Mary Tyler Moore

ActorProductionProducerDirector Dec 29 (died age 80) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 1944–2025 (81 year career)

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Biography

Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, producer, and social advocate. She is best known for her roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), which "helped define a new vision of American womanhood" and "appealed to an audience facing the new trials of modern-day existence". Moore won seven Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her perform…

Known For

Film

Ordinary People

Beth Jarrett

Film

Inequality for All

Mary Richards (archive footage)

Film

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Laura Petrie

Film

Flirting with Disaster

Pearl Coplin

Film

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Mary Richards

Film

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Miss Dorothy Brown

Film

Cheats

Mrs. Stark

Film

Operation Mad Ball

Nurse (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (108)

Movies (55)

Dick Van Dyke: 100th Celebration

2025

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Being Mary Tyler Moore

2023

as Self (archive footage)

6.6

Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert

2020

as Self - Special Guest

10.0

Mary Tyler Moore: Behind the Smile

2017

as Self (archive footage)

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

2015

as Self / Various (archive footage)

10.0

Inequality for All

2013

as Mary Richards (archive footage)

7.5

Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl

2012

as Self

6.0

Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored

2011

as Laura Petrie (archive footage)

Sheldon Leonard's Wonderful Life

as Self

Against the Current

as Liz' Mom

Snow Wonder

as Lula

The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited

as Laura Petrie

The Gin Game

as Fonsia Dorsey

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

as Self

Blessings

as Lydia Blessing

Cheats

as Mrs. Stark

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

as Self

Miss Lettie and Me

as Lettie Anderson

The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion

2002

as Self

Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes

2001

as Sante Chambers Kimes / Eva Guerrero

Labor Pains

as Esther Raymond

Mary and Rhoda

as Mary Richards-Cronin

Kids Are Punny

as Self (voice)

Keys to Tulsa

as Cynthia Boudreau

Payback

as Kathryn Stanfill

Flirting with Disaster

1996

as Pearl Coplin

6.2

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

1996

as Jessica

Stolen Babies

1993

as Georgia Tann

4.3

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

as Herself - Host

The Last Best Year

as Wendy Haller

Thanksgiving Day

as Paula Schloss

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

as Self

Just Between Friends

as Holly Davis

Night of 100 Stars II

as Self

Finnegan Begin Again

as Liz DeHaan

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

1985

as Self (archive footage)

Heartsounds

1984

as Martha Weinman Lear

Six Weeks

as Charlotte Dreyfus

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

I Love Liberty

as Self

Making 'M*A*S*H'

1981

as Narrator (voice)

Ordinary People

1980

as Beth Jarrett

7.5

First, You Cry

1978

as Betty Rollin

How to Survive the '70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness

1978

as Self

Mary's Incredible Dream

1976

as Angel / Devil / Woman

Run a Crooked Mile

1969

as Elizabeth Sutton

8.0

Change of Habit

1969

as Sister Michelle Gallagher

5.3

Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman

1969

as Herself

10.0

Don't Just Stand There

1968

as Martine Randall

5.5

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

1968

as Liz

6.6

Thoroughly Modern Millie

1967

as Miss Dorothy Brown

X-15

as Pamela Stewart

The Fatal Impulse

as Mary Snyder

Once Upon a Horse...

as Dance Hall Girl (uncredited)

8.5

Operation Mad Ball

1957

as Nurse (uncredited)

6.6

Television (53)

Hot in Cleveland

as Diane

Lipstick Jungle

as Joyce

TV Revolution

That '70s Show

as Christine St. George

The View

as Self

King of the Hill

as Reverend Karen Stroup (voice)

7.4

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

1996

as Self - Guest

3.9

E! True Hollywood Story

as Self

The Naked Truth

as Catherine Wilde

New York News

as Louise Felcott

Ellen

1994

as Mary Tyler Moore

6.1

Inside the Actors Studio

1994

as Self

7.5

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Frasier

as Marjorie (voice)

Intimate Portrait

as Self

Lincoln

as Mary Todd Lincoln

Annie McGuire

as Annie McGuire

American Masters

as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)

Mary

as Mary Brenner

Wogan

as Self

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour

1979

as Mary McKinnon

Saturday Night Live

as Self

Rhoda

The Pet Set

as Self

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

as Mary Richards

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Dick Van Dyke Show

as Laura Petrie

Straightaway

Thriller

as Mary Snyder

Checkmate

Surfside 6

as Kathy Murlow

The Aquanauts

as Dana March

Overland Trail

as Joan Ransom

Hawaiian Eye

as Susan Hart

Lock-Up

Johnny Staccato

Bourbon Street Beat

The Deputy

as Amy Collins

Riverboat

as Lily Belle de Lesseps

6.2

The David Susskind Show

1959

as Self

5.0

77 Sunset Strip

1958

as Girl on Telephone (uncredited)

6.7

Bronco

1958

5.9

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958

as Sophie Anderson

6.8

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

1957

as Sam (voice) (uncredited)

Tony Awards

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

as Self - Hostess / Presenter / Special Award Recipient

The Millionaire

as Linda

The Oscars

as Self

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

1952

as Happy Hotpoint (uncredited)

5.9

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Student

The Emmy Awards

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee / Presenter

7.2

Crew (4)

Movies (3)

The Gin Game

2003

Co-Executive Producer

6.0

Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes

Executive Producer

Mary and Rhoda

Executive Producer

Television (1)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

1970

Director

7.6