# 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 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 was a member of the original cast of 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

| 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 |