Kathleen Freeman
Born: 1919-02-17 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 2001-08-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2001
- Shrek as Old Woman (voice)
- Joe Dirt as Joe Dirt's Foster Mother (uncredited)
- Man and Cat as Female Cat
2000
- As Told by Ginger as Mrs. Gordon (voice)
- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps as Denise's Nosy Neighbor (uncredited)
- Seven Girlfriends as Mrs. Hargrove
- Ready to Rumble as Jane King
1999
- Batman Beyond as Ma Mayhem (voice)
- Providence as Miss Van Gundy
- Baby Geniuses as Lenny's Nosy Neighbor (uncredited)
- Grown Ups
- Detention as Miss Eugenia P. Kisskillya (voice)
1998
- Becker as Edith / Evelyn
- Blues Brothers 2000 as Mother Mary Stigmata
- Richie Rich's Christmas Wish as Miss Peabody
- Love Boat: The Next Wave as Maw-Maw Cranston
- I'll Be Home for Christmas as Tom Tom Girl Gloria
- The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' as Self
1997
- Cow and Chicken
- Hercules as Heavyset Woman (voice)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
1996
- Arli$$
- Clueless
- The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
- Carpool as Franklin's Mom (voice)
1995
- Caroline in the City as Grandma Duffy
- Two Guys Talkin' About Girls as Rhondas Grandma
1994
- ER as Rhonda's Patient
- Party of Five as Mona
- Duckman
- Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult as Muriel
1993
- Hocus Pocus as Miss Olin
- Reckless Kelly as Mrs. Delance
- Dave's World as Waitress
- Phenom
1992
- Melrose Place as Madge
- Renegade as Felipe's Mother
- Martin as Saleslady
- Nickel & Dime as Judge C.C. Leichter
- FernGully: The Last Rainforest as Edler (voice)
1991
- Home Improvement as Gwen
- Dutch as Gritzi
- Herman's Head as Mrs. Debusher
1990
- Beverly Hills, 90210
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch as Microwave Marge
- Sydney
- The Willies as Miss Titmarsh
1989
- Coach as Magda
- Tales from the Crypt as Mrs. Parker (segment "Loved to Death")
- Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
- Doogie Howser, M.D.
- Super Ducktales as Mrs. Crackshell (voice)
- Hollywood Chaos
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland as Dance Teacher (voice)
- Major Dad
- Chances Are as Mrs. Handy
- Christine Cromwell as Catherine
1988
- Murphy Brown as Mrs. Caldwell
- TV 101 as Landlady
- Glitz as Mrs. Magyk
- Roseanne
- The Canterville Ghost as Mrs. Umney
- The Wrong Guys as Grunski's Mum
1987
- Married... with Children as Peg's Mom (voice)
- DuckTales as Mrs. Crackshell (voice)
- Dragnet as Enid Borden
- Innerspace as Dream Lady
- She's the Sheriff as Aunt Bessie
- Inside Out
- Teen Wolf Too as Admissions Lady
- In the Mood as Mrs. Marver
1986
- ALF as Betty Susla
- Matlock as Lucy Lewis
- L.A. Law as Joan Ackerman
- The Hogan Family
- The Best of Times as Rosie
- My Sister Sam
- The Malibu Bikini Shop as Loraine Bender
1985
- MacGyver as Rose Magruta
- The Golden Girls as Mother Superior3
- Growing Pains as Madge
- Mr. Belvedere
1984
- Hunter as Ann Ridley
1981
- Simon & Simon
- Heartbeeps as Helicopter Pilot
1980
- The Blues Brothers as Sister Mary Stigmata
1979
1978
- The Norseman as Old Indian woman
- Soup and Me as Mrs. Stetson
1977
1975
- The Strongest Man in the World as Officer Hurley
- The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return as Essie
1974
1973
- Kojak as Ma Wonderly
- The Sting as Kid Twist's Wife (uncredited)
- Hitched as Rainbow McCloud
- Lotsa Luck as Iris Belmont
- Your Three Minutes Are Up as Mrs. Wilk
1972
- Where Does It Hurt? as Mrs. Manzzini
- Stand Up and Be Counted as Sarah
- The Unholy Rollers as Karen's Mother
- Call Her Mom as Woman
- The Sandy Duncan Show
1971
- Cannon
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Mrs. Perkins
- Funny Face
1970
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Mrs. Jensen
- But I Don't Want to Get Married! as Mrs. Borg
- Which Way to the Front? as Bland's Mother
- Myra Breckinridge as Bobby Dean Loner
1969
- Love, American Style
- Support Your Local Sheriff! as Mrs. Danvers
- Death of a Gunfighter as Mary Elizabeth
- The Bill Cosby Show
- Hook, Line and Sinker as Mrs. Hardtack - Baby Sitter
