Eileen Brennan

ActorCrewWriterProducer Sep 3 (died age 80) Los Angeles, California, USA 1944–2022 (78 year career)

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Biography

Eileen Brennan (September 3, 1932 – July 28, 2013) was an American actress who was known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Captain Doreen Lewis in the 1980 comedy film Private Benjamin. She also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Mrs. Hughes in the television series Newhart. Brennan was born in Los Angeles, California, an…

Known For

Film

The Sting

Billie

Film

Clue

Mrs. Peacock

Film

Jeepers Creepers

The Cat Lady

Film

The Last Picture Show

Genevieve

Film

Murder by Death

Tess Skeffington

Film

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Carol Fields

Film

Scarecrow

Darlene

Film

Taxi

Producer

Filmography

Acting (113)

Movies (76)

Who Done It: The Clue Documentary

2022

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Naked Run

as Gram Malone

The Amateurs

as Mrs. Cherkiss

The Art of 'The Sting'

2005

as Self

6.0

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

as Carol Fields

The Hollow

as Joan Van Etten

Dumb Luck

as Minnie Hitchcock

Comic Book Villains

as Mrs. Cresswell

Jeepers Creepers

as The Cat Lady

The Last Great Ride

as Pamela 'Mimi' Applegate

4.7

Le petomane: Fin de siècle fartiste

1998

Pants on Fire

1998

as Mom

Toothless

as Joe #1

Boys Life 2

as Mrs. Randozza

Changing Habits

as Mother Superior

If These Walls Could Talk

as Tessie

Trail of Tears

as Clara

Reckless

as Sister Margaret

Freaky Friday

as Principal Handel

Nunzio's Second Cousin

as Mrs. Randazzo

The Lies Boys Tell

as Sada

In Search of Dr. Seuss

as The Who-Villain

My Name Is Kate

as Barbara Mannix

Recycle Rex

as Rose (voice)

Precious Victims

as Minnie

Murder So Sweet

as Martha Catlin

I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore

1992

as Frieda

4.6

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

as Vicky Martin

Picture This

as Self

Deadly Intentions... Again?

as Charlotte

White Palace

as Judy

Stella

as Mrs. Wilkerson

Texasville

as Genevieve Morgan

It Had to Be You

as Judith

Sticky Fingers

as Stella

Going to the Chapel

as Maude

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

as Miss Bannister

Rented Lips

as Hotel Desk Clerk

The Fartiste

Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife

1987

as Sylvia

7.3

Babes in Toyland

1986

as Mrs. Piper / Widow Hubbard

5.5

The History of White People in America: Volume II

Clue

as Mrs. Peacock

Answers

as Amanda Jackson (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")

The Fourth Wise Man

1985

as Judith

7.0

The History of White People in America

The Funny Farm

as Gail Corbin

Pandemonium

as Candy's Mom

Working

as Millworker

Lily for President?

as Maggie

Kraft Salutes Walt Disney World's 10th Anniversary

1982

as Aunt Angelique Lane

Incident at Crestridge

1981

as Sara Davis

4.7

When the Circus Came to Town

1981

as Jessy

6.0

Private Benjamin

1980

as Capt. Doreen Lewis

My Old Man

as Marie

When She Was Bad...

as Mary Jensen

The Great Smokey Roadblock

as Penelope

The Cheap Detective

as Betty DeBoop

as Mother

The Death of Richie

as Carol Werner

Murder by Death

as Tess Skeffington

Hustle

as Paula Hollinger

Knuckle

as Delafield's Mistress

The Night That Panicked America

as Ann Muldoon

At Long Last Love

as Elizabeth

My Father's House

as Mrs. Lindholm Sr.

Come Die with Me

1974

as Mary Thatcher

Daisy Miller

1974

as Mrs. Walker

6.2

Nourish the Beast

1974

as Baba Goya

Scarecrow

as Darlene

The Sting

as Billie

The Blue Knight

as Glenda

Playmates

as Amy

The Last Picture Show

1971

as Genevieve

7.6

Divorce American Style

as Eunice Tase

The Star Wagon

as Hallie

Television (37)

Lizzie McGuire

as Marge

Strong Medicine

as Evelyn Knightly

Will & Grace

as Zandra

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Joe #1

Veronica's Closet

as Grammy Anderson

Arli$$

as Lenore

7th Heaven

as Mrs. Bink

as Betty

Touched by an Angel

as Dolores Freeman

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Joelle

Mad About You

as Inspector #10

Jack's Place

Home Improvement

as Wanda

Gravedale High

as Miss Dirge (voice)

American Dreamer

Tales from the Crypt

as Ruth Sanderson

thirtysomething

The Ray Bradbury Theater

1985

as Mrs. Annabelle Shrike

Off the Rack

as Kate Halloran

Murder, She Wrote

as Marian Simpson

Newhart

Private Benjamin

as Doreen Lewis

Magnum, P.I.

as Brenda Babcock

A New Kind of Family

13 Queens Blvd.

as Felicia Winters

Taxi

as Mrs. McKenzie

Black Beauty

as Annie Gray

All That Glitters

Doctors' Hospital

Dinah!

as Self

Kojak

as Julie Loring

Barnaby Jones

as Anita Willson

The Blue Knight

as Glenda

All in the Family

1971

as Angelique McCarthy

7.8

McMillan & Wife

1971

as Nora Dane

6.9

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (3)

Movies (1)

Miller's Tale

2011

Additional Music

7.1

Television (2)

Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!

Writer

Taxi

Producer