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.

Filmography

• 2022Jump, Darling — Margaret
• 2021Dear Diary: World's First Pranks — Gran (voice)
• 2021High Holiday — Nana
• 2021Not to Forget — Donna
• 2020The Croods: A New Age — Gran (voice)
• 2020When We Last Spoke — Itasca
• 2019Being and Nothingness — Ivy
• Mad About You — Mrs. Mandelbaum
• 2018I Can Only Imagine — Memaw
• 2018It's Who You Know — Liz
• 2018Lez Bomb — Josephine
• American Gods — Zorya Vechernyaya
• 2017The Gliksmans — Helen Neuman
• 2016Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? — Maxine
• Justice League Action — Granny Goodness (voice)
• 2016So B. It — Alice Wilinsky
• Teachers — Memaw
• 2016The Bronx Bull — Lilian Forrester
• 2016The Comedian — May Conner
• 2015Baby, Baby, Baby — Actress
• 2015Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse — Miss Fielder
• 2015The Wedding Ringer — Grandma Palmer
• 2015This Is Happening — Estelle (Grandmother)
• 2015Unity — Narrator (voice)
• 2014Adult World — Mary Ann
• Clarence — Cloris (voice)
• Girl Meets World — Mrs. Svorski
• Kirstie — Shirley Kluszewski
• 2013The Croods — Gran (voice)
• The Millers — Louise
• 2012Foodfight! — Brand X Lunch Lady (voice)
• 2012Gambit — Grandma Merle
• 2012The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure — Dotty Rounder
• Bob's Burgers — Meryl (voice)
• Franklin & Bash — Irina Lottye Kruskal
• 2011The Fields — Gladys
• 2010Expecting Mary — Annie
• Hawaii Five-0 — Ruth Tennenbaum
• Hot in Cleveland — Peg
• Raising Hope — Maw Maw
• Top Gear
• 2010You Again — Helen (uncredited)
• 2009American Cowslip — Sandy
• 2009Inglourious Basterds — Thanks
• 2009Love Takes Wing — Hattie Clarence
• 2008New York, I Love You — Mitzie
• 2008The Women — Maggie
• 2007Lake Placid 2 — Sadie
• Phineas and Ferb — Mrs. Feyersied (voice), Doof's Mom (voice)
• The Wedding Bells — Edith Fleischman
• 2006Beerfest — Great Gam Gam
• 2006Scary Movie 4 — Mrs. Norris
• Beach Girls — Aunt Aida
• 2005Buzz
• 2005Mrs. Harris — Pearl "Billie" Schwartz
• 2005Sky High — Nurse Spex
• 2005The Californians — Eileen Boatwright
• 2005The Longest Yard — Lynette
• The Office — Lily Hanaday
• 2004Spanglish — Evelyn Wright
• 2003Alex & Emma — Grandmother
• 2003Bad Santa — Grandma (uncredited)
• Happy Family — Lois, Peter's Mother
• Joan of Arcadia — Aunt Olive
• Two and a Half Men — Norma
• 2002Manna from Heaven — Helen
• The Twilight Zone — Agnes Fremont
• 2001The Amati Girls — Dolly Amati
• 2001The Animal — Cat Lady (uncredited)
• The Ellen Show — Dot Richmond
• 2000Hanging Up — Pat Mozell
• Malcolm in the Middle — Ida Welker
• Family Guy — Cloris Leachman (voice)
• 1999Music of the Heart — Assunta
• Thanks — Grammy Winthrop
• 1999The Iron Giant — Mrs. Lynley Tensedge (voice)
• 1999The Titanic Chronicles — (voice)
• Twice in a Lifetime — Ruth Harper / Miss Storey
• 1998Gen¹³ — Helga (voice)
• 1998Skip Chasers
• 1997Annabelle's Wish — Aunt Agnes (voice)
• 1996Beavis and Butt-Head Do America — Old Woman On Plane and Bus (voice)
• 1996Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein — Frau Blücher (archive footage)
• 1996Never Too Late — Olive
• Promised Land — Aunt Ethel Mooster
• 1995Between Love and Honor — Anna Collura
• Maybe This Time — Beasy
• 1995Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West — Laura Evans
• 1995Now and Then — Grandma Albertson
• 1994A Troll in Central Park — Queen Gnorga (voice)
• Storybook Cinema
• Touched by an Angel — Ruth
