Julie Payne (actress, born 1946)

Julie Payne (born 1946) is an American television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice acting. She was a cast member in three short-lived network sitcoms during 1983–1986, and appeared in about twenty feature films and over a hundred episodes of TV series as well as providing voices for scores of TV animated shows, of which her best known character is that of Liz Wilson.

Early life Julie Payne was born in Indianapolis, Indiana,1950 Census, listed as Judy Payne, in the home of William K(enneth) and Lucile Payne, older sister Meredith but in the early 1950s her family moved to Sweet Home, Oregon, near the lake and river areas adjoining the Cascade Range, where her father got a job as the local newspaper editorThe Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Dec. 24, 1954, P. 20. Growing up in the state's second-largest city, Eugene, she attended South Eugene High School, where she performed in a number of school productions, including The Music Man, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Lark and Once Upon a Mattress. After graduating in 1964, she moved to California, where she studied drama at Santa Clara University and French at San Francisco State University. Includes photograph. Her father, Ken Payne, later became head of the English Department at Sheldon High School; her mother, Lucy Payne, was an author.

Career Leaving college without a degree, Payne traveled to Europe, where she hitchhiked through various locations and, upon returning to San Francisco during the 1967 Haight-Ashbury "Summer of Love", became a member of the improvisational comedy/satire group, The Committee, remaining with it, on and off, until 1974.

During her years with The Committee, she began appearing in films (her on-screen debut occurred as part of the group's performance at the September 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, held a month after Woodstock, and is included in the 1971 concert film, Celebration at Big Sur).

At the start of the 1970s, she was seen in bit parts, without the group, in The Strawberry Statement and The Candidate, as well as on television (The Flip Wilson Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Midnight Special, The Streets of San Francisco and others).

In 1976, two years after leaving The Committee, she and another former member of the group, Ruth Silveira, wrote and starred in People Pie, their two-woman satirical revue which they premiered in Los Angeles and took on the road, including to Eugene, its initial stop, and her first visit to the city since leaving it in 1964.

Between February 1983 and June 1986, she was a regular in three network series, but each lasted less than three months. In CBS' hour-long 1983 humorous fantasy, Wizards and Warriors, she played good queen Lattinia, one of many characters in a large ensemble cast, but the special-effects-laden expensive series was a Saturday-night ratings failure, lasting only from February 26 to May 14. She also starred in WKRP in Cincinnati as Buffy, one of Johnny Fever's former girlfriends.

Starting in mid-1980s, Payne shifted her focus to television voice work. She was heard in the animated segments of The Tracey Ullman Show and provided various voices, primarily those of Dr. Liz Wilson and Lanolin in a series of specials based on the comic strip Garfield, as well as in the series Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show.

In 1993, she played Embarcadero Bank worker Eleanor Cooke (AKA Former Smash Club cage dancer Ginger Snap) in the Full House episode "Smash Club: the Next Generation". Payne portrayed the recurring character of Larry David's mother-in-law on his HBO satirical comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Personal life Payne married actor-songwriter Richard Reicheg.

Filmography

Film +YearTitleRoleNotes1970The Strawberry StatementWoman1971THX 1138AnnouncerVoice1972The CandidateWoman1979Real LifeDr. Anne Kramer1980First FamilyGloria's Secret Service Agent #31981The Incredible Shrinking WomanNeighbor 1983Private SchoolCoach WhelanTwice Upon a TimeFlora FaunaVoice 1984The Lonely GuyRental AgentThis Is Spinal TapMime Waitress1985Fraternity VacationNaomi Tvedt 1986Just Between FriendsKarenJumpin' Jack FlashReceptionist at Elizabeth Arden1988Portrait of a White MarriageMrs. Prufrock1989Uncle BuckAdditional voices1990MiseryReporter #11992Glengarry Glen RossAdditional voices1994Monkey TroubleLibrarian1995The Brady Bunch MovieMrs. Simmons1996Spy HardMother Superior2001Teddy Bears' PicnicLila Claypool2003American WeddingMrs. Zyskowski2005Cruel but NecessaryPearl

