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Cloris Leachman

Born 1926-04-30

Died 2021-01-26

📍 Des Moines, Iowa, USA

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 282

Dear Diary: World's First Pranks

as Gran (voice)

The Croods: A New Age

as Gran (voice)

When We Last Spoke

as Mrs. Mandelbaum

Being and Nothingness

It's Who You Know

I Can Only Imagine

as Helen Neuman

as Zorya Vechernyaya

Justice League Action

as Granny Goodness (voice)

Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

To Tell the Truth

as Self - Panelist

as Lilian Forrester

as Alice Wilinsky

A Wig and a Prayer: The Peaches Christ Story

Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

as Self (archive footage)

Baby, Baby, Baby

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

as Miss Fielder

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

as Self / Phyllis Lindstrom (archive footage)

This Is Happening

as Estelle (Grandmother)

as Narrator (voice)

The Wedding Ringer

as Grandma Palmer

Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists

as Mrs. Feyersied (voice)

Girl Meets World

as Mrs. Svorski

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

as Self - Guest

as Cloris (voice)

as Shirley Kluszewski

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

as Self (archive footage)

as Gran (voice)

The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure

as Dotty Rounder

as Brand X Lunch Lady (voice)

as Grandma Merle

Franklin & Bash

as Irina Lottye Kruskal

as Meryl (voice)

as Helen (uncredited)

as Ruth Tennenbaum

Hot in Cleveland

Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense

American Cowslip

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

Love Takes Wing

as Hattie Clarence

RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Guest Judge

New York, I Love You

Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget

Phineas and Ferb

as Mrs. Feyersied (voice)

Phineas and Ferb

as Doof's Mom (voice)

The Wedding Bells

as Edith Fleischman

The Megan Mullally Show

as Self - Guest

as Great Gam Gam

as Pearl "Billie" Schwartz

The Californians

as Eileen Boatwright

Dancing with the Stars

as Self - Contestant

The Longest Yard

as Lily Hanaday

as Evelyn Wright

as Grandma (uncredited)

Joan of Arcadia

Two and a Half Men

as Lois, Peter's Mother

Comedy Central Roasts

The Twilight Zone

as Agnes Fremont

Manna from Heaven

as Dot Richmond

as Cat Lady (uncredited)

The Amati Girls

as Helga (voice)

Malcolm in the Middle

Music of the Heart

Twice in a Lifetime

as Ruth Harper / Miss Storey

as Mrs. Lynley Tensedge (voice)

as Grammy Winthrop

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

as Cloris Leachman (voice)

The Titanic Chronicles

Annabelle's Wish

as Aunt Agnes (voice)

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

as Old Woman On Plane and Bus (voice)

as Aunt Ethel Mooster

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

as Frau Blücher (archive footage)

as Grandma Albertson

Maybe This Time

Between Love and Honor

as Anna Collura

A Troll in Central Park

as Queen Gnorga (voice)

Touched by an Angel

Intimate Portrait

as Clara Mueller

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

as Aunt Agatha / Aunt Sofia

Diagnosis: Murder

The Beverly Hillbillies

My Boyfriend's Back

as Maggie The Zombie Expert

Without a Kiss Goodbye

as Mrs. Samuels

as Pamela Beale

A Little Piece of Heaven

as Edwina 'Ed' McKevin

as Emily Collins

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

In Broad Daylight

as Ruth Westerman

The Giant of Thunder Mountain

as Narrator / The Elder Amy

as Mrs. Glick (voice)

as Mrs. McFarland

Hansel and Gretel

as Griselda the Witch

Going to the Chapel

as Mrs. Haldane

The Little Troll Prince

as Queen Sirena

Walk Like a Man

as Margaret Shand

The Facts of Life Down Under

as Beverly Ann Stickle

Sparky's Magic Piano

as Millie Crown

My Little Pony: The Movie

as Hydia (voice)

Love Is Never Silent

Deadly Intentions

as Charlotte Raynor

Breakfast with Les and Bess

Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter

The Demon Murder Case

as Joan Greenway

Dixie: Changing Habits

as Sister Eugenio

The Woman Who Willed a Miracle

Miss All-American Beauty

as Agatha Blaine

Advice to the Lovelorn

History of the World: Part I

as Madame Defarge

The Acorn People

as Nurse Betty Nelson

Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued

Herbie Goes Bananas

as Louise Trends

The Oldest Living Graduate

as Mildred Carruthers

Mrs. R's Daughter

as Ruth Rendell

The Facts of Life

as Beverly Ann Stickle

The Muppet Movie

as Lord's Secretary

The North Avenue Irregulars

Backstairs at the White House

as Mrs. Jaffray

Long Journey Back

as Laura Casella

as Nurse Charlotte Diesel

It Happened One Christmas

as Clara Oddbody

The Mouse and His Child

as Euterpe (voice)

as Karen Cooper

as Iris Havlicek

The Muppet Show

as Self - Special Guest Star

Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?

as Queen Hippolyta

as Mrs. Singleton

as Phyllis Lindstrom

A Girl Named Sooner

as Old Mam Hawes

Someone I Touched

Young Frankenstein

as Frau Blücher

as Susan Davies

as Mrs. Ezra Miller

Thursday's Game

as Lois Ellison

as Claire Stevens

as Viola Barlow

Dying Room Only

as Jean Mitchell

Happy Mother's Day, Love George

Charley and the Angel

as Nettie Appleby

as Hilary Kelton

A Brand New Life

as Victoria Douglas

The Bobby Darin Show

Haunts of the Very Rich

The Sixth Sense

Suddenly Single

as Joanne Hackett

The Last Picture Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

as Phyllis Lindstrom

The People Next Door

as Tina Hoffman

Lovers and Other Strangers

as Bernice Henderson

Silent Night, Lonely Night

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Marcus Welby, M.D.

The Name of the Game

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

as Barker's Ex-Wife

Judd, for the Defense

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Judd, for the Defense

as Louise Lockhart

as Molly Strong

Run for Your Life

as Deborah Wilson

as Dorothy Hummer

The Chapman Report

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Merv Griffin Show

Saints and Sinners

as Helen Graham

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

The Mike Douglas Show

as Elsie Condon

Target: The Corruptors!

as Katie Cortner

as Angela Simms

as Lydia Manning

as Beatrice Stafford

The Twilight Zone

as Mrs. Fremont

Johnny Staccato

One Step Beyond

as Rita Wallace

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip

as Connie Wingate

The Donna Reed Show

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Ann Barchester

as Gloria Shine

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Martha Jessop

as Self - Presenter

Matinee Theater

Screen Director's Playhouse

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Susan Stanger

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Mary Templeton

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Caroline Hardy

as Christina Bailey

as Mrs. Sullivan

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater

as Miriam Raskin

Forgotten Children

as Martha Berry

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Martha Berry

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Tales of Tomorrow

as Margaret Sou

The Philco Television Playhouse

as Jenny Blanchard

The Philco Television Playhouse

as Marianne Dashwood

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Ed Sullivan Show

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter