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Joyce Van Patten

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Joyce Van Patten
Van Patten in 1969
Born (1934-03-09) March 9, 1934 (age 90)
OccupationActress
Years active1948–present
Spouse
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(m. 1959; div. 1962)​
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(m. 1973; div. 1987)​
ChildrenTalia Balsam
RelativesDick Van Patten (brother)
Tim Van Patten (half-brother)
Nels Van Patten (nephew)
Vincent Van Patten (nephew)
Grace Van Patten (niece)

Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934)[1] is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like The Bad News Bears (1976), St. Elmo's Fire (1985) (as Mrs. Beamish), and as Gloria Noonan in Grown Ups (2010).

Personal life

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She was married to actor Martin Balsam from 1959 to 1962, and they had a daughter, actress Talia Balsam.[2]

She was married to Dennis Dugan from 1973 to 1987.[citation needed]

Career

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The cast of The Good Guys, 1968: From left: Bob Denver, Herb Edelman and Van Patten

Van Patten has appeared in dozens of television series. She was a member of the original cast of As the World Turns. She made her television debut as a featured regular on The Danny Kaye Show, after which she co-starred with Bob Denver and Herb Edelman in the 1968–70 sitcom The Good Guys as Claudia Gramus, the long-suffering wife of diner owner Bert Gramus (played by Edelman). She appeared in two episodes of Perry Mason ("The Case of the Prankish Professor" and "The Case of the Thermal Thief"). She appeared in guest or recurring roles on Stoney Burke, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke (as bar girl "Molly" in "Anybody Can Kill a Marshal" - S8E26), The Untouchables, The Law and Mr. Jones, The Twilight Zone ("Passage on the Lady Anne"), The Jack Benny Program, Family Affair, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Andy Griffith Show, Mr. Novak, The Outer Limits, Mannix, The Rockford Files, The Bob Newhart Show, The Odd Couple, The F.B.I., Lou Grant, Law & Order, Oz, and The Sopranos. On a 1976 episode of Columbo, "Old Fashioned Murder", Van Patten played the lead, as a museum owner and curator. In 1974, she had a minor role in the episode "Negative Reaction" (with Dick Van Dyke) of the same series. In 1979, she starred as Iris Chapman in The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, and appeared in The Martian Chronicles the following year. In 1995, she played Maureen, Jennie's mother, for two seasons on the WB sitcom Unhappily Ever After. In 2005, she played Carol Prudy, Susan Mayer's stepmother, on two episodes of Desperate Housewives.

Her film credits include I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Trouble with Girls (1969), Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970), Making It (1971), Something Big (1971), Bone (1972), Thumb Tripping (1972), Mame (1974), The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975), The Bad News Bears (1976), Mikey and Nicky (1976), The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), Billy Galvin (1986), Blind Date (1987), Monkey Shines (1988), Grown Ups (2010), This Must Be the Place (2011), and God's Pocket (2014). In 2018 she appeared in the short film The Rest.[3]

