Mary Jo Catlett
Birthday: Born in 1938-09-02 in Denver, Colorado, USA
Deathday: Alive
Mary Jo Catlett (born September 2, 1938) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is notable for her role as housekeeper Pearl Gallagher on the television sitcom seriesDiff'rent Strokes, and currently for her role as Mrs. Puff in Spongebob Squarepants, which she has held since the show's debut.
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Saved by the Bell: The New Class
Character: Mrs. Bluntley
Saved by the Bell: The New Class is a spin-off of the Saved by the Bell series which ran from September 11, 1993 to January 8, 2000. The series lasted for seven seasons on NBC as a part of the network's TNBC Saturday morning line-up. It was the fourth incarnation of the franchise. The show had the same concept as the original series but featured a new group of students now roaming the halls of the fictional Bayside High School. Mr. Belding, played by Dennis Haskins, remained as the school's pri...
M*A*S*H
Character: Nurse Walsh
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable....
American Dad!
Character: Guest #1 (voice)
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Ro...
Starsky & Hutch
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Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City....
Cold Case
Character: Betty Joe Henders (2009)
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can....
The Bob Newhart Show
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The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience....
Diff'rent Strokes
Character: Pearl Gallagher
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett....
Kojak
Character: Verna
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City....
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
SpongeBob and friends spend the summer catching jellyfish, building camp-fires, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at Camp Coral, located in the Kelp Forest....
Gimme a Break!
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Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters....
ALF
Character: Mary Jo
A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage....
Modern Family
Character: Edith
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family....
The Waltons
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The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II....
Foul Play
Character: Stella Finkle
Based on the 1978 film of the same name, the series is about a bumbling detective in San Francisco and his girlfriend....
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Character: Witch
The exploits of the Grim Reaper, who has been forced into being the best friend of two children. A spin-off of the show Grim & Evil....
2 Broke Girls
Character: Elaine
Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way – they’re broke....
Glee
Character: Mrs. Carlisle
In this musical comedy, optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential as they strive to outshine their singing competition while navigating the cruel halls of McKinley High....
The Patrick Star Show
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
Follow a younger Patrick Star living at home with his family, where he hosts his own variety show for the neighborhood from his television-turned-bedroom....
SpongeBob As Told By
Character: Self
The cast of SpongeBob is asked to tell the story of iconic episodes as best as they can. SpongeBob cast members recount episodes and clips from the original show, and IRL Puppet reenactments embrace all of the nautical nonsense SpongeBob has to offer!...
Good Girls
Character: Dorothy
Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back....
Kim Possible
Character: Aunt June (voice)
If there's danger or trouble, Kim Possible is there on the double to save the world from villains... and still make it home in time for cheerleading practice! Luckily, Kim has her sidekick Ron Stoppable and his pet naked mole-rat Rufus by her side....
SpongeBob SquarePants
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
Deep down in the Pacific Ocean in the subterranean city of Bikini Bottom lives a square yellow sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob lives in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a knack for getting into all kinds of trouble without really trying. When he's not getting on the nerves of his cranky next door neighbor Squidward, SpongeBob can usually be found smack in the middle of all sorts of strange situations with his best buddy, ...
Great News
Character: Marie
A New Jersey mom puts her relationship with her daughter to the test when she lands an internship at the same TV station where her daughter works....
The Odd Couple
Character: Elderly Woman
Oscar's life seems almost perfect...sure he's divorced and his apartment is a mess, but he's the host of a well-known sports show, and is enjoying his bachelor lifestyle in New York City. That is until his college friend, Felix, shows up at Oscar's apartment having just been dumped by his wife. Oscar does his best to console his old buddy and get him back on the dating horse, but his attempts uncover just how unresolved his own feelings are about his ex....
Extreme Ghostbusters
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Based on the blockbuster films, this action-packed animated series starts a decade after the original Ghostbusters saved New York City from ghosts, goblins and ghouls. All the guys have left town, except Egon, now teaching a Paranormal Studies class at the local university. But Zuul, the all-powerful demon, has awakened from hibernation to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting masses. Desperate to recruit a new team, Egon and the plucky Janine turn to four of his teenage students: Kylie, a genius with...
Trial & Error
Character: Brianne
A bright-eyed New York lawyer takes his first big case defending an eccentric poetry professor accused of murdering his wife....
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
Character: Ethel Simmons
Follow Platinum Realty, Los Angeles' premiere realty group as a group of realtors compete for a partner position in the firm by selling as much property as possible....