• Diagnosis: Murder — Sudie
• 1993Double, Double, Toil and Trouble — Aunt Agatha / Aunt Sofia
• 1993Fade to Black — Ruth
• 1993Miracle Child — Doc Betty
• 1993My Boyfriend's Back — Maggie The Zombie Expert
• 1993Spies — Pamela Beale
• 1993The Beverly Hillbillies — Granny
• The Nanny — Clara Mueller
• 1993Without a Kiss Goodbye — Mrs. Samuels
• 1991A Little Piece of Heaven — Edwina 'Ed' McKevin
• 1991In Broad Daylight — Ruth Westerman
• Walter & Emily — Emily Collins
• Ferris Bueller — Grandma
• 1990Fine Things — Ruth Fine
• 1990Love Hurts — Ruth Weaver
• 1990Texasville — Ruth Popper
• 1990The Giant of Thunder Mountain — Narrator / The Elder Amy
• 1989Prancer — Mrs. McFarland
• The Nutt House — Ms. Frick
• The Simpsons — Mrs. Glick (voice)
• 1988Going to the Chapel — Mrs. Haldane
• 1988Hansel and Gretel — Griselda the Witch
• 1987Sparky's Magic Piano
• 1987The Facts of Life Down Under — Beverly Ann Stickle
• 1987The Little Troll Prince — Queen Sirena (voice)
• 1987Walk Like a Man — Margaret Shand
• 1986My Little Pony: The Movie — Hydia (voice)
• 1986Shadow Play — Millie Crown
• 1985Breakfast with Les and Bess
• 1985Deadly Intentions — Charlotte Raynor
• 1985Love Is Never Silent — Mrs. Anglin
• 1984Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter — Mary Kovacs
• 1983Dixie: Changing Habits — Sister Eugenio
• 1983The Demon Murder Case — Joan Greenway
• 1983The Woman Who Willed a Miracle — May Lemke
• American Playhouse — Bess Dischinger
• 1982Miss All-American Beauty — Agatha Blaine
• 1981Advice to the Lovelorn — Maggie Dale
• 1981History of the World: Part I — Madame Defarge
• 1981Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued — Performer
• 1981The Acorn People — Nurse Betty Nelson
• 1980Foolin' Around — Samantha
• 1980Herbie Goes Bananas — Louise Trends
• 1980S.O.S. Titanic — Molly Brown
• 1980The Oldest Living Graduate — Maureen
• 1980Yesterday — Mrs Kramer
• Backstairs at the White House — Mrs. Jaffray
• 1979Mrs. R's Daughter — Ruth Rendell
• 1979Scavenger Hunt — Mildred Carruthers
• The Facts of Life — Beverly Ann Stickle
• 1979The Muppet Movie — Lord's Secretary
• 1979The North Avenue Irregulars — Claire
• 1979Willa — Darla Jean
• 1978Long Journey Back — Laura Casella
• 1977High Anxiety — Nurse Charlotte Diesel
• 1977It Happened One Christmas — Clara Oddbody
• The Love Boat — Karen Cooper
• 1977The Mouse and His Child — Euterpe (voice)
• 1976The Love Boat — Iris Havlicek
• 1975A Girl Named Sooner — Old Mam Hawes
• 1975Crazy Mama — Melba
• 1975Death Scream — Mrs. Singleton
• Phyllis — Phyllis Lindstrom
• 1975Someone I Touched — Laura Hyatt
• Wonder Woman — Queen Hippolyta
• 1974Daisy Miller — Mrs. Ezra Miller
• 1974Death Sentence — Susan Davies
• 1974Hitchhike! — Claire Stevens
• Rhoda
• 1974The Migrants — Viola Barlow
• 1974Thursday's Game — Lois Ellison
• 1974Young Frankenstein — Frau Blücher
• 1973A Brand New Life — Victoria Douglas
• 1973Charley and the Angel — Nettie Appleby
• 1973Crime Club — Hilary Kelton
• 1973Dillinger — Anna Sage
• 1973Dying Room Only — Jean Mitchell
• 1973Happy Mother's Day, Love George — Ronda
• The Bobby Darin Show
• 1972Haunts of the Very Rich — Ellen Blunt
• 1972Of Thee I Sing — Mary Turner
• The Sixth Sense
• 1971Suddenly Single — Joanne Hackett
• 1971The Last Picture Show — Ruth Popper
• 1971The Steagle — Rita Weiss
• 1970Lovers and Other Strangers — Bernice Henderson
• Night Gallery — Mrs. Fulton
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show — Phyllis Lindstrom