Theatre

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At age 9, Van Patten made her stage debut in Tomorrow, the World!.[4] She appeared on Broadway in, among other shows, A Hole in the Head, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Murder at the Howard Johnson's, Rumours, Jake's Women and Rabbit Hole. She appeared off-Broadway in such dramas as Love, Loss, and What I Wore, The Vagina Monologues, and Chekhov's The Seagull. She also appeared and recorded, with Charles Aidman and Naomi Caryl Hirschhorn, excerpts from Spoon River Anthology.[5][6]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1951 Fourteen Hours Barbara (uncredited)
1958 The Goddess Hillary
1968 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas Joyce
1969 The Trouble with Girls Maude
1970 Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You Anna
1970 But I Don't Want to Get Married! Olga
1971 Making It Betty Fuller
1971 Something Big Polly Standall
1972 Bone Bernadette
1972 Thumb Tripping Mother
1974 Mame Sally Cato
1975 The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery Ida Mae
1976 The Bad News Bears Cleveland
1976 Mikey and Nicky Jan
1985 The Falcon and the Snowman Mrs. Boyce
1985 St. Elmo's Fire Mrs. Beamish
1986 Billy Galvin Mae Galvin
1987 Blind Date Nadia's Mother
1988 Monkey Shines Dorothy Mann
1989 Trust Me Nettie Brown
1996 Infinity Aunt Ruth
1998 Show & Tell Mrs. Mahler
2006 My Mother's Hairdo Mary Short film
2008 Marley & Me Mrs. Butterfly
2010 Grown Ups Gloria Noonan
2011 This Must Be the Place Dorothy Shore
2011 Peace, Love & Misunderstanding Mariam
2011 The People in the Picture Video
2012 The Fitzgerald Family Christmas Mrs. McGowan
2013 Angel's Perch Polly
2014 God's Pocket Aunt Sophie
2018 The Rest Mary Short film
2018 Diane Madge
2019 Alzheimer’s Nancy Short film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1946 NBC Television Theatre Season 1 Episode 4: ”The Flattering Word”
1948 The Philco Television Playhouse Season 1 Episode 1: ”Dinner at Eight”
1949–1951 Kraft Television Theatre Mary 3 episodes
1950 Armstrong Circle Theatre Season 1 Episode 21: ”Time of Their Lives”
1952 The Web Season 2 Episode 28: "The Terrible Truth"
1954 Mama 3 episodes
1954 The Big Story Valerie Foster Season 6 Episode 2: "Charles McKinney of the Tulsa World"
1956–1957 As the World Turns Janice Turner Hughes #1
1956 Robert Montgomery Presents Season 8 Episode 11: "The Misfortunes of Mr. Minihan"
1959–1960 Young Doctor Malone Clara Kershaw
1959 Deadline Waitress Season 1 Episode 9: "Charm Boy"
1961 The Law and Mr. Jones Ethel Season 1 Episode 20: "Cold Turkey"
1961 Ben Casey Stella Maxwell Season 1 Episode 10: "The Sweet Kiss of Madness"
1961–1963 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Ethel Bronkowski / Mrs. Maude Pomfritt / Speed Pulitzer 3 episodes
1962 Bus Stop Betty Season 1 Episode 18: "Turn Home Again"
1962 Target: The Corruptors! Madeleine Season 1 Episode 21: "Fortress of Despair"
1962 Checkmate Marcia James Season 2 Episode 20: "Remembrance of Crimes Past"
1962 The Detectives Phyllis Season 3 Episode 20: "Night Boat"
1962 Wide Country Nina Corbello Season 1 Episode 4: "Who Killed Edde Gannon?"
1962 The New Loretta Young Show Charlotte Ramey Season 1 Episode 6: "First Assignment"
1962–1963 Dr. Kildare Julie Belmanno / Ruth Scully 2 episodes
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Grace Thorpe Season 1 Episode 23: "The Lonely Hours"
1963 Gunsmoke Molly Season 8 Episode 26: "Anybody Can Kill a Marshal"
1963 Stoney Burke Laura Fredericks Season 1 Episode 23: "Joby"