Television YearTitleRoleNotes 1973Love, American StyleSylviaEpisode: "Love and the See-Through Mind"The Streets of San FranciscoMrs. DurandEpisode: "The Twenty-Four Karat Plague"1974The Bob Newhart ShowDr. Sharon RudellEpisode: "The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment"1975Sanford and SonTerestiaEpisode: "The Family Man"1976Saturday Night LiveSandy LockeEpisode: "Elliott Gould/Anne Murray"1977–1979Laverne & ShirleyColonel Turner / Charmayne3 episodes1978Peeping TimesAmateur SurgeonTelevision film 1979WKRP in CincinnatiBuffy Denver2 episodesTaxiSister Number OneEpisode: "The Great Place" 1980ShirleyMrs. BurkeEpisode: "Fenced In"Archie Bunker's PlaceSylviaEpisode: "Home Again"1981Harper Valley PTADoris DiefenbarkerEpisode: "Stella and Howard" 1982Hart to HartNurseEpisode: "Harts and Fraud"Madame's PlaceMicheline JulietteEpisode #1.38Family TiesLynn SullivanEpisode: "Oops" 1983Prime TimesVariousTelevision filmWizards and WarriorsQueen Lattinia3 episodeFull HouseMrs. KnopfTelevision filmOh MadelineLornaEpisode: "Portrait of the Artist with a Young Man"Garfield on the TownDr. Liz WilsonTelevision short 1984The Duck FactoryAggie Aylesworth13 episodesE/RMrs. TurnerEpisode: "Both Sides Now"BensonEuniceEpisode: "Make War, Not Love" 1985JoannaSigourney SchultzTelevision filmGeorge Burns Comedy WeekLoretta HayesEpisode: "The Dynamite Girl"The Twilight ZoneClerkEpisode: "Wish Bank"The History of White People in AmericaIrmaTelevision film 1986Garfield in ParadiseMai-Tai / StewardessTelevision shortLeo & Liz in Beverly HillsLucille Trumbley6 episodes 1987The New GidgetJulia GenetEpisode: "Does Paul Know?"CBS Summer PlayhouseRitaEpisode: "Puppetman"This Week IndoorsNancy ReaganTelevision filmThe Tracey Ullman ShowDr. N!Godatu6 episodesPound Puppies911 Operator 1Episode: "The Rescue Pups/Good Night, Sweet Pups"A Garfield ChristmasMomTelevision film1988Crash CourseMaxine Konner1988–1994Garfield and FriendsLanolin / Dr. Liz Wilson / additional voices85 episodes 1989Murphy BrownPhyllisEpisode: "It's How You Play the Game"This Is America, Charlie BrownMrs. HolidayEpisode: "The Great Inventors"Who's the Boss?SkyeEpisode: "It's Somebody's Birthday"Garfield's Babes and BulletsKittyTelevision shortL.A. LawEllen BarrettEpisode: "The Unsterile Cuckoo"Garfield's ThanksgivingDr. Liz Wilson Television short 1990Garfield's Feline FantasiesNadiaThe Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho PandaAdditional voicesEpisode: "Pity the Poor Pirate"Bagdad CafeCounty ClerkEpisode: "City on a Hill"1990–1991The Wonder YearsMrs. Falcinella3 episodes 1991Get a LifeDr. RandEpisode: "Married"ParadiseHattie / Margaret2 episodesThe HauntedAnnieTelevision filmGarfield Gets a LifeLibrary Girl / ReceptionistTelevision shortDream OnMargaret TittlewoodEpisode: "Calling the Kettle Black"The New WKRP in CincinnatiBuffy2 episodesPerfect StrangersMrs. JohnsonEpisode: "Wild Turkey"Major DadMrs. LoniganEpisode: "The Shell Game" 1993Good AdviceSalespersonEpisode: "Pilot"Full HouseEleanor Cooke / Ginger SnapEpisode: "Smash Club: the Next Generation"Café AmericainHeleneEpisode: "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" 1994Picket FencesJurorEpisode: "System Down"MontySister StigmataEpisode: "Wild, Wild Willy and His O.K. Corral"1994–1997Beverly Hills, 90210Peggy, Arnold's Secretary3 episodes1995Aaahh!!! Real MonstersBeautician / MoniqueEpisode: "A Room with No Viewfinder/Krumm Rises to the Top" 1996Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of SupermanWandaEpisode: "The People v. Lois Lane"California DreamsAmber DuboisEpisode: "The Fashion Man"1998L.A. DoctorsMrs. KlemingEpisode: "Nate Expectations"2000–2005Curb Your EnthusiasmCheryl's Mother7 episodes2004Judging AmyNancy KolnikoffEpisode: "Predictive Neglect"2005NYPD BlueJudith HowellEpisode: "Old Man Quiver"2009–2014The Garfield ShowDr. Liz Wilson / Mrs. Wilson / Mrs. Arbuckle14 episodes

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