,
Herb Edelman and Van Patten Van Patten has appeared in dozens of television series. She portrayed Janice Turner on
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==