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Adept at both comedy and drama, veteran New York-born actress Joyce Van Patten (along with equally famous older brother Dick Van Patten), and already auditioning for modeling roles before reaching a year old prodded by a typically assertive stage mother. Born on March 9, 1932, in New York City, both Van Patten siblings displayed natural talent and did quite well for themselves at such an early age... See full bio »

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Joyce Benignia Van Patten
in New York City, New York, USA
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2013 Angel's Perch
Polly
 
2012 Made in Jersey (TV series)
Lilla
– Camelot (2012) … Lilla
 
2012 The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Mrs. McGowan
 
2011 The Good Wife (TV series)
Agnes Silvestre
– Feeding the Rat (2011) … Agnes Silvestre
 
2011 Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
Mariam
 
2011 This Must Be the Place
Dorothy Shore
 
2010 Grown Ups
Gloria
 
2008 Marley & Me
Mrs. Butterly
 
2006 My Mother's Hairdo (short)
Mary
 
2005 Desperate Housewives (TV series)
Carol Prudy
– Coming Home (2005) … Carol Prudy
– That's Good, That's Bad (2005) … Carol Prudy
 
2005 Without a Trace (TV series)
Paula
– Viuda Negra (2005) … Paula
 
2002-2003 Judging Amy (TV series)
Jane, Eric's Lawyer
– Sixteen Going on Seventeen (2003) … Jane, Eric's Lawyer
– Boys to Men (2002) … Jane, Eric's Lawyer
 
2002 NYPD Blue (TV series)
Ruth Dwyer
– Half-Ashed (2002) … Ruth Dwyer
 
2002 The Sopranos (TV series)
Dr. Sandy Shaw
– Christopher (2002) … Dr. Sandy Shaw
 
2002 Oz (TV series)
Sarah Rebadow
– Good Intentions (2002) … Sarah Rebadow
 
1999 Now and Again (TV series)
Psychiatrist
– Nothing to Fear, But Nothing to Fear (1999) … Psychiatrist
 
1999 Touched by an Angel (TV series)
Sylvia
– Family Business (1999) … Sylvia
 
1998 Show & Tell
Mrs. Mahler
 
1996 Infinity
Aunt Ruth
 
1995-1996 Unhappily Ever After (TV series)
Maureen Slattery
– Getting More Than Some (1996) … Maureen Slattery
– Girls Who Wear Glasses (1996) … Maureen Slattery
– Jack Writes Good (1996) … Maureen Slattery
– All About Jennie (1996) … Maureen Slattery
– The Agony of Victory (1996) … Maureen Slattery (credit only)
See all 34 episodes »
 
1996 Jake's Women (TV movie)
Edith
 
1994 All-American Girl (TV series)
Emma
– Loveless in San Francisco (1994) … Emma
 
1994 The Gift of Love (TV movie)
Erika Magnussen
 
1994 Northern Exposure (TV series)
Pat Hillman
– I Feel the Earth Move (1994) … Pat Hillman
 
1994 Breathing Lessons (TV movie)
Serena
 
1994 Grandpa's Funeral (TV short)
Iris Braimen
 
1993 Bob (TV series)
Joyce Leona-Curtis
– Kiss and Tell (1993) … Joyce Leona-Curtis
 
1993 Diagnosis Murder (TV series)
Sarah Emerson
– Murder at the Telethon (1993) … Sarah Emerson
 
1993 Law & Order (TV series)
Ramona Stark, Ph.D.
– Extended Family (1993) … Ramona Stark, Ph.D.
 
1992 Brooklyn Bridge (TV series)
Harriet Mueller
– Boys and Girls Together Again (1992) … Harriet Mueller
– Boys and Girls Apart (1992) … Harriet Mueller
– Boys and Girls Together (1992) … Harriet Mueller
 
1992 Maid for Each Other (TV movie)
Leila
 
1991 Sisters (TV series)
Belle Adderly
– Devoted Husband, Loving Father (1991) … Belle Adderly
 
1991 The Haunted (TV movie)
Cora Miller
 
1989 Trust Me
Nettie Brown
 
1988 Monkey Shines
Dorothy Mann
 
1987 CBS Summer Playhouse (TV series)
Ilene
– Sirens (1987) … Ilene
 
1987 Blind Date
Nadia's Mother
 
1986 American Playhouse (TV series)
Mae Galvin
– Billy Galvin (1986) … Mae Galvin
 
1986 Under the Influence (TV movie)
Helen Talbot
 
1986 Amazing Stories (TV series)
Eva
– One for the Books (1986) … Eva
 
1985 Tall Tales & Legends (TV series)
Ma
– Annie Oakley (1985) … Ma
 
1985 Picking Up the Pieces (TV movie)
Harriet Goodman
 
1985 St. Elmo's Fire
Mrs. Beamish
 
1985 Malice in Wonderland (TV movie)
Dema Harshbarger
 
1985 The Falcon and the Snowman
Mrs. Boyce
 
1984 Crazy Like a Fox (TV series)
– Pilot (1984)
 
1983 In Defense of Kids (TV movie)
Caroline Ruben
 
1983 The Demon Murder Case (TV movie)
Connie Frazier
 
1983 Another Woman's Child (TV movie)
Janet Stein
 
1982 Bus Stop (TV movie)
Grace
 
1982 Eleanor, First Lady of the World (TV movie)
'Tommy' Thompson
 
1981 Bulba (TV movie)
Barbara Thatcher
 
1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV mini-series)
Elma Parkhill
– The Martians (1980) … Elma Parkhill (credit only)
– The Settlers (1980) … Elma Parkhill
– The Expeditions (1980) … Elma Parkhill (credit only)
 
1979 A Christmas for Boomer (TV movie)
Lila Manchester
 
1979 You Can't Take It with You (TV movie)
Miss Wellington
 
1979 The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (TV series)
Iris Chapman
 
1979 Visions (TV series)
Kit
– Ladies in Waiting (1979) … Kit
 
1978 The Comedy Company (TV movie)
Ellen Dietz
 
1978 Murder at the Mardi Gras (TV movie)
Janet Murphy
 
1978 To Kill a Cop (TV movie)
Betty Eischied
 
1978 The Plant Family (TV movie)
Lyla Plant - the mother
 
1977 Family (TV series)
Mrs. Palmer
– We Love You, Miss Jessup (1977) … Mrs. Palmer
 
1977 Lou Grant (TV series)
Gloria Aldrige
– Aftershock (1977) … Gloria Aldrige
 
1977 The Rockford Files (TV series)
Lianne Sweeny
– To Protect and Serve: Part 2 (1977) … Lianne Sweeny
– To Protect and Serve: Part 1 (1977) … Lianne Sweeny
 
1976 Mikey and Nicky
Jan
 
1974-1976 Columbo (TV series)
Ruth Lytton / Sister of Mercy
– Old Fashioned Murder (1976) … Ruth Lytton
– Negative Reaction (1974) … Sister of Mercy
 
1976 The Bad News Bears
Cleveland
 
1975 The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Ida Mae
 
1975 Winner Take All (TV movie)
Edie Gould
 
1975 Let's Switch! (TV movie)
Linette Robbin
 
1975 For the Use of the Hall (TV movie)
Alice
 
1974 Amy Prentiss (TV series)
Mrs. Hyser
– The Desperate World of Jane Doe (1974) … Mrs. Hyser
 
1974 The Stranger Within (TV movie)
Phyllis
 
1974 Winter Kill (TV movie)
Grace Lockhard
 
1972-1974 Insight (TV series)
Marie Slovak / Thelma Montanus
– Crunch on Spruce Street (1974) … Marie Slovak
– Graduation Day (1972) … Thelma Montanus
 
1974 The Wide World of Mystery (TV series)
Jane
– The Book of Murder (1974) … Jane
 
1974 Mame
Sally Cato
 
1974 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (TV series)
– House of Friends (1974)
 
1970-1974 Love, American Style (TV series)
(segment "Love and the Plane Truth") / Janet (segment "Love and Mr. Bunny") / Marge (segment "Love and the Playwright") / …
– Love and the Competitors/Love and the Forever Tree/Love and the Image Makers/Love and Mr. Bunny/Love and the Phobia (1974) … Janet (segment "Love and Mr. Bunny")
– Love and the Anniversary/Love and the Playwright/Love and the Trampled Passion (1973) … Marge (segment "Love and the Playwright")
– Love and the Plane Truth/Love and the Scroungers/Love and the Small Wedding (1972) … (segment "Love and the Plane Truth")
– Love and the Awakening/Love and the Bashful Groom/Love and the Four-Sided Triangle/Love and the Naked Stranger (1971) … Nikki (segment "Love and the Naked Stranger")
– Love and the Eskimo/Love and the Nuisance (1970) … Wanda Glass (segment "Love and the Nuisance")
See all 6 episodes »
 
1973 The New Dick Van Dyke Show (TV series)
Henrietta
– Mrs. Ferguson (1973) … Henrietta
 
1973 The Streets of San Francisco (TV series)
Mrs. Rudolph
– The House on Hyde Street (1973) … Mrs. Rudolph
 
1967-1973 Mannix (TV series)
Dodie Green / Lola Collins
– Out of the Night (1973) … Dodie Green
– Run, Sheep, Run (1967) … Lola Collins
 
1973 The Bob Newhart Show (TV series)
Connie Miller
– Let's Get Away from It Almost (1973) … Connie Miller
 
1970-1972 Hawaii Five-O (TV series)
Lila Daniels / Rhoda Lovejoy
– I'm a Family Crook - Don't Shoot! (1972) … Rhoda Lovejoy
– The Payoff (1970) … Lila Daniels
 
1972 Thumb Tripping
Mother
 
1972 Medical Center (TV series)
Paula Eckhart
– Betrayed (1972) … Paula Eckhart
 
1972 Bone
Bernadette
 
1972 Cannon (TV series)
Kate Werner Macklin
– A Flight of Hawks (1972) … Kate Werner Macklin
 
1972 The Don Rickles Show (TV series)
Jean Benedict
– Episode #1.1 (1972) … Jean Benedict
 
1972 McCloud (TV series)
Lucy Sloan
– A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley (1972) … Lucy Sloan
 
1972 The Bravos (TV movie) (uncredited)
 
1972 Young Dr. Kildare (TV series)
Nurse Marvin
– Mercy Killing (1972) … Nurse Marvin
 
1971 Something Big
Polly Standall
 
1971 Nichols (TV series)
– Paper Badge (1971)
 
1971 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV series)
Millicent Wilson
– Broken Melody (1971) … Millicent Wilson
 
1971 Making It
Betty Fuller
 
1971 The F.B.I. (TV series)
Alice Kranz
– Turnabout (1971) … Alice Kranz
 
1970 Family Affair (TV series)
Gail Spencer
– Class Clown (1970) … Gail Spencer
 
1970 The Odd Couple (TV series)
Phyllis
– I Do, I Don't (1970) … Phyllis
 
1970 Men at Law (TV series)
Ella
– The Electric Kid (1970) … Ella
 
1970 But I Don't Want to Get Married! (TV movie)
Olga
 
1970 Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
Anna
 
1968-1970 The Good Guys (TV series)
Claudia Gramus
– Art A La Carte (1970) … Claudia Gramus
– Compulsion (1970) … Claudia Gramus
– Deep Are the Roots (1970) … Claudia Gramus
– A Fine Kettle of Fish (1970) … Claudia Gramus
– Communications Gap (1969) … Claudia Gramus
See all 42 episodes »
 
1969 The Trouble with Girls
Maude
 
1969 Spoon River (TV movie)
Reader
 
1968 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Joyce
 
1967 Iron Horse (TV series)
Alice Fuller
– Death Has Two Faces (1967) … Alice Fuller
 
1967 The Andy Griffith Show (TV series)
Laura Hollander
– Opie Steps Up in Class (1967) … Laura Hollander
 
1967 Accidental Family (TV series)
Martha
– If You Knew Martha (1967) … Martha
 
1964-1967 The Danny Kaye Show (TV series)
Sketch Actor
– Episode dated 29 March 1967 (1967) … Sketch Actor
– Episode #4.25 (1967) … Sketch Actor
– Episode #4.24 (1967) … Sketch Actor
– Episode #4.23 (1967) … Sketch Actor
– Episode #4.22 (1967) … Sketch Actor
See all 53 episodes »
 
1967 Mr. Terrific (TV series)
Margo
– Stanley the Jailbreaker (1967) … Margo
 
1966 The Loner (TV series)
Peggy
– The Mourners for Johnny Sharp: Part 2 (1966) … Peggy
– The Mourners for Johnny Sharp: Part 1 (1966) … Peggy
 
1965 A Man Called Shenandoah (TV series)
Lily
– The Siege (1965) … Lily
 
1965 The Virginian (TV series)
Mary Stewart
– Ring of Silence (1965) … Mary Stewart
 
1965 Slattery's People (TV series)
Barbara Harrison
– The Unborn (1965) … Barbara Harrison
 
1965 The Jack Benny Program (TV series)
The Wife, Mrs. Goodheart
– Jack Adopts Son (1965) … The Wife, Mrs. Goodheart
 
1963-1965 Perry Mason (TV series)
Fay Gilmer / Sally Sheldon
– The Case of the Thermal Thief (1965) … Fay Gilmer
– The Case of the Prankish Professor (1963) … Sally Sheldon
 
1965 Karen (TV series)
Nora
– Good Neighbor Policy (1965) … Nora
 
1965 Mr. Novak (TV series)
Avis Brown
– From the Brow of Zeus (1965) … Avis Brown
 
1964 The Outer Limits (TV series)
Rhea Cashman
– A Feasibility Study (1964) … Rhea Cashman
 
1963 The Defenders (TV series)
Nora Slater
– Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy (1963) … Nora Slater
 
1962-1963 Dr. Kildare (TV series)
Julie Belmanno / Ruth Scully
– The Oracle (1963) … Ruth Scully
– The Chemistry of Anger (1962) … Julie Belmanno
 
1963 Twilight Zone (TV series)
Eileen Ransome
– Passage on the Lady Anne (1963) … Eileen Ransome
 
1961-1963 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV series)
Ethel Bronkowski / Mrs. Maude Pomfritt / Speed Pulitzer
– Lassie, Get Lost (1963) … Speed Pulitzer
– Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive (1962) … Mrs. Maude Pomfritt
– Crazylegs Gillis (1961) … Ethel Bronkowski
 
1963 The Untouchables (TV series)
Claire Vale
– The Spoiler (1963) … Claire Vale
 
1963 The Lloyd Bridges Show (TV series)
Doris Baxter
– The Sheridan Square (1963) … Doris Baxter
 
1963 Stoney Burke (TV series)
Laura
– Joby (1963) … Laura
 
1963 Gunsmoke (TV series)
Molly
– Anybody Can Kill a Marshal (1963) … Molly
 
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series)
Grace
– The Lonely Hours (1963) … Grace
 
1962 The New Loretta Young Show (TV series)
– First Assignment (1962)
 
1962 The Wide Country (TV series)
Nina Corbello
– Who Killed Edde Gannon? (1962) … Nina Corbello
 
1962 The Detectives (TV series)
Phyllis
– Night Boat (1962) … Phyllis
 
1962 Checkmate (TV series)
Marcia James
– Remembrance of Crimes Past (1962) … Marcia James
 
1962 Target: The Corruptors (TV series)
Madeleine
– Fortress of Despair (1962) … Madeleine
 
1962 Bus Stop (TV series)
Betty
– Turn Home Again (1962) … Betty
 
1961 Ben Casey (TV series)
Stella Maxwell
– The Sweet Kiss of Madness (1961) … Stella Maxwell
 
1961 The Law and Mr. Jones (TV series)
Ethel
– Cold Turkey (1961) … Ethel
 
1958 Young Dr. Malone (TV series)
Clara Kershaw (1959-1960)
 
1958 The Goddess
Hillary
 
1956 As the World Turns (TV series)
Janice Turner Hughes #1 (1956-1957) (original cast)
 
1954 The Big Story (TV series)
Valerie Foster
– Charles McKinney of the Tulsa World (1954) … Valerie Foster
 
1949-1951 Kraft Theatre (TV series)
Mary
– A Seacoast in Bohemia (1951) … Mary
– Brief Music (1951)
– Where the Dear Antelope Play (1949)
 
1951 Fourteen Hours
Barbara (uncredited)
 
1950 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV series)
– Time of Their Lives (1950)
 
1948 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV series)
– Dinner at Eight (1948)
 
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1965 The Danny Kaye Show (TV series)
– Episode #3.15 (1965) (performer: "Auld Lang Syne")
 
Show ShowSelf (6 titles)
2013 Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (documentary) (post-production)
Herself
 
2001 Biography (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Dick Van Patten: The Sure Bet (2001) … Herself
 
1985 Day to Day Affairs (TV movie)
Herself
 
1979 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 19 December 1979 (1979) … Herself
 
1967 The Joey Bishop Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #1.4 (1967) … Herself
 
1963 Alcoa Premiere (TV series)
Herself
– George Gobel Presents (1963) … Herself
 

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TV Pilot in 1976 'Maureen' starred herself as well as Sylvia Sidney, Karen Morrow, Alan Oppenheimer, Jack Bannon, Leigh French and Timothy Blake, was not picked up the networks. The premise was the story of a widow saddled with a wisecracking mother, a footloose son and encroaching middle age syndrome. See more »
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