CLORIS LEACHMAN BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Cloris Leachman was born on April 30th, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkley Claiborne 'Buck' Leachman and Cloris Wallace and is the oldest of three daughters. When she earned her high school diploma she enrolled at Illinois State University and later transferred to Northwestern University majoring in Drama.
Her involvement in the entertainment industry began when she entered a beauty contest and won the title of Miss. Chicago in 1946. She then began working as a stage actress and gained a number of years experience before breaking into the television and film industry.
Soon she was appearing on such television shows as, "The Ford Theatre Hour" (1948) and "Bob and Ray" (1951). A number of film roles soon followed, "Kiss me Deadly" (1955), "The Rack" (1956), "The Chapman Report" (1962) and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford an Katharne Ross.
She mostly focused on television work during this time adding such credits as, "Rawhide", "Climax!", "Gunsmoke", "Twilight Zone", "Hawaiian Eye, "Route 66", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "Laramie", "The Defenders", "Mr. Novak", "77 Sunset Strip", "Perry Mason", "Dr. Kildare", "The Big Valley" and "Frontier Circus".
From 1970 through 1977 she played Phyllis Lindstrom on, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" which later became, "Phyllis" (1975). For this role she won a Golden Globe as Leading Performer. In 1973 she won her first Emmy for her role on the television movie, "A Brand New Life". Over the course of her career she has won a total of nine Emmy's.
Other television roles include, "The Facts of Life" (1986), "Walter and Emily" (1991-1992), "The Powers That Be" (1992-1993), "Promised Land" (1996-1997) and most recent, "Raising Hope" (2010-2012).
Although, television has been her focus she has still appeared on numerous feature films some of which include, "Young Frankenstein" (1974), "High Anxiety" (1977) and "History of the World: Part I" (1981).
Along with film and television work she did voice over work for such projects as the film, "Castle in the Sky", "Mt Little Pony: The Movie", "The Iron Giant" and the animated television series, "The Simpsons".
She has married only once to George Englund in 1953 and they had five children before the marriage came to an end in 1978. All five of her children also pursued a career in the entertainment industry. Sadly, in 1986, her son Bryon passed away from an overdose of Ulcer medication.
She has not re-married again and has remained working in the industry earning her second Emmy for her role on, "Malcolm in the Middle" (2000). Also at the age of eighty two, Leachman, set a record being the oldest contestant on the reality show, "Dancing with the Stars" (2005). In 2011, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
Cloris Leachman remains working without slowing down and her most recent roles have been in the films, "Gambit" (2012), "Adult World" (2012), "Raging Bull II" (2013), "Timberwolf" (2012) and no release date yet for, "The Home".
Filmography
???? The Home
2012 Timberwolf
2013 The Croods
2013 Raging Bull II
2012 The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
2012 Adult World
2012 Gambit
2010-2012 Raising Hope
2011 The Fields
2010 You Again
2010 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2010 Blue Mountain State
2010 Expecting Mary
2009 American Cowslip
2009 Hawthorne
2009 Phineas and Ferb
2009 Family Dinner
2009 Love Takes Wing
2009 The Office
2009 New York, I Love You
2008 The Women
2008 Ponyo
2007 Lake Placid 2
2007 The Wedding Bells
2006 Beerfest
2001-2006 Malcolm in the Middle
2006 Scary Movie 4
2006 The Great Malones
2005 Two and a Half Men
2005 The Californians
2005 Mrs. Harris
2005 Beach Girls
2005 Sky High
2005 The Longest Yard
2004 Spanglish
2004 Joan of Arcadia
2003 Happy Family
2003 Bad Santa
2003 Alex & Emma
1997-2003 Touched by an Angel
2003 The Twilight Zone
2003 Crazy Love
2002 Manna from Heaven
2001-2002 The Ellen Show
2001 Diagnosis Murder
2000 Twice in a Lifetime
2000 The Amati Girls
2000 Gen 13
2000 Hanging Up
2000 Norm
2000 Love & Money
1999 Thanks
1999 Music of the Heart
1999 The Iron Giant
1999 The Titanic Chronicles
1996-1997 Promised Land
1997 Annabelle's Wish
1996 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
1996 Never Too Late
1995 Maybe This Time
1995 Now and Then
1995 Between Love and Honor
1994 A Troll in Central Park
1994 The Nanny