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Mrs. Stone
1968
1967
- Ironside as Helga
- The High Chaparral as Maude
- Dragnet as Mrs. Sunshine Pound
- Point Blank as First Citizen
1966
- Batman as Rosetta Stone
- Three on a Couch as Murphy
1965
- I Dream of Jeannie as Sally
- Hogan's Heroes
- Laredo
- The Collector ... (Dialogue Coach)
- Marriage on the Rocks as Miss Blight
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- The Rounders as Agatha Moore
- That Funny Feeling as Woman at Phone Booth
1964
- Daniel Boone as Berthe
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Mrs. Sparks
- The Disorderly Orderly as Nurse Higgins
- The Bing Crosby Show
- Mail Order Bride as Sister Sue
1963
- The Nutty Professor as Millie Lemmon
- Who's Minding the Store? as Mrs. Glucksman
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Angela Morrow
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Mabel Johnson
- The Lucy Show as Olga
- Wild Harvest as Goldie
1961
- The Dick Van Dyke Show as Maid
- Ben Casey
- Mister Ed
- Madison Avenue as Miss Thelma Haley
- Bus Stop
- 87th Precinct
- The Ladies Man as Katie
- The Errand Boy as Mrs. Helen Paramutual
1960
- My Three Sons
- North to Alaska as Lena Nordqvist
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin as Emma Stroud
- Guestward, Ho!
1959
- Bonanza as Ma Brinker
- Rawhide as Mrs. Beamish
- Hawaiian Eye
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
- The Detectives
1958
- The Donna Reed Show
- The Fly as Emma
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Houseboat as Laundromat Gossip
- Bronco
- The Missouri Traveler as Serena Poole
- Too Much, Too Soon as Miss Magruder (uncredited)
- The Buccaneer as Tina
1957
- Pawnee as Mrs. Carter
- Kiss Them for Me as Nurse Wilinski (uncredited)
- The Midnight Story as Rosa Cuneo
- O. Henry Playhouse as Maggie McCaskey
1955
- Matinee Theater
- The Seven Year Itch as Woman at Vegetarian Restaurant (uncredited)
- Artists and Models as Mrs. Muldoon (uncredited)
1954
- Lassie
- Father Knows Best as Woman at Bus Station
- December Bride
- Athena as Miss Seely
- Battle of Rogue River as Sis Pringle
- The Far Country as Grits
- 3 Ring Circus as Custard Pie Gag Victim
- Mayor of the Town as Marilly the Housekeeper
1953
- The Magnetic Monster as Nelly
- Confidentially Connie as Mother of Twins (uncredited)
- Dream Wife as Hotel Maid
- She's Back on Broadway as Webber's Receptionist
- The Glass Wall as Zelda - Fat Woman
- Letter to Loretta as Jessie
- Topper
- The Affairs of Dobie Gillis as Stella Kowalski
- A Perilous Journey as Leah
1952
- Singin' in the Rain as Phoebe Dinsmore (uncredited)
- The Greatest Show on Earth as Spectator (uncredited)
- Mr. & Mrs. North
- O. Henry's Full House as Mrs. Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief") (uncredited)
- Monkey Business as Mrs. Brannigan (uncredited)
- The Bad and the Beautiful as Miss March (uncredited)
- Love Is Better Than Ever as Mrs. Kahrney
- The Prisoner of Zenda
- Talk About a Stranger as Rosa, Grocery Clerk
- Kid Monk Baroni as Maria Baroni
1951
- Dragnet
- Cry Danger as Cigarette Clerk #2 (uncredited)
- Behave Yourself! as Pet Shop Proprietor's Wife (uncredited)
- A Place in the Sun as Factory Worker - Prosecution Witness (uncredited)
- Let's Make It Legal as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Company She Keeps as Josie, Parolee with Children (uncredited)
- Strictly Dishonorable as Organist
- Come Fill the Cup as Lil - Newspaper Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
- Cause for Alarm! as Woman
- Yes Sir, Mr. Bones as Chick Watts
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Ripplehissian gang
1950
- Once a Thief as Phoebe
- House by the River as Effie Ferguson - Party Guest
- No Man of Her Own as Clara Larrimore (uncredited)
- Appointment with Danger as Nun
- Lonely Heart Bandits as Bertha Martin
- A Life of Her Own as Switchboard Operator at Betsy Ross Hotel (uncredited)
- The Reformer and the Redhead as Lily Parker
- The Second Face as Shirley
1949
- Annie Was a Wonder as Annie Swenson
1948
- The Saxon Charm as Reception Nurse
- Behind Locked Doors as Nurse (uncredited)
- The Naked City as Stout Young Woman on an Elevated Train (Uncredited)