Cloris Leachman
Acting
🎂 1926-04-30
Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Leachman's breakthrough role was the nosy and cunning landlady Phyllis Lindstrom in the landmark CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–75), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1974 and 1975; its spin-off, Phyllis (1975–77), earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy.
Cast credits(289)
Self
1962
Self
1962
Self
2014
Self - Guest
2009
Mrs. Glick (voice)
1989
Norma
2003
Cloris Leachman (voice)
1999
Self - Guest Judge
2009
Ruth Martin
1954
Lily Hanaday
2005
Self - Guest
1968
Ruth
1994
1955
Ruth Tennenbaum
2010
Self
1948
Mrs. Feyersied (voice)
2007
Doof's Mom (voice)
2007
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
1961
Clara Mueller
1993
Phyllis Lindstrom
1970
Meryl (voice)
2011
1959
Rhoda Kirsh
1961
Mrs. Svorski
2014
Deborah Wilson
1965
Irma
1955
Self - Contestant
2005
Barker's Ex-Wife
1967
1951
Self - Winner
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Guest
2006
Vera Walker
1968
Sudie
1993
Gloria Shine
1957
Loretta
1957
2000
Ida Welker
2000
Mrs. Adams
1948
1948
Ann Barchester
1958
Peg
2010
Angela Simms
1961
Beatrice Stafford
1960
Mrs. Fremont
1959
Lydia Manning
1960
Self - Presenter
1956
1967
1961
Agnes Fremont
2002
Cloris (voice)
2014
Elsie Condon
1961
Martha Jessop
1956
Jenny Blanchard
1948
Marianne Dashwood
1948
1948
Patricia
1948
Angel Day
1968
Jean Cullen
1969
Aunt Ethel Mooster
1996
1958
1956
Karen Cooper
1977
Louise
2013
1949
Margaret Sou
1949
Ruth Shaw
1949
Beverly Ann Stickle
1979
1959
1972
Mrs. Sullivan
1954
Anne Colt
1954
Maw Maw
2010
1962
Self
1993
1960
Zorya Vechernyaya
2017
Zorya Vechernyaya, the Evening Star
2017
Molly Strong
1967
Katie Cortner
1961
Granny Goodness (voice)
2016
1999
Irina Lottye Kruskal
2011
Self
2003
Judy
1968
Self
1953
1962
1958
Eve Winters
1958
Connie Wingate
1958
Dorothy Hummer
1963
1974
Dot Richmond
2001
1966
Clara
1962
Ella
1953
Ruth Harron
1953
Rita Wallace
1959
Emily Collins
1991
Helen Graham
1962
Lois, Peter's Mother
2003
Queen Hippolyta
1975
Self - Panelist
2016
1959
Martha Berry
1951
Mrs. Anglin
1951
Mrs. Fulton
1970
Phyllis Lindstrom
1975
Flory Tibbs
1955
Boni
1955
Susan Stanger
1955
Mary Templeton
1955
Caroline Hardy
1955
Beasy
1995
Mrs. Mandelbaum
2019
Grandma
1990
Miss Fielder
2015
Gran (voice)
2020
Gran (voice)
2013
Self
1974
1974
Dottie
1950
Self - Special Guest Star
1976
1967
Louise Lockhart
1967
Self
1975
Mrs. Lynley Tensedge (voice)
1999
1973
Lynette
2005
Mrs. Norris
2006
2010
Grammy Winthrop
1999
Nurse Spex
2005
Leah Beth
1953
Miriam Raskin
1953
1994
Lord's Secretary
1979
Frau Blücher
1974
Granny
1993
Mitzie
2008
Melba
1975
Grandma Palmer
2015
Memaw
2018
Madame Defarge
1981
Evelyn Wright
2004
Edith Fleischman
2007
Agnes
1969
Cat Lady (uncredited)
2001
Shirley Kluszewski
2013
Mrs. Jaffray
1979
Annie
2010
Old Woman On Plane And Bus (voice)
1996
Ruth Popper
1971
Grandma Albertson
1995
Granny
2003
Maggie
2008
Grandma Merle
2012
Helen (uncredited)
2010
Great Gam Gam
2006
Christina Bailey
1955
Louise Trends
1980
Sadie
2007
Nurse Charlotte Diesel
1977
Griselda the Witch
1988
May Conner
2016
Aunt Aida
2005
Queen Gnorga (voice)
1994
Eileen Boatwright
2005
Anna Sage
1973
Pat Mozell
2000
Assunta
1999
Mrs. McFarland
1989
Actress
2015
Mary Ann
2014
Lois Ellison
1974
Narrator (voice)
2015
Aunt Agnes (voice)
1997
Molly Brown
1980
Ruth Popper
1990
1989
Mrs. Frick
1989
Caroline
1956
Mildred Carruthers
1979
Brand X Lunch Lady (voice)
2012
Clara Oddbody
1977
Hydia (voice)
1986
Aunt Agatha / Aunt Sofia
1993
Grandmother
2003
Philomene
1970
Ruth Weaver
1990
Nettie Appleby
1973
Josephine
2018
Mrs. Feyersied (voice)
2014
Sandy
2009
Hattie Clarence
2009
Maggie The Zombie Expert
1993
Helga (voice)
2000
Self
1984
Euterpe (voice)
1977
Mrs. Ezra Miller
1974
Claire
1979
Anna Collura
1995
Mrs. Singleton
1975
Ruth Fine
1990
Margaret
2022
Dotty Rounder
2012
Miss Selby
1962
Helen
2002
Susan Davies
1974
Self
1976
Edwina 'Ed' McKevin
1991
Lilian Forrester
2016
1987
Maureen
1980
Narrator / The Elder Amy
1990
Maggie Dale
1981
Self (archive footage)
2015
Self
2008
Mrs. Anglin
1985
Alice Wilinsky
2016
Margaret Shand
1987
Samantha
1980
Gran (voice)
2021
Donna
2021
Joan Greenway
1983
Pearl "Billie" Schwartz
2006
Viola Barlow
1974
Ellen Blunt
1972
Olive
1996
Joanne Hackett
1971
Self
1991
Beverly Ann Stickle
1987
Maxine
2016
Itasca
2020
Self / Phyllis Lindstrom (archive footage)
2015
May Lemke
1983
Laura Hyatt
1975
Ronda
1973
Bernice Henderson
1970
Pamela Beale
1993
Tina Hoffman
1970
Sister Eugenio
1983
Self (archive footage)
2013
Rita Weiss
1971
Charlotte Raynor
1985
Gladys
2011
1998
Liz
2018
Mrs Kramer
1981
Darla Jean
1979
Laura Casella
1978
Ruth
1993
Estelle (Grandmother)
2015
Dolly Amati
2001
Ruth Rendell
1979
Ginny
1969
Millie Crown
1986
Mary Kovacs
1984
Doc Betty
1993
Mary Turner
1972
Claire Stevens
1974
2005
Self
1999
Agatha Blaine
1982
Nana
2021
Mrs. Haldane
1988
Jean Mitchell
1973
Nurse Betty Nelson
1981
Ruth Westerman
1991
Hilary Kelton
1973
Mrs. Samuels
1993
1987
Herself
1991
(voice)
1999
Frau Blücher (archive footage)
1996
Performer
1981
Iris Havlicek
1976
Self
2002
Martha Berry
1952
Old Mam Hawes
1975
Laura Evans
1995
Self
2011
Self
2009
Self
2016
Self
1977
Victoria Douglas
1973
Ivy
2019
