Katherine Helmond

Katherine Helmond

Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director. Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob New hart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke. She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar. Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Galveston, Texas, USA, 1929-07-05

Died: 2019-02-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Wine of Morning	Irene	55
2	1971	The Hospital	Marilyn Mead	66
3	1974	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman	Lady at House	66
4	1974	Dr. Max	Libby Oppel	0
5	1974	Larry	Maureen Whitten	55
6	1974	Locusts	Claire Fletcher	48
7	1975	The Legend of Lizzie Borden	Emma Borden	68
8	1975	The Family Nobody Wanted	Mrs. Bittner	58
9	1975	Cage Without a Key	Mrs. Little	60
10	1975	The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant	Nurse Katherine Gunther	0
11	1975	The Hindenburg	Mrs. Mildred Breslau	63
12	1976	James Dean	Claire Folger	47
13	1976	Family Plot	Mrs. Maloney	67
14	1976	Baby Blue Marine	Mrs. Hudkins	49
15	1976	Wanted: The Sundance Woman	Mattie Riley	64
16	1976	Liza’s Pioneer Diary	Aunt Sara	0
17	1977	Little Ladies of the Night	Miss Colby	33
18	1978	Getting Married	Vera Lesser	40
19	1979	Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker	Elaine Thurston	60
20	1980	Scout's Honor	Pearl Bartlett	55
21	1981	Time Bandits	Mrs. Ogre	66
22	1982	For Lovers Only	Bea Winchell	0
23	1982	Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story	Frances Clooney	0
24	1983	Jack and the Beanstalk	Jack's Mother	50
25	1985	Brazil	Mrs. Ida Lowry	77
26	1985	Shadey	Lady Constance Landau	44
27	1986	Christmas Snow	Mrs. Mutterance	60
28	1987	Overboard	Edith Mintz	68
29	1988	Save the Dog!		0
30	1988	Lady in White	Amanda	61
31	1990	When Will I Be Loved?	Barbara Patterson	0
32	1991	The Perfect Tribute	Farm Woman	60
33	1991	Deception: A Mother’s Secret	Geena Milner	0
34	1992	Grass Roots	Emma Carr	0
35	1992	Inside Monkey Zetterland	Honor Zetterland	32
36	1993	The Elvira Show	Aunt Minerva	100
37	1993	Amore!	Mildred Schwartz	32
38	1994	The Flight of the Dove	Dr. Pamela Schilling	46
39	1997	Ms. Scrooge	Maude Marley	52
40	1998	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel	72
41	2000	The Perfect Nanny	Mrs. McBride	61
42	2000	How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale		34
43	2000	Living in Fear	Mrs. Ford	38
44	2002	Mr. St. Nick	Queen Carlotta	56
45	2003	Beethoven's 5th	Crazy Cora Wilkens	53
46	2006	Cars	Lizzie (voice)	70
47	2006	Mater and the Ghostlight	Lizzie (voice)	62
48	2007	A Grandpa for Christmas	Roxie Famosa	64
49	2008	What Is Brazil?	Self	64
50	2009	Pixar Short Films	Lizzie (voice)	0
51	2010	Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales	Lizzie	69
52	2011	Cars 2	Lizzie (voice)	62
53	2011	Collaborator	Irene Longfellow	47
54	2012	Time Travel Mater	Lizzie (voice)	61
55	2014	The Radiator Springs 500½	Lizzie (voice)	63
56	2017	Cars 3	Lizzie (voice)	69
57	2020	Frank and Ava	Betty	51

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
3	1955	Gunsmoke	Ena Spratt	66
4	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
5	1967	Mannix		67
6	1967	Mannix	Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud	67
7	1969	Medical Center	Rachel Weldman	61
8	1972	The Rookies		68
9	1972	The Bob Newhart Show		75
10	1973	Barnaby Jones	Edna Morrison	69
11	1973	Adam's Rib	Martha Layne	50
12	1973	The Snoop Sisters	Cissy Prine	72
13	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Middy	73
14	1974	Petrocelli	Nancy Berwick	71
15	1974	Harry O		46
16	1975	Joe Forrester		70
17	1976	The Bionic Woman		70
18	1976	Spencer's Pilots		50
19	1977	Meeting of Minds		95
20	1977	Soap	Jessica Tate	73
21	1977	The Love Boat	Harriet Darnell Stevens	63
22	1977	The Love Boat	Vivian Endler	63
23	1978	Pearl	Mrs. Sally Colto	64
24	1979	Sweepstakes		0
25	1979	Benson	Jessica Tate	71
26	1982	World War III	Dorothy Longworth	62
27	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	Jack's Mother	81
28	1984	Who's the Boss?	Mona Robinson	74
29	1985	The Comedy Factory	Mildred Deegan	0
30	1985	Girls On Top	Goldie	48
31	1989	Coach	Doris Sherman	68
32	1990	The Upper Hand	Madame Alexandra	70
33	1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Connie (voice)	85
34	1995	Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story	Hedda Hopper	60
35	1996	Everybody Loves Raymond	Lois Whelan	68
36	1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Dugong (voice)	69
37	1999	Providence	Rose Bidwell	65
38	2000	Strong Medicine	Cicely Nordeco	71
39	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self - Guest	61
40	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self - Guest / Mona Robinson	61
41	2008	True Blood	Caroline Bellefleur	76
42	2010	Pound Puppies	Mildred (voice)	52
43	2011	Harry's Law	Gloria Gold	73

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