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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 21, 1925
Died
March 12, 2006
Place of Birth
Troy, New York, United States
Also Known As
- Lois Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress. She was the recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, and is one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
Known For
7.0
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
3.6
Wilbur Falls High Secretary
Wilbur Falls
1998
0.0
Grandma (voice)
Snow Cat
1998
6.1
Nana
Addicted to Love
1997
7.5
Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996
0.0
Self
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
4.7
Ida Cutler
The Last Good Time
1994
6.0
Mrs. Cavour, the Gardener
Trading Mom
1994
🎬
6.8
Sarah Bush Lincoln (voice)
Lincoln
1992
5.2
Tanta Perla
Miss Rose White
1992
Credits
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
Wilbur Falls
as Wilbur Falls High Secretary
1998
3.6
Snow Cat
as Grandma (voice)
1998
0.0
Addicted to Love
as Nana
1997
6.1
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
as Self
1996
7.5
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Self
1994
0.0
The Last Good Time
as Ida Cutler
1994
4.7
Trading Mom
as Mrs. Cavour, the Gardener
1994
6.0
🎬
Lincoln
as Sarah Bush Lincoln (voice)
1992
6.8
Miss Rose White
as Tanta Perla
1992
5.2
Passed Away
as Mary Scanlan
1992
5.1
Last Wish
as Ida Rollin
1992
0.0
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
as Self
1989
0.0
🎬
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
1989
0.0
B.L. Stryker
as Auntie Sue
1989
6.0
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
1988
6.5
Liberace: Behind the Music
as Frances Liberace
1988
3.5
Doin' Time on Planet Earth
as Helium Balloon Saleslady
1988
3.7
Cocoon: The Return
as Mary Luckett
1988
6.5
Nuts
as Rose Kirk
1987
6.3
Made in Heaven
as Aunt Lisa
1987
6.5
Sweet Lorraine
as Lillian Garber
1987
0.0
Heartburn
as Vera
1986
6.0
The Cosmic Eye
as Mother Earth (voice)
1986
5.8
The Money Pit
as Estelle
1986
6.5
The Equalizer
as Emmy Rutherford
1985
7.1
Cocoon
as Mary Luckett
1985
6.6
Private Sessions
as Dr. Liz Bolger
1985
2.0
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
8.0
Johnny Dangerously
as Mom
1984
6.3
🎬
America and Lewis Hine
as Voice
1984
6.0
Family Secrets
as Maggie Lukauer
1984
3.7
Sentimental Journey
as Ruthie
1984
6.0
Alice in Wonderland
as White Queen
1983
6.8
Montgomery Clift
as Self
1983
3.8
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
as Nurse Emma Kieslich
1982
5.4
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
The Electric Grandmother
as Grandmother
1982
6.8
Reds
as Emma Goldman
1981
6.9
The Fan
as Belle Goldman
1981
5.8
On the Right Track
as Mary the Bag Lady
1981
5.3
The Gathering, Part II
as Kate Thornton
1979
2.0
Letters from Frank
as Betty Miller
1979
0.0
The Runner Stumbles
as Mrs. Shandig
1979
6.8
Lost and Found
as Jemmy
1979
5.8
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self
1979
6.2
Interiors
as Pearl
1978
6.8
The Gathering
as Kate
1977
3.7
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Big Mama
1976
4.3
Laurence Olivier Presents
as Big Mama
1976
7.0
🎬
A Mother's Tale
as Narrator
1976
0.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
as Bea Asher
1975
5.7
Voyage to Next
as Mother Earth (voice)
1974
4.6
🎬
Tell Me Where It Hurts
as Connie
1974
0.0
NOVA
as Narrator (voice)
1974
7.0
A Sunday Dinner
1974
0.0
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
10.0
Dig: A Journey Into Earth
as Mother (voice)
1972
0.0
Plaza Suite
as Karen Nash
1971
6.1
Summer of '42
as Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
1971
6.7
Great Performances
as White Queen
1971
5.8
Airport
as Inez Guerrero
1970
6.5
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
as Ruthie Maxwell
1969
0.0
Trilogy
as Mary O'Meaghan
1969
6.0
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Bye Bye Birdie
as Mama Mae Peterson
1963
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
A View from the Bridge
as Beatrice Carbone
1962
6.1
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Taped Tribute
1961
5.4
The Fugitive Kind
as Vee Talbot
1960
6.8
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Pilar
1959
0.0
Lonelyhearts
as Fay Doyle
1959
6.1
Naked City
as Abilene Hutchinson Bick
1958
5.5
Naked City
as Ruth Callan
1958
5.5
All the King's Men
1958
0.0
Playhouse 90
as Pilar
1956
7.6
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Main Street to Broadway
as Self (uncredited)
1953
6.5
General Electric Theater
as Ethel
1953
6.4
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Tanta Perla
1951
8.6
Studio One
as Rachel Jackson
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Daughter
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Mrs. Johnson
1948
6.3