Kathleen Freeman

Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1919 – August 23, 2001) was an American film, television, voice actress, and stage actress. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives, almost invariably to comic effect.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1919-02-17

Died: 2001-08-23

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Naked City	Stout Young Woman on an Elevated Train (Uncredited)	72
2	1948	Behind Locked Doors	Nurse (uncredited)	62
3	1949	Annie Was a Wonder	Annie Swenson	41
4	1950	No Man of Her Own	Clara Larrimore (uncredited)	69
5	1950	House by the River	Effie Ferguson - Party Guest	67
6	1950	Appointment with Danger	Nun	55
7	1950	The Reformer and the Redhead	Lily Parker	63
8	1950	Once a Thief	Phoebe	50
9	1950	Lonely Heart Bandits	Bertha Martin	65
10	1950	A Life of Her Own	Switchboard Operator at Betsy Ross Hotel (uncredited)	53
11	1950	The Second Face	Shirley	68
12	1951	The Company She Keeps	Jessie - Parolee with Child (uncredited)	59
13	1951	Cry Danger	Cigarette Clerk #2 (uncredited)	67
14	1951	Cry Danger		67
15	1951	Cause for Alarm!	Woman	58
16	1951	A Place in the Sun	Factory Worker - Prosecution Witness (uncredited)	73
17	1951	Strictly Dishonorable	Organist	52
18	1951	Yes Sir, Mr. Bones	Chick Watts	70
19	1951	Behave Yourself!	Pet Shop Proprietor's Wife (uncredited)	61
20	1951	Let's Make It Legal	Reporter (uncredited)	63
21	1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	Spectator (uncredited)	63
22	1952	Love Is Better Than Ever	Mrs. Kahrney	61
23	1952	Singin' in the Rain	Phoebe Dinsmore (uncredited)	81
24	1952	Talk About a Stranger	Rosa, Grocery Clerk	61
25	1952	Kid Monk Baroni	Maria Baroni	62
26	1952	O. Henry's Full House	Mrs. Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief") (uncredited)	65
27	1952	Monkey Business	Mrs. Brannigan - Neighbor (uncredited)	67
28	1952	The Bad and the Beautiful	Miss March (uncredited)	73
29	1953	The Magnetic Monster	Nelly	56
30	1953	Confidentially Connie	Mother of Twins (uncredited)	53
31	1953	She's Back on Broadway	Webber's Receptionist	57
32	1953	The Glass Wall	Zelda - Fat Woman	53
33	1953	A Perilous Journey	Leah	40
34	1953	Dream Wife	Hotel Maid	55
35	1953	The Affairs of Dobie Gillis	Stella Kowalski	55
36	1954	The Far Country	Grits	69
37	1954	Battle of Rogue River	Sis Pringle	57
38	1954	Athena	Miss Seely	56
39	1954	3 Ring Circus	Custard Pie Gag Victim	55
40	1955	The Seven Year Itch	Woman at Vegetarian Restaurant (uncredited)	70
41	1955	Artists and Models	Mrs. Muldoon (uncredited)	67
42	1957	The Midnight Story	Rosa Cuneo	56
43	1957	Pawnee	Mrs. Carter	64
44	1957	Kiss Them for Me	Nurse Wilinski (uncredited)	54
45	1958	The Missouri Traveler	Serena Poole	64
46	1958	Too Much, Too Soon	Miss Magruder (uncredited)	49
47	1958	The Fly	Emma	70
48	1958	Houseboat	Laundromat Gossip	64
49	1958	Houseboat	Laundromat Gossip (uncredited)	64
50	1958	The Buccaneer	Tina	64
51	1960	North to Alaska	Lena Nordqvist	66
52	1961	Madison Avenue	Miss Thelma Haley	60
53	1961	The Ladies Man	Katie	63
54	1961	The Errand Boy	Mrs. Helen Paramutual	61
55	1962	Wild Harvest	Goldie	37
56	1962	Pericles on 31st Street	Mrs. Dassel	0
57	1963	The Nutty Professor	Millie Lemmon	66
58	1963	Who's Minding the Store?	Mrs. Glucksman	69
59	1964	Mail Order Bride	Sister Sue	68
60	1964	The Disorderly Orderly	Nurse Higgins	63
61	1965	The Rounders	Agatha Moore	55