1963 The Lloyd Bridges Show Doris Baxter Season 1 Episode 26: "The Sheridan Square"
1963 The Untouchables Claire Vale Season 4 Episode 23: "The Spoiler"
1963 The Twilight Zone Eileen Ransome Episode: "Passage on the Lady Anne"
1963 The Defenders Nora Slater Season 3 Episode 13: "Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy"
1963–1965 Perry Mason Sally Sheldon / Fay Gilmer 2 episodes
1964 The Outer Limits Rhea Cashman Episode: "A Feasibility Study"
1965 Mr. Novak Avis Brown Season 2 Episode 14: "From the Brow of Zeus"
1965 Karen Nora Season 1 Episode 13: "Good Neighbor Policy"
1965 The Jack Benny Program The Wife, Mrs. Goodheart Season 15 Episode 16: "Jack Adopts a Son"
1965 Slattery's People Barbara Harrison Season 2 Episode 4: "The Unborn"
1965 The Virginian Mary Stewart Season 4 Episode 6: "Ring of Silence"
1965 A Man Called Shenandoah Lily Season 1 Episode 13: "The Siege"
1966 The Loner Peggy Woodward Season 1 Episode 22: "The Mourners for Johnny Sharp: Part 2"
1966 The Danny Kaye Show Giovanni’s Daughter-in-Law Season 4 Episode 14: "Episode #4.14"
1966–1972 Insight Mrs. Foley / Marie Slovak / Thelma Montanus 3 episodes
1967 Mr. Terrific Margo Season 1 Episode 8: "Stanley the Jailbreaker"
1967 Accidental Family Martha Season 1 Episode 3: "If You Knew Martha"
1967 The Andy Griffith Show Laura Hollander Season 8 Episode 5: "Opie Steps Up in Class"
1967 Iron Horse Alice Fuller Season 2 Episode 15: "Death Has Two Faces"
1967–1973 Mannix Lola Collins / Dodie Green 2 episodes
1968–1970 The Good Guys Claudia Gramus Series regular
1969 Spoon River Reader TV Movie
1970 Storefront Lawyers Ella Season 1 Episode 4: "The Electric Kid"
1970 The Odd Couple Phyllis Parker Season 1 Episode 7: "I Do, I Don't"
1970 Family Affair Gail Spencer Season 5 Episode 11: "Class Clown"
1970–1972 Hawaii Five-O Lila Daniels / Rhoda Lovejoy 2 episodes
1970–1974 Love, American Style Rona / Wanda Glass / Nikki / Marge / Janet 6 episodes
1971 The F.B.I. Alice Kranz Season 6 Episode 24: "Turnabout"
1971 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors Millicent Wilson Season 3 Episode 1: "Broken Melody"
1971 Nichols Arletta McGreevy Season 1 Episode 4: "Paper Badge"
1972 The Bravos (uncredited) TV Movie
1972 McCloud Lucy Sloan Season 2 Episode 5: "A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley"
1972 The Don Rickles Show Jean Benedict 2 episodes
1972 Cannon Kate Werner Macklin Season 1 Episode 21: "A Flight of Hawks"
1972 Medical Center Paula Eckhart Season 4 Episode 6: "Betrayed"
1973 The Bob Newhart Show Connie Miller Season 1 Episode 15: "Let's Get Away from It Almost"
1973 The Streets of San Francisco Mrs. Rudolph Season 1 Episode 21: "The House on Hyde Street"
1973 Young Dr. Kildare Nurse Marvin Episode: ”Mercy Killing”
1973 The New Dick Van Dyke Show Henrietta Season 3 Episode 5: "Mrs. Ferguson"
1973 Burt and the Girls TV Movie
1974 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law Ruth Tannen Season 3 Episode 14: "House of Friends"
1974 The Wide World of Mystery Jane Season 2 Episode 14: "The Book of Murder"
1974 Winter Kill Grace Lockhard TV Movie
1974 The Stranger Within Phyllis TV Movie
1974 Amy Prentiss Mrs. Hyser Season 1 Episode 2: "The Desperate World of Jane Doe"
1974–1976 Columbo Sister of Mercy / Ruth Lytton 2 episodes
1975 For the Use of the Hall Alice TV Movie
1975 Let's Switch! Linette Robin TV Movie
1975 Winner Take All Edie Gould TV Movie
1977 The Rockford Files Lianne Sweeny 2 episodes
1977 Lou Grant Gloria Aldrige Season 1 Episode 6: "Aftershock"
1977 Family Mrs. Palmer Season 3 Episode 6: "We Love You, Miss Jessup"
1978 To Kill a Cop Betty Eischied TV Movie
1978 Murder at the Mardi Gras Janet Murphy TV Movie
1978 The Comedy Company Ellen Dietz TV Movie
1978 The Plant Family Lyla Plant – the mother TV Movie
1979 Visions Kit Season 3 Episode 6: "Ladies in Waiting"
1979 The Mary Tyler Moore Hour Iris Chapman Series regular
1979 You Can’t Take It with You Miss Wellington TV Movie
1979 A Christmas for Boomer Lila Manchester TV Movie
1980 The Martian Chronicles Elma Parkhill Miniseries
1981 Bulba Barbara Thatcher TV Movie
1982 Eleanor, First Lady of the World 'Tommy' Thompson TV Movie
1982 Bus Stop Grace TV Movie
1983 Another Woman’s Child Janet Stein TV Movie
1983 The Demon Murder Case Connie Frazier TV Movie
1983 In Defense of Kids Caroline Ruben TV Movie
1984 Crazy Like a Fox Sally Season 1 Episode 1: "Pilot"
1985 Malice in Wonderland Dema Harshbarger TV Movie
1985 Picking Up the Pieces Harriet Goodman TV Movie
1985 Tall Tales & Legends Ma Season 1 Episode 2: "Annie Oakley"
1986 Amazing Stories Eva Season 1 Episode 23: "One for the Books"
1986 Under the Influence Helen Talbot TV Movie
1987 CBS Summer Playhouse Ilene Season 1 Episode 15: "Sirens"
1991 The Haunted Cora Miller TV Movie
1991 Sisters Belle Adderly Season 1 Episode 4: "Devoted Husband, Loving Father"
1992 Maid for Each Other Leila TV Movie
1992 Brooklyn Bridge Harriet Mueller 3 episodes
1993 Law & Order Ramona Stark, Ph. D. Season 3 Episode 11: "Extended Family"
1993 All My Children Helen Marsh 14 episodes
1993 Diagnosis: Murder Sarah Emerson Season 1 Episode 3: "Murder at the Telethon"
1993 Bob Joyce Leona-Curtis Season 2 Episode 5: "Kiss and Sell"
1994 Breathing Lessons Serena TV Movie
1994 Northern Exposure Pat Hillman Season 5 Episode 21: "I Feel the Earth Move"
1994 The Gift of Love Erika Magnussen TV Movie
1994 All-American Girl Emma Season 1 Episode 12: "Loveless in San Francisco"
1995 Grandpa’s Funeral Iris Braimen TV Movie
1995–1996 Unhappily Ever After Maureen Slattery Recurring role
1996 Jake’s Women Edith TV Movie
1999 Touched by an Angel Sylvia Mangione Season 5 Episode 17: "Family Business"
1999 Now and Again Psychiatrist Season 1 Episode 6: "Nothing to Fear, but Nothing to Fear"
2002 Oz Sarah Rebadow Season 5 Episode 7: "Good Intentions"
2002 The Sopranos Dr. Sandy Shaw Episode: "Christopher"
2002 NYPD Blue Ruth Dwyer Season 10 Episode 9: "Half-Ashed"
2002–2003 Judging Amy Jane, Eric’s Lawyer 2 episodes
2005 Without a Trace Paula Season 4 Episode 6: "Viuda Negra"
2005 Desperate Housewives Carol Prudy 2 episodes
2011 The Good Wife Agnes Silvestre Season 3 Episode 4: "Feeding the Rat"
2012 Made in Jersey Lilla Season 1 Episode 3: "Camelot"
2014 Boardwalk Empire Mrs. Zeller – Crab Woman Episode: "King of Norway"
2018 Cady Did Marion Huffman
2021 If I’m Alive Next Week… Marjorie Series regular

References

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  1. ^ Lukanic, Steven A (1993). Film Actors Guide. p. 403.
  2. ^ Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 39. ISBN 9781557835512. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. ^ "watch". PRECARIAT.
  4. ^ Morehouse, Rebecca (November 16, 1975). "Joyce Van Patten Is Back On Broadway". The High Point Enterprise. p. 27. Retrieved July 31, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Spoon River Anthology > Original Broadway Cast". CastAlbums.org. 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  6. ^ "Spoon River Anthology Broadway @ Booth Theatre - Tickets and Discounts | Playbill". Playbillvault.com. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
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