Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like The Bad News Bears (1976), St. Elmo's Fire (1985) (as Mrs. Beamish), and as Gloria Noonan in Grown Ups (2010).

Career

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.

Personal life Van Patten is the sister of actor Dick Van Patten.

Van Patten was married to actor Martin Balsam from 1959 to 1962 and they had a daughter, actress Talia Balsam. Her second marriage–to actor Dennis Dugan–began, circa spring 1977, with a private ceremony conducted in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and ended in their 1987 divorce.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes1951Fourteen HoursBarbara (uncredited)1958Hillary1968I Love You, Alice B. ToklasJoyce1969Maude1970Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love YouAnna1970But I Don't Want to Get Married!Olga1971Making ItBetty Fuller1971Something BigPolly Standall1972BoneBernadette1972Thumb TrippingMother1974MameSally Cato1975Ida Mae1976Cleveland1976Mikey and NickyJan1985Mrs. Boyce1985St. Elmo's FireMrs. Beamish1986Billy GalvinMae Galvin1987Blind DateNadia's Mother1988Monkey ShinesDorothy Mann1989Trust MeNettie Brown1996InfinityAunt Ruth1998Show & TellMrs. Mahler2006My Mother's HairdoMaryShort film2008Marley & MeMrs. Butterfly2010Grown UpsGloria Noonan2011This Must Be the PlaceDorothy Shore2011Peace, Love & MisunderstandingMariam2011Video2012Mrs. McGowan2013Angel's PerchPolly2014God's PocketAunt Sophie2018MaryShort film2018DianeMadge2019Alzheimer'sNancyShort film