62	1965	That Funny Feeling	Woman at Phone Booth	59
63	1965	Marriage on the Rocks	Miss Blight	56
64	1966	Three on a Couch	Murphy	54
65	1967	Point Blank	First Citizen	70
66	1968	The Helicopter Spies	Mom	50
67	1969	Support Your Local Sheriff!	Mrs. Danvers	70
68	1969	Death of a Gunfighter	Mary Elizabeth	63
69	1969	Hook, Line and Sinker	Mrs. Hardtack - Baby Sitter	41
70	1969	The Good Guys and the Bad Guys	Mrs. Stone	54
71	1970	The Ballad of Cable Hogue	Mrs. Jensen	70
72	1970	Myra Breckinridge	Bobby Dean Loner	45
73	1970	Which Way to the Front?	Bland's Mother	48
74	1970	But I Don't Want to Get Married!	Mrs. Borg	0
75	1971	Hitched	Rainbow McCloud	60
76	1971	Support Your Local Gunfighter	Mrs. Perkins	65
77	1972	Call Her Mom	Woman	40
78	1972	Stand Up and Be Counted	Sarah	0
79	1972	Where Does It Hurt?	Mrs. Manzzini	51
80	1972	The Unholy Rollers	Karen's Mother	57
81	1973	Your Three Minutes Are Up	Mrs. Wilk	48
82	1973	The Sting	Kid Twist's Wife (uncredited)	80
83	1974	Psycho Sisters	Hilda	0
84	1975	The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return	Essie	55
85	1975	The Strongest Man in the World	Officer Hurley	61
86	1978	Soup and Me	Mrs. Stetson	40
87	1978	The Norseman	Old Indian woman	29
88	1980	The Blues Brothers	Sister Mary Stigmata	77
89	1981	Heartbeeps	Helicopter Pilot	41
90	1986	The Best of Times	Rosie	56
91	1986	The Malibu Bikini Shop	Loraine Bender	41
92	1987	Dragnet	Enid Borden	60
93	1987	Innerspace	Dream Lady	68
94	1987	Inside Out		63
95	1987	In the Mood	Mrs. Marver	55
96	1987	Teen Wolf Too	Admissions Lady	40
97	1988	The Wrong Guys	Grunski's Mum	56
98	1988	The Canterville Ghost	Mrs. Umney	40
99	1988	Glitz	Mrs. Magyk	60
100	1989	Hollywood Chaos		0
101	1989	Chances Are	Mrs. Handy	66
102	1989	Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland	Dance Teacher (voice)	68
103	1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Microwave Marge	65
104	1990	The Willies	Miss Titmarsh	56
105	1991	Dutch	Gritzi	64
106	1992	Nickel & Dime	Judge C.C. Leichter	0
107	1992	FernGully: The Last Rainforest	Edler (voice)	64
108	1993	Reckless Kelly	Mrs. Delance	43
109	1993	Hocus Pocus	Miss Olin	70
110	1994	Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult	Muriel	65
111	1995	Two Guys Talkin' About Girls	Rhondas Grandma	25
112	1996	Carpool	Franklin's Mom (voice)	51
113	1997	Hercules	Heavyset Woman (voice)	75
114	1998	The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'	Self	50
115	1998	Richie Rich's Christmas Wish	Miss Peabody	47
116	1998	I'll Be Home for Christmas	Tom Tom Girl Gloria	60
117	2000	Ready to Rumble	Jane King	53
118	2000	Seven Girlfriends	Mrs. Hargrove	46
119	2000	Nutty Professor II: The Klumps	Denise's Nosy Neighbor (uncredited)	50
120	2001	Joe Dirt	Joe Dirt's Foster Mother (uncredited)	56
121	2001	Shrek	Old Woman (voice)	77
122	2001	Man and Cat	Female Cat	70
123	2002	What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Ripplehissian gang	70
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		70
3	1951	Dragnet		65
4	1952	Mr. & Mrs. North		48
5	1953	Letter to Loretta	Jessie	62
6	1953	Letter to Loretta	Cousin Phemie	62
7	1953	Topper		63
8	1954	Mayor of the Town	Marilly the Housekeeper	0
9	1954	Lassie		61
10	1954	December Bride		55
11	1955	Matinee Theater		46
12	1957	O. Henry Playhouse	Maggie McCaskey	60
13	1958	Bronco		48
14	1958	The Donna Reed Show		63
15	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