1993 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
1993 The Beverly Hillbillies
1993 My Boyfriend's Back
1993 Miracle Child
1993 Without a Kiss Goodbye
1993 Fade to Black
1992-1993 The Powers That Be
1991-1992 Walter & Emily
1992 Spies
1991 A Little Piece of Heaven
1991 Sunday Dinner
1991 The Simpsons
1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1991 In Broad Daylight
1990 Ferris Bueller
1990 Love Hurts
1990 Fine Things
1990 Texasville
1989 The Nutt House
1989 Prance
1988 Going to the Chapel
1986-1988 The Facts of Life
1987 The Little Troll Prince
1987 Our House
1987 Hansel and Gretel
1987 Walk Like a Man
1987 The Facts of Life Down Under
1987 Sparky's Magic Piano
1986 Castle in the Sky
1986 My Little Pony: The Movie
1986 Shadow Play
1985 Love Is Never Silent
1984-1985 The Love Boat
1985 Blind Alleys
1985 Deadly Intentions
1985 American Playhouse
1984 Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
1983 The Demon Murder Case
1983 Dixie: Changing Habits
1983 ABC Afterschool Specials
1982 Miss All-American Beauty
1981 Advice to the Lovelorn
1981 History of the World: Part I
1981 The Acorn People
1981 Yesterday
1981 Perfectly Frank
1980 Foolin' Around
1980 Herbie Goes Bananas
1980 The Oldest Living Graduate
1979 Scavenger Hunt
1979 The Associates
1979 S.O.S. Titanic
1979 Mrs. R's Daughter
1979 The Muppet Movie
1979 Willa
1979 The North Avenue Irregulars
1979 Backstairs at the White House
1978 Long Journey Back
1977 High Anxiety
1977 It Happened One Christmas
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1970-1977 Mary Tyler Moore
1975-1977 Phyllis
1976 The Love Boat
1975 The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
1975 Death Scream
1975 Crazy Mama
1975 A Girl Named Soone
1975 Ladies of the Corridor
1975 Someone I Touched
1974 Young Frankenstein
1974 Rhoda
1974 Death Sentence
1974 Ernie, Madge and Artie
1974 Daisy Miller
1974 Thursday's Game
1974 Pete 'n' Tillie
1974 Hitchhike!
1974 The Migrants
1973 Dying Room Only
1973 Happy Mother's Day, Love Georg
1973 Dillinger
1973 Charley and the Angel
1973 Crime Club
1973 A Brand New Life
1972 Of Thee I Sing
1972 Haunts of the Very Rich
1972 The Sixth Sense
1972 Rod Serling's Night Gallery
1972 Young Dr. Kildare
1971 Suddenly Single
1971 The Last Picture Show
1971 The Steagle
1971 Men at Law
1970 That Girl
1970 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1970 The People Next Door
1970 WUSA
1970 Lovers and Other Strangers
1969 Lancer
1969 Silent Night, Lonely Night
1969 Ironside
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1967-1969 The Virginian
1968 Judd for the Defense
1968 Mannix
1968 The Name of the Game
1968 Adam-12
1967 The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 The Road West
1967 The Big Valley
1967 Run for Your Life
1966 Perry Mason
1965 Dr. Kildare
1965 The Trials of O'Brien
1965 A Man Called Shenandoah
1965 Mr. Novak
1964 The Defenders
1961-1963 77 Sunset Strip
1962 Stoney Burke
1962 Saints and Sinners
1962 Going My Way
1962 The Chapman Report
1962 Kraft Mystery Theater
1955-1962 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1962 The New Breed
1962 Wagon Train
1955-1962 G.E. True Theater
1962 Laramie
1962 Route 66
1961-1962 The Untouchables
1962 Target: The Corruptors
1962 Alcoa Premiere
1961 Cain's Hundred
1961 Twilight Zone
1961 Frontier Circus
1961 The Donna Reed Show
1956-1961 Gunsmoke
1961 Hawaiian Eye
1960 The Loretta Young Show
1960 Shirley Temple Theatre
1960 Checkmate
1960 Outlaws
1960 Wanted Dead or Alive
1960 Thriller
1960 Rawhide
1960 The Man in the Moon
1960 Johnny Staccato
1960 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1959 Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond
1957-1958 Lassie
1958 The Frank Sinatra Show
1955-1958 Climax!
1957 Telephone Time
1956 The Rack
1956 Zane Grey Theatre
1956 Lux Video Theatre
1956 Matinee Theatre
1955 Screen Directors Playhouse
1955 Star Stage
1955 Kiss Me Deadly
1953-1954 Ponds Theater
1950-1954 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
1954 The Mask
1954 The Web
1953 The Philip Morris Playhouse
1951 Bob and Ray
1951-1952 Suspense
1952 Danger
1952 Forgotten Children
1949-1952 Kraft Theatre
1951 Tales of Tomorrow
1951 Armstrong Circle Theatre
1951 Studio One in Hollywood
1951 Somerset Maugham TV Theatre
1951 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1950-1952 Charlie Wild, Private Detective
1950 The Billy Rose Show
1950 The Clock
1950 Nash Airflyte Theatre
1948-1949 Actor's Studio
1949 NBC Presents
1948 The Ford Theatre Hour
1947 Carnegie Hall
