List of Cloris Leachman performances

The following is the list of film, television and theatre credits of American actress Cloris Leachman. She appeared in films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Last Picture Show (1971), Young Frankenstein (1974), Yesterday (1981), A Troll in Central Park (1994), Now and Then (1995), Spanglish (2004), New York, I Love You (2008), and The Croods (2013). Her television work included her reoccurring role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1975) which then led to her own spinoff, Phyllis (1975–1977). She starred in the ABC Afterschool Special The Woman Who Willed a Miracle in 1983 and appeared on The Facts of Life (1986–1988), Malcolm in the Middle (2001–2006), and Raising Hope (2010–2014).

At the premiere for The Proposal in 2009

Film

Leachman in 1975

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1947	Carnegie Hall	Dancing Nightclub Patron	Uncredited
1955	Kiss Me Deadly	Christina Bailey
1956	The Rack	Caroline
1962	The Chapman Report	Miss Selby
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Agnes
1970	WUSA	Philomene
	The People Next Door	Tina Hoffman
	Lovers and Other Strangers	Bernice Henderson
1971	The Steagle	Rita Weiss
	The Last Picture Show	Ruth Popper
1973	Charley and the Angel	Nettie Appleby
	Dillinger	Anna Sage
	Happy Mother's Day, Love George	Ronda
1974	Daisy Miller	Mrs. Ezra Miller
	Young Frankenstein	Frau Blücher
1975	Crazy Mama	Melba Stokes
1977	The Mouse and His Child	Euterpe	Voice[1]
	High Anxiety	Nurse Diesel
1979	The North Avenue Irregulars	Claire Porter
	The Muppet Movie	Lord's Secretary
	Scavenger Hunt	Mildred Carruthers
1980	Herbie Goes Bananas	Aunt Louise Trends
	Foolin' Around	Samantha
1981	Yesterday	Mrs. Kramer
	History of the World, Part I	Madame Defarge
	My Strange Uncle		IMAX Short film
1986	Shadow Play	Millie Crown
	My Little Pony: The Movie	Hydia	Voice[1]
	Castle in the Sky	Dola	Voice, English dub[1]
1987	Hansel and Gretel	Griselda
	Walk Like a Man	Margaret Shand
1988	Going to the Chapel	Mrs. Haldane
1989	Prancer	Mrs. McFarland
1990	Texasville	Ruth Popper
	Love Hurts	Ruth Weaver
1991	The Giant of Thunder Mountain	Narrator / The Elder Amy
	Picture This		Documentary
1993	My Boyfriend's Back	Maggie The Zombie Expert
	The Beverly Hillbillies	Daisy May "Granny" Moses
1994	A Troll in Central Park	Gnorga	Voice[1]
1995	Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West		Documentary
	Now and Then	Grandma Albertson
1996	Beavis and Butt-Head Do America	Old Woman on Plane and Bus	Voice[1]
	Never Too Late	Olive
1997	Annabelle's Wish	Aunt Agnes	Voice[1]
1999	Gen13	Helga	Voice[1]
	The Iron Giant	Mrs. Lynley Tensedge	Voice[1]
	Music of the Heart	Assunta Guaspari
2000	Hanging Up	Pat Mozell
2001	The Amati Girls	Dolly Amati
2002	Manna from Heaven	Helen
2003	Alex & Emma	Grandmother
	Bad Santa	Grandma	Uncredited
2004	Spanglish	Evelyn Wright
2005	Buzz		Documentary
	The Longest Yard	Lynette
	Sky High	Nurse Spex
	The Californians	Eileen Boatwright
2006	Scary Movie 4	Mrs. Norris
	Beerfest	Great Gam Gam
2008	The Women	Maggie
	New York, I Love You	Mitzie	Segment: "Joshua Marston"
2009	American Cowslip	Sandy
	Ponyo	Kayo	Voice, English dub
	Inglourious Basterds	Mrs. Himmelstein	Scenes cut
2010	Expecting Mary	Annie
	You Again	Helen Sullivan	Uncredited
2011	The Fields	Gladys
