Joyce Van Patten

Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) 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 is the sister of actor Dick Van Patten.

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

She was married to Dennis Dugan from 1973 to 1987.

Career

Van Patten has appeared in dozens of television series. She portrayed Janice Turner on ''As the World Turns''. 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''.

Theatre

At age 9, Van Patten made her stage debut in '' Tomorrow, the World!''. 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''.

Filmography

Film

Television

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Van Patten, Joyce
1934 births
American child actresses
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Living people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Van Patten family