Katherine Helmond
Born: 1929-07-05 in Galveston, Texas, USA
Died: 2019-02-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2020
- Frank and Ava as Betty
2017
- Cars 3 as Lizzie (voice)
2014
- The Radiator Springs 500½ as Lizzie (voice)
2012
- Time Travel Mater as Lizzie (voice)
2011
- Cars 2 as Lizzie (voice)
- Harry's Law as Gloria Gold
- Collaborator as Irene Longfellow
2010
- Pound Puppies as Mildred (voice)
2008
- True Blood as Caroline Bellefleur
- Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales as Lizzie (voice)
- Cars Toons as Lizzie (voice)
- What Is Brazil? as Self
2007
- A Grandpa for Christmas as Roxie Famosa
2006
- Cars as Lizzie (voice)
- Mater and the Ghostlight as Lizzie (voice)
2004
- The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
2003
- Beethoven's 5th as Crazy Cora Wilkens
2002
- Mr. St. Nick as Queen Carlotta
2000
- Strong Medicine as Cicely Nordeco
- Living in Fear as Mrs. Ford
- The Perfect Nanny as Mrs. McBride
- How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale as Shatzie
1999
- Providence as Rose Bidwell
1998
- The Wild Thornberrys as Dugong (voice)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel
1997
- Ms. Scrooge as Maude Marley
1996
- Everybody Loves Raymond as Lois Whelan
1995
- Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story as Hedda Hopper
1994
- The Spy Within as Dr. Pamela Schilling
1993
- The Elvira Show as Aunt Minerva
- Amore! as Mildred Schwartz
1992
- Batman: The Animated Series as Connie (voice)
- Inside Monkey Zetterland as Honor Zetterland
- Grass Roots as Emma Carr
1991
- Deception: A Mother’s Secret as Geena Milner
- The Perfect Tribute as Farm Woman
1990
- The Upper Hand as Madame Alexandra
- When Will I Be Loved? as Barbara Patterson
1989
- Coach as Doris Sherman
1988
- Lady in White as Amanda
- Save the Dog!
1987
- Overboard as Edith Mintz
1986
- Christmas Snow as Mrs. Mutterance
1985
- Brazil as Mrs. Ida Lowry
- Shadey as Lady Constance Landau
- The Comedy Factory as Mildred Deegan
- Girls On Top as Goldie
1984
- Who's the Boss? as Mona Robinson
1983
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Jack's Mother
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Jack's Mother
- For Lovers Only as Bea Winchell
- World War III as Dorothy Longworth
- Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story as Frances Clooney
1981
- Time Bandits as Mrs. Ogre
1980
- Scout's Honor as Pearl Bartlett
1979
- Benson as Jessica Tate
- Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker as Elaine Thurston
- $weepstake$ as Lynn
1978
- Getting Married as Vera Lesser
- Pearl as Mrs. Sally Colto
1977
- The Love Boat as Harriet Darnell Stevens
- Soap as Jessica Tate
- Little Ladies of the Night as Miss Colby
- Meeting of Minds
1976
- The Bionic Woman
- Wanted: The Sundance Woman as Mattie Riley
- Baby Blue Marine as Mrs. Hudkins
- James Dean as Claire Folger
- Spencer's Pilots
- Liza’s Pioneer Diary as Aunt Sara
- Family Plot as Mrs. Maloney
1975
- Cage Without a Key as Mrs. Little
- The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant as Nurse Katherine Gunther
- The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Emma Borden
- The Family Nobody Wanted as Mrs. Bittner
- Joe Forrester
- The Hindenburg as Mrs. Mildred Breslau
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Middy
- Harry O
- Locusts as Claire Fletcher
- Dr. Max as Libby Oppel
- Petrocelli as Nancy Berwick
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman as Lady at House
- Larry as Maureen Whitten
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Edna Morrison
- Adam's Rib as Martha Layne
- The Snoop Sisters as Cissy Prine
1971
- The Hospital as Marilyn Mead
1969
- Medical Center as Rachel Weldman
1967
- Mannix as Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1955
- Gunsmoke as Ena Spratt
- Wine of Morning as Irene
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee