Katherine Helmond

ActorDirector Jul 5 (died age 89) Galveston, Texas, USA 1944–2020 (76 year career)

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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. Sh…

Known For

Film

Cars

Lizzie (voice)

Film

Brazil

Mrs. Ida Lowry

Film

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel

Film

Cars 3

Lizzie (voice)

Film

Cars 2

Lizzie (voice)

Film

Overboard

Edith Mintz

Film

Time Bandits

Mrs. Ogre

Film

Family Plot

Mrs. Maloney

Filmography

Acting (97)

Movies (56)

Frank and Ava

as Betty

Cars 3

as Lizzie (voice)

The Radiator Springs 500½

as Lizzie (voice)

Time Travel Mater

as Lizzie (voice)

Cars 2

as Lizzie (voice)

Collaborator

as Irene Longfellow

Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales

as Lizzie (voice)

What Is Brazil?

as Self

A Grandpa for Christmas

as Roxie Famosa

Cars

as Lizzie (voice)

Mater and the Ghostlight

2006

as Lizzie (voice)

6.2

Beethoven's 5th

2003

as Crazy Cora Wilkens

Mr. St. Nick

as Queen Carlotta

The Perfect Nanny

as Mrs. McBride

Living in Fear

as Mrs. Ford

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

2000

as Shatzie

3.4

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998

as Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel

Ms. Scrooge

as Maude Marley

The Spy Within

as Dr. Pamela Schilling

The Elvira Show

as Aunt Minerva

Amore!

as Mildred Schwartz

Inside Monkey Zetterland

1992

as Honor Zetterland

3.0

Grass Roots

1992

as Emma Carr

The Perfect Tribute

1991

as Farm Woman

6.0

Deception: A Mother’s Secret

1991

as Geena Milner

When Will I Be Loved?

1990

as Barbara Patterson

Lady in White

as Amanda

Save the Dog!

Overboard

as Edith Mintz

Christmas Snow

as Mrs. Mutterance

Brazil

as Mrs. Ida Lowry

Shadey

as Lady Constance Landau

3.8

Jack and the Beanstalk

1983

as Jack's Mother

5.0

For Lovers Only

1982

as Bea Winchell

Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story

1982

as Frances Clooney

Time Bandits

as Mrs. Ogre

Scout's Honor

as Pearl Bartlett

Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker

as Elaine Thurston

Getting Married

as Vera Lesser

Little Ladies of the Night

as Miss Colby

Family Plot

as Mrs. Maloney

Wanted: The Sundance Woman

as Mattie Riley

James Dean

as Claire Folger

Liza’s Pioneer Diary

as Aunt Sara

Baby Blue Marine

as Mrs. Hudkins

Cage Without a Key

as Mrs. Little

The Hindenburg

as Mrs. Mildred Breslau

6.3

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

1975

as Emma Borden

6.8

The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

1975

as Nurse Katherine Gunther

The Family Nobody Wanted

as Mrs. Bittner

Larry

as Maureen Whitten

Locusts

as Claire Fletcher

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1974

as Lady at House

6.6

Dr. Max

1974

as Libby Oppel

The Hospital

as Marilyn Mead

Wine of Morning

as Irene

Television (41)

Harry's Law

as Gloria Gold

Pound Puppies

as Mildred (voice)

True Blood

as Caroline Bellefleur

The Tony Danza Show

as Self - Guest

Strong Medicine

as Cicely Nordeco

Providence

as Rose Bidwell

The Wild Thornberrys

as Dugong (voice)

Everybody Loves Raymond

1996

as Lois Whelan

6.8

Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story

1995

as Hedda Hopper

6.0

Batman: The Animated Series

as Connie (voice)

The Upper Hand

as Madame Alexandra

Coach

as Doris Sherman

The Comedy Factory

as Mildred Deegan

Girls On Top

as Goldie

Who's the Boss?

as Mona Robinson

Cagney & Lacey

as Mona Robinson

Faerie Tale Theatre

as Jack's Mother

World War III

as Dorothy Longworth

Benson

as Jessica Tate

$weepstake$

as Lynn

Pearl

as Mrs. Sally Colto

The Love Boat

as Vivian Endler

Soap

as Jessica Tate

Meeting of Minds

The Bionic Woman

Spencer's Pilots

Joe Forrester

The Six Million Dollar Man

as Middy

Harry O

Petrocelli

as Nancy Berwick

Barnaby Jones

as Edna Morrison

The Snoop Sisters

as Cissy Prine

Adam's Rib

as Martha Layne

The Bob Newhart Show

The Rookies

Medical Center

as Rachel Weldman

Mannix

as Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Gunsmoke

as Ena Spratt

Golden Globe Awards

as Self

Crew (2)

Television (2)

Who's the Boss?

Director

Benson

Director