Night Court
Character: Cynthia Dalbey
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there....
That's So Raven
Character: Mrs. Applebaum
No ordinary teenager; Raven Baxter can see glimpses of the future! Watch her schemes and misadventures as she enlists the help of friends, including best friends Eddie and Chelsea, to change life's little outcomes. Raven's younger brother, Cory, is obsessed with money and creates get-rich-quick schemes to try to earn cash....
Rizzoli & Isles
Character: Bunny
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protecti...
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Character: Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")
Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode....
Out of the Blue
Character: Nurse
Out Of The Blue is an American fantasy sitcom that aired on ABC during the fall of 1979. It is chiefly notable as having featured a Mork & Mindy crossover, and for the controversy surrounding its status as a spin-off of Happy Days. The series stars Jimmy Brogan as Random, an angel-in-training who is assigned to live with a family and work as a high school teacher. The series aired from September 9 to December 16, 1979. Nine episodes had been aired at the time of cancellation. Some completed mat...
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Mrs. Metcalf
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Shake It Up
Character: Elderly Woman
Best pals CeCe and Rocky dream of dancing stardom. And they seem on the verge of realizing that goal when they win places as backup dancers on the local TV show "Shake It Up, Chicago." While they get to show off their moves, they find out they need to keep putting their best feet forward to keep up with the rest of the crew on the show....
Starsky & Hutch
Character: Terrible Tessie
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City....
Fantasy Island
Character: Carlotta Smith
A magical island hosted by Mr Roarke and Tattoo where weekly guests learn valuable life lessons in their pursuit of fulfilling their dreams. Not all dreams are fulfilled as expected....
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Red Riding Hood
Character: Shopkeeper Woman
Teenage Claire would rather hang out with her friends at the mall than to stay home with her brother Matt while Grandma babysits. Who wouldn't? Unfortunately, Grandma isn't about to let Claire out of the house. Worse, she insists that Claire and Matt listen to her reworking of the Brothers Grimm classic tale "Little Red Riding Hood". Fortunately, Grandma has a sense of humor, and adds some modern twists. Claire imagines herself as Red, and her brother, parents and grandma as....her brother, pare...
How to Be a Serial Killer
Character: Mrs. Wilson
HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil. Mike leads Bart through the ethics of serial killing as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing corp...
Beethoven's 5th
Character: Sweet Grandmother
When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe Selig. Now everybody wants to be the dog's best friend as his discovery unleashes a frenzy of treasure hunting among the community's cast of kooky creatures. With help from Uncle Freddie and Garrett (a friend or maybe more), Sara and Beethoven try to help uncover a secret that has been in the crazy littl...
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
When Bikini Bottom is scooped from the ocean, scientific squirrel Sandy Cheeks and her pal SpongeBob SquarePants saddle up for Texas to save their town....
Trading Favors
Character: Mrs. Langley
A seductive woman with a violent lover steals a car and entices a teenage boy to join her on a crime spree....
The Littlest Angel
Character: The Scribe I
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthday. Michael doesn't fully understand where he is, or why he's there. A guardian angel named Patience is given the task of showing Michael the joys of Heaven and helping him find his place in the Hereafter....
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Character: Kindergarten Teacher
It looks like young Keith Gridley will have a lonely summer, until he meets a talking mouse named Ralph. Ralph takes an immediate liking to Keith's toy motorcycle and can ride it just by making a motor noise. Ralph even acts heroically when Keith comes down with a nasty fever, while dodging cats, owls and a guest's noisy dog....
SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
In the never-before seen special episode, "SpongeBob's Last Stand", all chaos breaks loose in Bikini Bottom when SpongeBob and Patrick hear that a new highway will be running through Jellyfish fields, outraged they decide to protest; SpongeBob style....
Battling for Baby
Character: Mrs. Capello
Two childhood friends who have since become fierce rivals are forced to make nice when their children marry. But the feud reignites when a bundle of joy arrives, and the feisty grandmothers vie for baby-tending duties when the new mom goes back to work....
Ablaze
Character: Nurse Winslow
The owner of a gigantic oil refinery decides to burn the place down for insurance purposes, only to create a giant fireball that endangers the lives of a small town....
Legend of the Mummy
Character: Mrs. Grant
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our world. When the mummy attacks archaeologist Dr. Trelawny, his colleagues have to trace the source of the ghoul's power and find a way to stop it....
