Joyce Van Patten
- Birthday
- Mar 9, 1934
Bio: Blonde, loquacious American actress Joyce Van Patten was being sent out for modelling assignments at the age of eight months. Her stagestruck mother advertised Van Patten and older brother Dick as "the Van Patten Kids," ready and willing to step into any juvenile roles available. At age 5, Joyce made her Broadway debut in Love's Old Sweet Song, which also featured… More Bio: Blonde, loquacious American actress Joyce Van Patten was being sent out for modelling assignments at the age of eight months. Her stagestruck mother advertised Van Patten and older brother Dick as "the Van Patten Kids," ready and willing to step into any juvenile roles available. At age 5, Joyce made her Broadway debut in Love's Old Sweet Song, which also featured Dick. Joyce was nine years old when she won the Donaldson award for her performance in the stage drama Tomorrow the World. She interrupted her stage career for a brief marriage at age 16 (her equally brief second marriage was to actor Martin Balsam), then at 20 played her first adult role in the Broadway comedy Desk Set. Her first film assignment was an unbilled bit in the Manhattan-lensed Fourteen Hours (1951), and her first regular TV stint was on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in the late '50s. Joyce has since been seen on a weekly basis in such TV series as The Danny Kaye Show (1963-66), The Good Guys (1968) (as Herb Edelman's good-natured wife), The Don Rickles Show (1972) (as Don's goodnatured wife) and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979) (as Mary's personal secretary, yet again good-natured). Joyce Van Patten's films have included The Goddess (1958), I Love You Alice B. Toklas (1968), St. Elmo's Fire (1984), and a rare "bitchy" appearance as the antagonistic athletic coach in The Bad News Bears (1976). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
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The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)
- Mrs. McGowan
- 64%
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Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding (2012)
- Mariam
- 29%
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Crawlspace (2012)
- Actor
- 0%
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This Must Be The Place (2011)
- Dorothy Shore
- 68%
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Grown Ups (2010)
- Gloria
- 9%
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Joyce Van Patten Videos
Grown Ups
2 minutes 5 seconds
St. Elmo's Fire
2 minutes 30 seconds
Blind Date
2 minutes 38 seconds
This Must Be The Place
2 minutes 11 seconds
Crawlspace
1 minutes 13 seconds
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