • 1986
Hydia (voice)
Lake Placid 2
Movie • 2007
Sadie
Silent Night, Lonely Night
Movie • 1969
Ginny
Annabelle's Wish
Movie • 1997
Aunt Agnes (voice)
Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists
Movie • 2014
Mrs. Feyersied (voice)
Fine Things
Movie • 1990
Ruth Fine
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Movie • 2015
Miss Fielder
New York, I Love You
Movie • 2008
Mitzie
The Muppet Movie
Movie • 1979
Lord's Secretary
Foodfight!
Movie • 2012
Brand X Lunch Lady (voice)
Going to the Chapel
Movie • 1988
Mrs. Haldane
Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
Movie • 2008
Self
The Facts of Life Down Under
Movie • 1987
Beverly Ann Stickle
Fade to Black
Movie • 1993
Ruth
So B. It
Movie • 2016
Alice Wilinsky
Unity
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
A Little Piece of Heaven
Movie • 1991
Edwina 'Ed' McKevin
Advice to the Lovelorn
Movie • 1981
Maggie Dale
This Is Happening
Movie • 2015
Estelle (Grandmother)
The Oldest Living Graduate
Movie • 1980
Maureen
Hanging Up
Movie • 2000
Pat Mozell
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
Movie • 1995
Laura Evans
Baby, Baby, Baby
Movie • 2015
Actress
Sparky's Magic Piano
Movie • 1987
Dixie: Changing Habits
Movie • 1983
Sister Eugenio
Adult World
Movie • 2014
Mary Ann
Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick
Movie • 1999
Self
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
Movie • 2016
Maxine
A Girl Named Sooner
Movie • 1975
Old Mam Hawes
Deadly Intentions
Movie • 1985
Charlotte Raynor
The Bronx Bull
Movie • 2016
Lilian Forrester
The Comedian
Movie • 2016
May Conner
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Movie • 2015
Self / Phyllis Lindstrom (archive footage)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Movie • 1996
Old Woman On Plane and Bus (voice)
Mrs. R's Daughter
Movie • 1979
Ruth Rendell
The Little Troll Prince
Movie • 1987
Long Journey Back
Movie • 1978
Laura Casella
Scary Movie 4
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Norris
I Can Only Imagine
Movie • 2018
Memaw
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show
Movie • 1991
Herself
Shadow Play
Movie • 1986
Millie Crown
Mrs. Harris
Movie • 2006
Pearl "Billie" Schwartz
Yesterday
Movie • 1980
Mrs Kramer
The Croods: A New Age
Movie • 2020
Gran (voice)
When We Last Spoke
Movie • 2020
Itasca
Lez Bomb
Movie • 2018
Josephine
Hitchhike!
Movie • 1974
Claire Stevens
Willa
Movie • 1979
Darla Jean
The Steagle
Movie • 1971
Rita Weiss
Crime Club
Movie • 1973
Hilary Kelton
Never Too Late
Movie • 1996
Olive
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
Movie • 2009
Self
Spies
Movie • 1993
Pamela Beale
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
Movie • 1984
Self
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
Movie • 1983
May Lemke
Death Scream
Movie • 1975
Mrs. Singleton
Love Is Never Silent
Movie • 1985
Mrs. Anglin
It's Who You Know
Movie • 2018
Liz
My Boyfriend's Back
Movie • 1993
Maggie The Zombie Expert
High Holiday
Movie • 2021
Nana
Jump, Darling
Movie • 2022
Margaret
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Miracle Child
Movie • 1993
Doc Betty
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
Movie • 1976
Self
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
Movie • 2021
Gran (voice)
Not to Forget
Movie • 2021
Donna
A Wig and a Prayer: The Peaches Christ Story
Movie • 2016
Self
Of Thee I Sing
Movie • 1972
Mary Turner
The Animal
Movie • 2001
Cat Lady (uncredited)
The Titanic Chronicles
Movie • 1999
(voice)
The Love Boat
Movie • 1976
Iris Havlicek
Forgotten Children
Movie • 1952
Martha Berry
Obsession: Letters to David Lynch
Movie • 2011
Self
Bad Santa
Movie • 2003
Grandma (uncredited)
Skip Chasers
Movie • 1998
The Gliksmans
Movie • 2017
Helen Neuman
Breakfast with Les and Bess
Movie • 1985
Life of Vernon Hathaway
Movie • 1955
Irma
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Mrs. Glick (voice)
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Katie Cortner
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Cloris Leachman (voice)
Rhoda
TV • 1974
Phyllis
TV • 1975
Phyllis Lindstrom
Beach Girls
TV • 2005
Aunt Aida
The Facts of Life
TV • 1979
Beverly Ann Stickle
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Ruth
That Girl
TV • 1966
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Clara Mueller
Malcolm in the Middle
TV • 2000
Ida Welker
Two and a Half Men
TV • 2003
Norma
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Jean Cullen
The Ellen Show
TV • 2001
Dot Richmond
Thanks
TV • 1999
Grammy Winthrop
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Flory Tibbs
Studio One
TV • 1948
Mrs. Adams
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Leah Beth
Saints and Sinners
TV • 1962
Helen Graham
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Judy
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Martha Berry
Johnny Staccato
TV • 1959
The Muppet Show
TV • 1976
Self - Special Guest Star
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Mrs. Fremont
The Wedding Bells
TV • 2007
Edith Fleischman
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Susan Stanger
Maybe This Time
TV • 1995
Beasy
Going My Way
TV • 1962
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Target: The Corruptors!
