Katherine Helmond
Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director.
Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob New hart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke.
She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.272 |
| Birthday | 1929-07-05 |
| Place of Birth | Galveston, Texas, USA |
| Also Known As | Katherine Marie Helmond, کاترین هلموند, |
1985
Brazil
7.665/3364
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautif...
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Brazil
2006
Cars
6.991/14204
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself u...
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Cars
1985
Shadey
4.4/5
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thought...
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Shadey
1978
Getting Married
4/2
A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.
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Getting Married
1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7.208/4664
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycl...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1987
Overboard
6.834/866
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after J...
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Overboard
2000
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
3.4/7
Three broke men try to become rich by finding rich women.
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How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
1976
Family Plot
6.7/461
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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Family Plot
2003
Beethoven's 5th
5.3/227
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 t...
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Beethoven's 5th
1993
The Elvira Show
0/0
Filmed for CBS in 1993, this unaired pilot features the witch Elvira, her aunt, and their pet cat welcoming a long-lost niece into their new Kansas ho...
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The Elvira Show
1981
Time Bandits
6.6/1028
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purl...
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Time Bandits
2002
Mr. St. Nick
5.6/15
King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a no-show, preferring his lavish seaside lifestyle an...
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Mr. St. Nick
1971
The Hospital
6.6/96
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospit...
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The Hospital
1975
The Hindenburg
6.3/131
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security....
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The Hindenburg
1988
Lady in White
6.1/121
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly after...
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Lady in White
1955
Wine of Morning
5.5/2
A story of bloodshed and shipwreck, of intrigue and murder, of love and redemption. The film traces the life of Joel, a promising young man who turns...
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Wine of Morning
2007
A Grandpa for Christmas
6.6/23
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.
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A Grandpa for Christmas
1986
Christmas Snow
5.8/6
A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident.
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Christmas Snow
1979
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
6.5/4
A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular on the local hitchhiking circuit, being picked up...
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Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
2011
Collaborator
4.7/14
A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
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Collaborator
2012
Time Travel Mater
6/135
When a clock lands on Mater's engine, he travels back in time to 1909 where he meets Stanley, an ambitious young car on his way to California. With th...
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Time Travel Mater
1994
The Flight of the Dove
5.5/4
An explosives expert fleeing his past and a beautiful spy trading sex for secrets find themselves in love and fighting the spy ring out to kill them.
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The Flight of the Dove
1997
Ms. Scrooge
5.2/10
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She ha...
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Ms. Scrooge
1992
Inside Monkey Zetterland
2.9/8
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
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Inside Monkey Zetterland
1975
The Family Nobody Wanted
5.8/4
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.
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The Family Nobody Wanted
1975
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
0/0
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1974
Locusts
4.8/6
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects devo...
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Locusts
1980
Scout's Honor
5.5/2
Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home to the next, who is also determined to be the best...
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Scout's Honor
1977
Little Ladies of the Night
3.3/3
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has te...
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Little Ladies of the Night
1974
Dr. Max
0/0
A small-town doctor neglects his family to look after his patients.
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Dr. Max
1976
Baby Blue Marine
5.25/10
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Ma...
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Baby Blue Marine
1975
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
6.7/29
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1975
Cage Without a Key
6/1
A high school girl who needs a ride accepts one from a boy she doesn't know. He then forces her to participate in a robbery, in which a clerk is kille...
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Cage Without a Key
1992
Grass Roots
0/0
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Sen...
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Grass Roots
1990
When Will I Be Loved?
0/0
Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.
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When Will I Be Loved?
2011
Cars 2
6.137/7914
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rock...
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Cars 2
2020
Frank and Ava
5.4/13
The wild and tempestuous relationship between icons Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.
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Frank and Ava
1993
Amore!
3.8/4
Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enough. So he gets a divorce, quits his job, and goes o...
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Amore!
1988
Save the Dog!
0/0
Becky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she has best chances to get the part - but the day after her dog Petey becomes v...
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Save the Dog!
1982
Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
0/0
The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
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Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
2000
Living in Fear
4.4/5
A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
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Living in Fear
2000
The Perfect Nanny
6.8/7
Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a han...
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The Perfect Nanny
1983
Jack and the Beanstalk
5/2
Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father die...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
1976
James Dean
4.7/7
A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both w...
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James Dean
2017
Cars 3
6.85/5956
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in th...
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Cars 3
1976
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
6.4/5
Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in this adventure of the fugitive who, alone and desper...
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Wanted: The Sundance Woman
2010
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
6.8/151
Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stories.
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Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
2014
The Radiator Springs 500½
6.289/90
A 'leisurely drive' planned in honor of Radiator Springs’ town founder, Stanley, turns precarious as Baja pros descend on the town and challenge Light...
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The Radiator Springs 500½
2008
What Is Brazil?
6.4/16
What is this film called Brazil? Find out in this witty documentary.
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What Is Brazil?
2006
Mater and the Ghostlight
6.231/449
Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8...
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Mater and the Ghostlight
1974
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
6.4/24
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turn...
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
1991
The Perfect Tribute
7.2/4
A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit...
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The Perfect Tribute
1974
Larry
5.5/2
A man who has been confined from early childhood to a dubiously run home for the mentally challenged is transferred to a state mental hospital when th...
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Larry
1982
For Lovers Only
0/0
A man, his daughter, and son-in-law run a honeymoon resort in the Poconos.
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For Lovers Only
1976
Liza’s Pioneer Diary
0/0
The story of a gentle, unsure young woman who grows in maturity and self-reliance as she travels across the American plains in 1848 in a wagon train w...
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Liza’s Pioneer Diary
1991
Deception: A Mother’s Secret
0/0
When a widower tries to adopt his wife’s son he’s shocked by what he discovers about her past.
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