Television Year Title Role Notes1946NBC Television TheatreSeason 1 Episode 4: ”The Flattering Word”1948Season 1 Episode 1: ”Dinner at Eight”1949–1951Kraft Television TheatreMary3 episodes1950Armstrong Circle TheatreSeason 1 Episode 21: ”Time of Their Lives”1952Season 2 Episode 28: "The Terrible Truth"1954Mama3 episodes1954Valerie FosterSeason 6 Episode 2: "Charles McKinney of the Tulsa World"1956–1957As the World TurnsJanice Turner Hughes #11956Robert Montgomery PresentsSeason 8 Episode 11: "The Misfortunes of Mr. Minihan"1959–1960Young Doctor MaloneClara Kershaw1959DeadlineWaitressSeason 1 Episode 9: "Charm Boy"1961EthelSeason 1 Episode 20: "Cold Turkey"1961Ben CaseyStella MaxwellSeason 1 Episode 10: "The Sweet Kiss of Madness"1961–1963Ethel Bronkowski / Mrs. Maude Pomfritt / Speed Pulitzer3 episodes1962Bus StopBettySeason 1 Episode 18: "Turn Home Again"1962Target: The Corruptors!MadeleineSeason 1 Episode 21: "Fortress of Despair"1962CheckmateMarcia JamesSeason 2 Episode 20: "Remembrance of Crimes Past"1962PhyllisSeason 3 Episode 20: "Night Boat"1962Wide CountryNina CorbelloSeason 1 Episode 4: "Who Killed Edde Gannon?"1962Charlotte RameySeason 1 Episode 6: "First Assignment"1962–1963Dr. KildareJulie Belmanno / Ruth Scully 2 episodes1963Grace ThorpeSeason 1 Episode 23: "The Lonely Hours"1963GunsmokeMollySeason 8 Episode 26: "Anybody Can Kill a Marshal"1963Stoney BurkeLaura FredericksSeason 1 Episode 23: "Joby"1963Doris BaxterSeason 1 Episode 26: "The Sheridan Square"1963Claire ValeSeason 4 Episode 23: "The Spoiler"1963Eileen RansomeEpisode 4 Episode 17: "Passage on the Lady Anne"1963Nora SlaterSeason 3 Episode 13: "Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy"1963–1965Perry MasonSally Sheldon / Fay Gilmer 2 episodes1964Rhea CashmanSeason 1 Episode 29: "A Feasibility Study"1965Mr. NovakAvis BrownSeason 2 Episode 14: "From the Brow of Zeus"1965KarenNoraSeason 1 Episode 13: "Good Neighbor Policy"1965The Wife, Mrs. GoodheartSeason 15 Episode 16: "Jack Adopts a Son"1965Slattery's PeopleBarbara HarrisonSeason 2 Episode 4: "The Unborn"1965Mary StewartSeason 4 Episode 6: "Ring of Silence"1965A Man Called ShenandoahLilySeason 1 Episode 13: "The Siege"1966Peggy WoodwardSeason 1 Episode 22: "The Mourners for Johnny Sharp: Part 2"1966Giovanni's Daughter-in-LawSeason 4 Episode 14: "Episode #4.14"1966–1972InsightMrs. Foley / Marie Slovak / Thelma Montanus3 episodes1967Mr. TerrificMargoSeason 1 Episode 8: "Stanley the Jailbreaker"1967Accidental FamilyMarthaSeason 1 Episode 3: "If You Knew Martha"1967Laura HollanderSeason 8 Episode 5: "Opie Steps Up in Class"1967Iron HorseAlice FullerSeason 2 Episode 15: "Death Has Two Faces"1967–1973MannixLola Collins / Dodie Green2 episodes1968–1970Claudia GramusSeries regular1969Spoon RiverReaderTV Movie1970Storefront LawyersEllaSeason 1 Episode 4: "The Electric Kid"1970Phyllis ParkerSeason 1 Episode 7: "I Do, I Don't"1970Family AffairGail SpencerSeason 5 Episode 11: "Class Clown"1970–1972Hawaii Five-OLila Daniels / Rhoda Lovejoy 2 episodes1970–1974Love, American StyleRona / Wanda Glass / Nikki / Marge / Janet6 episodes1971Alice KranzSeason 6 Episode 24: "Turnabout"1971Millicent WilsonSeason 3 Episode 1: "Broken Melody"1971NicholsArletta McGreevySeason 1 Episode 4: "Paper Badge"1972(uncredited)TV Movie1972McCloudLucy SloanSeason 2 Episode 5: "A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley"1972Jean Benedict2 episodes1972CannonKate Werner MacklinSeason 1 Episode 21: "A Flight of Hawks"1972Medical CenterPaula EckhartSeason 4 Episode 6: "Betrayed"1973Connie MillerSeason 1 Episode 15: "Let's Get Away from It Almost"1973Mrs. RudolphSeason 1 Episode 21: "The House on Hyde Street"1973Young Dr. KildareNurse MarvinEpisode: ”Mercy Killing”1973HenriettaSeason 3 Episode 5: "Mrs. Ferguson"1973Burt and the GirlsTV Movie1974Owen Marshall, Counselor at LawRuth TannenSeason 3 Episode 14: "House of Friends"1974JaneSeason 2 Episode 14: "The Book of Murder"1974Winter KillGrace LockhardTV Movie1974PhyllisABC Movie of the Week1974Amy PrentissMrs. HyserSeason 1 Episode 2: "The Desperate World of Jane Doe"1974–1976ColumboSister of Mercy / Ruth Lytton 2 episodes1975For the Use of the HallAliceTV Movie1975Let's Switch!Linette RobinABC Movie of the Week1975Winner Take AllEdie GouldTV Movie1977Lianne Sweeny2 episodes1977Lou GrantGloria AldrigeSeason 1 Episode 6: "Aftershock"1977FamilyMrs. PalmerSeason 3 Episode 6: "We Love You, Miss Jessup"1978To Kill a CopBetty EischiedTV Movie1978Murder at the Mardi GrasJanet MurphyTV Movie1978Ellen DietzTV Movie1978Lyla Plant – the motherTV Movie1979VisionsKitSeason 3 Episode 6: "Ladies in Waiting"1979Iris ChapmanSeries regular1979You Can't Take It with YouMiss WellingtonTV Movie1979A Christmas for BoomerLila ManchesterTV Movie1980Elma ParkhillMiniseries1981BulbaBarbara ThatcherTV Movie1982Eleanor, First Lady of the World'Tommy' ThompsonTV Movie1982Bus StopGraceTV Movie1983Another Woman's ChildJanet SteinTV Movie1983Connie FrazierTV Movie1983In Defense of KidsCaroline RubenTV Movie1984Crazy Like a FoxSallySeason 1 Episode 1: "Pilot"1985Malice in WonderlandDema HarshbargerTV Movie1985Picking Up the PiecesHarriet GoodmanTV Movie1985Tall Tales & LegendsMaSeason 1 Episode 2: "Annie Oakley"1986Amazing StoriesEvaSeason 1 Episode 23: "One for the Books"1986Under the InfluenceHelen TalbotTV Movie1987CBS Summer PlayhouseIleneSeason 1 Episode 15: "Sirens"1991Cora MillerTV Movie1991SistersBelle AdderlySeason 1 Episode 4: "Devoted Husband, Loving Father"1992Maid for Each OtherLeilaTV Movie1992Brooklyn BridgeHarriet Mueller3 episodes1993Law & OrderRamona Stark, Ph. D.Season 3 Episode 11: "Extended Family"1993All My ChildrenHelen Marsh14 episodes1993Diagnosis: MurderSarah EmersonSeason 1 Episode 3: "Murder at the Telethon"1993BobJoyce Leona-CurtisSeason 2 Episode 5: "Kiss and Sell"1994Breathing LessonsSerenaTV Movie1994Northern ExposurePat HillmanSeason 5 Episode 21: "I Feel the Earth Move"1994Erika MagnussenTV Movie1994All-American GirlEmmaSeason 1 Episode 12: "Loveless in San Francisco"1995Grandpa's FuneralIris BraimenTV Movie1995–1996Unhappily Ever AfterMaureen SlatteryRecurring role1996Jake's WomenEdithTV Movie1999Touched by an AngelSylvia MangioneSeason 5 Episode 17: "Family Business"1999Now and AgainPsychiatristSeason 1 Episode 6: "Nothing to Fear, but Nothing to Fear"2002OzSarah RebadowSeason 5 Episode 7: "Good Intentions"2002Dr. Sandy ShawEpisode: "Christopher"2002NYPD BlueRuth DwyerSeason 10 Episode 9: "Half-Ashed"2002–2003Judging AmyJane, Eric's Lawyer2 episodes2005Without a TracePaulaSeason 4 Episode 6: "Viuda Negra"2005Desperate HousewivesCarol Prudy2 episodes2011Agnes SilvestreSeason 3 Episode 4: "Feeding the Rat"2012Made in JerseyLillaSeason 1 Episode 3: "Camelot"2014Boardwalk EmpireMrs. Zeller – Crab WomanEpisode: "King of Norway"2018Cady DidMarion Huffman2021If I'm Alive Next Week...MarjorieSeries regular

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