Cloris Leachman
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
History of the World: Part I
1981
Young Frankenstein
1974
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
Spanglish
2004
The Iron Giant
1999
Daisy Miller
1974
The Beverly Hillbillies
1993
Love Takes Wing
2009
Scavenger Hunt
1979
Sky High
2005
Prancer
1989
Herbie Goes Bananas
1980
The Last Picture Show
1971
High Anxiety
1977
Now and Then
1995
The Longest Yard
2005
Music of the Heart
1999
Beerfest
2006
Dillinger
1973
Walk Like a Man
1987
A Troll in Central Park
1994
The Women
2008
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
2002
Lovers and Other Strangers
1970
The Mouse and His Child
1977
Gen¹³
2000
American Cowslip
2009
Expecting Mary
2010
You Again
2010
Death Sentence
1974
The North Avenue Irregulars
1979
Alex & Emma
2003
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
1981
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
WUSA
1970
The Croods
2013
Miss All-American Beauty
1982
Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
1977
Picture This
1991
Texasville
1990
The Rack
1956
The Californians
2005
Hansel and Gretel
1988
Between Love and Honor
1995
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
1993
The Demon Murder Case
1983
Dying Room Only
1973
Manna from Heaven
2002
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
Gambit
2012
The Fields
2011
Crazy Mama
1975
Charley and the Angel
1973
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
1984
The People Next Door
1970
Foolin' Around
1980
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
2012
Happy Mother's Day, Love George
1973
Haunts of the Very Rich
1972
It Happened One Christmas
1977
Buzz
2005
In Broad Daylight
1991
The Chapman Report
1962
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990
Someone I Touched
1975
Thursday's Game
1974
The Amati Girls
2001
Love Hurts
1990
The Wedding Ringer
2015
Suddenly Single
1971
A Brand New Life
1973
Without a Kiss Goodbye
1993
The Acorn People
1981
Being and Nothingness
2019
The Migrants
1974
My Little Pony: The Movie
1986
Lake Placid 2
2007
Silent Night, Lonely Night
1969
Annabelle's Wish
1997
Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists
2014
Fine Things
1990
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
2015
New York, I Love You
2008
The Muppet Movie
1979
Foodfight!
2012
Going to the Chapel
1988
Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
2008
The Facts of Life Down Under
1987
Fade to Black
1993
So B. It
2016
Unity
2015
A Little Piece of Heaven
1991
Advice to the Lovelorn
1981
This Is Happening
2015
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
Hanging Up
2000
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1995
Baby, Baby, Baby
2015
Sparky's Magic Piano
1987
Dixie: Changing Habits
1983
Adult World
2014
Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick
1999
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
2016
A Girl Named Sooner
1975
Deadly Intentions
1985
The Bronx Bull
2016
The Comedian
2016
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
2015
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
1996
Mrs. R's Daughter
1979
The Little Troll Prince
1987
Long Journey Back
1978
Scary Movie 4
2006
I Can Only Imagine
2018
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show
1991
Shadow Play
1986
Mrs. Harris
2006
Yesterday
1980
The Croods: A New Age
2020
When We Last Spoke
2020
Lez Bomb
2018
Hitchhike!
1974
Willa
1979
The Steagle
1971
Crime Club
1973
Never Too Late
1996
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
2009
Spies
1993
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
1984
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
1983
Death Scream
1975
Love Is Never Silent
1985
It's Who You Know
2018
My Boyfriend's Back
1993
High Holiday
2021
Jump, Darling
2022
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
2015
Miracle Child
1993
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
1976
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
2021
Not to Forget
2021
A Wig and a Prayer: The Peaches Christ Story
2016
Of Thee I Sing
1972
The Animal
2001
The Titanic Chronicles
1999
The Love Boat
1976
Forgotten Children
1952
Obsession: Letters to David Lynch
2011
Bad Santa
2003
Skip Chasers
1998
The Gliksmans
2017
Breakfast with Les and Bess
1985
Life of Vernon Hathaway
1955
The Simpsons
1989
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Cain's Hundred
1961
Family Guy
1999
Rhoda
1974
Phyllis
1975
Beach Girls
2005
The Facts of Life
1979
Touched by an Angel
1994
That Girl
1966
The Nanny
1993
Malcolm in the Middle
2000
Two and a Half Men
2003
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
The Ellen Show
2001
Thanks
1999
Gunsmoke
1955
Studio One
1948
General Electric Theater
1953
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Saints and Sinners
1962
Adam-12
1968
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Johnny Staccato
1959
The Muppet Show
1976
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Wedding Bells
2007
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Maybe This Time
1995
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Going My Way
1962
Outlaws
1960
Twice in a Lifetime
1999
Run for Your Life
1965
The Virginian
1962
Lancer
1968
Thriller
1960
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Climax!
1954
One Step Beyond
1959
Judd for the Defense
1967
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Matinee Theater
1955
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Sixth Sense
1972
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Laramie
1959
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Mr. Novak
1963
The New Breed
1961
Suspense
1949
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
The Nutt House
1989
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Stoney Burke
1962
Dr. Kildare
1961
Telephone Time
1956
Storybook Cinema
1994
The Defenders
1961
Lassie
1954
Walter & Emily
1991
Letter to Loretta
1953
Cher
1975
Raising Hope
2010
The Twilight Zone
2002
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Night Gallery
1970
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Intimate Portrait
1993
Dinah!
1974
Top Gear
2010
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
Letter to Loretta
1953
General Electric Theater
1953
Perry Mason
1957
Dancing with the Stars
2005
American Gods
2017
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Bob's Burgers
2011
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Name of the Game
1968
Promised Land
1996
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Studio One
1948
Franklin & Bash
2011
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Ferris Bueller
1990
Climax!
1954
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Route 66
1960
Clarence
2014
To Tell the Truth
2016
Suspense
1949
Suspense
1949
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Judd for the Defense
1967
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
Comedy Central Roasts
2003
Wagon Train
1957
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Hot in Cleveland
2010
Girl Meets World
2014
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
Kirstie
2013
Backstairs at the White House
1979
Mad About You
2019
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Oscars
1953
Ironside
1967
The Office
2005
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Happy Family
2003
Justice League Action
2016
Wonder Woman
1975
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
The Love Boat
1977
Mannix
1967
The Bobby Darin Show
1973
Dinah!
1974
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Millers
2013
Joan of Arcadia
2003
Teachers
2016
Tony Awards
1956