2012	Gambit	Grandma Merle
	Adult World	Mary Anne
	The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure	Dottie Rounder
	Foodfight!	Brand X Lunch Lady	Voice[1]
2013	The Croods	Gran	Voice[1]
2015	The Wedding Ringer	Grandma Palmer
	This Is Happening	Estelle
	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	Ms. Fielder
	Unity[2]	Narrator	Documentary
	Baby, Baby, Baby	Evelyn Zingerelli
2016	So B. It	Alice Wilinsky
	The Bronx Bull	Lillian Forrester
	The Comedian	May Conner
	Recalculating	Texter	Short film
2017	The Gliksmans	Helen Neuman
2018	I Can Only Imagine	Memaw Leona Millard
	Lez Bomb	Josephine
	It's Who You Know	Liz	Short film
2019	When We Last Spoke	Itasca
2020	The Croods: A New Age	Gran	Voice[1]
	Jump, Darling	Margaret
2021	High Holiday	Nana	Posthumous release
	Not to Forget	Donna	Posthumous release; final film role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1948	The Ford Theatre Hour	Dora the Maid	Episode: "Night Must Fall"
1949	Hold It Please	Herself – Panelist	Canceled after 3 episodes
1950	The Nash Airflyte Theater	Tuppence Blunt	Episode: "The Case of the Missing Lady"
1950–1952	Charlie Wild, Private Detective	Effie Perrine	57 episodes
1950–1954	The Philco Television Playhouse	Various	4 episodes
1951	Somerset Maugham TV Theatre	Mildred Rodgers	Episode: "Of Human Bondage"
	Studio One	Mrs. Adams	Episode: "Screwball"
1951–1952	Suspense	Various	6 episodes
1952	Bob and Ray	Herself	Series regular
	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Martha Berry	Episode: "Forgotten Children"
1953–1954	Pond's Theater	Various	2 episodes
1955	Screen Directors Playhouse	Irma	Episode: "Life of Vernon Hathaway"
	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Susan Stanger	Season 1 Episode 2: "Premonition"
1955, 1958	Climax!	Anne Colt / Mrs. Sullivan	2 episodes
1955, 1962	General Electric Theatre	Miriam Raskin / Leah Beth	2 episodes
1956	Lux Video Theatre	Dottie	Episode: "A Marriage Day"
	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Martha Jessop	Episode: "You Only Run Once"
1956, 1961	Gunsmoke	Boni / Flory Tibbs	2 episodes
1957	Telephone Time	Molly Brown	Episode: "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"
1957–1958	Lassie	Ruth Martin	28 episodes
1958	The Frank Sinatra Show	Helen Wasson	Episode: "The Brownstone Incident"
	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Mary Templeton	Season 4 Episode 2: "Don't Interrupt"
1959	Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond	Rita Wallace	Episode: "The Dark Room"
1960	The Man in the Moon	Herself – Performer	Variety special
	Johnny Staccato	Jessica Winthrop	Episode: "Solomon"
	Rawhide	Mary Ann Belden	Episode: "Incident of the Arana Sacar"
	Thriller	Beatrice	Episode: "Girl with a Secret"
	Wanted Dead or Alive	Ann Barchester	Episode: "The Medicine Man"
	Outlaws	Maddy	2 episodes
	Checkmate	Marilyn Parker	Episode: "The Mask of Vengeance"
	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Martha	Episode: "The Indian Captive"
1960–1961	The Loretta Young Show	Ruth Harron / Ella	2 episodes
1961	Hawaiian Eye	Ginny Whittier	Episode: "Man in a Rage"
	The Donna Reed Show	Iris	Episode: "Mouse at Play"
	Frontier Circus	Anna	Episode: "The Hunter and the Hunted"
	Twilight Zone	Mrs. Fremont	Episode: "It's a Good Life"
	Cain's Hundred	Katie Cortner	Episode: "The Fixer"
	The Untouchables	Billie Mailer	Episode: "Jigsaw"
1961–1963	77 Sunset Strip	Various	3 episodes
1962	Alcoa Premiere	Meg Bent	Episode: "The Doctor"
	Target: The Corruptors!	Betty	Episode: "The Wrecker"
	Route 66	Lydia	Episode: "Love is a Skinny Kid"
	Laramie	Sarah	Episode: "Trial by Fire"
	Wagon Train	Nancy Lee Davis	Episode: "The Nancy Lee Davis Story"
	The New Breed	Elsie Condon	Episode: "Judgement at San Belito"
	The Untouchables	Julie Liemer	Episode: "Man in the Middle"
	Kraft Mystery Theatre	Joan Lindsay	Episode: "Night Panic"
	Going My Way	Karen Murdock	Episode: "Keep an Eye on Santa Claus"
	The New Loretta Young Show	Sugar Burnside	Episode: "Anything for a Laugh"
	Stoney Burke	Eunice Stocker	Episode: "Cousin Eunice"
	Saints and Sinners	Helen Graham	Episode: "A Night of Horns and Bells"
	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Caroline Hardy	Season 7 Episode 38: "Where Beauty Lies"
1964	The Defenders	Angela Simms	Episode: "Conflict of Interests"
1965	Mr. Novak	Dorothy Hummer	Two-part episode "Faculty Follies"
	A Man Called Shenandoah	Laurie Sherman	Episode: "The Caller"
	The Trials of O'Brien	Isobel Ballentine	Episode: "Goodbye and Keep Cool"
	Dr. Kildare	Rhoda Kirsh	5 episodes
1966	Perry Mason	Gloria Shine	Episode: "The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper"
1967	Run for Your Life	Deborah Wilson	Episode: "The List of Alice McKenna"
	The Big Valley	Fay	Episode: "Plunder"
	The Road West	Amadee	Episode: "The Eighty-Seven Dollar Bride"
	The Guns of Will Sonnett	Vera	Episode: "And A Killing Rode Into Town"
1967, 1969	The Virginian	Ellen McKinley / Clara	2 episodes
1968	Adam-12	Judy	Episode: "Log 141: The Color TV Bandit"
	The Name of the Game	Vera Walker	Episode: "Nightmare"
	Mannix	Barker's Ex-Wife	Episode: "The Need of a Friend"
	Judd, for the Defense	Louise Lockhart	Episode: "Punishments, Cruel and Unusual"
1969	Ironside	Molly Strong	Episode: "Goodbye to Yesterday"
	Lancer	Angel Day / Hester McLaughlin	2 episodes
1970	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Jean Cullen	Episode: "A Very Special Sailfish"
	That Girl	Sandi	Episode: "Don and Sandi and Harry and Snoopy"
1970–1977	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Phyllis Lindstrom	34 episodes
1972	Night Gallery	Mrs. Fulton	Episode: "You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore"
	The Sixth Sense	Judith Eaton	Episode: "Witch, Witch, Burning Bright"
	Young Dr. Kildare	Julie's Mother	Episode: "The Night of the Intern"
	Of Thee I Sing	Mary Turner	CBS adaptation of Gershwin musical
1974	Rhoda	Phyllis Lindstrom	Episodes: "Rhoda's Wedding" (Part 1 & 2)
1975–1977	Phyllis		48 episodes
1975	Wonder Woman	Queen Hippolyta	Episode: "The New Original Wonder Woman"
1977	The Muppet Show	Herself – Guest Star	Episode: "Cloris Leachman"
	Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera	Herself – Special Guest	Documentary
1979	Backstairs at the White House	Mrs. Elizabeth Jaffray	Miniseries
	The Associates	Mary Nicholson	Episode: "Mr. Marshall's Love Affair"
1983	ABC Afterschool Special	May Lemke	Episode: "The Woman Who Willed a Miracle"
1984–1985	The Love Boat	Lisa Andersen / Karen Cooper	3 episodes
1985	American Playhouse	Bess Dischinger	Episode: "Breakfast with Les and Bess"
1986–1988	The Facts of Life	Beverly Ann Stickle	48 episodes
1987	Schoolhouse Rock!	Presenter	Direct to video; Goldenvision era videos only
	Our House	Miss Temple	Episode: "A Silent, Fallen Tree"
1989	The Nutt House	Ms. Frick / Mrs. Nutt	10 episodes
1990	Ferris Bueller	Grandma Margaret	Episode: "Scenes from a Grandma"
1991	Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show	Herself	Documentary
	The Simpsons	Mrs. Glick[3]	Voice, episode: "Three Men and a Comic Book"
	Sunday Dinner	Georgianna Romani	Episode: "Whose House Is It Anyway?"
1991–1992	Walter & Emily	Emily Collins	13 episodes
1992–1993	The Powers That Be	Enid Powers	2 episodes
1994	The Nanny	Clara Mueller	Episode: "The Nanny-In-Law"
1995	Maybe This Time	Beasy McDonough	Episode: "Beasy Body"
1996–1997	Promised Land	Ethel Mooster	2 episodes
1997–2003	Touched by an Angel	Ruth	4 episodes
1999	Thanks	Grammy Winthrop	6 episodes
2000	The Norm Show	Mrs. Beaumont	Episode: "Norm vs. the Oldest Profession"
	Twice in a Lifetime	Ruth Harper / Miss Storey	Episode: "Grandma's Shoes"
	Love & Money	Beverly Lapeer	Episode: "The Step Mummy"
2001	Diagnosis: Murder	Sudie (Nurse/Home Care Aid)	Episode: "On the Beach"
2001–2006	Malcolm in the Middle	Grandma Ida	11 episodes
2001–2002	The Ellen Show	Dot Richmond	18 episodes
2002	The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion	Herself	Documentary
2003	The Twilight Zone	Mrs. Fremont[4]	Episode: "It's Still a Good Life"
	Happy Family	Lois	Episode: "Mother and Child Reunion"
2005	Family Guy	Herself	Voice, episode: "Petarded"
	Two and a Half Men	Norma	Episode: "Madame and Her Special Friend"
	Joan of Arcadia	Aunt Olive	Episode: "The Cat"
2007	The Wedding Bells	Edith Fleischman	Episode: "The Fantasy"
2008	Comedy Central Roast	Herself	Episode: "Roast of Bob Saget"
	Dancing with the Stars	Herself – Celebrity contestant	17 episodes
2009	The Office	Lily Hanaday[5]	Episode: "Stress Relief"
	Hawthorne	Ms. Edna Lachman	Episode: "Healing Time"
2009–2014	Phineas and Ferb	Anne Doofenshmirtz, Eliza Feyersied	Voice, 5 episodes[1]
2010–2014	Raising Hope	Barbara June "Maw Maw" Thompson	83 episodes
2010	Blue Mountain State	Professor's Mom	Episode: "Midterms"
	Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List	Herself	Episode: "Maggie, the Musical"
	RuPaul's Drag Race		Episode: "Golden Gals"; special guest judge with Debbie Reynolds
2012	Top Gear		Episode: "Limos"
	Adventure Time	Old Marceline	Voice, 2 episodes[1]
2013	Kirstie	Shirley Kluszewski	Episode: "Little Bummer Boy"
	Hot in Cleveland	Peg	Episode: "Love Is All Around"
2014	Franklin & Bash	Irina Lottye Kruskal	Episode: "Spirits in the Material World"
2014–2015	Girl Meets World	Mrs. Svorski	2 episodes
2014–2016	Creative Galaxy	Gallaria	11 episodes
2015	The Millers	Louise	Episode: "Louise Louise"[6][7][8][9][10]
	Hawaii Five-0	Ruth Tennenbaum	Episode: "Kuka'awale (Stakeout)"
2016	The Eleventh	Margaret	5 episodes
	Bob's Burgers	Meryl	Voice, episode: "Secret Admiral-irer"[1]
	Royal Pains	Annette Bellamy	Episode: "The Good News Is..."
	Clarence	Cloris	Voice, episode: "Cloris"
2017–2018	Justice League Action	Granny Goodness	Voice, 4 episodes[1][11]
2017–2019	American Gods	Zorya Vechernyaya	3 episodes
2018–2020	Elena of Avalor	Hool	Voice, 3 episodes[1]
2019	Teachers	Anne 'Memaw' Lucas	Episode: "Wedded Miss"
	Mad About You	Mrs. Alice Mandelbaum	Episode: "Boundaries and Nakedness"[12]

Television films

Year	Title	Role
1969	Silent Night, Lonely Night	Ginny
1971	Suddenly Single	Joanne Hackett
1972	Haunts of the Very Rich	Ellen Blunt
	Of Thee I Sing	Mary Turner
1973	A Brand New Life	Victoria Douglas
	Crime Club	Hilary Kelton
	Dying Room Only	Jean Mitchell
1974	The Migrants	Viola Barlow
	Hitchhike!	Claire Stevens
	Thursday's Game	Lois Ellison
	Death Sentence	Susan Davies
1975	Someone I Touched	Laura Hyatt
	Ladies of the Corridor	Lulu Ames
	A Girl Named Sooner	Old Mam Hawes
	Death Scream	Mrs. Singleton
1976	The Love Boat	Iris Havlicek
1977	It Happened One Christmas	Clara Oddbody
1978	Long Journey Back	Laura Casella
1979	Willa	Darla Jean
	Mrs. R's Daughter	Ruth Randell
	S.O.S. Titanic	Molly Brown
1981	The Acorn People	Nurse Betty Nelson
	Advice to the Lovelorn	Maggie Dale
1982	Miss All-American Beauty	Agatha Blaine
1983	Dixie: Changing Habits	Sister Eugenio
	The Demon Murder Case	Joan Greenway
1984	Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter	Mary Kovacs
1985	Deadly Intentions	Charlotte Raynor
	Blind Alleys	Fran Sato
	The Little Troll Prince	Queen Sirena (voice)[1]
1987	The Facts of Life Down Under	Beverly Ann Stickle
1990	Fine Things	Ruth Fine
1991	In Broad Daylight	Ruth Westerman
	A Little Piece of Heaven	Edwina 'Ed' McKevin
1993	Spies[13]	Pamela Beale
	Fade to Black	Ruth
	Double, Double, Toil and Trouble	Aunt Agatha/Aunt Sofia
	Without a Kiss Goodbye	Mrs. Samuels
	Miracle Child	Doc Betty
1995	Between Love and Honor	Anna Collura
2005	Mrs. Harris	Pearl 'Billie' Schwartz, Tarnower's Sister
2007	Lake Placid 2	Sadie Bickerman
	Love Takes Wing	Hattie Clarence

Theater

• Ah, Wilderness! (Des Moines, 1942)
• Blithe Spirit (Northwestern University, 1943)
• Sundown Beach (Broadway, 1948. Directed by Elia Kazan)
• South Pacific (Broadway, 1951; month-long replacement for Martha Wright)
• Come Back, Little Sheba (Pre-Broadway tryout, 1950; left cast to star in As You Like It)
• As You Like It (Broadway, 1950)
• A Story for a Sunday Evening (Broadway, 1950; Won Theatre World Award)
• "Let Me Hear the Melody" (1951. Directed by Burgess Meredith. Starring Anthony Quinn)
• Lo and Behold! (Broadway, 1952)
• Dear Barbarians (Broadway, 1952)
• Sunday Breakfast (Broadway, 1952)
• The Day Before Spring (Palm Beach, Florida, 1953)
• The Crucible (Broadway, 1953; replacement for Madeleine Sherwood)
• King of Hearts (Broadway, 1954)
• A Touch of the Poet (Broadway, 1958; replacement for Kim Stanley)
• Masquerade (Broadway, 1959)
• Twigs (Marriott Theater in Lincolnshire, Illinois, 1978)
• The Oldest Living Graduate (1980)
• Twigs (Drury Lane Theater, Water Tower Place, Chicago, Illinois 1981)
• High Spirits (Broadway opening eventually cancelled, 1981)
• A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (Drury Lane Theater, Water Tower Place, Chicago, Illinois 1983)
• A Little Family Business (Drury Lane Oak Brook, Illinois, 1985)
• A Fatal Weakness (Monaco, 1985)
• Grandma Moses: An American Primitive (US national tour, 1989)
• Show Boat (US national tour, 1994)
• Young Frankenstein (workshop for the musical, 2006)

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Cloris Leachman