Kathleen Freeman
Kathleen Freeman was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on February 17th, 1919 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 82, Kathleen Freeman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1919 – August 23, 2001) was an American film, television, voice actor, and stage actress.
She portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, cooks, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives, who inevitably to comedic effect.
Early life
Freeman was born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 17, 1923. She began performing in her parents' vaindeville act as an infant and began her career as an adult. During the 1952 presidential election, Freeman voted for Adlai Stevenson.
Career
In Wild Harvest (1947), the Freeman made her film debut (1947). Freeman appeared mainly in small and uncredited bit parts for a brief period in the early 1950s. Phoebe Dinsmore, Jean Hagen's diction coach, played an uncredited part in the 1952 MGM musical Singin' in the Rain as Jean Hagen's diction coach.
Freeman made a favorite foil of Jerry Lewis, appearing opposite him in 11 films starting with the 1954 film 3 Ring Circus. The majority of Lewis' better-known comedies, including The Disorderly Orderly as Nurse Higgins, The Errand Boy as the studio's wife, and Millie Lemon were among the Nutty Professor's Millie Lemon. She appeared in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps for a brief period of time.
Other film appearances include appearances in The Missouri Traveler (1958), the Western spoofs Support Your Local Sheriff. (1969) and Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), as well as appearances in a slew of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s. In John Landis' The Blues Brothers (1980) and Blues Brothers 2000 (as tipsy cooking host Microwave Marge), a foul-mouthed apartment building manager in Dragnet, and a gangster mother in Naked Gun 33+1/3. The Final Insult.
Freeman was a regular presence on television, in addition to teaching acting classes in Los Angeles. In 1958-59, she appeared three times on Buckskin, a children's program set in a hotel in a fictitious Montana town. She appeared on many sitcoms from the 1950s to her death, including six episodes of The Bob Cummings Show (as Bertha Krause), Topper (as Katie the maid), and The Donna Reed Exhibition (as Mrs. Celia Wilkins, the Stones' busiest neighbor). She appeared on five episodes of The Lucy Show in 1964. Frau Gertrude Linkmeyer, General Burkhalter's sister who belonged to wed Colonel Klink, was later cast on Hogan's Heroes as Frau Gertrude Linkmeyer, a honographer. She appeared in Lota Luck, a British sitcom on the Buses, in 1973.
She appeared on several episodes of Wagon Train, Funny Face (as Mrs. Kate Harwell), I Dream of Jeannie (as Mrs. Boss), and later as Peg Bundy's mother, an unseen character on Married... with Children. On Mama's Family, she was a female arm wrestler. In the television series Love American Style, she appeared as a nurse.
In a 1969 episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Freeman appeared as a different character in a 1968 episode of the same series. In season eight and three, she appeared alongside Phil Silvers in The Beverly Hillbillies in episodes 25 and 26, as well as episodes two and three. (Season 1, Episode 32), she made her first season appearance as the wife of a couple who take the Clamts to court, incorrectly accusing them of reckless driving and causing injuries to the couple.
She stayed busy in her last two years with a regular voice role on As Told by Ginger, a voice bit in the animated film Shrek, and a guest appearance on the sitcom Becker. In the musical version of The Full Monty, she received a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award for her role as Jeannette Burmeister. In her last episode of As Told by Ginger, season two's "No Hope for Courtney," Freeman's character resigns from her teaching duties, but Carl and Hoodsey attempt to persuade her to return to work. The script was originally intended to bring Mrs. Gordon to Lucky Elementary School, but the Freeman died before the episode was complete. Mrs. Gordon died as well, and the script was rewritten. The episode was dedicated to Freeman's memory. Elaine Gordon had died and Carl was muttering at the end of the episode. The screen faded to black, and "In Memory of Kathleen Freeman" appeared on the title card.