Katherine Helmond, the Man-Crazy Mother on 'Who's the Boss?' Dies at 89
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Katherine Helmond, the Man-Crazy Mother on 'Who's the Boss?' Dies at 89
10:24 AM PST 3/1/2019 by Mike Barnes
She also starred in 'Soap' and played a cosmetic surgery-addicted mother in 'Brazil,' one of three movies she did for Terry Gilliam.
Katherine Helmond, the seven-time Emmy-nominated Texas actress who played the feisty, man-crazy mother Mona Robinson on the long-running ABC sitcom Who's the Boss?, has died. She was 89.
Helmond, who earlier starred as the wide-eyed socialite sister Jessica Tate on another popular ABC comedy, Susan Harris' daytime-serial spoof Soap, died Feb. 23 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at her home in Los Angeles, her talent agency, APA, announced.
The shapely, blue-eyed Helmond also portrayed Doris Sherman, the widowed owner of the fictional NFL team the Orlando Breakers, on ABC's Coach, and she was Lois Whelan, the upper-class mother of Patricia Heaton's character, on CBS' Everybody Loves Raymond.
On the big screen, Helmond appeared in three Terry Gilliam movies -- as the seafaring cannibal Mrs. Ogre in Time Bandits (1981), as Jonathan Pryce's rich, cosmetic surgery-addicted mother in Brazil (1985) and as a hotel clerk in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). And she provided the voice of Lizzie, a 1923 Ford Model T, in the three Cars movies.
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Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/katherine-helmond-dead-whos-the-boss-star-89-877766
Hat tip, Lazycrockett, at Joe.My.God:
https://www.joemygod.com/2019/03/conway-trump-has-the-absolute-right-to-order-security-clearances-over-objections-of-intelligence-officials/
From the great "Brazil" (as it's correctly spelled):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vBnx95KyQEAA
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Solly Mack
(90,778 posts)RI Splendor.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Cross gently, Katherine...
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)RIP to a lovely lady
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Loved her. RIP
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)Zoonart
(11,875 posts)BRAZIL
The Truth Is Here
(354 posts)and I was wondering, whatever happened to her. RIP K. Helmond.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,564 posts)Link?
The Truth Is Here
(354 posts)I was wondering what happened to her. You just posted it. You are the original post
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,564 posts)demmiblue
(36,873 posts)pecosbob
(7,542 posts)Not to forget Time Bandits...
niyad
(113,498 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)My parents saw her perform as Lady MacBeth. They only realized it was her when she was on Who's The Boss and the Providence Journal produced an article about her connection to Rhode Island. I saw her perform in "Love Letters" at Rhode Island College when I was working towards my nursing degree.
niyad
(113,498 posts)to see her in such roles.
area51
(11,916 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,867 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,279 posts)What a loss!!! Loved her in Soap.
So sorry to see this.
R.I.P., thank you for your wonderful performances, and condolences to the family!
unblock
(52,283 posts)aw, man, she was so funny!
TexasBushwhacker
(20,208 posts)She was 10 years older. They said it would never last - LOL. What a wonderful career and life.
Dem2theMax
(9,652 posts)This hurts my heart. Whenever she was on the screen, I couldn't take my eyes off of her. She was so good.
I am so sorry she had to suffer through Alzheimer's.
May she have eternal peace.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)she was great in that and the other endeavors mentioned...
Raine
(30,540 posts)R-I-P Katherine
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She was wonderful! RIP Katherine.