TV • 1961
Twice in a Lifetime
TV • 1999
Ruth Harper / Miss Storey
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Deborah Wilson
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Clara
Lancer
TV • 1968
Angel Day
Thriller
TV • 1960
Beatrice Stafford
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Dottie
Climax!
TV • 1954
Mrs. Sullivan
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Rita Wallace
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Jenny Blanchard
The Sixth Sense
TV • 1972
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Ann Barchester
Laramie
TV • 1959
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Dorothy Hummer
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Elsie Condon
Suspense
TV • 1949
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Martha Jessop
The Nutt House
TV • 1989
Ms. Frick
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Rhoda Kirsh
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
Storybook Cinema
TV • 1994
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Angela Simms
Lassie
TV • 1954
Ruth Martin
Walter & Emily
TV • 1991
Emily Collins
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ella
Cher
TV • 1975
Self
Raising Hope
TV • 2010
Maw Maw
The Twilight Zone
TV • 2002
Agnes Fremont
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV • 1970
Phyllis Lindstrom
Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Ruth Tennenbaum
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Sudie
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Mrs. Fulton
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
Top Gear
TV • 2010
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Eve Winters
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Boni
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ruth Harron
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Miriam Raskin
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Gloria Shine
Dancing with the Stars
TV • 2005
Self - Contestant
American Gods
TV • 2017
Zorya Vechernyaya
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Bob's Burgers
TV • 2011
Meryl (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Vera Walker
Promised Land
TV • 1996
Aunt Ethel Mooster
Phineas and Ferb
TV • 2007
Mrs. Feyersied (voice)
Phineas and Ferb
TV • 2007
Doof's Mom (voice)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Mary Templeton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Mrs. Anglin
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Caroline Hardy
Studio One
TV • 1948
Franklin & Bash
TV • 2011
Irina Lottye Kruskal
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Ferris Bueller
TV • 1990
Grandma
Climax!
TV • 1954
Anne Colt
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Connie Wingate
Route 66
TV • 1960
Lydia Manning
Clarence
TV • 2014
Cloris (voice)
To Tell the Truth
TV • 2016
Self - Panelist
Suspense
TV • 1949
Margaret Sou
Suspense
TV • 1949
Ruth Shaw
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Marianne Dashwood
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Patricia
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
Louise Lockhart
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Irma
Comedy Central Roasts
TV • 2003
Self
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Loretta
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Hot in Cleveland
TV • 2010
Peg
Girl Meets World
TV • 2014
Mrs. Svorski
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV • 2009
Self - Guest Judge
Kirstie
TV • 2013
Shirley Kluszewski
Backstairs at the White House
TV • 1979
Mrs. Jaffray
Mad About You
TV • 2019
Mrs. Mandelbaum
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Ironside
TV • 1967
Molly Strong
The Office
TV • 2005
Lily Hanaday
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Happy Family
TV • 2003
Lois, Peter's Mother
Justice League Action
TV • 2016
Granny Goodness (voice)
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Queen Hippolyta
The Megan Mullally Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV • 2014
Self
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Karen Cooper
Mannix
TV • 1967
Barker's Ex-Wife
The Bobby Darin Show
TV • 1973
Dinah!
TV • 1974
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
The Millers
TV • 2013
Louise
Joan of Arcadia
TV • 2003
Aunt Olive
Teachers
TV • 2016
Memaw