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R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - NewtonMP2100 - 03-01-2019
.....'Soap'.....'Who's the Boss?'.......at 89.....Alzheimer's complications....
Katherine Helmond Dies: Tony Winner & ‘Soap’, ‘Who’s The Boss?’ Actress Was 89
....Katherine Helmond, the Tony-winning actress who played the ditzy Tate matriarch on the groundbreaking 1970s comedy Soap and starred on Who’s the Boss? among many other roles, died February 23 of Alzheimer’s complications at her home in Los Angeles. She was 89. APA announced the news.
Helmond is best known for her starring roles as the ditzy Jessica Tate opposite Billy Crystal and Robert Guillaume on ABC’s 1977-81 primetime soap opera sitcom Soap, for which she received four Best Actress Emmy Award nominations, and as the sexy and wise Mona Robinson — who showed that romance and excitement are not over for older women — opposite Tony Danza, Judith Light and Alyssa Milano on ABC’s 1984–92 series Who’s the Boss?, for which she earned two Supporting Actress Emmy noms.
Helmond was also well-known for her recurring roles as Doris Sherman on ABC’s Coach (1995-97) opposite Craig T. Nelson and Jerry Van Dyke, and as Debra Barone’s mother Lois Whelan opposite Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton on the CBS hit series Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2004). More recent television credits included guest-starring roles on A&E’s The Glades, as well as the role of Caroline Bellefleur on HBO’s True Blood.
She also voiced Lizzie, the Radiator Springs original who was married to the town’s founder and runs it curio shop, in all three Disney/Pixar Cars movies. She also appeared on the big screen in Family Plot — Alfred Hitckcock’s final film — Garry Marshall’s Overboard, Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
The actress appeared in four Broadway shows, earning a Best Supporting or Featured Actress Tony Award for playing Margaret in the 1972 revival Eugene O’Neill’s The Great God Brown. Her other Main Stem credits are the revivals of Private Lives (1969) and Don Juan (1972) and 1993’s Mixed Emotions.
Helmond was born July 5, 1929, in Galveston, TX, and developed a love of theater early on. She appeared in numerous school plays before making her stage debut in Shakespeare’s As You Like It in 1955. She would spend seven years performing at the renowned Hartford Stage Company in Hartford, CT, and Trinity Repertory Theater in Providence, RI. After winning the Drama Critics Award for her Off-Broadway performance in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare, Helmond followed the production to Los Angeles, where she was eventually discovered by talent scouts and landed her first television role guest-starring in an episode of Gunsmoke.
She met her husband of 57 years, David Christian, at the Hampton Playhouse Summer Stock Theater, where he was the set designer and she was the leading lady. They were wed in 1962 and remained happily married until her death.
A memorial service is being planned for family and friends to celebrate her life and career.
RIP.................?!
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - timg - 03-01-2019
Terrible news. She was hilarious on Soap!
She was also in Time Bandits as the Ogre's wife.
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - voodoopenguin - 03-01-2019
Mickey Mouse's dog was gay?
She was wonderful.
Paul
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - N-OS X-tasy! - 03-01-2019
Soap would not have succeeded without her - she was the heart and soul of that show.
She was also Judith Light's mom on Who's The Boss?.
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - Kraniac - 03-01-2019
I loved her so much..so great..much much affection..sad
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - Yoyodyne ArtWorks - 03-01-2019
Brazil, the effects of too much plastic surgery...she was one of the great comic actors of our time. RIP and thank you for so many laughs.
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - RAMd®d - 03-01-2019
The two quick posts I saw about her passing mentioned Who's the Boss, in which she was funny, but not Soap, in which she was terrific.
The Soap ensemble was good, but she was great.
Inevitabilities are often sad, and this is one of those.
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - RAMd®d - 03-01-2019
I didn't know she had Alzheimer’s.
That must have been terribly heartbreaking for the family.
My best friend's dad succumbed to it.
It was very, very tough on the family as well as him.
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - bfd - 03-01-2019
Golden Globe Winner
Re: R.I.P.: Katherine Helmond [ actress ]....... - Rick-o - 03-01-2019
89 years old and still working. That's amazing in itself. And yes, I agree she was fantastic on Soap.
R.I.P.