Joyce Van Patten

Joyce Van Patten
Van Patten in 1969
Born	(1934-03-09) March 9, 1934 (age 91)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1948–present
Spouse	Martin Balsam ​ ​ (m. 1959;div. 1962)​ Dennis Dugan ​ ​ (m. 1973;div. 1987)​
Children	Talia Balsam
Relatives	Dick Van Patten (brother) Tim Van Patten (half-brother) Nels Van Patten (nephew) Vincent Van Patten (nephew) Grace Van Patten (niece)

Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) ^[1] is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like The Bad News Bears (1976), St. Elmo's Fire (1985) (as Mrs. Beamish), and as Gloria Noonan in Grown Ups (2010).

Personal life

She was married to actor Martin Balsam from 1959 to 1962, and they had a daughter, actress Talia Balsam. ^[2]

She was married to Dennis Dugan from 1973 to 1987.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career

The cast of The Good Guys, 1968: From left: Bob Denver, Herb Edelman and Van Patten

Van Patten has appeared in dozens of television series. She portrayed Janice Turner onn As the World Turns . ^[3] She made her television debut as a featured regular on The Danny Kaye Show , after which she co-starred with Bob Denver and Herb Edelman in the 1968–70 sitcom The Good Guys as Claudia Gramus, the long-suffering wife of diner owner Bert Gramus (played by Edelman). She appeared in two episodes of Perry Mason ("The Case of the Prankish Professor" and "The Case of the Thermal Thief"). She appeared in guest or recurring roles on Stoney Burke , Hawaii Five-O , Gunsmoke (as bar girl "Molly" in "Anybody Can Kill a Marshal" - S8E26), The Untouchables , The Law and Mr. Jones , The Twilight Zone ("Passage on the Lady Anne"), The Jack Benny Program , Family Affair , The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis , The Andy Griffith Show , Mr. Novak , The Outer Limits , Mannix , The Rockford Files , The Bob Newhart Show , The Odd Couple , The F.B.I. , Lou Grant , Law & Order , Oz , and The Sopranos . On a 1976 episode of Columbo , "Old Fashioned Murder", Van Patten played the lead, as a museum owner and curator. In 1974, she had a minor role in the episode "Negative Reaction" (with Dick Van Dyke) of the same series. In 1979, she starred as Iris Chapman in The Mary Tyler Moore Hour , and appeared in The Martian Chronicles the following year. In 1995, she played Maureen, Jennie's mother, for two seasons on the WB sitcom Unhappily Ever After . In 2005, she played Carol Prudy, Susan Mayer's stepmother, on two episodes of Desperate Housewives .

Her film credits include I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Trouble with Girls (1969), Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970), Making It (1971), Something Big (1971), Bone (1972), Thumb Tripping (1972), Mame (1974), The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975), The Bad News Bears (1976), Mikey and Nicky (1976), The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), Billy Galvin (1986), Blind Date (1987), Monkey Shines (1988), Grown Ups (2010), This Must Be the Place (2011), and God's Pocket (2014). In 2018 she appeared in the short film The Rest. ^[4]