Serial Mom
Character: Rosemary Ackerman
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics....
Lucky Stiff
Character: Shoe Store Lady
An English shoe salesman inherits 6 million dollars from a recently deceased uncle he has never met before, on the condition that he takes the uncle's corpse on a trip to Monte Carlo....
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Character: Self
If Carol Channing didn't exist, no one could have made her up. One in a billion, Carol , at 89, remains an unstoppable, megawatt dynamo. Broadway diva extraordinaire is just the icing. Carol Channing hovered at the pinnacle of the entertainment world from the late-1950's through the 1960's and beyond, living life sensationally large. As Carol has observed, '...if you're lucky enough to have two hit shows, the world passes through your dressing room'. At 89, she remains irrepressible....
Let's Be Cops
Character: Old Lady
Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a re...
Where the Ladies Go
Character: Frances
A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where bored housewives and wandering husbands go to find some adventure in their miserable lives....
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
Burger Beard is a pirate who is in search of the final page of a magical book that makes any evil plan he writes in it come true, which happens to be the Krabby Patty secret formula. When the entire city of Bikini Bottom is put in danger, SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Sandy, and Plankton need to go on a quest that takes them to the surface. In order to get back the recipe and save their city, the gang must retrieve the book and transform themselves into superheroes....
Blood Beach
Character: Harriett Crabbe
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play wh...
The Champ
Character: Josie
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success....
Spongebob’s Runaway Roadtrip
Character: Mrs. Puff
Join Spongebob and Patrick on a trip to the Great Barrier Reef, Plankton and Karen on a romantic cruise, Mr. Krabs and Pearl on a trip to the Ocean Mint, Patrick on a homebound holiday, and Sandy on a trip that's OUT OF THIS WORLD! Why, these vacations are so packed with adventure and hilarity, everyone might just need a vacation from their vacation!...
Plankton: The Movie
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
Plankton's world is flipped upside down when his plan for world domination is thwarted....
Gone Are the Dayes
Character: Marge
After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until the trial. But how shall he keep two nervous adults and their two teenage kids under control?...
The Benchwarmers
Character: Mrs. Ellwood
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads....
O'Hara's Wife
Character: Gloria
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara is devastated when his wife dies suddenly. However, she returns to haunt him in order to persuade him to slow down, watch his own health, and renew relationships with his two grown children....
All You Need
Character: Ruth
When her parents announce their divorce, Beth begins to uncover the hidden truths behind all of the rest of her families lives. Seeing that so many people struggle with keeping things in order, she seeks to take a more active role in her own life, making important changes for a better future....
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
When his best friend Gary is suddenly snatched away, SpongeBob takes Patrick on a madcap mission far beyond Bikini Bottom to save their pink-shelled pal....
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
There's trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom. Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks like Mr. Krab, SpongeBob's boss, is the culprit. Though he's just been passed over for the promotion of his dreams, SpongeBob stands by his boss, and along with his best pal Patrick, sets out on a treacherous mission to Shell City to reclaim the crown and save Mr. Krab's life....
Semi-Tough
Character: Earlene
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved....
The Beach Girls
Character: Mrs. Brinker
School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the girls to stay at his beach house. When the near-sighted, drug smuggling Captain Bly dumps his cargo of marijuana, the bales wash up on shore. The two party girls, Ginger and Ducky, quickly stuff the dope into giant bags and spirit it back to the beach house, where it fuels a party with assorted misfits, deliv...
Bananas
Character: Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion....
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Character: Rita
When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a fight....
Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
Character:
A retelling of the Disney film, Beauty and the Beast (1991), on ice. This also included live singers from the Broadway stage show, and clips of the animated film....
SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp
Character: Mrs. Puff (voice)
While at Kamp Koral for a reunion, SpongeBob and the gang are stalked by a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows as campers start disappearing one by one!...
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sponge Who Could Fly
Character: Mrs. Poppy Puff (voice)
Join SpongeBob, Sandy, Patrick and the rest of the Bikini Bottom dwellers for hilarious happenings down in the deep blue sea....
SpongeBob's House Party
Character: Mrs. Poppy Puff (voice)
SpongeBob, while grocery shopping, discovers a "how to throw a party" kit. He decides to throw a big party and invites everyone he's ever known. Unfortunately for his guests, SpongeBob plans everything right down to the minute, sapping all the fun from his party....
How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
Character: Soprano
A divorced woman comes up with a scheme to make her ex-husband jealous, so she can get him back....