Joyce Van Patten

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Joyce Van Patten
Van Patten in 1969
Born
Joyce Benignia Van Patten

(1934-03-09) March 9, 1934 (age 90)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1948–present
Spouses
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(m. 1959; div. 1962)​
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(m. 1973; div. 1987)​
ChildrenTalia Balsam
RelativesDick Van Patten (brother)
Tim Van Patten (half-brother)
Nels Van Patten (nephew)
Vincent Van Patten (nephew)
Grace Van Patten (niece)

Joyce Benignia 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

Van Patten's mother was of Italian descent, while her father was of Dutch and English ancestry.[citation needed]

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

Career

Van Patten has appeared in dozens of television series. She was a member of the original cast 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
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Her film credits include

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.[3]

Theatre

At age 9, Van Patten made her stage debut in

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.[5][6]

Filmography

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
     (1963) (Season 1 Episode 23: "The Lonely Hours") as Grace Thorpe

References

  1. ^ Lukanic, Steven A (1993). Film Actors Guide. p. 403.
  2. ISBN 9781557835512
    . Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. ^ "watch". PRECARIAT.
  4. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Spoon River Anthology > Original Broadway Cast". CastAlbums.org. 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  6. ^ "Spoon River Anthology Broadway @ Booth Theatre - Tickets and Discounts | Playbill". Playbillvault.com. Retrieved 2017-07-09.

External links

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