Theatre

At age 9, Van Patten made her stage debut in Tomorrow, the World! . ^[5] She appeared on Broadway in, among other shows, A Hole in the Head , Brighton Beach Memoirs , Murder at the Howard Johnson's , Rumours , Jake's Women and Rabbit Hole . She appeared off-Broadway in such dramas as Love, Loss, and What I Wore , The Vagina Monologues , and Chekhov's The Seagull . She also appeared and recorded, with Charles Aidman and Naomi Caryl Hirschhorn, excerpts from Spoon River Anthology . ^{[6] [7]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	Fourteen Hours	Barbara (uncredited)
1958	The Goddess	Hillary
1968	I Love You, Alice B. Toklas	Joyce
1969	The Trouble with Girls	Maude
1970	Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You	Anna
1970	But I Don't Want to Get Married!	Olga
1971	Making It	Betty Fuller
1971	Something Big	Polly Standall
1972	Bone	Bernadette
1972	Thumb Tripping	Mother
1974	Mame	Sally Cato
1975	The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery	Ida Mae
1976	The Bad News Bears	Cleveland
1976	Mikey and Nicky	Jan
1985	The Falcon and the Snowman	Mrs. Boyce
1985	St. Elmo's Fire	Mrs. Beamish
1986	Billy Galvin	Mae Galvin
1987	Blind Date	Nadia's Mother
1988	Monkey Shines	Dorothy Mann
1989	Trust Me	Nettie Brown
1996	Infinity	Aunt Ruth
1998	Show & Tell	Mrs. Mahler
2006	My Mother's Hairdo	Mary	Short film
2008	Marley & Me	Mrs. Butterfly
2010	Grown Ups	Gloria Noonan
2011	This Must Be the Place	Dorothy Shore
2011	Peace, Love & Misunderstanding	Mariam
2011	The People in the Picture		Video
2012	The Fitzgerald Family Christmas	Mrs. McGowan
2013	Angel's Perch	Polly
2014	God's Pocket	Aunt Sophie
2018	The Rest	Mary	Short film
2018	Diane	Madge
2019	Alzheimer's	Nancy	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1946	NBC Television Theatre		Season 1 Episode 4: ”The Flattering Word”
1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		Season 1 Episode 1: ”Dinner at Eight”
1949–1951	Kraft Television Theatre	Mary	3 episodes
1950	Armstrong Circle Theatre		Season 1 Episode 21: ”Time of Their Lives”
1952	The Web		Season 2 Episode 28: "The Terrible Truth"
1954	Mama		3 episodes
1954	The Big Story	Valerie Foster	Season 6 Episode 2: "Charles McKinney of the Tulsa World"
1956–1957	As the World Turns	Janice Turner Hughes #1
1956	Robert Montgomery Presents		Season 8 Episode 11: "The Misfortunes of Mr. Minihan"
1959–1960	Young Doctor Malone	Clara Kershaw
1959	Deadline	Waitress	Season 1 Episode 9: "Charm Boy"
1961	The Law and Mr. Jones	Ethel	Season 1 Episode 20: "Cold Turkey"
1961	Ben Casey	Stella Maxwell	Season 1 Episode 10: "The Sweet Kiss of Madness"
1961–1963	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis	Ethel Bronkowski / Mrs. Maude Pomfritt / Speed Pulitzer	3 episodes
1962	Bus Stop	Betty	Season 1 Episode 18: "Turn Home Again"
1962	Target: The Corruptors!	Madeleine	Season 1 Episode 21: "Fortress of Despair"
1962	Checkmate	Marcia James	Season 2 Episode 20: "Remembrance of Crimes Past"
1962	The Detectives	Phyllis	Season 3 Episode 20: "Night Boat"
1962	Wide Country	Nina Corbello	Season 1 Episode 4: "Who Killed Edde Gannon?"
1962	The New Loretta Young Show	Charlotte Ramey	Season 1 Episode 6: "First Assignment"
1962–1963	Dr. Kildare	Julie Belmanno / Ruth Scully	2 episodes
1963	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Grace Thorpe	Season 1 Episode 23: "The Lonely Hours"
1963	Gunsmoke	Molly	Season 8 Episode 26: "Anybody Can Kill a Marshal"
1963	Stoney Burke	Laura Fredericks	Season 1 Episode 23: "Joby"
1963	The Lloyd Bridges Show	Doris Baxter	Season 1 Episode 26: "The Sheridan Square"
1963	The Untouchables	Claire Vale	Season 4 Episode 23: "The Spoiler"
1963	The Twilight Zone	Eileen Ransome	Episode: " Passage on the Lady Anne "
1963	The Defenders	Nora Slater	Season 3 Episode 13: "Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy"
1963–1965	Perry Mason	Sally Sheldon / Fay Gilmer	2 episodes
1964	The Outer Limits	Rhea Cashman	Episode: " A Feasibility Study "
1965	Mr. Novak	Avis Brown	Season 2 Episode 14: "From the Brow of Zeus"
1965	Karen	Nora	Season 1 Episode 13: "Good Neighbor Policy"
1965	The Jack Benny Program	The Wife, Mrs. Goodheart	Season 15 Episode 16: "Jack Adopts a Son"
1965	Slattery's People	Barbara Harrison	Season 2 Episode 4: "The Unborn"
1965	The Virginian	Mary Stewart	Season 4 Episode 6: "Ring of Silence"
1965	A Man Called Shenandoah	Lily	Season 1 Episode 13: "The Siege"
1966	The Loner	Peggy Woodward	Season 1 Episode 22: "The Mourners for Johnny Sharp: Part 2"
1966	The Danny Kaye Show	Giovanni's Daughter-in-Law	Season 4 Episode 14: "Episode #4.14"
1966–1972	Insight	Mrs. Foley / Marie Slovak / Thelma Montanus	3 episodes
1967	Mr. Terrific	Margo	Season 1 Episode 8: "Stanley the Jailbreaker"
1967	Accidental Family	Martha	Season 1 Episode 3: "If You Knew Martha"
1967	The Andy Griffith Show	Laura Hollander	Season 8 Episode 5: "Opie Steps Up in Class"
1967	Iron Horse	Alice Fuller	Season 2 Episode 15: "Death Has Two Faces"
1967–1973	Mannix	Lola Collins / Dodie Green	2 episodes
1968–1970	The Good Guys	Claudia Gramus	Series regular
1969	Spoon River	Reader	TV Movie
1970	Storefront Lawyers	Ella	Season 1 Episode 4: "The Electric Kid"
1970	The Odd Couple	Phyllis Parker	Season 1 Episode 7: "I Do, I Don't"
1970	Family Affair	Gail Spencer	Season 5 Episode 11: "Class Clown"
1970–1972	Hawaii Five-O	Lila Daniels / Rhoda Lovejoy	2 episodes
1970–1974	Love, American Style	Rona / Wanda Glass / Nikki / Marge / Janet	6 episodes
1971	The F.B.I.	Alice Kranz	Season 6 Episode 24: "Turnabout"
1971	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Millicent Wilson	Season 3 Episode 1: "Broken Melody"
1971	Nichols	Arletta McGreevy	Season 1 Episode 4: "Paper Badge"
1972	The Bravos	(uncredited)	TV Movie
1972	McCloud	Lucy Sloan	Season 2 Episode 5: "A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley"
1972	The Don Rickles Show	Jean Benedict	2 episodes
1972	Cannon	Kate Werner Macklin	Season 1 Episode 21: "A Flight of Hawks"
1972	Medical Center	Paula Eckhart	Season 4 Episode 6: "Betrayed"
1973	The Bob Newhart Show	Connie Miller	Season 1 Episode 15: "Let's Get Away from It Almost"
1973	The Streets of San Francisco	Mrs. Rudolph	Season 1 Episode 21: "The House on Hyde Street"
1973	Young Dr. Kildare	Nurse Marvin	Episode: ”Mercy Killing”
1973	The New Dick Van Dyke Show	Henrietta	Season 3 Episode 5: "Mrs. Ferguson"
1973	Burt and the Girls		TV Movie
1974	Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law	Ruth Tannen	Season 3 Episode 14: "House of Friends"
1974	The Wide World of Mystery	Jane	Season 2 Episode 14: "The Book of Murder"
1974	Winter Kill	Grace Lockhard	TV Movie
1974	The Stranger Within	Phyllis	TV Movie
1974	Amy Prentiss	Mrs. Hyser	Season 1 Episode 2: "The Desperate World of Jane Doe"
1974–1976	Columbo	Sister of Mercy / Ruth Lytton	2 episodes
1975	For the Use of the Hall	Alice	TV Movie
1975	Let's Switch!	Linette Robin	TV Movie
1975	Winner Take All	Edie Gould	TV Movie
1977	The Rockford Files	Lianne Sweeny	2 episodes
1977	Lou Grant	Gloria Aldrige	Season 1 Episode 6: "Aftershock"
1977	Family	Mrs. Palmer	Season 3 Episode 6: "We Love You, Miss Jessup"
1978	To Kill a Cop	Betty Eischied	TV Movie
1978	Murder at the Mardi Gras	Janet Murphy	TV Movie
1978	The Comedy Company	Ellen Dietz	TV Movie
1978	The Plant Family	Lyla Plant – the mother	TV Movie
1979	Visions	Kit	Season 3 Episode 6: "Ladies in Waiting"
1979	The Mary Tyler Moore Hour	Iris Chapman	Series regular
1979	You Can't Take It with You	Miss Wellington	TV Movie
1979	A Christmas for Boomer	Lila Manchester	TV Movie
1980	The Martian Chronicles	Elma Parkhill	Miniseries
1981	Bulba	Barbara Thatcher	TV Movie
1982	Eleanor, First Lady of the World	'Tommy' Thompson	TV Movie
1982	Bus Stop	Grace	TV Movie
1983	Another Woman's Child	Janet Stein	TV Movie
1983	The Demon Murder Case	Connie Frazier	TV Movie
1983	In Defense of Kids	Caroline Ruben	TV Movie
1984	Crazy Like a Fox	Sally	Season 1 Episode 1: "Pilot"
1985	Malice in Wonderland	Dema Harshbarger	TV Movie
1985	Picking Up the Pieces	Harriet Goodman	TV Movie
1985	Tall Tales & Legends	Ma	Season 1 Episode 2: "Annie Oakley"
1986	Amazing Stories	Eva	Season 1 Episode 23: "One for the Books"
1986	Under the Influence	Helen Talbot	TV Movie
1987	CBS Summer Playhouse	Ilene	Season 1 Episode 15: "Sirens"
1991	The Haunted	Cora Miller	TV Movie
1991	Sisters	Belle Adderly	Season 1 Episode 4: "Devoted Husband, Loving Father"
1992	Maid for Each Other	Leila	TV Movie
1992	Brooklyn Bridge	Harriet Mueller	3 episodes
1993	Law & Order	Ramona Stark, Ph. D.	Season 3 Episode 11: "Extended Family"
1993	All My Children	Helen Marsh	14 episodes
1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Sarah Emerson	Season 1 Episode 3: "Murder at the Telethon"
1993	Bob	Joyce Leona-Curtis	Season 2 Episode 5: "Kiss and Sell"
1994	Breathing Lessons	Serena	TV Movie
1994	Northern Exposure	Pat Hillman	Season 5 Episode 21: "I Feel the Earth Move"
1994	The Gift of Love	Erika Magnussen	TV Movie
1994	All-American Girl	Emma	Season 1 Episode 12: "Loveless in San Francisco"
1995	Grandpa's Funeral	Iris Braimen	TV Movie
1995–1996	Unhappily Ever After	Maureen Slattery	Recurring role
1996	Jake's Women	Edith	TV Movie
1999	Touched by an Angel	Sylvia Mangione	Season 5 Episode 17: "Family Business"
1999	Now and Again	Psychiatrist	Season 1 Episode 6: "Nothing to Fear, but Nothing to Fear"
2002	Oz	Sarah Rebadow	Season 5 Episode 7: "Good Intentions"
2002	The Sopranos	Dr. Sandy Shaw	Episode: " Christopher "
2002	NYPD Blue	Ruth Dwyer	Season 10 Episode 9: "Half-Ashed"
2002–2003	Judging Amy	Jane, Eric's Lawyer	2 episodes
2005	Without a Trace	Paula	Season 4 Episode 6: "Viuda Negra"
2005	Desperate Housewives	Carol Prudy	2 episodes
2011	The Good Wife	Agnes Silvestre	Season 3 Episode 4: "Feeding the Rat"
2012	Made in Jersey	Lilla	Season 1 Episode 3: "Camelot"
2014	Boardwalk Empire	Mrs. Zeller – Crab Woman	Episode: " King of Norway "
2018	Cady Did	Marion Huffman
2021	If I'm Alive Next Week...	Marjorie	Series regular

References

1. Lukanic, Steven A (1993). Film Actors Guide. p. 403.
2. Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 39. ISBN   9781557835512 . Retrieved 16 July 2017.
3. "TV Mail Bag". The Kansas City Star. April 14, 1957. p. 8 G. Retrieved March 21, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
4. "watch". PRECARIAT.
5. Morehouse, Rebecca (November 16, 1975). "Joyce Van Patten Is Back On Broadway". The High Point Enterprise. p. 27. Retrieved July 31, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
6. "Spoon River Anthology > Original Broadway Cast". CastAlbums.org. 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
7. "Spoon River Anthology Broadway @ Booth Theatre - Tickets and Discounts | Playbill". Playbillvault.com. Retrieved 2017-07-09.

External links

• Joyce Van Patten at IMDb
• Joyce Van Patten at the Internet Broadway Database
• Joyce Van Patten at the Internet Off-Broadway Database