Katherine Helmond
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1929-07-05
Day of Death
2019-02-23 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Galveston, Texas, USA
Katherine Helmond
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. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob New hart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke.
She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar.
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Acting
(2020)
Frank and Ava
as Betty
(2017)
Cars 3
as Lizzie (voice)
(2014)
The Radiator Springs 500½
as Lizzie (voice)
(2012)
Time Travel Mater
as Lizzie (voice)
(2011)
Cars 2
as Lizzie (voice)
(2011)
Collaborator
as Irene Longfellow
(2010)
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
as Lizzie
(2008)
What Is Brazil?
as Self
(2007)
A Grandpa for Christmas
as Roxie Famosa
(2006)
Cars
as Lizzie (voice)
(2006)
Mater and the Ghostlight
as Lizzie (voice)
(2003)
Beethoven's 5th
as Crazy Cora Wilkens
(2002)
Mr. St. Nick
as Queen Carlotta
(2000)
The Perfect Nanny
as Mrs. McBride
(2000)
Living in Fear
as Mrs. Ford
(2000)
(1998)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
as Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel
(1997)
Ms. Scrooge
as Maude Marley
(1994)
The Flight of the Dove
as Dr. Pamela Schilling
(1993)
Amore!
as Mildred Schwartz
(1993)
The Elvira Show
as Aunt Minerva
(1992)
Grass Roots
as Emma Carr
(1992)
Inside Monkey Zetterland
as Honor Zetterland
(1991)
The Perfect Tribute
as Farm Woman
(1991)
Deception: A Mother’s Secret
as Geena Milner
(1990)
When Will I Be Loved?
as Barbara Patterson
(1988)
Lady in White
as Amanda
(1988)
(1987)
Overboard
as Edith Mintz
(1986)
Christmas Snow
as Mrs. Mutterance
(1985)
Brazil
as Mrs. Ida Lowry
(1985)
Shadey
as Lady Constance Landau
(1983)
Jack and the Beanstalk
as Jack's Mother
(1982)
For Lovers Only
as Bea Winchell
(1982)
Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
as Frances Clooney
(1981)
Time Bandits
as Mrs. Ogre
(1980)
Scout's Honor
as Pearl Bartlett
(1979)
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
as Elaine Thurston
(1978)
Getting Married
as Vera Lesser
(1977)
Little Ladies of the Night
as Miss Colby
(1976)
Family Plot
as Mrs. Maloney
(1976)
Baby Blue Marine
as Mrs. Hudkins
(1976)
James Dean
as Claire Folger
(1976)
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
as Mattie Riley
(1976)
Liza’s Pioneer Diary
as Aunt Sara
(1975)
The Hindenburg
as Mrs. Mildred Breslau
(1975)
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
as Emma Borden
(1975)
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
as Nurse Katherine Gunther
(1975)
Cage Without a Key
as Mrs. Little
(1975)
The Family Nobody Wanted
as Mrs. Bittner
(1974)
Larry
as Maureen Whitten
(1974)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
as Lady at House
(1974)
Locusts
as Claire Fletcher
(1974)
Dr. Max
as Libby Oppel
(1971)
The Hospital
as Marilyn Mead
(1955)
Wine of Morning
as Irene