• 1970The People Next Door — Tina Hoffman
• 1970WUSA — Philomene
• 1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — Agnes
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Jean Cullen
• 1969Silent Night, Lonely Night — Ginny
• Adam-12 — Judy
• Lancer — Angel Day
• The Name of the Game — Vera Walker
• Ironside — Molly Strong
• Judd, for the Defense — Louise Lockhart
• Mannix — Barker's Ex-Wife
• The Guns of Will Sonnett
• That Girl
• Run for Your Life — Deborah Wilson
• Mr. Novak — Dorothy Hummer
• Going My Way
• Saints and Sinners — Helen Graham
• Stoney Burke
• 1962The Chapman Report — Miss Selby
• The Virginian — Clara
• Cain's Hundred — Katie Cortner
• Dr. Kildare — Rhoda Kirsh
• Target: The Corruptors!
• The Defenders — Angela Simms
• The New Breed — Elsie Condon
• Outlaws
• Route 66 — Lydia Manning
• Thriller — Beatrice Stafford
• Hawaiian Eye
• Johnny Staccato
• Laramie
• One Step Beyond — Rita Wallace
• The Twilight Zone — Mrs. Fremont
• 77 Sunset Strip — Eve Winters, Connie Wingate
• The Donna Reed Show — Iris
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Ann Barchester
• Perry Mason — Gloria Shine
• Wagon Train — Loretta
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Martha Jessop
• Telephone Time
• 1956The Rack — Caroline
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Susan Stanger, Mary Templeton, Caroline Hardy
• Gunsmoke — Flory Tibbs, Boni
• 1955Kiss Me Deadly — Christina Bailey
• 1955Life of Vernon Hathaway — Irma
• Matinee Theater
• Screen Director's Playhouse — Irma
• Climax! — Mrs. Sullivan, Anne Colt
• Lassie — Ruth Martin
• General Electric Theater — Leah Beth, Miriam Raskin
• Letter to Loretta — Ella, Ruth Harron
• 1952Forgotten Children — Martha Berry
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Martha Berry, Mrs. Anglin
• Tales of Tomorrow
• Lux Video Theatre — Dottie
• Suspense — Margaret Sou, Ruth Shaw
• Studio One — Mrs. Adams
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Jenny Blanchard, Marianne Dashwood, Patricia

Appearances as themselves (34)

• 2016A Wig and a Prayer: The Peaches Christ Story — Self
• To Tell the Truth — Self - Panelist
• 2015Enzian: When the Lights Go Up — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration — Self / Phyllis Lindstrom (archive footage)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Self - Guest
• 2013Mel Brooks: Make a Noise — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Obsession: Letters to David Lynch — Self
• 2009Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2008Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget — Self
• The Megan Mullally Show — Self - Guest
• Dancing with the Stars — Self - Contestant
• 2005James Dean: Forever Young — Self (archive footage)
• Comedy Central Roasts — Self
• 2002The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion — Self
• 1999The Last Picture Show: A Look Back — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• 1991Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show — Herself
• 1991Picture This — Self
• 1984Donald Duck's 50th Birthday — Self
• 1977Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera — Self
• 1976Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? — Self
• The Muppet Show — Self - Special Guest Star
• Cher — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self - Co-Host
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• The Oscars — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter