Katherine Helmond
Birthday: 1929-07-05
Place of Birth: Galveston, Texas, USA
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. Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Brazil
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...
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Cars
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the jou...
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Shadey
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a c...
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Getting Married
A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas ...
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Overboard
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to p...
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How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
Three broke men try to become rich by finding rich women....
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Family Plot
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while...
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Beethoven's 5th
When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, t...
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The Elvira Show
Filmed for CBS in 1993, this unaired pilot features the witch Elvira, her aunt, and their pet cat we...
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Time Bandits
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. F...
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Mr. St. Nick
King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a n...
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The Hospital
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his perso...
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The Hindenburg
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the ...
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Lady in White
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and...
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Wine of Morning
A story of bloodshed and shipwreck, of intrigue and murder, of love and redemption. The film traces ...
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A Grandpa for Christmas
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaught...
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Christmas Snow
A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident....
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Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular...
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Collaborator
A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former ne...
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Time Travel Mater
When a clock lands on Mater's engine, he travels back in time to 1909 where he meets Stanley, an amb...
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The Spy Within
An explosives expert fleeing his past and a beautiful spy trading sex for secrets find themselves in...
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Ms. Scrooge
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge...
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Inside Monkey Zetterland
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, t...
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The Family Nobody Wanted
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find...
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day ...
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Locusts
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way...
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Scout's Honor
Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home ...
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Little Ladies of the Night
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the st...
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Baby Blue Marine
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washo...
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father ...
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Cage Without a Key
A high school girl who needs a ride accepts one from a boy she doesn't know. He then forces her to p...
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Grass Roots
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an...
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When Will I Be Loved?
Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages....
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Cars 2
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix r...
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Frank and Ava
A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From...
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Amore!
Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enoug...
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Save the Dog!
Becky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she has best chances to get th...
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Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous br...
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Living in Fear
A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsf...
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The Perfect Nanny
Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea M...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Wi...
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James Dean
A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, h...
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Cars 3
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly p...
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Wanted: The Sundance Woman
Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in th...
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Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stor...
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The Radiator Springs 500½
A 'leisurely drive' planned in honor of Radiator Springs’ town founder, Stanley, turns precarious as...
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What Is Brazil?
Rob Hedden's witty on-set documentary captures the revolutionary air that had begun to swirl around ...
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Mater and the Ghostlight
Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pran...
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist ar...
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The Perfect Tribute
A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height...
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Larry
A man who has been confined from early childhood to a dubiously run home for the mentally challenged...
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For Lovers Only
A man, his daughter, and son-in-law run a honeymoon resort in the Poconos....
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Liza’s Pioneer Diary
The story of a gentle, unsure young woman who grows in maturity and self-reliance as she travels acr...
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Deception: A Mother’s Secret
When a widower tries to adopt his wife’s son he’s shocked by what he discovers about her past....
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