16	1959	Rawhide	Mrs. Beamish	72
17	1959	Bonanza	Ma Brinker	75
18	1959	Bonanza	Miss Hibbs	75
19	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis		59
20	1959	Hawaiian Eye		52
21	1959	The Detectives		56
22	1960	My Three Sons		65
23	1960	Guestward, Ho!		40
24	1960	The Case of the Dangerous Robin	Emma Stroud	0
25	1961	Mister Ed		67
26	1961	87th Precinct		75
27	1961	Bus Stop		0
28	1961	Ben Casey		57
29	1961	The Dick Van Dyke Show	Maid	74
30	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Angela Morrow	78
31	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Mrs. McLeod	78
32	1962	The Beverly Hillbillies	Mabel Johnson	69
33	1962	The Lucy Show	Olga	71
34	1962	The Lucy Show	Mrs. Blake	71
35	1962	The Lucy Show	Kathleen	71
36	1962	The Lucy Show	Miss Putnam	71
37	1964	The Bing Crosby Show		50
38	1964	Daniel Boone	Berthe	69
39	1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.		71
40	1965	Please Don't Eat the Daisies		66
41	1965	Laredo		63
42	1965	Hogan's Heroes		75
43	1965	Hogan's Heroes	Gertrude Linkmyer	75
44	1965	Hogan's Heroes	Gertrude Linkmeyer	75
45	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Sally	78
46	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Maw	78
47	1966	Batman	Rosetta Stone	73
48	1967	Ironside	Helga	69
49	1967	The High Chaparral	Maude	65
50	1968	The Ghost & Mrs. Muir		64
51	1968	The Mod Squad		65
52	1968	Lancer		47
53	1969	The Bill Cosby Show		52
54	1969	Love, American Style		60
55	1971	Cannon		65
56	1971	Funny Face		0
57	1972	The Sandy Duncan Show		0
58	1973	Lotsa Luck	Iris Belmont	64
59	1973	Kojak	Ma Wonderly	70
60	1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker		76
61	1974	Police Woman		63
62	1977	CHiPs		68
63	1979	The Facts of Life		71
64	1981	Simon & Simon		67
65	1984	Hunter	Ann Ridley	72
66	1985	Mr. Belvedere		69
67	1985	The Golden Girls	Mother Superior3	75
68	1985	Growing Pains	Madge	65
69	1985	Growing Pains	Estelle	65
70	1985	Growing Pains	Sophie	65
71	1985	MacGyver	Rose Magruta	77
72	1986	The Hogan Family		68
73	1986	Matlock		72
74	1986	L.A. Law	Joan Ackerman	71
75	1986	ALF	Betty Susla	77
76	1986	My Sister Sam		62
77	1987	Married... with Children	Peg's Mom (voice)	77
78	1987	DuckTales	Mrs. Crackshell (voice)	76
79	1988	Roseanne		68
80	1988	Murphy Brown	Mrs. Caldwell	64
81	1988	TV 101	Landlady	50
82	1989	Coach	Magda	69
83	1989	Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers		75
84	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Mrs. Parker	80
85	1989	Major Dad		66
86	1989	Doogie Howser, M.D.		66
87	1990	Sydney		70
88	1990	Beverly Hills, 90210		74
89	1991	Herman's Head	Mrs. Debusher	66
90	1991	Home Improvement	Gwen	74
91	1992	Melrose Place	Madge	59
92	1992	Martin		77
93	1992	Renegade	Felipe's Mother	66
94	1993	Phenom		48
95	1993	Dave's World	Waitress	64
96	1994	Duckman		71
97	1994	Party of Five		70
98	1994	ER	Rhonda's Patient	78
99	1995	Caroline in the City	Grandma Duffy	64
100	1996	Arliss		65
101	1996	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest		72
102	1996	Clueless		61
103	1997	Cow and Chicken		71
104	1997	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show		56
105	1998	Love Boat: The Next Wave	Maw-Maw Cranston	50
106	1998	Becker	Edith / Evelyn	72
107	1999	Providence	Miss Van Gundy	65
108	1999	Batman Beyond	Ma Mayhem (voice)	81
109	1999	Grown Ups		52
110	1999	Detention	Miss Eugenia P. Kisskillya (voice)	50
111	2000	As Told by Ginger	Mrs. Gordon (voice)	65